CSIS Press Briefing Eliminating Malaria in Myanmar
Channel: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Date: 13/08/2015

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will host a press briefing to discuss the results of an unprecedented effort to reach across political and ethnic divides to eliminate malaria in Myanmar. Convened jointly by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the Institute for Global Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the conference included senior officials from the Myanmar government, opposition, and minority communities including Myanmar’s office of the President, the Ministry of Health, Myanmar military medical experts, members of Parliament, the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy; and the Shan, Karenni, and Kayin ethnic minorities.
The dialogue also featured entities that actively support malaria elimination in Myanmar. These include the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, the U.S. Pacific Command, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health; the World Bank; the World Health Organization; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance.
A joint conference statement from the participants will be issued during the press briefing.
Moderated by:
Dr. J. Stephen Morrison 
SVP and Director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
Dr. Christopher Plowe 
Director, Institute for Global Health, 
University of Maryland School of Medicine 
President, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Featuring:
From the Government of Myanmar
Dr. Thein Thein Htay 
Deputy Minister of Health
Brigadier-General Tin Maung Hlaing 
Director of Defence Medical Research Services
From the Opposition
Dr. Tin Myo Win 
Senior Health Adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy
From Myanmar’s Ethnic Minority Communities
Eh Kalu Shwe Oo 
Director of the Kayin Department of Health and Welfare
 
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