6th Annual Nossal Institute for Global Health Forum
Thursday 2 September, Bio 21 Institute
The Millenium Development Goals 2000 - 2015. Can NGOs and academia help 
to get us there?
This one day Forum followed the 63rd United Nations Annual Department of Public Information (DPI)/Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) Conference held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre entitled "Advance Global Health:Achieve the MDGs". The Forum also comes just three weeks before the UN General Assembly Summit on the Millenium Development Goals.
Full Forum Program | Summary Report
Kirsty Thompson (CBM-Nossal Partnership): A case study of the CBM-Nossal Institute Partnership for Disability Inclusive Development | PDF | Alternative Format
Dr Shobha Arole (Comprehensive Primary Health Care Project, Jamkhed, India): Millenium Devlopment Goals and Collaboration with Academic Institutions | PDF
Robert Kumar (Uttarakhand Cluster): Researching the Uttarakhand Cluster Model | PDF | Alternative Format
Cluster Case Study | PDF | Alternative Format
Sally Baker (Nossal Institute): From theory to practice: Development of the Rapid Assessment of Disability (RAD) - a toolkit to support NGOs in disability mainstreaming | PDF | Alternative Format
Further reading:
Kate Taylor and Rob Moodie: Global Health Today: a snapshot | PDF | Alternative Format
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Kirsty Thompson, Nossal-CBM Partnership speaking at the Nossal Institute Forum |
Speaker Biographies
Professor Graham Brown, Director, Nossal Institute for Global Health
Professor Graham Brown is the Foundation Director of the Nossal Institute for Global Health,and Head of the Tropical Health and Infectious Diseases unit. A past Head of Infection and Immunity at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research and of the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and James Stewart Professorof Medicine, Graham has also worked in education and research in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania. He has served on various national and international review committees, and was amember of the Strategic Advisory Council for The Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program. Graham has held a number of appointments advising the Tropical Disease Research Program of the World Health Organization and is currently Chair of the Malaria Vaccine Advisory Committee. His laboratory research is focussed on immunity to malaria.
Kate Taylor, Visiting fellow, Nossal Institute for Global HealthKate Taylor is an Australian medical doctor and global health specialist. She is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Nossal Institute for Global Health where she is writing a book on the performance of the global health system. Previously, having worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, she then helped to shape a range of public private partnerships (PPPs) for global health. She created the World Economic Forum’s Global Health Initiative, where she facilitated a range of partnerships between companies, the public sector and NGOs and represented the private sector on the Boards of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Roll Back Malaria; Stop TB; and the GAVI Alliance. With the WEF, but also later at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and GlaxoSmithKline, she has been involved with a broad range of PPPs spanning new vaccine development through to innovative financing, including the multi-billion dollar Advanced Market Commitment for pneumococcal vaccines that was developed by GAVI, the World Bank, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation and other donors. She has also worked on access issues in response to the SARS and pandemic influenza crises.
Thelma Narayan, People's Health Movement, and epidemiologist and health policy analyst, Centre for Public Health and Equity, Bangalore India.
Thelma works with various national health initiatives including the National Rural 
Health Mission and the National Health System Resource Centre. She was a member of the Task Force on Health and Family Welfare, Karnataka and has evolved public health and primary health care oriented state health policies in Karnataka and Orissa. She is a member of the Measurement and Evidence Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health.
She is an active member of the People's Health Movement network and was the joint convenor of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan till recently. She is also a contributor to the Global Health Watch and a faculty member of the International People's Health University.
Benedict David, Principal Health Advisor, AusAID
Ben is currently working as AusAIDs Principal Health Adviser, responsible for health and aid effectiveness policy, strategy and programme support. He has a background in health systems policy, planning and financing; programme design, and organisational/ institutional reform with experience in a range of country contexts (e.g. China, Zambia, Kosovo, Cambodia etc). He has recently moved from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) where he was working as the Senior Health Adviser for South Asia Region, covering India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal. His previous DFID experience includes Africa Region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, China and HIV/AIDS/health systems policy. He has a strong background in aid effectiveness in health, including a central role in designing and negotiating the “International Health Partnership” on behalf of the UK government. He has previously worked as a technical specialist and programme lead on a number of health sector reform projects for a range of international donors as well as management in the UK National Health Service.
Ruth Bamela Engo, Founder and President of African Action on AIDS.
She is the Chief Executive and co-founder of the AAA (African Action on AIDS).
After earning her Doctorate in Social Sciences from Paris University, Engo returned to Cameroon, where her career took off in the civil service as Head of the Trade Union Office. Following this, she served as Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Labor, and then Director of Labor and Head Delegate to the International Labor Conference in Geneva, before moving to the US with her family in 1984.
During her years in the US, Engo served in different capacities at the United Nations (UNIFEM, DESA, the office of the Special Coordinator for Africa (OSSA), bringing her responsibility for issues related to poverty eradication, microfinance and fostering dialogue among development partners, including the civil society. She co-founded the Advocates for African Food Security in 1986, and was also a founding member and president of the United Nations African Mothers' Association.
Kirsty Thompson, Director of Inclusive Development, CBM Australia.
Kirsty has worked at grass roots and management levels in advocacy and community-based disability practice, education and research in Australia and numerous countries within South and South-East Asia, Middle East and East Africa. This has included work with local and international NGOs and government organisations. She chair’s the Australian Disability & Development Consortium’s Research and Education Committee and is a member of the executive committee. She is also consulting for AusAID on the implementation of the Development for All strategy for a disability inclusive Australian Aid program.
