Time-Limited Task Teams

GAVI Time-Limited Task Teams are formed by the partners to address specific issues or tasks. Current groups include the ADIP Management Committee and the Civil Society Task Team. Former task teams have included the Financing Task Force, the Joint IFFIm Group, the Supply Task Team and the Roles and Responsibilities Task Team.

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Governance Implementation Committee

Created: June 2008, by the GAVI Alliance and Fund Boards

Purpose: To finalise recommendations on the new GAVI Alliance governance structure, focusing on the Board Committees; will also oversee issues relating to the hosting transition.

Members

Jaime Sepulveda (Chair)
The GAVI Alliance

George Welde
The GAVI Fund

Wayne Berson
The GAVI Fund

Yoka Brant
The GAVI Fund

Julian Lob-Levyt
The GAVI Alliance Secretariat

Multilateral partner representative (name not yet available)

ADIP Management Committee

Created: 2003, by the GAVI Alliance Board

Purpose: To provide oversight to the management of the PneumoADIP, the Rotavirus Vaccine Programme and the Hib Initiative, and to make recommendations to the Alliance Board on their work plans and budgets. All members of the committee have vaccine research and development backgrounds.

Composition: Six members: Chaired by Prof. Jan Roland Holmgren, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Members

Prof. Jan Holmgren (Chair)
University of Göteborg

Dr. Harry Greenberg
Stanford University

Dr. Brian Greenwood
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Mr. Kevin Reilly
formerly Wyeth Vaccines

Dr. Regina Rabinovitch
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Civil Society Task Team

Created: 2005, by the GAVI Alliance Board

Purpose: To develop strategies for the enhanced engagement of civil society groups in order to support GAVI’s mission in phase 2.

Composition: Members representing: African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Churches Health Association, Zambia (CHAZ), Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (represented by the Norweigan Red Cross), Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), JSI/IMMUNIZATIONbasics, International Pediatric Association (IPA), UNICEF, WHO.
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Members

Andres Guerrero
UNICEF

Anne Merete Bull
Norwegian Red Cross

Patrick Kadama
WHO

Francis Gondwe
CHAM

Jane Schaller
IPA

Mette Kjaer
AMREF

Ntombekhaya Matsha
GFATM

Simon Mphuka
CHAZ

Mark Kane
Independent consultant

Robert Steinglass
JSI/IMMUNIZATIONbasics

Craig Burgess
GAVI Secretariat

Nilgun Aydogan
GAVI Secretariat

Sofia Ostmark
GAVI Secretariat

Immunization Financing & Sustainability Working Group

Created: 2007 by the GAVI Alliance Board

Purpose: To ensure that the GAVI Alliance is on the best path regarding vaccine co-financing and immunization programme financial sustainability, and to oversee increasing the predictability and sustainability of long-term financing for national immunisation programmes.

Composition: members representing: WHO, World Bank, UNICEF, the GAVI Alliance, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Members

Lidija Kamara (co-chair)
WHO

Logan Brenzel (co-chair)
World Bank

Patrick Lydon
WHO

Meredith Shirey
UNICEF

Abdelmajid Tibout
UNICEF

Mercy Ahun
GAVI Alliance

Patience Kuruneri
UNICEF

Oz Mansoor
UNICEF

Violaine Mitchell
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bjorg Sandkjaer
GAVI Alliance

Pa Lamin Beyai
WHO, Regional Office for Africa

Kevin Grant
GAVI Alliance

K Ali
WHO

Claudia Castillo
PAHO

Nihal Abeysinghe
Developing country representative

Alfred Nyasulu
Developing country representative

Health Systems Strengthening Task Team

Created: March 2006

Purpose: Supports the formulation and implementation of the HSS components in the GAVI 2007 workplan. It acts as an advisory and consultative body to shape and refine the GAVI HSS policies and procedures. More specifically it provides technical inputs on a variety of GAVI HSS processes and mechanisms.

Composition: GAVI secretariat, World Bank, WHO (immunization and health systems strengthening), UNICEF, DFID, NORAD, USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a civil society representative and a representative from developing countries. This is the core group who will actually be doing most of the work, but the membership will remain fuid to allow other bilateral agencies (such as CIDa, SIDA, Belgians), GTZ, other civil society members or institutions representing technically relevant areas to join as necessary.

