Co-Chairs

 

Ms Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

GPMB Co-Chair and former President of Croatia

Ms Joy Phumaphi

GPMB Co-Chair and Former Minister of Health of Botswana

Dr Palitha Abeykoon

Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka and a former WHO Special Envoy for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response

Dr Ibrahim Abubakar

Pro-Provost (Health) and Dean, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, UCL

Ms Bente Angell-Hansen

Norwegian former diplomat and former President of the EFTA Surveillance Authority

Professor Victor J. Dzau

President of the United States National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and Vice-Chair of the US National Research Council

Dr Maha El Rabbat

Former Minister of Health and Population of Egypt and a former WHO Special Envoy for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response

Dr Chris Elias

President of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Former President and CEO of PATH

Dr Zijian Feng

Secretary-General and Executive Vice President of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association (CPMA)

Ms Henrietta Fore

Former Executive Director of UNICEF, Former USAID Administrator and CEO & Chairman, Holsman International

Ms Bience Gawanas

Namibian lawyer and former Under-Secretary-General and Special Advisor on Africa to the UN Secretary General

Dr Jayati Ghosh

Indian development economist and Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr Naoko Ishii

Former Deputy Vice Minister of Finance of Japan and Professor and Executive Vice President at the University of Tokyo

Professor Ilona Kickbusch

Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva

Sir Mark Lowcock

Former Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and former Permanent Secretary of the UK Department for International Development (DFID)

Ms Susana Malcorra

President and Co-Founder of GWL Voices, Former Foreign Minister of Argentina, and Former Chef de Cabinet to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Dr Matthew Stone

Veterinary epidemiologist and former Deputy Director-General – International Standards and Science at the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)

Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland

Former Prime Minister of Norway and former WHO Director-General

Dr Anthony S. Fauci

Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA

Sir Jeremy Farrar

Interim GPMB Co-Chair and Director of Wellcome

Dr George F. Gao

Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC)

H.E. Sigrid Kaag

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, The Netherlands

Dr Jeanette Vega Morales

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer at Red de Salud UC-Christus

Dr Daniel Ngamije

Minister of Health of Rwanda

H.E. Veronika Skvortsova

Head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia

Dr Yasuhiro Suzuki

Former Chief Medical & Global Health Officer and Vice-Minister for Health, Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan

Mr Elhadj As Sy

Former Secretary General of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Professor K. VijayRaghavan

Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India