Global Policy & Advocacy Division
Topics:
- Development finance and policy (including multilateral development bank reform, debt solutions for low-income countries)
- Women’s economic empowerment
Experts:
- Gargee Ghosh, President, Global Policy & Advocacy
- Archna Vyas, Director, Program Advocacy and Communications: Growth, Opportunity and Empowerment
- Kalpana Kochhar, Director, Development Policy & Finance
- Alaa Murabit, Director, Program Advocacy and Communications, Health
Gender Equality Division
Topics:
- Women’s economic empowerment (including data and evidence, women’s role in economic recovery, gender-inclusive economic policy)
- Women’s leadership
- Family planning
- Maternal, newborn and child health (including R&D)
Experts:
- Anita Zaidi, President, Gender Equality
- Greta Bull, Director, Women’s Economic Empowerment
- Diva Dhar, Deputy Director, Women’s Economic Empowerment (focus: data and evidence)
- Aparajita Ramakrishnan, Director, Family Planning
- Iris Mwanza, Deputy Director, Women in Leadership
- Rasa Izadnegahdar, Director, Health Product Research & Development
Global Growth & Opportunity Division
Topics:
- Climate adaptation (including innovations for smallholder farmers, food and nutrition security, climate financing)
- Nutrition (including investments in the microbiome)
- Digital public infrastructure (for economic inclusion and to spur global economic recovery)
Experts:
- Rodger Voorhies, President, Global Growth & Opportunity
- Enock Chikava, Interim Director, Agricultural Development
- Purvi Mehta, Deputy Director, Agricultural Development (focus: Asia)
- Shelly Sundberg, Acting Deputy Director, Nutritious Food Systems & Women’s Empowerment, Agricultural Development (focus: nutrition in food and social protection systems)
- Michael Wiegand, Director, Financial Services for the Poor
- Konstantin Peric, Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor (focus: digital platforms)
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Global Health Division
Topics:
- Upstream R&D to address infectious diseases (including investments in monoclonal antibodies, mRNA vaccines, next-generation diagnostics, antiviral drugs, easier-to-administer drug regimens, and gene therapies)
- Surveillance of infectious diseases (including environmental and genomic surveillance)
- Artificial intelligence to transform global health and development
- Grand Challenges grants to spur transformative solutions to urgent global health and development problems
Experts:
- Trevor Mundel, President, Global Health
- Philip Welkhoff, Director, Malaria
- Jennifer Gardy, Deputy Director, Malaria (focus: surveillance, data, epidemiology)
- Nina Russell, Director, Tuberculosis and HIV Prevention
- Puneet Dewan, Senior Program Officer, Tuberculosis (focus: tools and strategies)
- Peter Dull, Deputy Director, Vaccine Development & Surveillance (focus: clinical evaluation, HPV)
- Katey Einterz Owen, Director, Vaccine Development and Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Karen Heichman, Deputy Director, Diagnostics
- Ken Duncan, Deputy Director, Discovery & Translational Sciences (focus: drug discovery)
- Keith Klugman, Director, Pneumonia (focus includes maternal immunization for GBS and RSV)
- Padmini Srikantiah, Deputy Director, Pneumonia (focus: RSV)
- Jacqueline Kirchner, Senior Program Officer (focus: monoclonal antibodies)
- Zameer Brey, Deputy Director, Technology Diffusion (focus: artificial intelligence, large language models)
Global Development Division
Topics:
- Polio eradication and surveillance (including nOPV2 vaccine development and delivery)
- Vaccine delivery for routine immunization
- Partnerships with multilateral organizations (Gavi, The Global Fund, GPEI, GFF, CEPI)
- Pandemic preparedness and emergency response (including development of a Global Health Emergency Corps)
Experts:
- Chris Elias, President, Global Development
- Jay Wenger, Director, Polio
- Ananda Sankar Bandyopadhyay, Deputy Director, Polio (focus: technology, research, analytics)
- Violaine Mitchell, Director, Immunization
- Greg Widmyer, Senior Advisor, Immunization (focus: vaccine delivery)
- Scott Dowell, Deputy Director, Vaccine Development and Surveillance (focus: surveillance, epidemiology)
- Valerie Nkamgang Bemo, Deputy Director, Emergency Response
U.S. Programs Division
Topics:
- U.S. education (including addressing the math achievement gap and barriers to college attendance)
- Economic mobility and opportunity
Experts:
- Allan Golston, President, U.S. Program
- Bob Hughes, Director, K-12 Education
- Ryan Rippel, Director, Economic Mobility and Opportunity
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