Emanuele Capobianco

Emanuele Capobianco (@ecapobianco) is the Director of Health and Care at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). He leads the IFRC global Health and Care Team that provides strategic and operational support to 192 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world in the areas of community health, emergency health and water/sanitation. He currently leads the IFRC global response to COVID19 and the IFRC response to the Ebola outbreaks in DRC. Emanuele brings 20 years of experience in policy development and implementation of health programmes in low and middle-income countries with specific expertise in fragile settings, partnerships, maternal/child health and communicable diseases. Before joining IFRC he served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and as Senior Policy Advisor with the Global Fund, coordinating the development of the 2017-2022 Global Fund Strategy and the first Global Fund policy on fragile settings. Emanuele worked with the World Bank, UNICEF and WHO in Mozambique, Somalia, Afghanistan and India where he managed programmes on communicable diseases, mother and child health, nutrition, and drug use prevention, treatment and care. Emanuele has a Medical Degree from Italy, a Master in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and an Erasmus Mundus’ Master in International Humanitarian Action.