The Pandemic Fund

Rajeev Sadanandan is a health policy and systems expert based in Kerala, India. Till recently he was the CEO of Health System Transformation Platform, a think tank on health policy and systems in New Delhi. Prior to that he had worked as health secretary of Kerala state, CEO of India’s national social health insurance programme, in addition to holding many other positions in state and federal governments. Rajeev worked for a brief stint in UNAIDS and was lead consultant on WHO SEARO’s Pandemic Preparedness Roadmap for 2023-27. 

Dr. Patrick L. Osewe is a leading global expert on public health and the Director of Health at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He currently leads the application of evidence-based and innovative approaches to address priority and emerging health issues in Asia and the Pacific ¾focusing on the nexus of Universal Health Coverage, pandemic preparedness, education, social protection, climate change and finance.

Paritosh is a veterinarian and a professor of microbiology and veterinary public health at the Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Bangladesh. 

As the animal health laboratory capacity building lead, he is also supporting the Fleming Fund Country Grant. He had experience working with FAO and the World Bank. 

Osman Ahmed Dar is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK) specialized in public health medicine and communicable disease control. He has wide ranging international experience of health system strengthening, humanitarian response and global health security having lived and worked across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

Dr. Amour is a physician scientist at the Muhimbili University of Health, and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania. She graduated from MUHAS and holds a Master degree in public health from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in USA. Currently, Dr. Amour is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her professional interests are on infectious diseases, particularly COVID-19, TB/HIV, and adolescents’ health. 

Marisa Peyre (Eng. , Ph.D., HDR) is an epidemiologist specialized in the evaluation of surveillance and control programs in animal health and One Health. She is currently the deputy director of ASTRE, the integrated health research unit in CIRAD. She has been working for CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development) since 2006 where she carries out researches in the field of evaluative epidemiology.

Professor Dr. Maha El Rabbat, Egyptian Ex- Minister of Health and Population is primarily a professor of Public Health. She has served the Government of Egypt and is continually serving to support regional health systems strengthening efforts and  supporting the scientific development of her  University, the Cairo University, where Prof. El Rabbat has been granted her early medical under/post graduate degrees prior to her equally successful attainment of several  international certification/accreditation.

Professor LEO Yee Sin, an adult Infectious Disease specialist, has led her team through multiple outbreaks in Singapore. With her experience and expertise, she is frequently called upon as advisor and conference speaker by local and international organisations. She serves in multiple World Health Organization workgroups on outbreak management, and as an international expert in scientific and research bodies such as the WHO-STAG IH. She is heavily involved in research and teaching and has published more than 400 peer-reviewed scientific papers. 

Dr. Kenichi KOMADA, specialist of acute medicine and epidemiology, has about 20 years’ experiences providing technical, programmatic and management support in infectious diseases to several countries in the Western Pacific and African Regions and elsewhere. 

Positions held include Chief advisor, JICA HIV/AIDS project in Zambia, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Division of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, clinical emergency doctor in St. Luke’s International hospital in Japan.