The 2020 Health At the Center Americares Virtual Summit explores how highly adaptable people and organizations recognize change, assess evolving demands and modify their actions to fit new circumstances. Hosted by CNN Anchor and National Correspondent Erica Hill.

Erica Hill

Veteran morning TV anchor and award-winning journalist Erica Hill serves as CNN lead fill-in anchor and national correspondent. Most recently, she anchored HLN’s On the Story with Erica Hill, a daily, New York-based daytime news program. During her tenure, she covered major news stories on location including, in 2017, the Las Vegas shooting and hurricane Irma from Florida.

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Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. The team has written a series of best-selling books and appeared in related television documentaries. Their No. 1 best-seller, Half the Sky, called “electrifying” by The Washington Post, draws a compelling picture of the trials and triumphs of women struggling worldwide for opportunity and equality. They followed that with A Path Appears, both a best-selling book and PBS documentary, exploring how people can make a difference at home and abroad. In their new book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (2020), they issue a plea to address the crisis in working-class America while also focusing on solutions. Photo by Bob Rozycki

Dr. E. Anne Peterson, MD, MPH

Americares Senior Vice President of Global Programs Dr. E. Anne Peterson, MD, MPH, oversees the organization’s health programs for people affected by poverty or disaster, including its work with the uninsured in the United States, its Emergency Response team and its global distribution of medicine and supplies. Each year, the health-focused relief and development organization reaches more than 90 countries, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine and medical supplies.

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Shekhar Saxena 

Shekhar Saxena is Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A psychiatrist by training, he served in the World Health Organization (WHO) for 20 years beginning 1998. From 2010 to 2018 he was the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at WHO. During his leadership WHO’s Mental Health Action Plan was adopted by the World Health Assembly and mental health and wellbeing was included in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Author of more than 300 academic papers, he was an editor of the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development 2018. His expertise includes providing evidence-based advice and technical assistance to policy makers on mental health promotion and prevention and management of mental, developmental, neurological and substance use disorders and suicide prevention.

Harvey V. Fineberg

Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He previously served as president of the U.S. Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine), as provost of Harvard University, and as dean of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He devoted most of his academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision-making. His past research has focused on global health, assessment of medical technology, evaluation and use of vaccines, and dissemination of medical innovations.

Dr. Fineberg currently chairs the board of the Science Philanthropy Alliance and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats.