Main points Speaker introduction (international experience and expertise / pharmaceutical industry and corporate background) Presentation goals (road map for reaching maximum efficiency and efficacy in providing healthcare across the globe / providing food for thought to frame issues)Global and healthcare challenges: The African exampleThe Clinton foundation as an example of unreliable fundingOne requirement to face multiple challenges: PrioritizationAnalogy: Medical emergency departmentTriage processCriterion #1 for global health: ROI with several dimensions (medical, financial, societal, political, moral, and personal)First concrete example: Acute vs chronic disease (tetanus vs HIV/AIDS)HIV/AIDS situation descriptionHIV/AIDS age distributionHIV/AIDS treatment yearly cost (for life)Maternal and neonatal tetanus situation description2022 study: Vaccination coverage of mothers in East Africa The financial calculus The question: Why is the choice not made in favor of the tetanus vaccination?ConclusionFear: Resurgence of historical diseases with COVID-19 is in the news (TB, cholera, polio, HIV/AIDS, malaria) Second concrete example: Prevention vs cure (the tetanus example)Conditions for success (avoiding bureaucracy and making the hard choices)Solutions Priority #1: Good healthThree values (equity / solidarity / liberty)One need: One accepted and respected leadershipOne urgency: A general political consensusTwo sub-priorities: Nutrition and educationOne must: Erasing the African debtThree strategies: A new and serial approach / Thinking locally and acting globally / Consolidating global health Six suggestions: Mergers, coordinating superstructure, drastic limitation of face to face international conferences and congresses, the right to interfere in countries for healthcare reasons (particularly transmissible diseases) and the creation of global health blue helmet brigades, having poverty as the #1 risk factor for many diseases) The past and the futureFood for thoughtVisionConclusion BIO Dr. Yann Meunier is an international and multifaceted healthcare professional and a pioneer in academia, healthcare provision (in clinical settings and public health programs), research, and business. During his education, He studied medicine at Paris V University (France), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and The George Washington University (USA). He holds specialty degrees in emergency medicine (Paris XII University), and tropical diseases (Paris VI University), a certificate from the ECFMG, a certificate from Harvard University in internal medicine and two certificates from Stanford University in communication. During his career, In Academia He was Assistant Professor in Tropical Diseases and Public Health (Paris VI University), Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine (The George Washington University); Lecturer (The George Washington University Center for International Health), Director (Stanford Health Promotion Network), Manager in Health Promotion (Stanford Health Improvement Program), Mentor (Stanford Medscholars Research Fellowship Program), and Instructor (Stanford Health Improvement Program) He is widely published in the international medical literature and is the author or co-author of nine books on global health and tropical diseases (Oxford University Press and Springer published two). As Healthcare Provider Clinically He was (1) Private General Practitioner in France, Singapore (only European Private General Practitioner in the country), New Caledonia (first and only Private General Practitioner on the island of Lifou), and Nigeria (only European Private General Practitioner in Lagos), (2) Tropical Diseases Consultant (at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris, France), (3) Chief Medical Officer for Chevron Oil Co. in Papua New Guinea (PNG), (4) Corporate Physician in Cameroon (for Cellucam), Nigeria (for Spie-Batignolles and Schlumberger), and China (for EDF), (5) he was the team Physician during corporate trips in Gambia and Egypt (for Bosch), and Congo-Brazzaville (for a timber consortium), and (6) he worked as Emergency Medicine Specialist for SAMU 94 (at the Henri Mondor hospital in Creteil, France). In Public Health He (1) created a public health program for about 10,000 Kutubu-area villagers in the Southern Highlands province of PNG, (2) wrote a report on public health priorities in Lifou, (3) conducted public health programs and epidemiological surveys in Senegal (for USAID), China, Papua New Guinea, Haiti, and New Caledonia, and (4) created and delivered health promotion and preventive medicine tools at Stanford University for the Stanford University staff and the San Francisco Bay area population and corporations, in particular several located in Silicon Valley. As Researcher He led or participated in clinical trials providing new treatments for HIV/AIDS, tropical (malaria, intestinal nematodoses, amebiasis, giardiasis), cardiovascular, hematological and respiratory...
