Frank Smith, MA, PhD
Campaign Director, No More Epidemics, Management Sciences for Health
September 29, 2015
On Sunday, September 27, 2015, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), and its partners Save the Children US and International Medical Corps (IMC), along with African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), committed to bringing together key partners from the global public health, private, public, and civil society sectors to build the No More Epidemics™ campaign that will advocate for stronger health systems with better disease surveillance and epidemic preparedness capabilities to ensure local disease outbreaks do not become major epidemics.
Launching later this year, the No More Epidemics campaign will build a broad and inclusive partnership that will engage multiple sectors to share knowledge and expertise and provide the public information and political support for the right policies and the increased funding to ensure people everywhere are better protected from infectious diseases.
Through this Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment, No More Epidemics will create global and local advocacy campaigns, develop case studies and reports to allow people to better understand different countries' preparedness, and how to address any gaps. The campaign will launch a website and social media platform for information sharing and continue ongoing recruitment of coalition members.
READ THE CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE (CGI) COMMITMENT
Chelsea Clinton announced the No More Epidemics campaign commitment during the Ebola Call to Action that came at the end of a plenary session (“Investing in Prevention and Resilient Health Systems and the Ebola Call to Action”) featuring: Bill Gates, Gates Foundation; Michael Gerson, ONE Campaign; Charlize Theron, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project; Ngozi Okongo-Iweala, former Finance Minister of Nigeria; Michel Lies, Group CEO, Swiss Reinsurance Company; and Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever; moderated by Betsy McKay, global health reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
MSH President and CEO Dr. Jonathan Quick; Save the Children US President and CEO Carolyn Miles and IMC CEO Nancy Aossey represented the No More Epidemics campaign on the CGI stage.
Watch the video recording of the complete plenary session:
LEARN MORE ABOUT NO MORE EPIDEMICS CAMPAIGN AND HOW TO GET INVOLVED
This Storify story summarizes the CGI2015 No More Epidemics commitment discussed and captured in social media:
Frank Smith is campaign director, No More Epidemics, and part of MSH's Global Partnerships, Marketing and Communications (GPMC) team. Frank has over fifteen years professional experience leading campaigns in the international development, humanitarian, and human rights sectors. Based in the United Kingdom, Smith was Director of Global Campaigns for World Vision, and led campaigns and policy work for Oxfam, Plan International, Amnesty International and the International Displacement Monitoring Center. At Amnesty International, he led 3 global crisis campaigns in Sudan, DRC, and Zimbabwe, and piloted the Campaign Against Violence on Women. Frank is fluent in French and Spanish, and has an MA and PHD in Sociology from the University of Essex.
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