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Meet the Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The Hon. Philip Edward Davis KC,
Prime Minister & Minister of Finance - Bahamas

The Hon. Philip Edward Davis was sworn in on 17th September 2021 as the fifth Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, and soon after as Minister of Finance.

Following a snap general election, Mr. Davis led his Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) to a landslide victory, securing 32 out of 39 seats in the House of Assembly.

Mr. Davis was first elected as a Member of Parliament in 1991. Since 2002, he has represented the constituency of Cat Island, Rum Cay & San Salvador. From 2002-2007, he was appointed as Chair of the National Insurance Board, where he implemented a number of major reforms.

In 2009, Mr. Davis was elected Deputy Leader of the PLP. When the party regained power in 2012, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Works and Urban Development. His portfolio included everything relating to the physical infrastructure of The Bahamas. He also held Cabinet responsibility for Bahamasair, Bahamas Electricity Corporation, and the Water & Sewerage Corporation.

In May 2017, Mr. Davis was elected Leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, and served as Leader of The Opposition until his election victory in 2021. As the longest-serving Member of Parliament, he is also recognised as the Father of The House.

Before entering Parliament, Mr. Davis built an outstanding international career as a highly-acclaimed corporate and human rights lawyer. He was called to the Bahamas Bar in 1975, where he served two terms as Vice-President and one as President of the Bahamas Bar Council. A former Member of the Council of Legal Education for CARICOM, in 2015 he was appointed Queen’s Counsel.

In 1970 Mr. Davis became a member of Toastmasters Club 1600, a non-profit organisation established to develop leadership skills through listening, thinking and speaking. He served as President in 1979, and as Division Governor of Toastmasters for The Bahamas in 1989.

A keen sportsman, interested in baseball, softball, swimming and athletics, Mr. Davis served as Vice-President of the Bahamas Swim Federation from 1986 to 1990, and was President of the Sea Bees Swim Club from 1980 to 1990.

Philip Davis was born on born 7th June 1951.

FEATURE SPEAKER

Professor Donald T. Simeon

Professor Donald Simeon is Director, Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research and Development and Professor of Biostatistics and Public Health Research at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, The UWI, St. Augustine. He was educated at The UWI [PhD Nutrition (Mona) and BSc Agriculture (St Augustine)] and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London [MSc Medical Statistics].

He is a Chartered Statistician as well as a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal Statistical Society, UK. He is also a Registered Public Health Nutritionist (Trinidad and Tobago and UK). He is a member of the Global Steering Group of the WHO Evidenceinformed Policy Network (EVIPNet), the Chair of the Caribbean Regional Hub of the Planetary Health Alliance as well as the Chair or member of Research Ethics Committees in Trinidad and Tobago and The Bahamas.

Professor Simeon’s professional research interests include biostatistics, public health, nutrition and health policy and systems research. He has published over 75 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals with over 4100 citations, in addition to chapters in books/encyclopedia. He has also delivered over 80 presentations at scientific and professional meetings throughout the Americas, Africa and Europe, and was listed among the top 2% most impactful researchers (career-long) in the Stanford University Reports.

FEATURE SPEAKER

Dr. C James Hospedales

Dr Hospedales is a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago with over 30 years’ experience in public heath, facing many epidemics and pandemics. A lover of nature, a person of faith, a father and grandfather, Dr Hospedales founded EarthMedic and EarthNurse to mobilise health professionals to address the climate crisis.

He chairs the Defeat-NCD Partnership executive committee, addressing NCDs in low-resource countries; and is the Climate and Health Advisor to the Healthy Caribbean Coalition.

He was inaugural Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency, and Coordinator Chronic disease prevention and control in PAHO/WHO.

He played a key role in the 2007 CARICOM Heads of Government Summit on NCDs, leading to the UN High Level meetings on NCDs in 2012, ’14 and ’18.

Honours graduate of UWI in medicine; MPH from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Fellow, UK Faculty of Public Health, Dr Hospedales has published more than 100 papers and writes for the G7/G20 on climate and health.

FEATURE SPEAKER

Dr. Upton Allen

Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. He is Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Allen is a Senior Associate Scientist in the Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children.

His primary appointment is with the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is also a professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. He holds the position of Bastable-Potts Chair in Infectious Diseases Research, Hospital for Sick Children.

Dr. Allen has had many other academic and professional accomplishments. He has had numerous invited lectures internationally, visiting professorships, greater than 300 scientific publications, several book chapters, several scientific abstracts and peer-reviewed research grants. Past awards include the Harry Jerome Award, the African Canadian Achievement Award of Excellence in the Health Sciences, the UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Award. In 2018, he was awarded the Order of Ontario, which is the highest honor awarded by the province of Ontario. In 2021, he was made a commander of the Order of Distinction, Jamaica. Dr. Allen is chair of the Ontario Public Health Emergencies Science Advisory Committee, Ontario, Canada. He is co-chair of the SickKids Caribbean Initiative (SCI). SCI is a not-for-profit collaboration between the Centre for Global Child Health at SickKids and seven Caribbean institutions across six countries that strive to improve the outcomes and quality of life for children with cancer and blood disorders.

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