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Members

Logan Brenzel
World Bank

Andrew Cassells
WHO

Gaby Malapaty
UNICEF

Abdelmajid Tibouti
UNICEF

Catriona Waddington
DFID

Julia Watson
DFID

Lene Lothe Palma Gomez
Norad

Maria Franscisco
USAID

Karen Cavanaugh
USAID

AK Nandakumar
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Francis Gondwe
CSO representative

Francis Runumi
Developing country representative

Joe Naimoli
US CDC

Craig Burgess
GAVI Secretariat

Abdallah Bchir
GAVI Secretariat

Others as necessary

Steering committee for the monitoring and evaluability study of GAVI's health system strengthening

Created: July 2007

Purpose: To propose a suitable monitoring framework for GAVI HSS support, identify evaluation questions and approaches, and the data to be collected as a baseline.

Composition: Representatives from GAVI Secretariat, Norad, WHO, UNICEF and CDC.

Members

Craig Burgess
GAVI Secretariat

Abdallah Bchir
GAVI Secretariat

Stein-Erik Cruse
Norad

Lene Lothe Palma Gomez
Norad

Patrick Kadama
WHO

Miloud Kaddar
WHO

Gaby Mallapaty
UNICEF

Joe Naimoli
CDC

Steering Committee for the monitoring and evaluability study of the pilot GAVI Alliance support for CSOs in 10 countries

Created: July 2007

Purpose: To propose suitable monitoring and evaluation framework for the GAVI support to CSOs in the 10 pilot countries, identify evaluation questions and approaches, and the data to be collected as baseline.

Composition: Representatives of GAVI Secretariat, PATH, Christian Health Association of Malawi, and the Churches Health Association of Zambia.

Members

Nilgun Aydogan
GAVI Secretariat

Abdallah Bchir
GAVI Secretariat

Craig Burgess
GAVI Secretariat

James Cheyne
PATH

Francis Gondwe
CHAM

Mark Kane
Formerly of PATH

Simon Mphuka
CHAZ

Steering Committee for Evaluation of Immunisation Coverage Monitoring Methodology and Process

Created: July 2007

Purpose: The study will review the potential of different methods to monitor immunisation levels nationally as well as across and within regions, population subgroups and rural/urban areas. It will also identify potential threats to data quality and reliability for each method, and recommend corrective measures.

Composition: Representatives of GAVI Secretariat, WHO, UNICEF, University of Montreal, Norad and US CDC.

Members

Abdallah Bchir
GAVI Secretariat

Ties Boerma
WHO

Paul Richard Fife
Norad

Slim Haddad
University of Montreal

Elizabeth Luman
US CDC

Osman David Mansoor
UNICEF

Evaluation of GAVI's Injection Safety Support Steering Committee

Created: 2007 by the GAVI Alliance Board

Purpose: To assess how and to what extent countries have replaced GAVI support during the first year after the end of GAVI INS support, and whether the replacement has been done in a sustainable manner.

To assess the health system effects of INS support at the country level.

To assess how cash funds have supported the implementation of the country INS plan of actions, for those countries receiving cash in lieu of supplies.

Composition: members representing: WHO, UNICEF, the GAVI Alliance, and PATH.

Members

Abdallah Bchir
GAVI Secretariat

Tale Kvalvaag

Yves Chartier (Public Health and Environment)
WHO

James Cheyne (CSO Task Team)
PATH

Robert Davis
UNICEF

Modibo Dicko (Afro Region)
WHO

Selma Khamassi (SIGN)
WHO

Denis Maire
Euro Region
WHO

Ivonne Rizzo
GAVI Secretariat

Askanew Yigsaw (EPI Manager)
Ethiopia

GAVI Evaluation Steering Committee

Created: June 2006, by the GAVI Alliance Board

Purpose: To follow up the evaluation studies to be conducted in 2006 and 2007, namely:

ADIP and Hib Initiative evaluation
GAVI phase 1 evaluation
Immunisation Services Support evaluation

Composition: Members from Norad, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sanofi Pasteur, Center for Global Development, Malawi health ministry.
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Members

Tale Kvalvaag
Norad

Steve Landry
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Shawn Gilchrist
Sanofi Pasteur

Ruth Levine
Center for Global Development

Jean Louis Sarbib
Wolfensohn & Company, former Senior Vice President of the World Bank’s Human Development Network

Bjorn Melgaard
former Director of WHO’s Immunization and Vaccine Department

Hetherwick Ntaba
former Minister of Health, Malawi

Chris Murray
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation