GAN Symposium Speakers

Professor Asma El Sony

Asma ELSony is a public health physician with over Twenty five years of experience in policy development, program management, health systems and international development including 25 years in progressively senior leadership capacity in successful management and implementation of major integrated health and development programs including, Asthma, Tobacco, TB and other infectious diseases and implementations science research projects in low-resource settings by providing training and technical assistance for the Union's Comprehensive Approach to Lung Health Project and tuberculosis in EMRO, Asia and Africa; currently she is a Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund against AIDS, TB and Malaria, Switzerland and a member of the steering Committee of the Global Asthma Network

Professor Asma El Sony

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GAN gratefully acknowledges funding from the University of Auckland and Wellcome (Grant number 203919/Z/16/Z) as well as sponsorship from AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline that has helped to make the GAN Symposium 2024 possible. We thank the speakers and the organisations they represent for their contributions including securing their own funding to enable their participation. The Symposium programme was developed independently by the GAN Steering Group.

Professor Emeritus Innes Asher

University of Auckland

New Zealand
Professor Emeritus Innes Asher

Dr Karen Bissell

University of Auckland

New Zealand
Dr Karen Bissell

Dr Sainimere Boladuadua

University of Auckland

New Zealand
Dr Sainimere Boladuadua

Professor Cass Byrnes

University of Auckland

New Zealand
Professor Cass Byrnes

Professor Chen-Yuan Chiang

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Taiwan
Professor Chen-Yuan Chiang

Professor Asma El Sony

Epidemiological Laboratory (Epi-Lab) for Public Health, Research and Development

Sudan
Professor Asma El Sony

Dr Sunia Foliaki

Massey University

New Zealand
Dr Sunia Foliaki

Professor Luis Garcia-Marcos

Universidad de Murcia

Spain
Professor Luis Garcia-Marcos

Dr Shami Jayasooriya

University of Sheffield

United Kingdom
Dr Shami Jayasooriya

Professor Refiloe Masekela

University of Kwazulu-Natal

South Africa
Professor Refiloe Masekela

Professor Eva Morales

Universidad de Murcia

Spain
Professor Eva Morales

Professor Kevin Mortimer

University of Kwazulu-Natal

South Africa
Professor Kevin Mortimer

Professor Neil Pearce

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

United Kingdom
Professor Neil Pearce

Professor Helen Reddel

Global Initiative for Asthma

Australia
Professor Helen Reddel

Dr Sarah Rylance

World Health Organization

Dr Sarah Rylance

Dr Sabrina Sapsford

University of Auckland

New Zealand
Dr Sabrina Sapsford

Dr Nishtha Singh

Asthma Bhawan

India
Dr Nishtha Singh

Dr Marie Stolbrink

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

United Kingdom
Dr Marie Stolbrink

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