World Health Organization

Leadership & Staff

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Atul A Gawande Biden Nominee - Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, USAID Agency; Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health

• Leads Safe Surgery Saves Lives campaign

Ray Chambers Former Chairman of Wesray Capital Corporation

• Ambassador for Global Strategy

Julius Weinberg Chair of OFSTED, UK Education Former Vice Chancellor Kingston University

• Former Staff, Zimbabwe and Bosnia*

Roy Anderson British Epidemiologist, Formerly At Oxford

• Advisor*

Linda Durnell Media Psychologist Focused on Emerging Tech and Impact

• Roster of Experts ('19→?)*

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director general of the World Health Organization

• Director General ('17→?)*

Michael Bloomberg NYC's info-billionaire former mayor; Publisher of Bloomberg LP

• Global Ambassador Non-Communicable Diseases ('16→'19)*

Yiyao Barnoon Master of Public Health, Global Health

• National Program Officer ('09→'12)*

Gro Harlem Brundtland Former Prime Minister of Norway

• Former Director General ('07→'10)*

Margaret Chan Former Director General World Health Organization

• Former Director General ('06→'17)*

Board Members

Maria Zambon Director of Reference Microbiology Services at Public Health England

• Head - UK National Influenza Centre*

Donors

The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation

• Donation/Grant

Vatican City State Sovereign state of the Catholic church in Rome

• Donation/Grant*

The World Bank Group Family of five international finance organizations

• Donation/Grant

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Family foundation of Microsoft founder Bill Gates

• Donation/Grant

Donations

International Center for Journalists

• Donation/Grant

Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)

• Donation/Grant

Imperial Network for Vaccines Research Imperial College London

• Donor

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Division of Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Funder

Holdings

WHO - Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) Established by WHO in March 2005 to support countries and global health partners in addressing the social factors leading to ill health and health inequities.

• Owner

Child Organizations

Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator

• initiative of

COVAX Global coronavirus vaccine initiative

• led by

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies World Health Organization - European Health Systems - Innovation and Evidence-Based Policy

• Child Org ('98→?)*

Universal Basic Income Policies and Their Potential for Addressing Health Inequities 2019 Whitepaper World Health Organization

• Child Org (Mar 12 '19→?)*

Global Burden of Disease Project (GBD) World Bank Initiated Project To Measure Cost of Disability and Death

• Project ('98→?)*

Extended Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN), WHO Project Based in Belgium Gates Funded

• Child Org ('17→?)*

Disease X WHO Designation For Possible Future Pandemic 2018

• Child Org ('18→?)*

African Vaccine Regulatory Forum (AVAREF)

• Child Org ('06→?)*

Global Observatory for eHealth World Health Organization Initiative to Promote TeleMedicine

• Child Org

Parents

United Nations International organization

• Parent Org

Members

Bush Speech To UN on Pandemic Flu Plan 2005 Top Cabinet Officials, United Nations Members and World Health Organization

• Attended ('05→?)*

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response: WHO Document 2009

• Prepared ('07→?)*

Memberships

Smart Vaccination Certificate consortium

• Member

Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) WHO Led Collaboration To Expand Vaccination Worldwide 2012

• Partner ('12→?)*

Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand Imperial College London March 16, 2020

• Partner (Mar 16 '20→?)*

Partnership For Healthy Cities Bloomberg Global Initiative Against Chronic Illness In Urban Settings

• Partner*

Resolve To Save Lives Bloomberg Funded Public Health Program / Heart Health and Epidemics

• Parnter*

Services & Transactions

Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium Gates Foundation/GAVI funded. Imperial College London, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology is the Coordinating institution

• Advisor

Miscellaneous Relationships

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Usher Institute - University of Edinburgh Genetic, Population, and Health Sciences

• Collaborator*

Institute for Human Development Aga Khan University Global Investment in Early Childhood Development

• Partner*

Wikimedia Foundation the non-profit behind Wikipedia

• Partner*

Codex Alimentarius International Food Standards WHO / FAO

• Created By ('62→?)*

Global Goal: United for Our Future

• Affiliation

Purpose Campaigns PBC

• Affiliation

Adar Poonawalla CEO Serum Institute of India

• Works With On Vaccines*

Peter K Piot Belgian Microbiologist, Researcher in Ebola and AIDs

• Collaborator, HIV*

One Health World Health Organization Program At Intersection of Human Health and Animal Health

• Project ('17→?)*

Guttmacher Institute research and policy organization for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) worldwide

• Affiliation