RBM Partnership Board
RBM stakeholders are represented by 21 voting Board members. The Board also includes four non-voting ex officio members.
Board members (countries, institutions) serve as representatives of their constituencies. Members may appoint one alternate member to serve in their stead. Constituencies determine rotational or renewable status. The Board members sit on the Board for two years.
Regional mechanisms such as WHO Regional Committees are used for the identification of representatives of the malaria endemic country constituency.
All official acts of Board members shall be deemed to be taken in their capacity as representatives of their respective constituencies.
Mr Kapembwa Simbao, Honorable Minister of Health of Zambia, has been elected in May 2009 as Chairman of the RBM Partnership Board. Vice chair is Matthew Lynch, Program Director, Global Program on Malaria Johns Hopkins University.
Next RBM Partnership Board meeting is scheduled for 12-14 May 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Constituency Representation on the RBM Partnership Board
Malaria Endemic countries (8)
ECOWAS countries
Mali: Mr Oumar Ibrahima Touré, Minister of Health (re-elected)
Alternate: Niger - Dr Fatimata Moussa, Minister of Health (re-elected)
Liberia: Dr Walter T. Gwenigale, Minister of Health
Alternate: Ghana - Dr George Yankey, Minister of Health
ECCAS countries
Angola: Dr José Vieira Dias Van-Dùnem, Minister of Health
Alternate: DR Congo - Mr Mwami Mopipi Mukulumanya, Minister of Public Health
IGAD countries
Ethiopia: Dr Tedros A. Ghebreyesus, Federal Minister of Health
Alternate: Uganda - Dr. Steven MALLINGA, Minister of Health
SADC countries
South Africa: Mr Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health
Alternate: Mozambique - Mr Paul I. Garrido, Minister of Health
South East ASIA countries
Cambodia: Mrs Ouk Monna, State Secretary of Health
South ASIA countries
India: Mr Rajendra S. Shukla, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Latin America and Caribbean countries
Brasil: Mr José Lazaro de Brito Ladislau, Coordinator General, Ministry of Health
OECD Donor Countries (3)
France: HE Ambassadeur Patrice Debré
United Kingdom: Dr Jenny Amery, DFID
United States of America: Admiral Timothy Ziemer, Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative, USAID
Multilateral Devlopment Partners (4)
United Nations Childrens Fund - UNICEF: Dr Peter Salama, Chief of Health
United Nations Development Programme - UNDP: Dr Sabine Beckmann
World Health Organization - WHO: Dr Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director-General, HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
Alternate: Dr Chatora, Director, Division ATM, WHO/AFRO
The World Bank: Dr Maryse B. Pierre-Louis Coordinator, Booster Program for Malaria Control Africa Region
Research and Academia (1)
Columbia University (Dept of Epidemiology) - Prof Awash Teklehaimanot, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Alternate: Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV): Dr Chris Hentschel, President and CEO
Non-Governmental Organizations (2)
Southern NGO
SFH Nigeria: Dr Uzo Gilpin, Senior Technical Advisor for Maternal & Child Health
Alternate: Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria - Mrs Esther Tallah
Northern NGO
Malaria Consortium - Dr Sunil Mehra, Executive Director
Alternate: Academy for Educational Development - Dr Halima Mwenesi, Regional Research Coordinator
Private Sector (2)
Sanofi-Aventis: Mr René Cazetien, Director Commercial, Operations Access to Medicines
Vestergaard-Frandsen Mr Mikkel Vestergaard , Chief Executive Officer
Alternate: Premier Medical Corporation - Mr Neil Mehta, President and CEO
Alternate: Bayer - Dr Gerhard Hesse
Foundations (1)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Dr Regina Rabinovich, Director, Infectious Disease & Vaccines
Alternate: UN Foundation - Dr Dan Carucci, Vice President, Health
The Global Fund: Dr Michel Kazaktchine, Executive Director
RBM Partnership: Prof. Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Executive Director
UNITAID: Dr Jorge Bermudez, Executive Secretary
Mr Ray Chambers, UN Secretary General Special Envoy for Malaria