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Grand Challenges Annual Meeting - 2025: Grand Challenges Partners.

Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2025; Grand Challenges Partners

Grand Challenges Partners

Welcome and Opening Remarks: Kedest Tesfagiorgis, Deputy Director, Global Partnerships and Grand Challenges, Gates Foundation, United States.Kedest Tesfagiorgis highlighted the promise of innovation, and the powerful role of the global health community to meet the unique demands of the current moment in global health.

Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2025; Kedest Tesfagiorgis; Gates Foundation

Welcome and Opening Remarks: Kedest Tesfagiorgis

Panel Discussion: (Always on, Always Ready: Strengthening the Clinical Research and Trial Model). Moderator: Tariro Makadzange (Chief Executive Officer, Africa Clinical Research Network, Zimbabwe); Patrice Matchaba (Chief Executive Officer, Gates Medical Research Institute, United States); Ntobeko Ntusi (President &amp; CEO, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa); Iruka Okeke (Professor, University of Ibadan, Calestous Juma Science Leadership Fellow, Nigeria).Panelists explored opportunities to make African clinical research and trials more effective and sustainable.

Always on, Always Ready: Strengthening the Clinical Research and Trial Model

Keynote Remarks: (Learning from India’s Experience: How to Build a Sustainable Clinical Trial Model). Rajiv Bahl, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, India).Dr. Rajiv Bahl shared lessons from India’s clinical trials and research.

Keynote Remarks: Rajiv Bahl

Grand Challenges Annual Meeting Videos

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Announcements

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Grand Challenges Annual Meeting

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Video Retrospectives

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Project Videos

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 Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Challenge Highlights

Project Photos