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Jerome Kim

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Dr. Jerome Kim is the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University in Republic of Korea. Dr. Kim was Principal Deputy and Chief of Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis in the US Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) and also served as the Project Manager for the HIV Vaccines and Advanced Concepts Evaluation Project Management Offices, US Army Medical Materiel Development Activity in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Agus Prabowo

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Dr. Agus Prabowo as the chairman at LKPP (the Indonesian National Public Procurement Agency). He advocates the effectiveness in the public procurement process of healthcare products as well as the outcomes from e-catalogue implementation in Indonesia.

Zichen Deng

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Zichen Deng is an applied economist working on environmental, health, and development economics. He joined the Department of Economics at NHH in August 2020 and is also affiliated to the Macroeconomics and Natural Resources group.

[VIDEO] The Impact of COVID-19 and Government Lockdown on Children’s Schooling, Time Use and Marriage Timing in Rural Bangladesh

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor in developing countries is increasingly becoming a matter of concern. The poor seem more vulnerable to the COVID-19 infection given a congested and unhygienic environment, and its insufficient treatment in a poor medical system. Not only these direct health impacts, they may be more vulnerable to the indirect negative impacts, which were generated by the lockdown and school closure, including job loss, return migration and suspension of remittances, and deprivation of children’s learning opportunities.

KDIS-3ie-ADB-ADBI Conference on Impact Evaluation - Challenges and Promise for Human Capital Development in Asia

The KDIS-3ie-ADB-ADBI Conference on Impact Evaluation aims to share empirical research findings on impact evaluation of human capital development policies in Asia using evidence-based approaches and big data.

Felix Oku

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Felix Oku is a Principal Safeguard Specialist at the Front Office (OSOD) of OSFG with over 20yrs working experience. In his front office role, he coordinates functions such as safeguards portfolio monitoring and reporting, management led grievance and incident management, business process optimization, MFI working groups and knowledge management. Felix serves as the Health and Safety focal point on ADB assisted projects, and contributed to development of the ADB’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF 2024).

ADB Business Opportunities (Health)

This presentation gives an overview of ongoing and upcoming ADB Business opportunities relevant to the health sector.

Dhiman Dasgupta

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Dhiman Dasgupta has 25 years of experience in leadership roles across leading medical device corporates and geographies.

He is currently the Managing Director of Draeger ASEAN. Before this, he worked as Senior Director for Asia Pacific GETINGE Group Acute Care Therapies ( Japan, China, South East Asia, India, ANZ, Korea, & Thailand markets). He also worked as Vice President of Maquet Cardiovascular.