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Current Board Members
Government – Industrialized Countries
Currently represented on the GAVI Board by
1. France
Board member: Dr Renaud Muselier, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Term of office: July 2003 to June 2006
2. Sweden
Board member: Ms Annika Bjurner Söder, State Secretary
Term of office: January 2004 to December 2006
3. Canada
Board member: The Honorable Aileen Carroll, Minister for International Cooperation
Term of office: January 2003 to December 2004
The primary responsibility is to ensure that health receives an adequate proportion of external aid, and that this is channelled through the sector coordination mechanisms. In addition, indistrialized governments commit to:
- Ensuring that their international policies relevant to health, and especially immunization, emphasize the needs of the world’s poorest people;
- Ensuring that health is given adequate priority, not only as an international public good, but in the context of poverty-reduction policies;
- Ensuring that global health challenges, including the need for wider access to immunization, receive priority in their national health research institutions;
- Facilitating the participation of those national institutions in international efforts;
- Supporting the strengthening of immunization services through broad sectoral approaches
Former Board Members
United States
Board member: Dr E. Anne Peterson, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S.A.,
Term of office: January 2002 to December 2003
Norway
Board member: Dr Sigrun Mogedal. Senior Advisor, NORAD.
Term of office: January 2001 to December 2002
United Kingdom
Board member: Ms Baroness Amos, MP, Secretary of State for International Development
Term of office: July 2001 to June 2003 |
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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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