15+ Years of PEPFAR | Welcome & 15+ Years, 50 Countries, 17 Million Lives Saved: How We Got Here.

October 7, 2019

Welcome Remarks:

Ashish K. Jha, Faculty Director, Harvard Global Health Institute and K. T. Li Professor and Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chines and Inner Asian History, Harvard University

I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School

15+ Years, 50 Countries, 17 Million Lives Saved: How We Got Here:
Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)

Moderator: Ingrid Katz, Associate Faculty Director, Harvard Global Health Institute and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Event Description:
In May 2003, the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation authorizing a bold new plan to combat a fast-spreading, deadly epidemic. In the 15+ years since, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - widely referred to as PEPFAR - has become the largest global health program focused on a single disease in history. Investing over $80 billion in HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and research, PEPFAR has saved millions of lives and put 14 million people on treatment.

On October 7, 2019, the Harvard Global Health Institute will host a one-day symposium to explore what enabled this visionary program, and to showcase how it has transformed not just the worldwide HIV/AIDS response but global health delivery more broadly.

There are many lessons learned in PEPFAR’s story - from what it took to build a supply chain where there was none, to establishing the use of generic antiretroviral therapies (ARTs) and leveraging human capacity. This event convened the early architects of PEPFAR as well as experts and implementers currently leading the charge. We took a historically informed look at what it will take to stop global transmission, and shared tools useful for others hoping to move the needle on vexing problems in global health.

This event was free and open to the public.

This event is cosponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute, the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, the Center for Health Law Policy and Innovation at Harvard Law School, and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

Featured Speakers
Ambassador-at-Large, Deborah L. Birx, Coordinator of the United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health
Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)
The Hon. Mark Dybul, Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Global Health and Quality and Professor in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center