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UAE High Level Side Event: Polio-Free World By 2018

UAE High Level Side Event: Polio-Free World By 2018

Location: 
South Dining Room, fourth floor of the UN Secretariat building
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This event is hosted by HE Shiekha Lubna Bint Khalid AlQassimi – Minister of International Cooperation and Development of the United Arab Emirates,  on Monday 22 September 2014 from 8:30-10:30 at the South Dining Room, fourth floor of the UN Secretariat building.

There will be a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Seth Berkley of GAVI, and the invited panelists are:

  • Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO
  • Ms. Aisha Farooq, Pakistan’s National Coordinator for Polio Eradication
  • Mr. Chris Elias, President of the Global Development Program at Gates Foundation

Additionally, excerpts from a new documentary on polio will be screened.  

Interventions from the floor will be accommodated after the discussion, and invitees who wish to speak may contact the event’s focal point on the details below.

We hope that you are able to join us.