Minutes International Organizing Committee Meeting Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2017, Royal Plaza Montreux and Spa, Montreux, Switzerland, 19 May 2017

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Minutes
International Organizing Committee Meeting
Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2017
Royal Plaza Montreux and Spa, Montreux, Switzerland
19 May 2019
Attendees:
No. Name Position / Organization
1 Dr. Vicharn Panich
Chair, International Award Committee, Prince Mahidol
Award Foundation, Thailand
2
Dr. Peter Hansen (on behalf of
Dr. Mark Dybul)
Head of Technical Advice and Partnerships, The Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Switzerland
3
Dr. Lidewij Wiersma (on behalf
of Dr. Juan Lubroth)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
Italy
4
Dr. Julie Sinclair (on behalf of Dr.
Tianna Brand)
World Organisation for Animal Health, France
5
Ms. Wivina Belmonte(on behalf
of Ms. Karin Hulshof)
Deputy Regional Director , East Asia and the Pacific Regional
Office, UNICEF, Thailand
6
Dr. Sabrina Sholts (on behalf of
Ms. Kara Blond)
Curator of anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of
Natural History, USA
7 Dr. Katherine Bond
Vice President, International Regulatory Affairs, U.S.
Pharmacopeia, USA
8 Dr. Ceci Mundaca-Shah
Director, Forum on Microbial Threats, The National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, USA
9
Dr. Marlo Libel (on behalf of Dr.
Mark Smolinski)
Senior Advisor, Skoll Global Threats Fund, USA
10 Dr. Kamran Abbasi
International and Digital Editor, British Medical Journal,
United Kingdom
11 Prof. David Sanders
Founding Director of the School of Public Health, University
of the Western Cape and People's Health Movement, South
Africa
12
Dr. Jadej Thammatach-aree (on
behalf of Dr. Sakchai
Kanjanawatana)
Deputy Secretary General, National Health Security Office,
Thailand

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No. Name Position / Organization
13 Dr. Udom Kachintorn President, Mahidol University, Thailand
14 Dr. Prasit Watanapa
Dean, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol
University, Thailand
15
Dr Nahoko Shindo (on behalf of
Dr. Sylvie Briand)
Manager of WHO’s Experts Networks & Interventions unit,
World Health Organization, Switzerland
16 Dr. Toomas Palu
Sector Manager for Health, Nutrition and Population, East
Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank, Thailand
17 Dr. Douglas Webb
Team Leader, Health and Innovative Financing, HIV, Health
and Development Group, United Nation Development
Programme, USA
18
Dr. Teresa Zakaria (on behalf of
Dr. Davide Mosca)
Migration Health Emergency Operations Officer,
International Organization for Migration, Switzerland
19 Dr. Dennis Carroll
Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats Unit
Director, United States Agency for International
Development, USA
20
Mr. Taro Kikuchi (on behalf of
Mr. Ikuo Takizawa)
Director, Health Team 3, Human Development Department,
Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan
21 Ms. Natalie Phaholyothin Associate Director, The Rockefeller Foundation, Thailand
22 Prof. David Harper
Senior Consulting Fellow and Deputy Head of the Centre on
Global Health Security, Chatham House, United Kingdom
23 Dr. Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra
Professor, Institute for Population and Social Research,
Mahidol University, Thailand
1. Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Dennis Carroll, Chair of the IOC Meeting, welcomed the IOC members to the meeting followed by
the introduction of the meeting participants. Dr. Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra then explained the
work process since January 2017. There was the Call for Abstracts which closed at the end of March
2017, followed by the Scientific Committee Meeting in Tokyo to select the abstracts. Afterwards,
there was the Joint Secretariat Meeting to discuss the sub-themes, possible sessions, and session
coordinators. The session coordinators were assigned to develop the details of each session, which
was then presented at the Coordinators Meeting in Montreux during 16-17 May. The Coordinators
Meeting looked at overlaps and gaps in the content of the sessions, merged some sessions and
finally concluded with 20 sessions. These sessions will be further revised by the coordinators

