Gates Foundation Forms Advisory Panel for Global Health Program
Gates Foundation Forms Advisory Panel for Global Health Program
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the formation of a Global Health Program advisory panel.
Like the panels created in September for the
Global Development and United States programs, the Global Health panel will provide counsel and feedback to the foundation. It will function for an initial period of three years, at which time the foundation and panel members will evaluate next steps. Panels meet twice a year, and members provide advice to the program presidents on strategic issues.
The panels are part of the foundation's ongoing effort to seek out the counsel of outside voices who can help increase the impact of its work. Members of the Global Health panel will not be involved in the foundation's funding decisions but will work directly with Tachi Yamada, who heads the program.
The new panel will include Harold Varmus, president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford; Jay Naidoo, chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition; Joy Phumaphi, vice president of the Human Development Network at the World Bank; Sujatha Rao, additional secretary and director general of the
National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India; and Daniel Vasella, chairman and CEO of Novartis.
"These panels are an important part of our ongoing effort to seek input and guidance from experts to deepen our impact," said Patty Stonesifer, CEO of the foundation. "The members of the Global Health advisory panel will serve as critical partners in our effort to address some of the world's most serious health inequities. We are honored that these distinguished experts have agreed to serve as advisors."
“Global Health Program Advisory Panel Announced by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Press Release
2/04/08.
Primary Subject: Health
Location(s): International, National
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