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Governing bodies

Governance - Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

Governance - Executive Committee
Governing Bodies - Leadership Council

Leadership Council

The Leadership Council (LC) is the strategic body responsible for setting up the institutional strategy, fostering innovation and impact, and ensuring that decisions are aligned with the institutional strategy. Its focus is on building a forward-looking vision that supports scientific excellence and societal impact, and contributes to the overall strategic steering. The LC is composed by the Director General (LC Chair) Scientific Director (LC vice-Chair), General Manager, Severo Ochoa Scientific Director, Translation and Impact Director, Education and Training Director, Innovation Director, the Chair of the People Development Commission-HRS4R, the Head of the Projects Unit, and up to 10 leading researchers reflecting the variety of ISGlobal research disciplines and approaches.

Advisory bodies - Title

Advisory bodies

Governing Bodies - Academic Commitee

Academic Commitee

Governing Bodies - EAC

External Advisory Committee (EAC)

  • Annette Peters

    Chair Director of the Institute of Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center of Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.

  • Chetan Chitnis

    Deputy Chair Head of the Malaria Parasite Biology and Vaccines Unit, Institut Pasteur, France.

  • Montserrat Garcia-Closas

    Co-Director of Imperial College London, and Professor of Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.

  • Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

    Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Section of Environmental Health, Denmark.

  • Joel D. Kaufmann

    Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Epidemiology at the University of Washington, Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Seattle, USA.

  • André Kengne

    Director of Programs, in charge of Research at the African Population Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Andy Morse

    Professor of Climate Impacts, Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, UK.

  • Philippa Musoke

    Professor Emeritus, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University; Co-Principal Investigator for the Johns Hopkins University-Uganda Clinical Trials Unit, based at the Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site (MUJHU), Kampala, Uganda.

  • Francine Ntoumi

    Director of the Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, Republic of Congo, and Research Group Leader at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

  • Mercedes Pascual

    Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, USA.

  • Milo Puhan

    Director of the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Constance Schultsz

    Member of the Executive Board, AIGHD; Professor of Global Health and Deputy Head of the Department of Global Health; Clinical Microbiologist, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  • Marleen Temmerman

    Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aga Khan University East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Alfonso Valencia

    Life Sciences Department Director, Computational Biology Life Sciences Group, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.

  • Gavin Yamey

    Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, USA.

  • Marcus Lacerda

    Specialist in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado; Professor at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute; Professor at the State University of Amazonas, Brazil.