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according to the comments from the Coordinators Meeting. The Coordinators Meeting also agreed
on the new structure of the conference program. This was followed by the Joint Secretariat Meeting
on 18 May to finalize the sessions into time slots and suggestion of keynote speakers for important
sessions such as the Opening Session, Dinner Session, and Closing Session. The minutes of the
Coordinators Meeting and Joint Secretariat Meeting were provided to all IOC members in the folder.
2. Conference Program at a Glance
Dr. Dennis Carroll provided a brief overview of the sub-themes and informed the IOC Members of
the PMAC 2018 Program at a Glance as shown below. To create more space and time for slots of
parallel sessions, the lunch time was reduced and meeting would start earlier on the second day.
The new design of the conference program would allow participants to attend 4 parallel sessions and
accommodate different streams for audiences attracted by different topics.
The 3 sub-themes align with Plenary 1, 2 and 3. Plenary 3 will be replaced by PS 18 “The Livestock
Revolution, Emerging Zoonoses and AMR: Managing Risk across Livestock and Fisheries Value Chain”
whose content will be broadened and the title changed to reflect the wider content. All the sessions
will be renumbered and the titles of the sessions will revised to be more attractive and clear.
The IOC agreed on the Conference structure and the sessions proposed.
3. Side Meetings
Besides the main conference program, the side meetings will be an integral part of PMAC 2018. This
year, we will try to reorient the pre-conference sessions to link with the formal conference program.
The pre-conference sessions will be organized and thought out to elevate the topics of the main
conference. The pre-conference sessions will also allow detailed interactive engagement of the
participants. There is are around 25-30 slots for the pre-conference sessions, with rooms that can
accommodate ranging from 30 to 200 participants.
The lead sub-theme coordinators will work with side meeting organizers and act as a filter, helping
merge proposals that are similar. The side meetings will be asked to identify actionables that can
contribute to the Call to Action.
Priority will be given to side meetings related to the current theme, side meetings related to the past
conference theme to come back and move the agenda forward, and side meetings linking to the
future theme.
Some proposed side meetings include:
 PIP Framework (WHO)
 Resources for preparedness and response (WHO)
 Communication (WHO)
 Financing (The World Bank)
 Migration (IOM might be interested to lead)
 Extractive industry (USAID, Chatham House)
 Simulation exercises (UNDP)
 Movements supporting small scale production vs. big food industries
 Link between infectious diseases and NCDs. There is a strong convergence between the
2018 and 2019 theme.
The deadline to submit the side meeting proposals through the website is 30 September 2017.

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Thursday 1 February 2018
09:00-12:00 Opening Session by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn & Keynote Address &
Plenary Session 0: Vision 2100: Re-Imagining the End Game for the End of the Pandemic Era
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Plenary 1: Leadership Needed for Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
14:00-16:00 PS 1.1: PS3: Lessons learned
in managing EID (merge with
PS11)
PS 1.2: PS5: information for
action
PS 1.3: PS20: Safeguarding
medicines for human and
animal health: what do we
know? What works?
PS 1.4: PS22: Lost in
Transitions? Financing for
pandemic preparedness and
global health security
PS1.5: PS14: One Health on
the Move: Nomadic
Communities
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Plenary 2: Futures of Partnerships for a Safer World
18:00-20:30 Welcome Dinner
Friday 2 February 2018
08:30-09:30 Plenary 3: PS18: The Livestock Revolution, Emerging Zoonoses and AMR: Managing Risk across Livestock and Fisheries Value Chains
09:30-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00 PS 2.1: PS1: Are countries
prepared for the next
pandemics
PS 2.2: PS4: AMR –
excessive and inappropriate
use of antibiotics
PS 2.3: PS12: Partnerships
for Preparedness, Detection,
and Response during Mass
Gatherings
PS 2.4: PS16: Changing
Dynamics: Emerging
Zoonoses (Infectious
Diseases) in an Era of
Expanding Global Human
Population Growth and
Movement
PS 2.5: PS13: Reducing the
Gap: High Impact Diseases;
Neglected Populations?
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 PS 3.1: PS9: Global
Partnerships for Country
Outcomes (merge with PS11)
PS 3.2: PS6: AMR gap
implementation in country
PS 3.3: PS15: Climate
Change and Emerging
Diseases: The Importance of
Resilient Societies
PS 3.4: PS17: Shifting
Landscapes – Real and
Figurative: Understanding
How Altered Land Use is
Driving Disease Emergence
PS3.5: PS10: Policy
Coherence: Effective
Partnership for R&D
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:30 PS 4.1: PS2: Global
frameworks and initiatives –
EID and AMR
PS4.2: PS8: Multi-sectoral
Partnerships for Action on
AMR
PS 4.3: PS7: empowering
communities
PS 4.4: PS19: Finding the win-
win solutions for better
health from better food
systems
PS 4.5: PS21: Bringing
Solutions into Focus:
Harnessing the Power of an
Economic Lens
Saturday 3 February 2018
09:00-12:00 Synthesis: summary, conclusion & recommendations & Closing Session

