Imagining the Futures of Global Health Research Partnerships

Welcome to "Imagining the Futures of Global Health Research Partnerships"!

Come join us on Tue Mar 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM for an exciting event discussing the future of global health research partnerships. This event will take place at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, where experts in the field will share their insights and ideas. A reception will follow, starting at 6:30 pm.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to network with professionals and learn about the latest trends and innovations in global health research. See you there!

The session will be moderated by Associate Director for Global Programs at the Berman Institute for Bioethics; Associate Professor in Department of International Health.

Caesar Atuire, PhD is a philosopher and health ethicist from Ghana who is currently the Ethics Lead for the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine at Oxford University. He is also an Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Ghana and an affiliate Instructor at the University of Washington’s Department of Bioethics and Humanities. Caesar is also the President of the International Association of Bioethics (2024-2026).

Caesar’s interests and research in bioethics are conceptual and empirical. On the former, he works around revisiting some of the underlying conceptual frameworks informing bioethics by drawing on philosophical ideas, African and non-African, that address inequity in the relationships that govern current approaches to global health with an eye to new ethical frontiers, decolonization, and pluriversality. In 2019, he co-edited a volume titled Bioethics in Africa, which discusses bioethical problems from an African perspective. He is currently leading a team of highly qualified colleagues from across the globe on a Wellcome Discovery Award to explore conceptualizations of solidarity and to design a solidarity index for ranking global health funders.

A veteran public health leader, Ms. Guptahas spearheaded a host of successful global initiatives to improve the health of women and children and harness the full power of vaccines. Her work has created profound impact at a global scale, saving and improving millions of lives.

Most recently at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Ms. Gupta previously spent several years at Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, as its deputy CEO. She is globally acclaimed for her efforts to center Gavi policies, programs, and partnerships around vaccine equity, gender and communities. She also pioneered the concept of zero-dose children – an idea that is both audacious and ambitious for its focus on children who have not received even a single dose of the most basic vaccines.

Under Ms. Gupta's leadership, Gavi won many accolades and rolled out a new framework for a country-centric engagement strategy, moving away from a one-size fits all approach and building differentiated, transparent and accountable partnerships with remarkable success. Ms. Gupta's leadership on gender equity led to Gavi becoming the first institution in global health to accomplish the Equal Salary Employer certification, ensuring women were recruited, remunerated, rewarded and recognized at par with men. She has worked tirelessly to shine the spotlight on gender barriers that impede access to vaccines and to craft creative and empathetic solutions in partnership with countries and communities.

Prior to Gavi, Ms. Gupta served in the Indian Administrative Service (the IAS as it’s called is India’s preeminent civil service) and held leadership positions in a wide range of sectors including health, education, nutrition and finance. As Mission Director of the National Health Mission of India, she ran the largest – and possibly most complex – public health program in the world, with an annual budget of $3.5 billion.

Donald Warne, MD, MPH, joined the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health as Co-Director on September 1, 2022. He is an acclaimed physician, one of the world’s preeminent scholars in Indigenous health, health education, policy and equity as well as a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Dr. Warne will also serve as Johns Hopkins University’s new Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy.

Warne comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men, and is a celebrated researcher of chronic health inequities. He is also an educational leader who created the first Indigenous health-focused Master of Public Health and PhD programs in the U.S. or Canada at the North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota, respectively. Warne previously served at the University of North Dakota as professor of Family and Community Medicine and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as director of the Indians Into Medicine and Public Health programs at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Warne’s career is informed by rich work and life experiences. He served the Pima Indian population in Arizona as a primary care physician and later worked as a staff clinician with the NIH. He has also served as Health Policy Research director for the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, executive director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board, and faculty member at the Indian Legal Program of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Host or Publisher Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health