The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. It is headquartered in Geneva,Switzerland,and has six regional offices and 150 field offices worldwide.
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world.
Mark Andrew Green is an American politician and diplomat who is the president,director and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Before joining the Wilson Center on March 15,2021,he served as the executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership,and prior to that,as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999,was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007,representing Wisconsin's 8th congressional district,ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wisconsin in 2006,and held the post of United States Ambassador to Tanzania from August 2007 until January 2009. Green served as president of the International Republican Institute from 2014 to 2017 and sits on the board of directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Ala Abdessaheb al-Alwan was Minister of Education in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003,and Minister of Health in the Iraqi Interim Government.
The United States President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a United States governmental initiative to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and help save the lives of those suffering from the disease. Launched by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2003,as of May 2020,PEPFAR has provided about $90 billion in cumulative funding for HIV/AIDS treatment,prevention,and research since its inception,making it the largest global health program focused on a single disease in history until the COVID-19 pandemic. PEPFAR is implemented by a combination of U.S. government agencies in over 50 countries and overseen by the Global AIDS Coordinator at the United States Department of State. As of 2023,PEPFAR has saved over 25 million lives,primarily in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing and partnership organization that aims to "attract,leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis and malaria to support attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations". This multistakeholder international organization maintains its secretariat in Geneva,Switzerland. The organization began operations in January 2002. Microsoft founder Bill Gates was one of the first donors to provide seed money for the partnership. From January 2006 it has benefited from certain US Privileges,Exemptions,and Immunities under executive order 13395,which conferred International Organizations Immunities Act status on it.
Edward W. Scott Jr. is an American businessman,philanthropist,and former senior United States government official. Along with Bill Coleman and Alfred Chuang,he founded enterprise software company BEA Systems.
Anders Nordström is a Swedish physician who served as Acting Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 22 May 2006 to 8 November 2006.
Anthony Clark Arend is an American international relations scholar. He is currently the Professor of Government and Foreign Service and has been Chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University since June 2020.
Lieve Fransen is a senior adviser to the European Policy Centre on health,social and migration policies,and published studies on investing in social infrastructure,energy poverty and social investment. Between 2011 and 2015 she was the social policies director in the Directorate for Employment and Social affairs for the European Commissionin charge of social policies,poverty eradication,pensions,health and social protection. Before that she was director for communication and representations in the EC's communication directorate for more than 500 networks across the European Union and from 1987 till 1997 she was head of unit for human development in the European Commissions department for development.
Mark R. Dybul is an American diplomat,physician and medical researcher. He served as the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria from 2012 until 2017. Since 2021,he has been the CEO of Renovaro Biosciences. Since 2022,he is the Executive Chairman of Purpose Life Sciences.
William Raymond Steiger is a Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington,D.C.. He served as Chief of Staff at the United States Agency for international Development from 2017 to 2021. Previously,Steiger was the chief program officer at Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon,an organization affiliated with the George W. Bush Institute,which works to reduce deaths from cervical cancer and breast cancer in low- and middle-income countries. He was the Special Assistant to the Secretary for International Affairs and the Director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) during the George W. Bush administration,with a portfolio that included HIV/AIDS,malaria,avian flu and pandemic-influenza preparedness.
Awa Marie Coll-Seck is as Senegalese infectious diseases specialist and politician who served as Minister of Health of Senegal from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2012 to 2017. She also served as former Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and is on the board of directors of several notable global health organizations. She is an agenda contributor of the World Economic Forum.
Mirta Roses Periago is an Argentine epidemiologist who served as Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) from 2003 until 2013.
The Federal government of the United States requires certain non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive federal anti-HIV/AIDS or anti-trafficking funds to adopt an organization-wide policy opposing prostitution and sex-trafficking. This requirement,known as the anti-prostitution pledge,has been in place since 2003.
Laura J. Lederer is a pioneer in the work to stop human trafficking. She is a legal scholar and former Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons in the Office for Democracy and Global Affairs of the United States Department of State. She has also been an activist against human trafficking,prostitution,pornography,and hate speech. Lederer is founder of The Protection Project,a legal research institute at Johns Hopkins University devoted to combating trafficking in persons.
Karl William Hofmann is the President and CEO of the global humanitarian and health organization,Population Services International (PSI). Prior to joining PSI,he served as an American diplomat for 23 years. His missions included a two-year appointment to the Republic of Togo,where he served as the United States Ambassador. He also served as a member of President Clinton's National Security Council.
The Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health is an independent,non-profit Swiss organization,established in November 2008 in order to create new ways to finance health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Based in Geneva,Switzerland,the Millennium Foundation aims to ensure that international commitments on improving health care are met through the development of innovative financing projects. Its first such project –called MassiveGood –was launched on 4 March,and will give travelers the possibility to add a $2,£2 or €2 micro-contribution to the purchase of a travel reservation,with all proceeds going to the fight against HIV/AIDS,malaria and tuberculosis.
Michel Kazatchkine is a French physician,diplomat and advocate who is best known for his work in international AIDS treatment issues. From February 2007 to March 2012 he was director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria. On July 20,2012,UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed him as his United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The United States Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons is the head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons in the United States Department of State. The ambassador-at-large advises the United States Secretary of State and the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security,Democracy,and Human Rights directly and formulates U.S. policy on human trafficking. As the head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons,this Ambassador also has the rank of Assistant Secretary.
