ABOUT THE FORUM @ ADGHW
The Forum @ ADGHW serves as the central platform of Abu Dhabi Global Health Week, bringing together global leaders to tackle critical healthcare challenges through collaboration, innovation, and strategic investment.
THE FORUM @ ADGHW
The Forum @ ADGHW is the flagship conference and cornerstone of Abu Dhabi Global Health Week, bringing global health leadership and bold innovation to the forefront.
Over three days, the world’s leading minds in healthcare will tackle the most urgent questions shaping the future of health. Through powerful keynotes, thought-provoking panels, and one-on-one conversations, the Forum fosters dialogue that drives real-world impact, from transforming care through technology to shaping policies that protect communities worldwide.
With a focus on community-driven care, prevention, and personalised well-being, it’s where transformative ideas shape a healthier, more sustainable world for all.
FORUM @ ADGHW VISIONARIES
H.E. Mansoor Al Mansoori
Member of The Abu Dhabi Executive Council
Chairman of The Department of Health in Abu Dhabi
H.E. Dr. Noura Al Ghaithi
Undersecretary
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (DoH)
H.E. Dr. Rashed Alsuwaidi
Director General
Abu Dhabi Public Health Center (ADPHC)
H.E. Dr. Jean Kaseya
Director General
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
Ciyong Zou
Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director; Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Bayna Saif Al Awani
Director General of Healthcare Payers and Finance Affairs
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (DoH)
H.E. Ibrahim Al Jallaf
Executive Director of Digital Health
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi
Dr. Asma Ibrahim Al Mannaei
Executive Director, Research and Innovation Centre
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (DoH)
H.E. Prof. Dr. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar
Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development and Minister of Health & Population
Arab Republic of Egypt
H.E. Anahit Avanesyan
Minister of Healthcare
Republic of Armenia
H.E. Mikhail Murashko
Minister of Health
Russian Federation
H.E. Sami Smeirat
Minister Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship
Jordan
H.E Dr. Jaleela bint AlSayed Jawad Hasan
Minister of Health
Bahrain
H.E. Adonis Georgiadis
Minister of Health
Hellenic Republic
H.E. Firas Ibrahim Al-Hawari
Minister of Health
Jordan
H.E Minister Mikheil Sarjveladze
Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Health, Labor and Social Affairs of Georgia
H.E. Dr. Thani Bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi
Minister of State for Foreign Trade and Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention
Ministry of Economy, UAE
H.E. Dr. Hussain Abdul Rahman Al Rand
Assistant Undersecretary for the Public Health Sector
Ministry of Health Prevention, UAE
Leymah Gbowee
Liberian Peace and Women's Rights Activist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2011; Founder and President, Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA), Liberia
Nerio Alessandri
Founder & CEO
Technogym
Dr. Ali Abdul Kareem Al Obaidli
Chairman
UAE National Transplant Committee
Dr. Ayman Al Hendy
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, and Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Sciences, Khalifa university, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hubertus von Baumbach
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors and
Chief Executive Officer
Boehringer Ingelheim
Michel Demaré
Chair
AstraZeneca
Dr. Peter Kash
Co-founder, TargImmune Therapeutics and iOncologi; Chairman, Camelot BioCapital, USA
Tsitsi Masiyiwa
Executive Chair and Co-founder
Higherlife Foundation
Jim Mellon
Co-Founder, Deputy Chairman
Juvenescence
Prof. Eran Segal
Professor and Department Chair of Computational Biology, MBZUAI | Professor of Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Tarek Sultan
Vice Chairman
Agility
Sir Jonathan Symonds
CBE, Chair
GSK, UK
Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil
Founder and Chairman
Burjeel Holdings
Dr. Mishal Alqasimi
Chief Executive Officer
Capital Health
Prof. Raghib Ali
CEO, Chief Investigator and Chief Medical Officer
Our Future Health
Shaista Asif
Group Chief Executive Officer
PureHealth
Isabel Afonso
CEO
Arcera, UAE
Dr. Peter Attia
Physician, podcast host, and author
Early Medical
Dr. David Barzilai
Founder and CEO, Barzilai Longevity Consulting | Faculty and Trustee, Geneva College of Longevity Science
