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Meet more of the IHLA Summit keynote speakers!

The 2024 Summit is just about 2 weeks away and we're excited to introduce you to 3 more speakers from our lineup!

Meet 3 new Keynote Speakers

Faten Ben Abdelaziz

Dr Faten Ben Abdelaziz is Head of the Enhanced Wellbeing Unit in the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization Headquarters, providing technical support to WHO Member States in policies and programmes development in areas of health promotion. She oversees the work on good governance for health and well-being societies, including healthy cities, health promoting schools, health literacy and community engagement.


Her current work focus is on intersectoral governance and policies that promote well-being of societies, promoting population levels health literacy, community empowerment, urban governance for health and well-being and health promoting schools.


Dr Ben Abdelaziz has previously served at the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMRO) as Regional Adviser for Health Education and Promotion and Coordinator of Health promotion in the Department of Prevention of Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). At the WHO Centre for Health Development in Kobe, Japan, she served as Technical Officer for Health Promotion, Urbanization and health, Health equity, Women’s health and Gender, and Social Determinants of Health.


Vicky Edmonds

Vicky is Social Impact Director at Haleon. She is passionate about driving forward Haleon’s mission of delivering better everyday health with humanity. She launched Haleon’s Social Impact strategy which is single mindedly focused on Health Inclusivity, and how barriers to health inclusivity, such as low health literacy, can be tackled to help inform and empower healthy living and healthy behaviours. She supports the business on embedding inclusivity across key brands, products and services and worked together with the Economist Impact team to launch the Health Inclusivity Index. Before joining Haleon, Vicky led the global Social Impact team at Kingfisher PLC and prior to that lead the corporate partnerships team at UNICEF UK where she worked with business such as EasyJet, Unilever and Marks and Spencer to deliver funding and developing child rights programmes.


Lee Hibbard

Lee Hibbard is currently working in the Human Rights and Biomedicine Division of the Council of Europe. His responsibilities include AI and healthcare, Youth Forum on Bioethics, and a Guide to health literacy for equitable access to healthcare. Lee served as the Council of Europe's internet governance coordinator, responsible for strategic thinking, public speaking, relationship building, and coordination on human rights and technology. This included the development of internet governance strategies and partnerships with digital companies.




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