Reflections on Global Health and Development

Secretary’s Global Health and Human Services Lecture Series Secretary Burwell hosts Dr. Helene Gayle to HHS as part of the Secretary’s Global Health and Human Services Lecture Series. Dr. Gayle will provide insights and perspectives on global health and development, highlighting her work on HIV/AIDS, overarching development programs, and social initiatives to alleviate poverty in the most difficult of settings. The discussion, moderated by Leslie Dach, Senior Counselor to Secretary Burwell, will be followed by an open Q&A with the audience. Dr. Gayle has an impressive, decades-long career in global health and development: She was president and CEO of CARE USA, a leading humanitarian aid organization fighting global poverty; director of the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and spent 20 years at CDC, focusing primarily on HIV/AIDS. Currently, Dr. Gayle is CEO of the McKinsey Social Initiative, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakeholders to address complex global and social problems. The Initiative’s first program, Generation, addresses the problem of youth unemployment, with programs in India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain and the United States. Dr. Gayle has been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers," Newsweek's top 10 "Women in Leadership," and the Wall Street Journal's "50 Women to Watch." Air da...
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