Jane Clege, World Vision International, Africa Region HIV and AIDS M&E and Research Advisor, Zambia
Jane Chege (PhD) is originally from Kenya and currently the Associate Director, Research, Design, Monitoring and Evaluation for World Vision International Global Health and WASH. She provides overall strategic and technical leadership of the Models of Learning, World Vision’s HIV&AIDS Research and Development Unit, charged with the responsibility of designing and pilot-testing HIV models suitable for varying HIV typologies and socio-cultural contexts. She also provides leadership and technical support for all World Vision’s Health and HIV&AIDS program design, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and M&E capacity building. Before joining World Vision, Jane worked as the Program Associate and Head of Population Council’s FRONTIERS Program in Southern Africa. She conducted academic research and lectured in Kenyatta University in Kenya before joining the Population Council.
Jane has over fifteen years experience in public health including HIV&AIDS and reproductive health programming and thirteen years of academic research, teaching and training. In Addition to Sub-Saharan Africa, she has provided leadership and technical support to World Vision staff to design, monitor, evaluate and assess impact of HIV prevention and care programs in low HIV prevalence countries in Asia Pacific (APR), Middle East and Eastern Europe (MEER), and Latin America and the Caribbean (LACR) regions and has been an author and co-author in over 27 articles in peer review journals; books and operations study reports and 48 abstracts for international conference presentations. Further, Jane has served in an advisory capacity role for policy and program development.
Susan Harris Rimmer, Manager Advocacy and Development Practice, Australian Council for International Development
Susan is the Manager of Advocacy and Development Practice at the Australian Council for International Development, peak body for Australian development NGOs. She is also a Visting Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Justice in RegNet at the Australian National University. She is the outgoing President of national voluntary NGO Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, and a board member of UNIFEM Australia. She has thirteen years experience as a lawyer, researcher, campaigner and policy analyst (NCCA, ACFID, UNHCR and Parliament), most of which has been in the human rights, refugee and women’s sectors. She has specialist knowledge in the fields of international law (especially transitional justice), human rights and anti-discrimination law and policy, refugee and migration law and policy, law reform and Parliamentary processes, a rights-based approach to development, social policy and the strengthening of civil society movements, especially through the promotion of women’s leadership. Her expertise includes research, legislative drafting, advice work, briefings for decision-makers, speech-writing, campaign development, dispute resolution processes, delivering training in media and advocacy skills, event planning and the writing of policy documents, manuals, training packages, books and scholarly articles.
Shobha Arole, Associate Director, Comprehensive Rural Health Project, 
Jamkhed, India.
Shobha Arole currently serves as the Associate Director of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) at Jamkhed, a well-established community-based health and development project, founded in 1970 by her parents Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole. Her work at CRHP includes personnel management, staff and residency training, organizational capacity building and financial management. Previously she held positions as a medical doctor at Emmanuel Hospital Association and as Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for CRHP. Dr. Arole is an ordained minister of the Church of North India, playing a large role in the spiritual leadership of the organization and community. She has served on the Boards of many prestigious organizations and continues to fill leadership roles in the community.
Robert Kumar, President of the Uttarakhand Cluster, India
After completing his diploma in pharmacy from Christian Medical College Ludhiana, he worked for 3 years in a rural mission hospital. To improve his understanding about primary health care, he went to Jamkhed and then later joined the Herbertpur Christian Hospital community health department (1996). Robert then studied in Canada at the Coady International Institute and completed a diploma in community based development. Upon his return he started a TB program called SHIFA. He later completed a Masters in Social Work and a certificate in district health management and resource allocation (Swiss Tropical Institute).
His current roles include: Community Health Director in Herbertpur Christian Hospital; the EHA Deputy Director for Community Health; and EHA Community Health Coordinator - Northern region as well as President of the Uttarakhand Cluster in India.
Sally Baker, CBM-Nossal Partnership.
Sally has worked together with people with disabilities for all of her professional life, with several years spent working in Asia and the Pacific. From 1999 to 2001, Sally worked together with people with disabilities in Samoa on an accessibility and awareness project, and to help build Nuanua O le Alofa, Samoa’s Disabled Persons Organisation. In the Solomon Islands, she worked together with People with Disabilities Solomon Islands (PWDSI), the Solomon Islands Community Based Rehabilitation program on a national disability survey and the development and evaluation of programs which aim to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities for Handicap International in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. An Occupational Therapist with a Masters degree in International Community Development, Sally has worked with people with mental illness, intellectual disability, drug and alcohol problems in Australia; people with physical disabilities in Samoa, and towards the strengthening of Community Based Rehabilitation and Psychiatric services in the Solomon Islands and India. Currently based in Melbourne, Sally is conducting research in Bangladesh and Fiji, validating a toolkit which will measure the effectiveness of disability-inclusive development programs, and co-coordinates the CBM-Nossal Institute Partnership for Disability-Inclusive Development. Sally is a board member of Australia Pacific Islands Disability Support (APIDS), an NGO which supports the development of Disabled Persons Organisations in the Pacific.
Beth Fuller, CBM-Nossal Partnership
Beth Fuller is a Senior Adviser in Disability at the Nossal Institute for Global Health and the Partnership Coordinator of the CBM Australia – Nossal Institute Partnership in Disability and Development. Beth established the Disability program at Nossal and developed the subject "Disability in Developing Countries" for the Masters in Public Health. She is a founding member of the Australian Disability and Development Consortium (ADDC) and co-authored ADDC's Research and Education Strategy Paper. She arranges and coordinates the Nossal Disability Special Interest Group which has over 150 members, composed mainly of disability, health and development practitioners and persons with disabilities. She worked as the head of Occupational Therapy services at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Bangladesh and wrote the B.Sc (OT) degree curriculum for the Bangladesh Health Professions Institute.