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4. Potential Keynote Speakers
Dr. Churnrurtai informed the IOC members of potential keynote speakers for important sessions such
as the Opening Session, Dinner Session and Closing Session.
Opening Session (formal, presided over by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn)
 Prince Mahidol Award Laureates (maximum of 2)
 Joanne Liu from MSF (represents grassroots, frontline people)
 Angela Merkel from Germany (represents global political leader)
Dinner Session (relaxed)
 Bill Gates (represents global visionary leader)
Closing Session
 Margaret Chan
Other suggested names include:
 Larry Summers
 New WHO DG
 Gino Strada
 Michel Sidibe
 Minister of Health of Japan
There is the challenge of attracting people to stay until the last day of the conference. Having a
powerful keynote speaker at the Closing Session could help pull attendance on the 3rd
day of the
main conference.
The IOC members agreed on the list of keynote speakers proposed.
5. Field Trip
Dr. Jadej Thammatach-aree presented the 7 field trip sites supporting the theme of PMAC 2018
which will allow participants to have hands on engagement with the work in Thailand.
1) Simplicity and complexity of controlling multidrug-resistant organisms in a university hospital:
Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
2) Multi-Sectoral Coordination : preparedness approaches for addressing emerging infectious
diseases and antimicrobial resistance in University Hospital.
: Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
3) Antibiotic Smart Use program (ASU) to promote rational use of antibiotics in hospitals. :
Phraphuthabat Hospital, Saraburi Province
4) “Public – Private - Community Participation” to deal with antibiotic resistance.
: Ban Lang Khao, Muaklek Sub-district, Saraburi Province
5) Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness, Prevention & Response in Thailand
: Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health
6) Commitments to responsible antimicrobial use in the farm through consumers
: Department of Livestock Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and A Pig
Farm in Ratchaburi province.
7) Application to promote participatory disease surveillance
: National Science and Technology Development Agency, National Electronics and Computer
Technology : NSTDA, NECTEC

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The meeting suggested other dimensions that could be added to the field trips including:
 Sale of antibiotics at retail, effective way to curb unregulated retailers at community level
 Effective market surveillance
 Measures of biosecurity
The National Health Security Office who is responsible for the field trip will take the suggestions into
consideration and make necessary adjustment to the field trip program.
6. Art Contest
PMAC has been organizing the Art Contest since 2013. The Art Contest allows children to learn about
global health issues and interpret them into art. The meeting agreed that the appropriate theme for
the PMAC 2018 Art Contest is “One Health” where there is the component of “Smart Use of
Medicine” in the One Health approach.
The co-hosts were asked to help disseminate information about the Art Contest to their network,
schools and families to promote more international entries.
7. Raising Greater Awareness of PMAC
The meeting discussed possibilities to raise greater awareness of PMAC including:
 Using large billboards in Thailand to publicize about PMAC or the Smithsonian materials to
create better understanding
 Systematic use of social media – twitter, youtube
 Using communication consultants to put together a communication package
 Hackathons to bring in younger people
 Planet Virus (network of young PHD students)
8. PMAC Assessment
Dr. Churnrurtai presented the summary of the Assessment Report from the International Assessment
Team (IAT). Recommendations from the report are as follows:
 The IAT suggests that the current objective of PMAC should be reviewed to consider whether
to re-affirm or adapt them in light of past experiences and new opportunities.
 The IAT recommends that there is wider engagement with PMAC among groups currently
outside the PMAC networks, to draw in new ideas, build momentum around PMAC themes
and reach wider audiences.
 The IAT recommends PMAC increased engagement by Thai co-hosts and that a plan is
developed to reach out to additional, potential Thai co-host organizations.
 The IAT recommends that functions of the PMAC process be reviewed.
 The IAT recommends engagement with other groups organizing global health conferences.

