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What does a global pandemic have in common with a financial crisis? The worlds of finance and public health are explored in this interview as a young clinician who understand finance, meets an economist/banker who understands public health. See how a project during Peter’s Fellowship connected his two careers.Dr Saira Ghafur (HF2017) is the Director for Digital Health at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London and honorary consultant in respiratory medicine at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. Saira has spearheaded the College’s work on cybersecurity in healthcare, evidence generation for digital health and the value of healthcare data. Saira is the co-founder of two healthcare start ups: Prova Health and Psyma. Prova Health is global company and focusses on evidence generation in digital health and life sciences innovations. Psyma is a company providing online therapy for mental health. Saira went to medical school at the University of Dundee and holds a MSc in Health Policy from Imperial College. Her Fellowship was based at the Commonwealth Fund in New York.
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Peter Sands (HF 1986) has been the Executive Director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria since March 2018. Between 2015 and 2017 Peter was a Research Fellow at Harvard University. After a Harkness Fellowship, gaining an MPA at Harvard, Peter worked for McKinsey & Co. He joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as Group CFO in May 2002 and became Group CEO from 2006 to 2015. Peter has served on various boards and commissions, including the UK’s Department of Health, the World Economic Forum and the International Advisory Board of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Currently Chair of the Board of Cera, a digital-first home healthcare company based in the UK, Peter is married to author Betsy Tobin and has four children.