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Paul Farmer, MD, MPH
Member, Board of Directors
Partners In Health
Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology
Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
Medical Director
Clinique Bon Sauveur, Haiti
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Dr. Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician in infectious diseases and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and medical director of a charity hospital, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti. Along with his colleagues, Dr. Farmer has pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for AIDS and tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis).
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Tore Godal, MD, MPH
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Norway
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Dr. Tore Godal is an international public health specialist, working as a special advisor to the Prime Minister of Norway. He was formerly a special advisor and consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Metrics Network and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). As the founding Executive Secretary of GAVI, Dr. Godal was instrumental in the design and development of this alliance and its financial arm, the Vaccine Fund. Previously, Dr. Godal was instrumental in the initiation of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, leading the program’s pilot project and flagship effort, Immunology of Leprosy. Before retiring from WHO, Dr. Godal launched the Roll Back Malaria project. A medical doctor and trained immunologist, Dr. Godal has contributed a great deal to the understanding of mechanisms of immunity to mycobacteria, the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease, and the clinical and sub-clinical manifestations of leprosy. His research has led to the development of numerous diagnostic tools, including monoclonal antibodies for leukemia and lymph node cancer.
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Carol Elizabeth Jacobs, MBBS, BCH
Chairman of the Board, Voting Member Latin America and Caribbean
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Chairman
Barbados’ National HIV/AIDS Commission
Special Envoy to the Prime Minister on HIV/AIDS
Family Practice Physician
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Dr. Carol Jacobs was elected the chairman of the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in April 2005, having represented Latin America and the Caribbean on the board since 2004. She also serves as the chairman of Barbados’ HIV/AIDS Commission and special envoy to the Prime Minister on HIV/AIDS. Dr. Jacobs was born and educated in Jamaica, and graduated from the University of the West Indies in medicine. After working for several years at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, she started and has maintained a private medical practice for the past 25 years. Dr. Jacobs has been involved in HIV/AIDS for more than 18 years throughout Barbados, the Caribbean and internationally. Between 1995 and 1998, she was the chair of the Barbados National Advisory Committee on AIDS, represented Barbados and the Caribbean on the board of the Global Program on AIDS and subsequently on the program coordinating board of the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS. She has also served as a director on the boards of a number of community-based organizations: St. Ambrose Church, St Gabriel’s School, Barbados Children’s Trust, Errol and Nita Barrow Trust, Big Brothers and Sisters Barbados, AIDS Society of Barbados, the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners and the Optimist Club.
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