Grand Challenges Canada at UNGA 79
Grand Challenges Canada will be in New York for the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week to connect, convene, and share insights with partners and leaders from around the world. Our experts will be focusing on topics including climate and health, investing in youth mental health, supporting humanitarian innovation, inclusive learning in crisis, scaling and sustaining innovation, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and more.
We hope to see you there!
Meet us at UNGA
Grand Challenges Canada will have experts on-site in New York.
Please contact communications@grandchallenges.ca for event or media requests.
Dr. Karlee Silver CEO, Grand Challenges Canada
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Rahul Chandran Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer
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Nicole Fulton Senior Director, Global Health Innovation
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Fawad Akbari Senior Director, Humanitarian Innovation and Program Optimization Read full bio
Leeat Gillis Director, Social Finance
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Gillian Mathurin Director, Strategic and Corporate Communications
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Melani O’Leary Associate Director, Global Mental Health/Being
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Jocelyn Clark Associate to the CEO
Sahil Chopra Portfolio Manager, Global Mental Health/Being
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Erica Zissis Program Operations Associate, Global Mental Health/Being
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Find us at these events & more:
Here are just a few of the UNGA events we'll be attending in New York this year. We look forward to connecting!
September 19, 2024
UNGA Media & Civil Society Happy Hour, co-hosted by Oxfam, International Crisis Group, Crisis Action & Grand Challenges Canada
September 20-21, 2024
Summit of the Future: Action Days UN Headquarters
September 21-22, 2024
Youth Power Summit, Being Initiative with Born This Way Foundation, hosted by Fondation Botnar
September 22, 2024
Being the Change: An Evening for Youth Mental Health, hosted by Grand Challenges Canada (funder roundtable, Invite only)
September 22, 2024
Partners for Impact: A Grand Challenge Climate & Health Roundtable, hosted by Grand Challenges Canada (Invite only)
September 23, 2024
Clinton Global Initiative: Resilient Futures: Defending Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Face of Climate Change, hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative
September 23, 2024
Community health workers at the forefront of climate adaptation, hosted by Last Mile Health & Macquarie (Invite only) — Dr. J. Johanna Sanchez, Grand Challenges Canada’s Senior Manager, Climate Change (speaker)
September 23, 2024
Goalkeepers, hosted by the Gates Foundation (Invite only)
September 23, 2024
Climate and Health Financing: Moving from a Shared Vision to Joint Action, hosted by The Rockefeller Foundation
September 24, 2024
Global Youth Mobilization High-Level Roundtable, hosted by the YMCA — Nicole Sijenyi Fulton, Grand Challenges Canada’s Senior Director, Global Health Innovation (speaker)
September 24, 2024
Global Roundtable: Unlocking Financing for Young Children and Their Families, hosted by EDCAN, Dr. Fawad Akbari, Grand Challenges Canada's Director of Humanitarian Innovation and Program Optimization (speaker)
September 24, 2024
Impact Investing for Global Health: One Year of Triple I and Looking Ahead, hosted by Triple I for Global Health — Dr. Karlee Silver, Grand Challenges Canada CEO (speaker)
September 24, 2024
Mind Matters: Shaping the Future of Mental Health Care, hosted by Devex (Being Initiative partner United for Global Mental Health's James Sale (speaker)
September 25, 2024
Climate, Gender, & Reproductive Health Funders Gathering, hosted by Ylabs, Organon and Panorama
September 25, 2024
Lessons in Innovative and Sustainable Finance for International Development, hosted by Grand Challenges Canada (invite only)
September 26, 2024
Global Health: Accelerating Progress through Finance and Partnerships, hosted by the Global Fund and CGI
Learn more about GCC's work:
Learn more about our work on climate and health
Read more about GCC’s work on youth mental health
Learn about our approach to Scale & Sustainability
Learn about Inclusive Learning in Crisis Settings, our new initiative that brings together our expertise in humanitarian innovation with lessons from our Saving Brains program
