Board
The COHRED Board has a maximum of 18 members, the majority of whom come from developing countries. The Board reflects health research interests of the developing world as well as the commitment of key supporters of COHRED’s mission for health research for development. While the Board has the responsibility for oversight of COHRED’s operations, the Board and the Directorate jointly define the long-term vision, strategic direction and objectives of the organisation. Board membership is determined on the basis of expertise and ability to contribute to achieving COHRED’s mission. Selection criteria and terms of reference for board members are available from COHRED.
Prof. Marian Jacobs
Chair of COHRED Board
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town
46 Sawkins Road
Rondebosch 7700, Western Cape
South Africa
Tel: (+ 27 21) 689 8312
Fax: (+ 27 21) 689 5403
Prof. Jacobs is a public health paediatrician. She has was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Cape Town from 1 February 2006. She was formerly professor of child health at the University of Cape Town where she directs the School of Child and Adolescent Health and a child policy research institute. She has a long history of interest in health, research, human rights and equity, and has been involved in local, national and international efforts in all these fields.
Abbas U Bhuiya, Ph.D
Senior Scientist Head, Poverty and Health Programme & Social and Behavioural Sciences Unit, Public Health Sciences Division, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research
Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Tel + 8802 8812914
Fax + 8802 8826050
Dr Bhuiya, is Senior Scientist and Head, Poverty and Health Programme at the Centre for Health and Population Research in Bangladesh, at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR,B). He brings to the COHRED Board some 25 years’ experience in the field of community health research with special focus on the issues of equity, behaviour change and community development. He has been involved in many action research projects on improving the health of the poor and reducing social disparity in health. This has included work in testing of community development programmes in partnership with indigenous village-based organizations in rural Bangladesh to study their equity impacts.
Dr. Bhuiya was elected to the COHRED Board for his first 3-year term in 2005.
Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D
Prof. Jo Ivey Boufford President, New York Academy of Medicine Tel 212-822-7201 New York, USA
Dr. Boufford was appointed President of the New York Academy of Medicine in 2007. Prior to this she was Professor of Public Service, Health Policy & Management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Clinical Professor of Paediatrics, New York University School of Medicine. Over the past 20 years she has held a number of senior positions on the field of academic and public health in the United States and in the United Kingdom. These include positions as Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University (1997-02); Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1993-97); U.S. representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1994-97, reappointed in 1998), Director, King’s Fund College, UK (1991-93) and President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (1985-89).
Dr Boufford attended Wellesley College, has a BA in Psychology (University of Michigan USA) and M.D. (University of Michigan Medical School). She is Board Certified in paediatrics.
Dr. Boufford was elected to the COHRED Board for her first 3-year term in 2005.
Don de Savigny, PhD
Swiss Tropical Institute
Socinstrasse 57
Box 4002 Basel
Switzerland
eml: d.desavigny@unibas.ch
tel: +41 (61) 284 8160
fax: +41 (61) 284 8105
mob: +41 (79) 313 1079
Dr. de Savigny is an epidemiologist and public health specialist. He is currently Professor and Head of the Health Systems Interventions Unit in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical Institute, University of Basel. He is also an Honorary Professor and former Heath Clark Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Don has extensive experience in conducting and facilitating health research in developing countries and has lived and worked for many years in Africa, most recently as lead facilitator for the Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Program (TEHIP) for the Ministry of Health in Tanzania.
Between 1988 and 1996 he was Principal Health Specialist for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. Prior to that, he was the Head of the Swiss Tropical Institute Field Laboratory in Tanzania (now the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre).
He is on a number of advisory panels including Chair of the Health Metrics Network Technical Advisory Group, Chair of the WHO Roll Back Malaria Working Group on Scalable Malaria Vector Control, the Scientific Advisory Committee for the INDEPTH Network of Demographic and Health Observatories, the WHO African Malaria Expert Committee, the Gates Malaria Partnership. His current research focuses on interventions to strengthen health systems in developing countries, and on the health system effects of Global Health Initiatives for scaling up access.
Sambe Duale, MD, MPH
Technical Director and Infectious Disease Advisor,
Africa’s Health in 2010 project
1875 Connecticut Av., NW, Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20009
Tel +1 202 884 8809
Fax: +1 202 884 8447
Dr. Duale is Research Assistant Professor, Department of International Health and Development, at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (USA), and Technical Director and Infectious Disease Advisor for the Africa’s Health in 2010 initiative supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Africa 2010 promotes the adoption of policies and strategies for sustainable health and human resources development. Dr. Duale advises the USAID Bureau for Africa and for the design, management and evaluation of research projects on a wide range of public health issues, including infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, child survival, surveillance, emerging threats and crisis response.
Dr. Duale was elected to the COHRED Board for his first 3-year term in 2005.
Dr. Duale is a physician and Masters in Public Health, bringing to the COHRED Board more than 25 years’ experience in policy dialogue, design, management, and evaluation of health programs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Prof Carel IJsselmuiden, MD, MPH, FFCH(SA)
Director Council on Health for Development (COHRED)
1-5 route des Morillons
1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 591 89 00
Carel is a public health physician and epidemiologist. He has worked in rural medicine, peri-urban and urban health care and environmental health services, as well as in academic public health education and research ethics training. He has also published in various areas in applied research and public health. Carel was the founding Director of the University of Pretoria’s School of Health Systems and Public Health until his appointment as COHRED Director in January 2004.
Prof. IJsselmuiden, as COHRED Director, is ex-offico member of the Board.
Dr. Daniel Maeusezahl
Special Adviser for Health and Development
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Freiburgstrasse 130
3003 Bern
Switzerland
Tel: (+41 31) 322 7659
Fax: (+41 31) 323 1764
Dr. Mäusezahl has an academic background in biology and epidemiology. He has worked as a scientist and public health specialist in several African, Asian, South American and European countries. Dr Mäusezahl is a senior advisor for health at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
Dr. Mäusezahl was elected to the COHRED Board for a second 3-year term in 2004.
Prof. Stephen Matlin
Executive Director of the Global Forum for Health Research
1-5 route des Morillons
1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 791 4260
Professor Stephen Matlin is Executive Director of the Global Forum for Health Research and a Senior Research Fellow in Oxford University. His former positions include Chief Education Adviser in the UK Department for International Development, Director of the Health and Education Departments in the Commonwealth Secretariat, London and Professor of Biological Chemistry, Warwick University, UK.
Prof. Matlin is ex-offico Board member.
Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi
High Representative
EDCTP – European and DevelopingCountries Clinical Trials Partnership
P.O.Box 93015, 2509 AA The Hague, The Netherlands
Laan van Nieuw Oost Indie, 2593 CE The Hague
Phone +31 (0)70 – 344 08 80 Fax +31 (0)70 – 344 08 99
E-mail: mocumbi@edctp.org Internet: www.edctp.org
former Prime Minister of Mozambique
Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi is the High Representative of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) since March 2004. His mandate is to raise the visibility of the EDCTP and gaining political support, particular within Africa, and to contribute to the EDCTP’s fundraising activities. The Partnership aims to contribute towards reducing the burden of the main poverty-related diseases and transferring empowerment to the developing world. Its goal is to accelerate the development of new or improved clinical interventions against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and build leadership in health research in developing countries, so that they will be able to diagnose and respond to their own needs.
Dr Mocumbi is also WHO Good Will Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health for the African Region. He also has active role in global health initiatives serving on the Coordinating Committee of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, contributes to the establishment of global coordinating mechanisms for the development of a preventive vaccine against HIV. He serves as Commissioner in the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), and on the boards of the Alliance of Health policy and Systems Research (AHPSR), the International Advisory Board (IAB) of Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), the International Women Health Coalition (IWHC), and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF). In 2005 he was elected to membership of the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
Dr Mocumbi was Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique from 1994 to 2004. Prior to that, he headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during eight years and the Ministry of Health for 6 years. He received his medical degree from the University of Lausanne, did his internship in Switzerland, and practiced medicine as obstetrician & gynaecologist in hospitals throughout Mozambique. As Prime Minister he led the establishment of Mozambique the National AIDS Council to coordinate the implementation of the national HIV response. Dr Mocumbi served (1989-1998) in the World Health Organization’s Task Force on Health and Development.
Dr. Mocumbi is committed to the importance of public health as an essential arm for sustainable development. Dr Mocumbi has expertise in health systems and women’s health issues. As Mozambique Heath Minister established the MCH nurses career and initiated the training of non-physicians health professionals for delivering lifesaving emergency obstetric care necessary to reduce maternal mortality. As Prime Minister, he contributed to the substantial progress in fighting poverty and improving human development, and to the transformation of a war-torn Mozambique into one of the well-governed and fastest growing economies of Africa.
Dr. Pem Namgyal
Medical Officer/Vaccine Preventable Diseases
WHO/SEARO/IVD
New Delhi-110 002
Ph:+91-11-2330 9529
Fax: +91-11-2330 0106
Dr. Pem Namgyal is currently working at the WHO’s South-East Asia Regional Office in New Delhi as Medical Officer for Vaccine Preventable Diseases (MO/VPD). He supports countries to introduce new vaccines and strengthen routine immunization programmes. He is also the Regional Focal Point for Vaccine Research and clinical trials.