Healthspan Coaching LLC | agingdoc.com
Elena Bonfiglioli
Global Business Leader, GM Healthcare, Pharma, and Life Sciences
Microsoft
Ahmed Mohamed Al Bastaki
Advisor, General Secretary
National Supreme for Unified Procurement, UAE
Arya H. Bolurfrushan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
AppliedAI
Dr. Ola Brown
General Partner and Founder
HealthCap Africa
Madeline Bell
Chief Executive Officer
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kevin B. Churchwell, MD
President and CEO
Boston Children’s Hospital
Dr. Thomas Clozel
Co-Founder and CEO
Owkin, USA
Dr. Mike Curtis
President and Chief Executive Officer
eGenesis
Dr. Steve Davis
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Syndicate Bio
Dr. Khalid Fakhro
Chief Research Officer
Sidra Medicine
Dr. Stefan Frings
Chief Medical Officer Pharma Development
Roche
Dr. Heitham Hassoun
Chief Executive International
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
George Pascal Haber
Chief Executive Officer
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
H.E. Dr. Farida Al Hosani
Deputy CEO
GLIDE, UAE
Dr. Kamran Khan
Founder and CEO
BlueDot, Canada
Prof. Aymeric Lim
Chief Executive Officer
National University Hospital - NUHS
Sherrie Lim
Chief Executive Officer
Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital
Dr. Richard Jenkins
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Executive Advisor, Health Industries
PwC
Dr. Michelle Longmire
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder
Medable
Kevin B. Mahoney
Chief Executive Officer
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Dr. James Mault
Chief Executive Officer
BioIntelliSense
Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic
Chief Executive Officer
Cleveland Clinic
Alisha Moopen
Managing Director, Group CEO
Aster DM Healthcare, UAE
Dr. Barry Merriman
Adjunct Professor of Synthetic Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute; Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder, Avery Bioengineering Inc. & Roswell Molecular Electronics Inc., USA
Dr. Yoshihiko Nakamura
CEO, Kinescopic Inc., Japan; Professor, MBZUAI
Mohamed Nasser
AVP General Manager
Amgen in the Middle East & Africa (MEA)
Dr. Sania Nishtar
Chief Executive Officer
GAVI
Hasan Jasem Al Nowais
Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer
M42
Julia Miao
Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Sihuan Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Tom Oxley
Chief Executive Officer
Synchron
Prithviraj Pramanik
Co-founder and CEO
AQAI, India
Dr. Matthew Shaw
Chief Executive Officer
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Dr. Nicole Sirotin
CEO
Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi, UAE
Anil Soni
Chief Executive Officer
WHO Foundation
Dr. Kari Stefansson
Founder and CEO
deCODE genetics.
Diego Santoro
General Manager and Head of the International Region
Kite, Gilead
Jacob Thaysen
Chief Executive Officer
Illumina
Prashant Tandon
Co-founder, CEO
Tata 1mg, India
Bjoern Von Siemens
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Caresyntax
Chris Wharton
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
WndrHLTH
Dr. Hon Weng Chong
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Cortical Labs
Peng Xiao
Group Chief Executive Officer
G42
Dr. Christine Yuan Huang
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Quantum Life | Technology Transfer Director, Hong Kong Quantum AI Lab (HKU,InnoHK)
Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov
Founder and CEO
Insilico Medicine, USA
Dr. Hesham A. Abdullah
Senior Vice President, Global Head Oncology, Research & Development
GSK
Mohammad Aboubakr
Regional Vice President-Middle East, Africa and Russia CIS
Abbvie, UAE
Dr. Linda Bedran
Senior Vice President & Head of Corporate Affairs, JANZ & Emerging Markets
Viatris
Ali Besri
Vice President, Emerging Markets Access and Accord Lead
Pfizer Inc
Alex Beauvais
Partner
McKinsey
Dr. Nicolas Chemali
Senior Vice President, International Value and Access
Lilly International, USA
Dr. David Katz
CEO, DietID; President, True Health Initiative
Dr. Richard L. Lieber
Chief Scientific Officer & Senior Vice President of Research
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Dr. Cecilia Radu
Vice President, General Manager
Novo Nordisk, UAE
Tala Al Ramahi
on behalf of
Mohamed bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity
Dr. Iskra Reic
Executive Vice-President, International
AstraZeneca
Emma Rawson-Te Patu
President
World Federation of Public Health Associations
