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This seminar invites health leaders to share powerful stories that will offer the audience opportunities to reflect and learn about the world of health and leadership.
This series invites leaders to speak frankly about their experience as health leaders. All of the speakers are individuals who have made an incredible difference to health and healthcare through their courageous and transformative leadership.
The series is designed to be highly interactive, with speakers presenting their thoughts for 20 – 30 minutes before opening up for an engaging conversation with the audience. These powerful stories that will be shared offer the audience opportunities to reflect and learn about the world of health and leadership. A reception follows each public event.
Hosted by the UCL Global Business School for Health (UCL GBSH) – the world’s first business school dedicated to health and healthcare management – this seminar series is part of our work to disrupt and reimagine global healthcare management.
- Thursday, 15 Feb 2024, 18:00 - 20:00 GMT, featuring Anne Aslett, CEO of the Elton John AIDS Foundation
Title:
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: How to Fight A Global Pandemic
Summary:
Anne Aslett, CEO of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, has spent over two decades in the global fight to end the AIDS pandemic. From a small charity founded at Elton’s kitchen table, Anne has built the Foundation to become one of the foremost AIDS charities in the world, funding programmes in over 90 countries and saving 5 million lives. In this session, Anne will talk about her journey - from healthcare and development novice to charity leader – and the lessons she has learned about global health, innovation, challenges, and never losing sight of people’s humanity.
Venue:
Lecture Theatre 118, Marshgate, UCL East
Address: 7 Sidings St, London E20 2AE
Structure:
18:00 Introduction by Dr Marzena Nieroda (Deputy Director Partnerships and Enterprise, Lecturer in Marketing and Commercialisation in Healthcare)
18:15 Talk by Anne Aslett
19:00 15-minute Q&A Session
19:15 Networking drinks (Foyer of Lecture Theatre 118)
20:00 End of event
About the speaker
Anne Aslett has led the Elton John AIDS Foundation for over 13 years, first as Executive Director of the UK Foundation and subsequently as Chief Executive Officer of global operations, a position she has held since 2018. With over 25 years in philanthropy and development, Anne established the Foundation’s programmatic strategy, overseeing the disbursement of more than 1,500 programmes in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe and leveraging a further $300m from philanthropists, bilateral and multilateral institutions, and trusts and foundations to support this work. The Foundation is today the 6th largest AIDS funder globally; has saved the lives of over 5m of the most marginalised people in the world and raised awareness of HIV amongst more than 100m people.
In recent years Anne has worked closely with the Foundation’s Founder and Chairman to dramatically expand the charity’s advocacy role in global health to help realise UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.3; implement human rights legislation and change national policy to prioritise vulnerable groups. This work has helped secure significant commitments from national governments to the fight against AIDS, particularly through the Global Fund for AIDS, TB & Malaria and US government’s PEPFAR mechanisms. She has pioneered new partnerships including a $25m fund with Gilead Sciences to address HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe & Central Asia; the $1.2bn MenStar Coalition prioritising mens’ access to HIV testing, treatment and care across Sub Saharan Africa, and the world’s first Social Impact Bond for HIV in the UK in partnership with the National Health Service.
Anne developed a series of high profile media and merchandising efforts to raise funds for and challenge discrimination of HIV/AIDS, including an international social media collaboration with artist Ai Wei Wei (Love Is In My Blood) and a clothing range (Love Bravery) with Lady Gaga which was sold nationwide in the U.S.
Anne joined the Foundation from the commercial sector, where she managed a news information service for the UK leading print and electronic media, following over 5 years in print journalism and documentary film making on health and current affairs issues. She has served on a number of boards including for Comic Relief, the European Funders Group and most recently the UK’s independent HIV Commission.
Anne joined the Foundation from the commercial sector, where she managed a news information service for the UK leading print and electronic media, following over 5 years in print journalism and documentary film making on health and current affairs issues. She has served on a number of boards including for Comic Relief, the European Funders Group and most recently the UK’s independent HIV Commission.
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