Current Board Members

Developing country governments

Currently represented on the GAVI Board by

1. Benin

Board member: Prof. Dorothée A. Kinde-Gazard, Minister of Public Health
Term of office: January 2005 to December 2007

2. Cambodia

Board member: Prof. Eng Huot, Secretary of State for Health
Term of Office: January 2005 to December 2007

3. Ghana

Board member: Major Courage Quarshiga, Minister of Health
Term of Office: January 2005 to December 2007

4. Bangladesh *

Board member: Dr Khandaker Mossarraf Hossain, Minister for Health and Family Welfare
Term of Office: January 2004 to December 2006

The primary responsibility is to ascertain that the health and financial sectors develop effective measures to provide services to those in greatest need. In addition, developing country governments commit to:

  • Assuring that health in general, and immunization in particular, receive a justified and identifiable proportion of the government budget;
  • Coordinating external assistance for immunization;
  • Developing, monitoring and evaluating multi-year immunization plans;
  • Collaborating with communities and private-sector health service providers.

Former Board Members

Mozambique

Board member: Dr Francisco F. Songane, Minister of Health
Term of office: January 2003 to December 2004

Mongolia

Board member: Dr P. Nymadawa, Minister of Health
Term of Office: January 2003 to December 2004

India

Board member: Ms Sushma Swaraj, Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Term of Office: January 2002 to December 2003

Mali

Board member: Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, Minister of Health
Term of office: January 2001 to December 2002

*At the 14th GAVI Board meeting, it was decided that a fourth developing country Board seat be added in order to ensure that Africa has adequate representation. 

GAVI Partners

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

WHO

UNICEF

The World Bank Group

Developing Country Governments

Nongovernmental Organization

Industrialized Country Governments

Research Institutes

Vaccine Industry-Industrialized Country

Technical Health Institutes

Vaccine Industry-Developing Country

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