Meet the next generation of IAP Young Physician Leaders: the 2022 cohort is here

Since 2011, the InterAcademy Partnership's Young Physician Leaders (YPL) programme has provided more than 200 outstanding young health professionals with the skills they need to promote health and strengthen health systems around the world.

The young physicians selected to participate in this year’s programme are (click on the names to read the full biographies):

• Kosar Asnaashari
• Muhammed Atak
• Nadia Atiya
• Fides Maria Aileen V. Buenafe
• Zineb Ez-Zaitouni
• Flavia Garcez
• Andrew Gonzalez
• Bharath Holla
• Do-Hwan Kim
• Samuel  Knauss
• Elouise Kroon
• Lennard Lee
• Herve Monka Lekuya
• Salome Maswime
• Sarah McGuinness
• Susanna Mills
• Paolo Parente
• Milagro Sanchez Cunto
• Duha Shellah
• Kosala Weerakoon
• Dakshitha Wickramasinghe

YPLs were nominated by members of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the ‘M8 Alliance’ of Academic centres and selected by IAP.

The 2022 cohort will meet in Berlin, Germany, on 13 October 2022, and after the  YPL leadership workshop they will attend the 2022 World Health Summit (WHS), a leading international forum for global health, that will take place in Berlin and virtually from 16 to 18 October 2022. The IAP YPL session will take place on 18 October at 11AM (Berlin time):

GHI 08 - Effective Leaders for Effective Health Systems
What Makes a Leader and Can We Learn to Lead on the Job?
Oct. 18, 2022, CEST: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM / UTC: 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Digital Session: https://worldhealthsummit.zoom.us/j/84849331333
Meeting ID: 848 4933 1333
 

This IAP programme will once more have the collaboration of the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) with the support of the Tides Foundation, the Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Bayer Foundation.