Club de Madrid-Unite: Inclusive Governance to #LeaveNoOneBehind during and after COVID-19

Inclusive Governance to #LeaveNoOneBehind during and after COVID-19

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Club de Madrid, the largest forum of democratically elected Heads of State and Government and UNITE, a global network of around 120 parliamentarians to end infectious diseases as a global health threat, organise this Live Discussion to exchange views on how policymaking related to COVID-19's consequences can include a social inclusion dimension.

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Presenters

Helen Clark

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand and WLA-Club de Madrid Member

Helen Clark was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999–2008. She was the first woman to become Prime Minister in New Zealand and the second woman to serve as Prime Minister.

Throughout her tenure as Prime Minister and as a Member of Parliament, Helen Clark engaged widely in policy development and advocacy across the international affairs, economic, social, environmental, and cultural spheres.

In 2009, Helen Clark became Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. She was the first woman to lead the organisation. She was Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of all UN funds, programmes, agencies, and departments working on development issues.

Helen continues to speak widely and be a strong voice on sustainable development, climate action, gender equality and women’s leadership, peace and justice, and action on non-communicable diseases and on HIV.

Zlatko Lagumdzija

Former Prime MInister of Bosnia and Herzegovina and WLA-Club de Madrid Member

Professor Dr. Zlatko Lagumdžija was Prime Minister, Acting Prime Minister, twice Deputy Prime Minister, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a Member of the Parliament and the leader of the largest multi-ethnic political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 2015. Member of Club de Madrid-The World Leadership Alliance and World Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founder of the Shared Societies and Values Foundation Sarajevo. Since 1989, Dr. Lagumdžija is professor of Management and Information Technologies at University of Sarajevo, and visiting professor of different universities in Europe, Asia and America. Member of numerous International Boards and Missions. Ambassador for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations of ISESCO.

Rosette Christine Mutambi

Member of Parliament, Uganda; Founder HEPS Uganda and Member of UNITE.

Rosette Kajungu Mutambi is a Ugandan professional social worker and journalist, a politician and legislator who represents the people of Mbarara district as district woman representative in the Parliament of Uganda. She is a member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, the party in political leadership in Uganda under the chairmanship of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni president of the republic of Uganda.
Kajungu Mutambi was the founder/executive director of HEPS Uganda coalition for health promotion from 2000 to 2016. Kajungu Mutambi was also a deputy manager, AIDS control programme, and was a research assistant at Recon Uganda. In parliament, she serves on the committee on local government accounts and the committee on health. She is a member of Uganda women parliamentary association(UWOPA) where she is the chairperson of the succession act round table committee.
Kajungu Mutambi has membership in professional bodies; Uganda media women association as a full member and an associate member in the Association of social workers.

Ricardo Baptista Leite MD

Member of the Portuguese Parliament; Founder & President of UNITE Global Parliamentarians Network to End Infectious Diseases

Ricardo Baptista Leite is the Founder & President of UNITE. Since 2011, Ricardo is a Member of the Portuguese National Parliament where he is, since the beginning of his third term, the Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party Parliamentary Board. He is also the National Spokesperson for Health of the Social Democratic Party.

A Medical Doctor trained in infectious diseases; Ricardo is also the Head of Public Health at Católica University of Portugal.

Ricardo is also the Vice President of the ‘Parliamentary Network on The World Bank & International Monetary Fund’, where he works directly with The World Bank Group and IMF. The network’s mission is to provide a platform for parliamentarians around the globe to advocate for increased accountability and transparency in International Financial Institutions and multilateral development financing.

In April 2019, Ricardo became Global Ambassador of the ‘G20 Health & Development Partnership’ aimed at advising and advocating G20 countries on health policies aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

In recognition of Ricardo’s academic work and policy leadership in the field of hepatitis c, Ricardo was awarded by ‘The Economist Intelligence Unit’ as a ‘HCV Change Maker’ (2016). This acknowledgment was attributed to solely six people globally.

Terri Ford

Chief of Global Advocacy and Policy at AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Longtime advocate Terri Ford has served in many different capacities in her 19-year tenure at AHF. She started her AHF career at Chris Brownlie Hospice in the early 1990s as the director of dietary services and moved on to oversee the design and construction of AHF’s state-of-the-art inpatient facility, Linn House. She served as the administrative director of Linn House until being asked to launch a new prevention division, which included the first alternative HIV testing and outreach services of its kind. Under her leadership, AHF’s program became the largest provider of community-based testing in California.
In 2001, Ford went to South Africa and created AHF’s first clinic outside the United States.
In her current role, Ford directs and coordinates AHF’s worldwide advocacy, global testing and prevention efforts, helping to move the organization to new frontiers in global AIDS control. Ford has been instrumental in building the capacity of the regional bureaus to lead local advocacy efforts, spending substantial time in the field and working hands-on within each region. She has traveled extensively since 2001, advocating for people with HIV in Geneva, Washington and Europe, as well as being deployed more than 30 times to Africa and Asia on assignments.
Ford heads AHF’s Testing and Prevention Committee, and is a member of the Global Executive Committee and global ambassador for AHF.

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