Members
WHO / Sergey Volkov
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Chair
H.E.
Mia Amor
Mottley
Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment, Minister of National Security and the Civil Service, BARBADOS
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Vice-chair
Members
Mr Mohammed Mousa Alameeri
Assistant Undersecretary for the Food Diversity Sector, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Dr Ahmed Mohammed Obaid Al Saidi
Former Minister of Health, SULTANATE OF OMAN
Ms Beatrice Atim Odwong Anywar
Minister of State for Environment, UGANDA
Ms Anahit Avanesyan
Minister of Health, Republic of ARMENIA
Prof C.O. Onyebuchi Chukwu
Former Minister of Health, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, NIGERIA
Dr Guilherme Antônio da Costa Júnior
Federal Agricultural Auditor at the Secretariat of Trade and International Relations, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, BRAZIL
Dr Mekdes Daba
Minister of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of ETHIOPIA
Prof Dame Sally Davies
UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, UNITED KINGDOM
Dr Jamie Jonker
Science and Programme Coordination Committee Chair, International Dairy Federation, USA
Prof Dr Ernst Kuipers
Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, NETHERLANDS
Mr Fernando Lugris
Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of URUGUAY
Ms Ummy Mwalimu
Member of Parliament and former Minister of Health United Republic of TANZANIA
Ms Sunita Narain
Director-General, Centre for Science and Environment, INDIA
Dr Maria Panayiotou
Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Republic of CYPRUS
Mr Yasuhisa Shiozaki
Former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Member of the House of Representatives, JAPAN
Prof Lothar H. Wieler
Chair of the Digital Health Cluster, Hasso Plattner Institute and Prof of Digital Global Public Health, GERMANY
Ms Jennifer Zachary
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, MSD, Rahway, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Ex-Officio Members
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization
Biography
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected as WHO Director-General for a five-year term in May 2017. He is the first person from the WHO African Region to serve as WHO's chief technical and administrative officer. Immediately after taking office Dr Tedros outlined five key priorities for the Organization: universal health coverage; health emergencies; women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health; health impacts of climate and environmental change; and a transformed WHO. Dr Tedros believes that AMR is one of the greatest challenges of our time that has to be addressed urgently. Under Dr Tedros’ leadership a new Division on Antimicrobial Resistance was established at WHO. Together with the UN Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina Mohammed, he co-chaired the ad hoc Interagency Coordination Group on AMR. Prior to WHO, Dr Tedros served as Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012–2016 and as Minister of Health from 2005–2012.