Leadership
Presidents
Ali Jafarian
Former Chancellor
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Iran
Detlev Ganten
Chairman of the Board, Charité Foundation
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany
Former Presidents
João Gabriel Silva, 2018
Former Rector
University of Coimbra
Portugal
Fernando Regateiro, 2018
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Coimbra University Hospitals
Portugal
Hélène Boisjoly, 2017
Dean
Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal
Canada
Antoine Flahault, 2016
Director
Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Shunichi Fukuhara, 2015
Former Dean
School of Public Health, Kyoto University
Japan
José Otávio Costa Auler Jr., 2014
Dean
Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil
John Eu-Li Wong, 2013
Chief Executive
National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore
Michael J. Klag, 2012
Former Dean
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Steve Wesselingh, 2011
Dean
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Stephen K. Smith, 2010
Pro Rector, Health
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Axel Kahn, 2009
Dean
Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
Scientific Committee
The World Health Summit Scientific Committee consists of the M8 Alliance Executive Committee and these members of the World Health Summit Council:
Co-Chairs
Stefan Kaufmann
Director
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
Fernando Regateiro
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Coimbra University Hospitals
Portugal
Till Bärnighausen
Director
Heidelberg Institute of Public Health, Germany
Elizabeth Blackburn
Nobel Prize Laureate, President Emerita
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Thomas B. Cueni
Director General
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations, Switzerland
Christian Drosten
Director, Institute of Virology
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Bärbel-Maria Kurth
Director, Epidemiology and Health Monitoring
Robert Koch Institute, Germany
(c) Robert Koch Institute / Dugnus
Thomas Mettenleiter
President
Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
Maike Sander
Director
Pediatric Diabetes Research Center, UC San Diego, USA
Günter Stock
President
ALLEA, All European Academies, Germany
Ambassadors
Edelgard Bulmahn
Former Federal Minister of Education and Research
Germany
Manfred Dietel
Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Medical Doctor and Cabaret
Germany
Michael Rabbow
Senior Advisor
E&P Focus Africa Consulting
Germany
Heinz Riederer
Managing Director
iNG innovation. Nachhaltigkeit. Gesundheit, Germany
Reinhard Schäfers
Former German Ambassador
Germany
Ansgar Tietmeyer
Former Head of Public Affairs
Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
Charles Yankah
Chairman
Afrika Kulturinstitut e.V., Berlin, Germany
Council
Chair
Ilona Kickbusch
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Members
Ala Alwan
University of Washington, Department of Global Health
Rifat Atun
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Till Bärnighausen
Heidelberg University
Hans-Peter Baur
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Ingo Behnel
German Federal Ministry of Health
Christoph Beier
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Christoph Benn
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Tobias Bergner
German Federal Foreign Office
Arnaud Bernaert
World Economic Forum
Catherina Böhme
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
Thomas B. Cueni
Int. Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations
Manfred Dietel
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Klaus Dugi
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Timothy Evans
World Bank
Roland Göhde
German Health Alliance
Jörg Hacker
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Shannon Hader
UNAIDS
Andrew Haines
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Zsuzsanna Jakab
World Health Organization
Ashish Jha
Harvard Global Health Institute
Stefan Kaufmann
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Susanna Krüger
Save the Children Germany
Bärbel Kurth
Robert Koch Institute
Steve Landry
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Yves Levy
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Marion Lieser
Oxfam Germany
Klaus Lindpaintner
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center
Philippe Meyer
Descartes Université
Jürgen Mlynek
Falling Walls Foundation
Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti
World Health Organization
Bernd Montag
Siemens Healthineers
Andreas Penk
Pfizer Germany
Hagen Pfundner
Roche Pharma AG
Peter Piot
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Erich Reinhardt
Medical Valley
Heinz Riederer
iNG innovation. Nachhaltigkeit. Gesundheit
Maike Röttger
Association Development and Humanitarian Aid
Mathias Scheller
Albertinen-Diakoniewerk
Hans J. Schellnhuber
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Georg Schütte
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Günter Stock
European Federation of Academics of Sciences and Humanities
Lothar Wieler
Robert Koch Institute