Sir Tadataka Yamada, the former director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program, will discuss key global health issues and current trends of biomedical research and its impact. The event will start at 5 p.m. with a reception at the patio of Bella Vista Cafe. At 6 p.m. the talk and question and answer portion will be at the Sanford Consortium Auditorium. Sir Tadataka Yamada guides and advises portfolio management and company creation in the life sciences at Frazier Healthcare Partners. Before his current role, Sir Yamada was the chairman of research and development at GlaxoSmithKline, the director of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as chief scientific officer at Takeda Pharmaceuticals in Tokyo. Sir Yamada has emphasized the power of partnerships in health care between large pharmaceutical companies and philanthropic foundations. While at the Gates Foundation, he oversaw massive development in infectious disease immunization as well as in maternal-child healthcare. Read bio online here. This event is sponsored by the Center on Global Transformationand cosponsored by the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology.