Following is the full list of 13 rotating members of the GAVI Board, showing the constituencies, respective terms of office, and the individual representing the institution.
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| Developing country government | Ethiopia
Jan '07 - Dec '09 | Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health Dr Ghebreyesus currently serves as Minister of Health of the Government of Ethiopia, a position he has held since 2005. He has a long tenure within the Ministry, previously as State Minister for Health, Head of the Epidemiology and Diagnostics Department, and Head of the Diagnostics Division. Dr Ghebreyesus also served as Head of the Tigray Health Bureau. He is currently a member of two other Boards, serving as co-Chair of the Board of the Partnership for Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (PMNCH), and Chair of the Board of Directors of Addis Ababa University. He has degrees in Biology, Epidemiology and Immunology, and received his Doctorate in Community Health from the University of Nottingham, UK. | Armenia
Jan '07 - Dec '09 | Dr Tatul Hakobyan, Deputy Minister of Health Dr Hakobyan currently serves as Deputy Minister of Health of the Government of Armenia, a position he has held since 2002. In this capacity he is responsible for coordinating health policy development and legislation, international cooperation on child rights and health protection, and health information systems development. Dr Hakobyan has held several other positions at the Ministry of Health, including Director of the Policy Department, Director of the Department of Provisions and Health Officer. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Minister, Dr Hakobyan served as a Senior Technical Advisor at USAID’s Armenia Social Transition Programme. He holds Masters Degrees in Business Administration and Public Health from the American University of Armenia. | Viet Nam
Jun '08 – Jun '11 | Dr Trinh Quan Huan, Vice Minister of Health Dr Huan has served as Vice Minister of Health since 2005. He is also currently Professor at Ha Noi Medical University and a Technical Supervisor at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. Prior to his appointment as Vice Minister, he worked as Co-Manager of the DFID Fund Project on HIV/AIDS as well as Manager of both the Global Fund and World Bank projects on HIV/AIDS. Previous posts include: Co-Director of the Vietnam-European Commission Malaria Control Project, Co-Director of the Vietnam-Australia Malaria Control Project, Country Focal Point on Infectious Diseases and Vice Chairman of the AIDS Division at the Ministry of Health. He holds a MD from Ha Noi Medical University with an emphasis in Medical Epidemiology and a PhD in Communicable Disease Control. | Yemen
Jun '08 – Jun '11 | Dr Abdulkarim Yehia Rasae, Minister of Health Dr Rasae has served as the Honorable Minister of Health and Population of Yemen since 2006. Prior to this, he held the position of Rector of Aden University where he also acted as Professor of Pediatric Medicine. Other past positions include: Resident of the Expert Board for Polio Eradication in Yemen, Deputy Minister of Health for Medical Services and Health Care and Head of the Department of Pediatrics at both the al-Thoura and al-Kuwait Hospitals, Yemen. His expertise spans pediatrics, epidemiology and health research. Dr Rasae has published original scientific research in a number of scholarly journals. He has served as the President of both the Arab Pediatric and the Yemeni Pediatric Society, and has been a member of numerous other scientific and professional societies. Dr Rasae holds a Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery from Al-Azhar University, Egypt and a PhD in Pediatrics from Cairo University. | Vacant seat
Jun '08 - Jun '11 | to be determined |
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| Industralised country governments | United States
Jul '06 - Jun '09 | Dr Kent R Hill, Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Dr Hill was sworn in as Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health in November 2005. Prior to this, he served as acting Assistant Administrator from January 2005. As Assistant Administrator, Hill is responsible for a Bureau that in 2005 managed or co-managed health programmes all over the world with funding of more than US$1.6 billion. The Bureau seeks to provide global leadership in the effort to improve the quality, availability, and use of essential health services. USAID focuses its efforts on HIV/AIDS, other infectious diseases (such as tuberculosis and malaria), maternal and child health, family planning, environmental health, and nutrition. Prior to his current posting, Dr Hill served as Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia at USAID. His other past positions include President of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Mass., President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C., and Professor of European and Russian history at Seattle Pacific University. A graduate of Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho, Dr Hill has a master's degree in Russian studies and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in Seattle. | United Kingdom
Jan '07 - Dec '08 | Mr Gavin McGillivray, Head, Global Funds & Development, Finance Institutions Department, Department for International Development (DFID) Gavin McGillivray currently serves as Head of the Global Funds and Development Finance Institutions Department at the UK Department for International Development (DFID), London. He has served at DFID since 2000, previously operating as Head, International Financial Institutions. Before joining DFID, Mr McGillivray held a range of posts including Manager of the EU Caribbean Agriculture & Fisheries Programme, Trinidad & Tobago; Director, SENA Post-Harvest Training & Capacity Building Programme, Colombia; Director of Campbell Lutyens corporate finance advisory house, London; Advisor, National Agrarian Institute, Honduras; and Advisor, Cordecruz Agricultural Marketing Department, Bolivia. | Italy
Jan '08 - Dec '09 | Prof. Alberto Mantovani, School of Medicine, University of Milan & Scientific Director, Istituto Clinico Humanitas Alberto Mantovani has received national and international awards for his contribution to immunology. Born in Milan, Italy in 1948, he graduated in medicine in 1973 from the University of Milan. He has trained and worked in UK, USA and Italy. In 2001 he became the full Professor of General Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, State University of Milan. In September 2005 he took up the post of Scientific Director of Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan. | France
Jan '07 - Dec '08 | Dr Gustavo Gonzalez Canali, Special Health Adviser, Department for Development Policies (DPDEV), Ministry of Foreign Affaires Prior to his appointment as Special Health Adviser for Development Policies, Gonzalez Canali served as an adviser to Mrs. Brigitte Girardin, former Minister Delegate for Cooperation, Development and Francophony. Under her leadership, Gonzales Canali was in charge of health, humanitarian aid, relationships with NGOs, as well as bilateral relationships with East and Central African countries. Gonzales Canali has previously worked as a physician and clinical investigator on AIDS vaccine trials in the Immunology Department of the European Hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris, as well as with the French Agency for AIDS research and Hepatitis (ANRS). Other key posts have included Medical Director for the CIRBS in Paris on HIV research and follow-up of HIV infected patients, and Director of the Outpatient Clinic of the Institut Pasteur. Gonzales Canali has been an active participant in past GAVI Alliance Board discussions, having represented the Government of France on behalf of Mrs. Brigitte Girardin in meetings during 2005 and 2006. | Netherlands
Jan '07 - Dec '08 | Mrs Yoka Brandt, Deputy Director General for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mrs Yoka Brandt is currently the Deputy Director General for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands.
Prior to this posting she recently served as Ambassador to Uganda (2004-2007) and Eritrea (2000-2004). Mrs Brandt has had held many positions in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including at the Department for Multilateral Programmes and at the Embassy in Pretoria. She has also served as SNV Regional Director for West and Central Africa. She graduated in 1984 from the University of Utrecht and holds a Masters in Human Geography.
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| Research and technical health institutes | International Vaccine Institute
Jan '07 - Dec '09 | Dr John Clemens, Director-General John D. Clemens, M.D., started his second term of five years in July 2004 after joining the IVI as its first Director on July 1, 1999. Dr Clemens is an international expert on vaccine evaluation in developing countries. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale University School of Medicine. For five years, Dr Clemens was a Research Scientist at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh. Before joining the IVI, he held senior positions at the United States National Institute of Health, where he was Chief of the Epidemiology Branch and Chief of the Section on Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has been a long-term advisor to WHO and served as Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Clinical Evaluation of Vaccines in Developing Countries. He has a continuing appointment as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. Dr Clemens has successfully undertaken numerous vaccine research projects in developing countries. His past research in Asia has included projects in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Viet Nam. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is an expert both on vaccines against enteric infections and on methodological approaches for vaccine evaluations. He has pioneered methods for the conceptualisation, design, implementation, and evaluation of effectiveness trials of new vaccines. |
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| Industrialised country vaccine industry | GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
Jun '08 - May '11 | Mr Jean Stéphenne, President and General Manager Jean Stéphenne has overseen GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (the company’s vaccines business) since 1991, serving as Vice President and General Manager, then Senior Vice President and General Manager, until his appointment as President and General Manager in 1998.
Prior to this he was Vice President of Human Vaccines Research and Development and Production from 1988 to 1991. Mr Stéphenne joined the company in 1974 as head of bacterial and viral vaccines production, becoming Vaccine Production Director in 1980. He served in a variety of capacities as Vaccine Plant Director and R&D; Director from 1981 to 1991. Mr Stéphenne has a degree as engineer in Chemistry and Bioindustries from the University of Gembloux (Belgium) in 1972 and obtained a degree in Management from the University of Louvain, Belgium in 1980. He has served as President of the Union of French Speaking Companies (1998-2000), is a member of the European Association of Vaccines Producers, and a member of the Management Committee of the Belgian Companies Federation. He is also a member of the Board of several Belgian companies.
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| Developing country vaccine industry | Serum Institute of India
Mar '08 - Feb '11 | Dr Suresh Jadhav, Executive Director Dr Suresh S Jadhav currently serves as Executive Director of Serum Institute of India Ltd, a position he has held since 1992. He first joined Serum Institute in 1979 and has played a vital role in developing the company’s quality control techniques and securing its accreditation from the World Health Organisation. Dr Jadhav’s professional experience comprises many different areas including development of quality control techniques, standardisation of biochemical methods, pharmacology and toxicology. He has served in an advisory role on various WHO programmes related to vaccine policy, methods for vaccine testing, new vaccines, and development of reference standards, among others. Dr Jadhav has also served on the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) and is a member of the Steering Committee of Developing Country Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN), holding the position of DCVMN president for a total of five years. He received his MPharm from Nagpur University, Mumbai and his PhD from Haffkine Institute, Mumbai. This is his second term as a member of the GAVI Alliance Board representing developing country industry. |
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| Civil society organisation | BRAC
Jul '08 - Jun '11 | Dr Faruque Ahmed, Director Dr Ahmed currently serves as Director of the BRAC health programme, a position he has held since 2002. Prior to joining BRAC, he served at the World Bank, where he held a number of posts including Senior Health and Nutrition Programme Officer and Population Specialist. Dr Ahmed has also worked for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh, most notably as Assistant Chief of Planning. He has extensive experience in planning and supervising integrated health, population and reproductive health programmes and projects; conducting policy dialogue with governments and other partners; and providing implementation support to national health and population programmes. He is the author of numerous technical papers, studies and scholarly works, and received Masters in Economics from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and a Masters in Health Science from Johns Hopkins University, USA.
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| The World Health Organization (WHO) | Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General (Chair)Dr Margaret Chan, from the People's Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She joined the Hong Kong Department of Health in 1978, where her career in public health began. In 1994, Dr Chan was appointed Director of Health of Hong Kong. In her nine-year tenure as director, she launched new services to prevent the spread of disease and promote better health. She also introduced new initiatives to improve communicable disease surveillance and response, enhance training for public health professionals, and establish better local and international collaboration. She effectively managed outbreaks of avian influenza and of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). In 2003, Dr Chan joined WHO as Director of the Department for Protection of the Human Environment. In June 2005, she was appointed Director, Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response as well as Representative of the Director-General for Pandemic Influenza. In September 2005, she was named Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases. Dr Chan was appointed to the post of Director-General on 9 November 2006. Her term will run through June 2012.
Ms Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director-General, Family and Community HealthDaisy Mafubelu started her career in public health almost 26 years ago as a nurse and midwife. She holds bachelors and honours degrees in nursing, specialising in Community Health Nursing and Nursing Education (University of South Africa), an honours degree in Business Administration (Stellenbosch University) and a post-graduate diploma in Health Management (University of Cape Town). In 1994 Daisy joined the management ranks of the South African health service where she has played a significant role in the transformation and management of public health services, holding several positions in senior management within the public health sector, first as Director of Human Resources in 1995. She became Deputy Director-General of Health and was also named Oliver Tambo Fellow in Public Health Leadership in 1997. This award was made in recognition of outstanding potential and commitment to provide leadership through public health service towards improving health and health care for all South Africans. Before coming to WHO, Daisy was the Health Attaché in the South African mission with the rank of Minister.
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| The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) | Mr Saad Houry, Deputy Executive DirectorMr. Houry was appointed UNICEF Deputy Executive Director in January 2008, 30 years after he first joined UNICEF as Assistant Programme Officer in 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon working in the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office. From 1981 to 1983, he served as Resident Programme Officer in Aden, Yemen, later transferring to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where he was Adviser to the Arab Gulf Programme for the United Nations Development Organization, going on to become head of their Programme Division from 1983 to 1988. Mr. Houry returned to UNICEF in 1988 as Regional Programme and Planning Officer in the West and Central Africa Regional Office in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire until 1993. He then worked on special assignments and programme-related activities at UNICEF offices in Oman, Madagascar, Mozambique and New York, from 1993 to 1996. From April 1996 to August 1998, Mr. Houry served as UNICEF Representative in Burkina Faso. From August 1998 until January 2001, Mr. Houry was Deputy Regional Director in Amman, Jordan, before being appointed Chief, Office of the Executive Director in UNICEF Headquarters, New York. In January 2003 he was appointed as Director of the Division of Policy and Planning. Mr. Houry, a Canadian national, attended the American University of Beirut where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry in 1972. He also attended the University of London where he received a Master of Science degree in Neurobiology in 1974, and pursued research towards a Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology.
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| The World Bank Group | Mr Robert B. Zoellick (ex-officio member), President of the World Bank GroupPrior to his appointment as President of the World Bank Group, Mr. Zoellick has led and managed large public and private sector organizations, achieving a record of results during times of rapid change. He has worked successfully with all regions of the world on a variety of economic, political, security, environmental, and humanitarian topics – developing coalitions internationally and bipartisan backing at home. Mr. Zoellick was formerly Vice Chairman, International of the Goldman Sachs Group, and a Managing Director and Chairman of Goldman Sachs' Board of International Advisors. In 2005-06, Mr. Zoellick served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. State Department. He was the Chief Operating Officer of the Department, which has 57,000 employees and embassies in 165 countries. From 2001 to January 2005, Mr. Zoellick served in the President's cabinet as U.S. Trade Representative. He forged an activist approach to free trade at the global, regional, and bilateral levels, while securing support for open markets with the U.S. Congress and a broad coalition of domestic constituencies. In doing so, Zoellick sought to combine national economic interests with others – in development; foreign policy; Security; governance, transparency, and the rule of law; health; the environment; education; worker adjustment; and improved working conditions. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Zoellick served as an Executive Vice President of Fannie Mae, the large housing finance corporation. He supervised the affordable housing business, as well as offices dealing with legal, regulatory, government and industry relations, and international services. The international services staff worked with governments in Latin America, Asia, and Russia seeking to build mortgage markets. From 1985 to 1993, Mr. Zoellick served with Secretary James A. Baker, III at the Treasury Department (from Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy to Counselor to the Secretary); State Department (Undersecretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs as well as Counselor of the Department with Undersecretary rank); and briefly Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House and Assistant to the President. In his years at the Treasury Department, Zoellick was deeply involved with the recovery from the debt crises of the 1980s. Mr. Zoellick graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College in 1975. He earned a J.D. magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School and a MPP (focusing on public management and international issues, especially economics) from the Kennedy School of Government in 1981. Zoellick has been privileged to receive a number of awards, including: the Knight Commanders Cross from Germany for his work on unification; the Alexander Hamilton and Distinguished Service Awards, the highest honors of the Department of Treasury and State, respectively; the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service; and a Doctorate of Humane Letters from St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana.
Ms Joy Phumaphi, Vice President and Network Head, Human DevelopmentJoy, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana as a local government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to serve in Parliament and as a representative to the Southern African Development Community. She entered the Cabinet with responsibility for lands and housing and developed the first national housing policy. Joy subsequently served as Minister for Health where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In 2003, Joy joined the World Health Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health Department.. She has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on Economics and a UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa and the AAI. Joy joined the Bank and became the Vice President of the Human Development Network on February 5, 2007.
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| The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Dr Jaime Sepulveda, Director, Integrated Health Solutions DevelopmentDr. Jaime Sepulveda directs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Integrated Health Solutions Development program. He oversees grants to develop new tools and strategies for maternal, newborn, child, and reproductive health; vaccine-preventable diseases; and nutrition.
Sepulveda served for more than 20 years in a variety of senior health posts in the Mexican government. From 2003 to 2006, he served as director of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico. He also served as director-general of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health and dean of the National School of Public Health.
In addition to his research credentials, Sepulveda is an experienced implementer of effective health programs. As Mexico’s director-general of epidemiology and later vice minister of health, Sepulveda designed Mexico’s Universal Vaccination Program, which eliminated polio, measles, and diphtheria by more than doubling childhood immunization coverage in two years. He also designed a national health surveillance system and founded Mexico’s National AIDS Council.
Sepulveda holds a medical degree from National Autonomous University of Mexico and three advanced degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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Consideration of eligible nominees is based on both organisational and individual factors:
In order to ensure an appropriate balance of expertise and/or technical, geographic and gender diversity on the Board, specific criteria may be applied to individual appointments. The notice inviting nominations will state any specific, as well as general, selection criteria.
All nominations will be subject to a Board consultation process, led by the Chair. After consultation, the Chair will determine the selection, taking into account both the proposed organisation and the proposed individual. In cases of concern about the suitability of nominations received, the Chair will ask the constituency to come forward with an alternative candidate whose consideration will follow the same process.
Non-renewable Board members hold their seats until their successors are elected by the Board. Since demands vary from constituency to constituency, the outgoing Board member takes responsibility for a seamless handover to his or her successor. If at all possible, both should attend the Board meeting at the point of handover to ensure continuity.
