The Pandemic Fund, now with a new name and logo, will provide the latest progress the Governing Board has made since its establishment on September 8, 2022, to get operational – an important step toward strengthening global health architecture.
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Dr. Feng Zhao has more than 20 years of experience in public health, medicine, economics and demography at global, regional and country levels. He has extensively worked on health policy dialogues, technical work and operations particularly in Africa and Europe and Central Asia. As the World Bank Practice Manager for South Asia Region - Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP), he manages the HNP…
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Shweta is a Consultant with the Global Engagement Unit in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice and specializes in pandemic preparedness and emergency response. She conducts analytical work and provides technical support on the health system resilience work. Her background is in Global Health, with extensive research experience in Biomedical Sciences and Biochemistry. Before…
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Based in Nairobi, Kenya. Ms. Mburu is a global health advocate and civil society leader in Africa working to create political will for improved health outcomes in Africa. Her areas of expertise include policy analysis; building political support for health outcomes; influencing decision making processes; mobilizing civil society and community voices for action; and promoting good participatory…
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He brings to the Ministry his profound leadership experience, serving as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Interior, Finance and Economic Planning, Roads and Transport, Communication and also as the Ag. Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority. He also held the positions of the Vice Chairman and later of the substantive Chairman for the Public Accounts Committee of…
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Her Excellency Dasho Dechen Wangmo, the only female Minister in the current cabinet of Bhutan formally took charge of the Ministry of Health on 7th November 2018. Prior to joining politic in 2018, Her Excellency worked as a public health international consultant with primary focus on health system, governance, policy and strategic planning for governments and civil societies in many countries (…
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Dr. Zara Shubber is a Senior Health Specialist at the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice where her work focuses on primary health care transformation, non-communicable diseases and health system resilience. Zara has more than a decade of experience working in a variety of healthcare contexts from developed to low income countries across Africa, Middle East, Asia and…
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Sulzhan Bali is a Health Specialist with the World Bank, based in Washington, DC. She has over a decade of research and work experience dedicated to health security, one health, laboratory sciences, and health systems strengthening in low-income and fragile countries, especially in Central and West Africa. Sulzhan is working towards strategically linking World Bank’s country engagement efforts…
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Akiko Kitamura is a Health Specialist in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice. She has worked in public health research as well as development programs in resource-limited countries, across the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa, particularly in emergency and humanitarian contexts. Prior to joining the Bank in 2019, Akiko was a community health specialist for a UN…
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Mark Duggan is The Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford. His research focuses on the health care sector and the effects of government expenditure programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. His research has been published in leading academic outlets including the American…
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