WHO has announced the names for the Expert Working Group on R&D financing
We don’t know everyone on the list, but for the people that we do know, we are generally impressed. The WHO seems to have created a body with considerable expertise and reputation, and included people who will consider new ideas. This seems like a very good start.
http://www.who.int/phi/R_Dfinancing/en/index.html
- Sir George Alleyne (Barbados)
- Professor José Carvalho de Noronha (Brazil)
- Dr. Pedro Conceição (Portugal)
- Professor Nirmal Ganguly (India)
- Professor Jean-François Girard (France)
- Professor Yan Guo (China)
- Professor Nabil Kronfol (Lebanon)
- Dr. Cecilia Lopez Montaño (Colombia)
- Dr. Sigrun Møgedal (Norway)
- Dr Mary Moran (Australia)
- Professor Peter Ndumbe (Cameroon)
- Dr. Sania Nishtar (Pakistan)
- Ms Joy Phumaphi (Botswana)
- Dr. Mark Rohrbaugh (USA)
- Dr. Ursula Schaefer-Preuss (Germany)
- Dr Sibusiso Sibisi (South Africa)
- Dr. Sue Szabo (Canada)
- Professor Keizo Takemi (Japan)
- Dr Lars Thunell (Sweden)
- Dr Mark Walport (United Kingdom)
- Professor Miriam Were (Kenya)
- Mr Philip Yeo (Singapore)
- Professor Yongyuth Yuthavong (Thailand)
- Dr. Philippe Douste-Blazy, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Innovative Financing for Development (France)
The brief biographies of the expert group members can be found here.