Ian Gust
Professor Ian Gust is a medical virologist with a distinguished career in public health, including involvement in the development of vaccines against hepatitis A and human papillomavirus infection and membership of the International Task Force for Hepatitis B Immunization.
Since “Retirement” in 2000, he has been appointed a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. In addition to serving on the Boards of several biotech companies, Ian is actively involved with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (New York), International Vaccine Institute (Seoul) and continues to consult for WHO.
Marcel Tanner
Director of the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel.
Yves Champey
Advisor to the Director General of Evry Genopole in France.
Richard Laing
Medical officer at the WHO and author of the Priority Medicines for Europe and the World report.
Ian Gust
Professorial Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne
Professor Ian Gust thinks that the largest problems in the field of health are political and economic.
Controlling population growth, implementing effective approaches, making use of effective products and reducing inequality and poor access to health services are issues that need serious political and economic attention.
Furthermore, we have to get global commitment to deal with the consequences of climate change. To reach that we must give a realistic economic price to resources that we have taken for granted, such as oil and water.
While there are a lot of technologies or biotechnologies which will be very important in providing new approaches to prevention or treatment of diseases, I think they are enabling rather than transforming. We need transforming solutions for the politics and the economics.