Jim Swanson
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Johnson & Johnson
Laura M. Swint
Vice President, Digital Health and AI Leader, META
Eli Lilly
Dr. Pavel Volchkov
Life Science Research Center MIPT, Russia
Tony Terzis
Associate Vice President, Medical Affairs, META
Eli Lilly
Irina Zaporozhets
President and General Manager (META)
Eli Lilly
Dr. Nir Barzilai
Director of institute of Aging Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Olfat Berro
Area Head Middle East
Roche Pharmaceuticals
Alessandro Borgogna
Chief Cluster Economic Development
Abu Dhabi Investment Office
Prof. Quek Swee Chye
Executive Director
NUHS Institute of Clinical Quality, National University Health System
Dr. Toby Cosgrove
Executive Advisor, Cleveland Clinic, Former CEO and President, USA
George Demetri, MD
Senior Vice President - Experimental Therapeutics
Dana-Farber
Dr. Jicui Dong
Head of the Local Production and Assistance Unit
WHO
Dr. Bettina Ernst
Vice President
Swiss Biotech Association (SBA)
Prof. Habiba Al Safar
Dean of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences
Khalifa University
Dr. Steve Horvath, PhD
Principal Investigator
Altos Labs, USA
H.E. Dr. Amin Hussain Al Amiri
Assistant Undersecretary for the Health Regulation Sector
Ministry of Health and Prevention – UAE (MoHAP)
Hady A. Khoury
Chief Development Officer
Medable
Dr. James Kirkland
Director of the Center for Advanced Gerotherapeutics & Professor of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Prof. Andrea Maier
Oon Chiew Seng Professor in Medicine, National University of Singapore; Co-Founder, NUS Academy for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
United Nations
Dr. Makoto Nakanishi
Professor, The institute of Medical Science
The University of Tokyo
Dr. Miguel Angelo L. Nicolelis
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
Duke University
Prof. Gregory A. Petsko
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Eddie Reilly
Global Head, Regulatory Affairs
Sanofi
Elodie Robin-Guillerm
Head of Global Clusters
Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO)
Dr. Samir Said
Healthcare Informatics Leader, Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, Russia and Central Asia
Philips
Dr. Christian Sina
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Institute of Nutritional Medicine
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
Dr. Jennifer Stone
Co-Chair Indiana Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health
Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Diana Torgersen
Head of Innovation Ecosystem Integration
Organon
AlDhabi AlMheiri
Entrepreneur, Publisher, Founder
Rainbow Chimney, UAE
Becky Anderson
Host, CNN Connect, Managing Editor
CNN Abu Dhabi
Hamish Clark
Health Industries Partner and Chief Wellness Officer
PwC Middle East
Elsy Dumit
Principal
Roland Berger
Farah Fakhouri
Founder of Wave Health Consultancy
UAE
Hadley Gamble
International Correspondent and TV News Anchor; Host, the Hadley Gamble Show
Dr. Panco Georgiev
Senior Partner
Mckinsey
Ali Hashemi
Co-Founder and CEO
meta[bolic]
Dr. Stephen R. Grobmyer
Chair of the Cancer Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi-Fatima bint Mubarak Center
Dr. Shahrukh Hashmi
Director of Research
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi
Dr. Lars Hartenstein
Co-Founder
McKinsey Health Institute (MHI)
Dr. Mira Mousa
Assistant Professor, Public Health and Epidemiology
Khalifa University
Prof. Elias Mossialos
Cheng Yu Tung Chair in Global Health
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Shannon Marc Neilsen
Director Longevity
PureHealth
Lara Setrakian
International Journalist; President of the Applied Policy Research Institute (APRI)
Applied Policy Research Institute
Minni Sarkka-Hietala
Partner, Social and Healthcare Sector Leader
Deloitte
Lina Shadid
Partner and Health Industry Lead
PwC
Anna Stewart
International Correspondent, UK
CNN
Sumit Sharma
Partner and IMEA Head, Health & Life Sciences
Oliver Wyman
Kelsey Warner
Gulf Reporter
Semafor
Dr. Maria Gomez
Director, National Regulatory Center for Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues, UAE
Ministry of Health and Prevention, UAE
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The Forum @ ADGHW will once again bring together the world’s leading minds in healthcare. Over three days, 300 visionary speakers will deliver powerful keynotes and thought-provoking panels, tackling the most urgent challenges shaping the future of health.
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