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 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. "Ed" 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.
The Global AIDS Coordinator at the United States Department of State is the official responsible for overseeing U.S.-sponsored humanitarian aid programs to combat the AIDS epidemic around the world. The Global AIDS Coordinator has the rank of Ambassador-at-Large and Assistant Secretary.
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.
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.
FIND is a global health non-profit based in Geneva,Switzerland. FIND functions as a product development partnership,engaging in active collaboration with over 150 partners to facilitate the development,evaluation,and implementation of diagnostic tests for poverty-related diseases. The organisation's Geneva headquarters are in Campus Biotech. Country offices are located in New Delhi,India;Cape Town,South Africa;and Hanoi,Viet Nam.
Eric Goosby is an American public health official,currently serving as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis. Goosby previously served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator from 2009 until mid-November 2013. In the role,Goosby directed the U.S. strategy for addressing HIV around the world and led President Obama's implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Goosby was sworn in during June 2009 and resigned in November 2013,taking a position as a professor at UCSF,where he directs the Center for Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy,a collaboration between UCSF and the University of California,Berkeley.
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.
Peter Alexander Sands is a British banker,and the executive director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Standard Chartered from November 2006 to June 2015.
Sir Jeremy James Farrar is a British medical researcher who serves as Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization since 2023. He was previously the director of The Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023 and a professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is an Ethiopian public health official,researcher,and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017. Tedros is the first African to become WHO Director-General,receiving an endorsement for the role by the African Union. He played a role in the response to the Ebola virus epidemic,the COVID-19 pandemic,and the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak.
Robert Michael Hecht is an American global health policy and financing expert. Hecht is currently Founder and President of Pharos Global Health Advisors. He has previously held positions with the World Bank,UNAIDS,the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative,and Results for Development Institute. He serves as a lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and is a clinical professor at the Yale School of Public Health. He has published on a range of topics in global health and development,with a special focus on the economics,financing,and policies for infectious diseases,nutrition,and broader health system reform. He has been an advisor to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),the World Health Organization,and UNITAID. Hecht holds a BA from Yale and a PhD from Cambridge University.
Mark P. Lagon is an American political scientist and practitioner. His areas of expertise include human rights,global health,human trafficking,and global institutions and governance. Lagon is the Chief Policy Officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS,Tuberculosis,and Malaria and a Distinguished Senior Scholar at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Vinand Mukatabala Nantulya,is a Ugandan physician,pathologist,medical researcher,entrepreneur and academic administrator,who since 3 October 2017,serves as the Chancellor of Busitema University,a public university in the Eastern Region of Uganda.
Moncef Mohamed Slaoui is a Moroccan-born Belgian-American researcher who served as the head of Operation Warp Speed (OPWASP) under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021.
John Ring La Montagne was a Mexican-American biomedical scientist who served as the deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1998 to 2004. He specialized in viral vaccines,HIV/AIDS research,and oversaw NIH's biodefense research after the September 11 attacks.
