TO INNOVATIONS

SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER 3 09.00 – 10.00 3 ARENA
PLENARY SESSION III ENDING TB IN THE SDG ERA:
IS THERE STILL RESISTANCE TO THE SOCIAL PROTECTION AGENDA?
Chair(s): Delia Boccia (United Kingdom), Knut Lönnroth (Switzerland)
Bertel Squire Amy McConville Dame Margaret Whitehead Diana Weil Fabio Veras Soares
A brief perspectiveon TB and poverty
Speaker: Bertel Squire (United Kingdom) is Chair of Clinical Tropical Medicine at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine;
and Director, Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery.
The devastating impact of TB on livelihood capabilities, even in the context of universal health care in the UK
Speaker: Amy McConville (United Kingdom) is Chair and Patient Advocate at TB Action Group.
Social protection for a comprehensive approach to health inequalities: barriers and consequences of inaction
Speaker: Dame Margaret Whitehead (United Kingdom) is W.H. Duncan Chair of Public Health;
and Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on the Social Determinants of Health.
Ending TB in the SDGs era: an overlapping agenda, a win-win opportunity
Diana Weil (Switzerland) is Coordinator of the Policy, Strategy and Innovations Unit of the Global TB Programme of the World Health Organization.
Conditional cash transfers to enhance TB prevention, care and control: lessons from Bolsa Familia
Speaker: Fabio Veras Soares (Belgium)
SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER 3 15.30 – 16.30 3 SESSION ROOM 1A
AWARD PRESENTATION THE STOP TB PARTNERSHIP KOCHON PRIZE
AND THE PRINCESS CHICHIBU MEMORIAL TB GLOBAL AWARD
The Stop TB Partnership Kochon Prize is a US$ 65,000 award that is presented once a year to persons, institutions or
organisations that have made a highly significant contribution to combating TB. It is fully funded by the Kochon Foundation, a non-profit foundation
registered in the Republic of Korea. It honours the late Chairman Chong-Kun Lee, founder of the Foundation and Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical
Corp in Korea. “Kochon” was his pen name.
The Princess Chichibu Memorial TB Global Award presented by the Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association (JATA) recognises
outstanding contributions to global TB control
30 CONFRONTING RESISTANCE: FUNDAMENTALS TO INNOVATION - THE 47 TH UNION WORLD CONFERENCE ON LUNG HEALTH