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The meeting suggested that
 The assessment should be part of the IOC work
 Co-hosts should help report on the impact of PMAC
 Should think proactively about pathways that PMAC influences
 There should be a monkey survey. It seems that participants in review did not include
participants from countries, interested to know how they have benefited from the
conference. How useful was PMAC and its quality?
 Direct feedback on PMAC can be provided through the mobile application at the conference
 Need to collect more information about the side meetings and their impact as the side
meetings have become an important part of PMAC
The PMAC Secretariat will take all suggestions into consideration in planning the future direction of
PMAC.
9. PMAC 2019
Dr. Prin Vathesatogkit presented the concept note for PMAC 2019 which revised following
comments from the Joint Secretariat Meeting. The IOC members provided additional comments to
further develop the concept note as follows:
 Session about NCD causes of mortality as NCDs is the common cause in developing countries
 Double burden of disease
 Integration of NCD management in primary health care
 More emphasis on political and commercial drivers of NCDs
 Need to be clear about the differential impact of choices
 Suggest to ban the use of the word “lifestyle” in the concept note
 Don’t be too negative about the prospects of childhood obesity
 Recent advances of reducing industry influence on policy
 How to tackle industry interference
 Growing movement toward verticalized funding
 Role of governments and progressive policies
 Biotechnology for prevention
 Health services to respond to chronic diseases
 Appreciate the focus on “urban”
 Understand the big corporations’ side – what is driving their shifting attitudes and how to
add speed to that
 Should prepare concept note as a storyboard upfront
Dr. Prin will further revise the concept note based on comments received from the IOC Meeting. If
co-hosts have other issues to add to the concept note, please forward them to the PMAC Secretariat.
The PMAC 2019 Working Group will be meeting in October to further shape up the concept note.
IOC members who are interested in joining may inform the PMAC Secretariat. It was suggested to
invite IDRC Canada and Bloomberg Foundation to the Working Group Meeting.

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10. Rapporteurs
The rapporteurs will assist with conference synthesis by providing 1) an immediate summary for the
conference synthesis session on the last day and 2) a detailed summary for the report on the
conference. The co-hosts will be asked to propose names of rapporteurs for different sessions. This
year, it was proposed to also have rapporteurs for side meetings that relate to the conference theme
so that they can provide feedback to the conference sessions and Call to Action. The PMAC
Secretariat will send out the TOR for rapporteurs.
11. Calendar of Activities and Important Deadlines
Dr. Churnrurtai informed that the next PMAC 2018 IOC Meeting will be in the afternoon of the last
day of PMAC 2018. The schedule of key activities onward is shown in the table below.
Pre-Conference
Date Activity Responsible Person
30 Jun 2017 Revised session proposal Lead coordinators
30 Jun 2017 List of speakers and funding Lead coordinators
31 Jul 2017 List of participants and funding Co-hosts, partners, coordinators
Jul onwards Invitation sent to speakers PMAC Secretariat
Aug onwards Invitation sent to participants PMAC Secretariat
30 Sep 2017 Deadline to request for side meeting Side Meeting Organizer
1 Dec 2017 Biosketch & paper for conference program Speakers/Panelists/Moderators
1 Dec 2017 List of international rapporteurs Lead coordinators, Rapporteur
Focal Person
During Conference
Date Activity Responsible Person
29 - 30 Jan 2018 Side Meetings PMAC Secretariat
31 Jan 2018 Field Trip PMAC Secretariat
1 - 3 Feb 2018 Main Conference PMAC Secretariat

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Requested Action from IOC members:
 Send the list of participants and funding by 30 July 2017
 Send side meeting proposals through the website by 30 September 2017
 Nominate names of international rapporteurs by 1 December 2017
Dr. Churnrurtai thanked all co-hosts for their active ownership of the conference and thanked WHO
and the Global Fund for co-hosting this IOC Meeting. Dr. Dennis Carroll, Chair of the IOC Meeting,
declared the meeting closed at 12.00 noon.