Dr. Namgyal graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 1985 and obtained his MPH-Epidemiology from the Johns-Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1991. Before joining WHO he worked for 14 years in the Ministry of Health, Royal Government of Bhutan. In Bhutan he worked as programme manager for several disease programmes, including malaria, tuberculosis, respiratory infections, health informatics and health information, health research and epidemiology. He was the head of policy and planning division in the health ministry when he joined WHO in January 2001. He spent two years at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva and, since 2003, has been in Delhi.
Dr. Suzanne Jacob Serruya
Dr. Suzanne Jacob Serruya
Director of the Department of Science and Technology
Science, Technology and Strategic Inputs Secretariat
Brazilian Ministry of Health
Esplanada dos Ministérios – Bloco G
CEP 70.058-900 Brasília – DF
Brazil
Phone: (55) 61-3315-3197
Fax: (55) 61-3315-3463
Suzanne Jacob Serruya completed Medical School at the Federal University of Pará, Belém – Brazil, in 1985, a Specialist Certificate in Gynecology & Obstetrics in 1988, a Masters degree in Development Planning in 1993 and a PhD in Gynecology & Obstetrics in 2003. Dr. Suzanne Serruya has an extensive experience in the academic field as a professor at the University of Pará since 1988. Dr. Serruya also coordinated specialization courses, such as, the Internship Program in Gynecology and Obstetrics; the Research Development, Graduate Studies; and the Labor Medicine course.
Dr. Suzanne Serruya brings to COHRED 15 years of experience in the Women’s Heath Policies implementation. She worked in the promotion and articulation of the women’s health research, planning, supervising and evaluating the government programs. She also participated in the coordination of the inter-institutional projects where she organized campaigns for local populations and the cervical cancer control pilot project.
Since 2003 she has joined the Ministry of Health working in the Science and Technology Department (DECIT), initially as the Coordinator for Institutional Development. In March 2005 she was appointed Director of this Department, position presently held where she works in the health research field in the development and implementation of benchmarks and processes to insure quality service; and plays a role as a liaison for internal and external offices, organizations, and federal agencies. Besides, she contributes in the implementation and evaluation of the National Policy on Science, Technology and Innovation in Health and the National Priority Agenda in Health Research. Dr. Serruya promotes and articulates strategic researches in health with S&T agencies, state, municipal health secretariats and the federal district. Furthermore, her work strengths the system of ethical review of research involving human subjects and the committees in the performance of their objectives by implementing sound infrastructure processes and establishment qualifications for its members.
Dr. Donald T. Simeon
Director, Caribbean Health Research Council
Dr. Donald Simeon has been Director of the Caribbean Health Research Council since 2002. Prior to that he was Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies. A citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Simeon was educated at the University if the West Indies (PhD Nutrition) and the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, University of London (MSc Medical Statistics).
He is a chartered Statistician and Fellow with the Royal Statistical Society, UK as well as a registered Public Health Nutritionist, Nutrition Society, UK. He is a Board Member of the Geneva-based Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) and a member of Trinidad and Tobago Association of Nutritionists and Dietitians, American Society for Nutritional Sciences, International Biometric Society Network for Central America and the Caribbean and the Management Committee of the Essential National Health Research Council of Trinidad and Tobago. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the West Indian Medical Journal.
Dr Simeon has extensive research experience as evidenced by the publication of over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, in addition to chapters in books/encyclopedia and other reports. He has also made dozens of oral presentations of research findings at international scientific and regional professional conferences.
Dr. Aissatou Toure Balde
Head, Laboratory of Parasite Immunology
Institut Pasteur Dakar, 36 Av Pasteur
BP 220, Dakar, Senegal
Tel : (+221) 839 92 41
Fax : (+221) 839 92 10
Dr Aissatou Touré, is a pharmacist biologist specialised in Immunology, and a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar where she heads the Laboratory of Parasite Immunology and conducts research in the area of immunology of malaria.
Dr Touré is a member of the Senegalese National Program against Malaria, where she participates in the definition of priorities for malaria research. Since 2002, she has been a member of the African Committee (Developing Countries Coordinating Committee or DCCC) of the European program EDCTP (European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership) serving as focal point for the activities in the field of ethics. This work includes building capacity, strengthening of national ethics committees, etc.
Dr Touré has been a member of the Senegalese Scientific and Ethics Committee since 2003, tasked with evaluating scientific and ethical aspects of projects in health research, and advising health authorities in the area of ethics. She is also a member of the Project Advisory Group (since 2004) that advises WHO on the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP). The MVP is the result of a partnership between PATH and WHO for the development of a meningitis vaccine specific to Africa’s needs, to eliminate this disease as a public health threat.
Since 2006 Dr. Touré has been a member of the UNESCO International Committee on Bioethics.
