HIP3 - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Head
• Treasurer
• Treasurer ( Switzerland )

Daniel Mäusezahl, treasurer (Switzerland) Head of Household Health Systems Research Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) an associate institute of the University of Basel. A former senior health advisor at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Daniel leads a research group on Household Health Systems with the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). He directs and teaches courses in epidemiological methods, tropical epidemiology, public and international health. He is an associated researcher at the Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru, associate professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal and designated research Chair of Global Environmental Health, and he is an external examiner at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Daniel has an interest in understanding environmental household health and livelihood impacts in the broader socio-ecological context. His research deals with environmental, health and social impact assessment and he conducts health systems research focusing on environmental health, WASH and integrated approaches to improve household and environmental health. He is an advisor to WHO Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) and contributes to WHO expert groups on on WHO estimate of the burden of water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases (2013-present), on Children's Environment and Healthy action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE) and Review of Air Pollution Quality Guidelines . Daniel Mäusezahl has published over 30 research and policy articles in peer-reviewed literature. Based on his training in epidemiology, experience in behavioural and cultural research on illness behaviour, health care utilisation and health development, he develops integrated environmental household health interventions and control strategies, health system research and health development policy. Daniel and his research group has conducted drinking water and sanitation and environmental research and impact evaluation studies in many Sub-Saharan African countries, in Latin America (Bolivia, Peru), Asia (Bangladesh) China and Europe. A key research interest is to develop impact indicators from water and sanitation and environmental interventions that go beyond proximal health endpoints to more distal social and livelihood household impacts describing drivers socio-economic change.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Kenyan Parliament

Job Titles:

• Secretary ( India )
• Secretary ( India ) Executive Director, Serum Institute of India

Dr.Suresh Jadhav, M.Pharm. Ph.D. is currently Executive Director of Serum Institute of India Ltd., one of the largest vaccine manufacturers from the developing countries, supplying vaccines at affordable prices. Dr.Jadhav is associated with Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers' Network (DCVMN) since its inception in 2000 and was the President of DCVMN from 2003 till 2008. He is currently a member of GAVI Board, European Vaccine Initiative (EVI), FastVac, besides a member of the Program & Policy Committee of GAVI. He is also associated with various advisory committees/Task Force of Sabin Vaccine Institute, WHO IVR and Decades of Vaccines - Protection & Synergies Group etc. Dr.Jadhav is also affiliated with several Indian universities, AICTE, UGC, State Directorate of Technical Education etc. He has participated in several collaborative studies for making revisions in international reference standards for WHO, NIBSC, NVI etc. and has published more than 60 technical papers in the national & international journals.

Job Titles:

• Chairman ( Kenya )

Dr James Wambura NYIKAL is currently a member of the Kenyan Parliament; he is a member of the parliament health commission and of its finance commission. Dr.Nyikal is a Pediatrician /neonatologist and a Medical Scholar by profession, having graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Nairobi in 1977 and a Masters degree in Pediatrics and child health in 1984, and fellowship in New Born Medicine at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne Australia in 1992. During his medical career he served as the Director of Medical Services in the Ministry of Health from 2003 until the restructuring of the Ministry of Health in April 2008. He worked in various government hospitals and private hospitals (including Kenyatta National Hospital, Aga Khan, Nairobi, and M.P Shah among others) prior to his appointment to public service. His scientific research work includes community based control of Leprosy in Yimbo, Siaya district,Kenya,1976,(co-authored); Oral Diazepam in management of Tetanus; Annual Medical Scientific Conference ,Eldoret,Kenya,1984; Social background of Children admitted at the Kenyatta National Hospital with Kwasiokor; M.Med thesis,1984 , among others. As Director of Medical services, he initiated the preparation and implementation of the Second National Health Sector Strategic Plan which resulted in a drastic improvement of Malaria control, HIV/AIDS control and under five immunization. He also established a process for controlled movement of nurses from Kenya to other countries. From 1997 to 2003 Dr. Nyikal was the Chairman of Medical Association (KMA), and in this position he initiated many innovative programmes, including a Savings Cooperative Society for Doctors, a professional indemnity scheme, a resource centre and the first Antiviral Treatment Training Programme in the country. He mobilized the Medical Association of the East African Countries culminating into the first East African Federation of medical Associations. Ministers of Health of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania were thus able to hold the First East African Health Ministers meeting in Kenya in 2002, which has resulted into the ongoing efforts to have a single medical curriculum for the region. He was a member of the executive board of the World Health Organization from 2004 to 2008 where he (together with others) spearheaded a WHO resolution demanding a pro-public health application of intellectual property rights to foster needs-driven medical innovation.

Job Titles:

• Director

Martine, a medical doctor, specialized in international public health, worked from 1994 to 2004 for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). She was from November 2004 to August 2006 the Executive Secretary of the 4th External Review of the Special Programme on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and joined the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) in 2004 as senior health adviser, hence gradually focusing on policy advice on research for health. First as a member of the Swiss delegation to WHO and then as the representative of COHRED she was involved in the discussion of the WHO Health Research Strategy and of the Global Strategy on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (GSPA). From 2007 to spring 2010, for COHRED, she led the project 'Strengthening Pharmaceutical Innovation in Africa' in collaboration with New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD).

Job Titles:

• Co - Director
• Adviser on Public Health & Development

Nicoletta is adviser on public health & development and has a long and established policy and advocacy background. After coordinating for seven years the Italian Campaign to Ban Landmines, she worked as Executive Director of MSF-Italy from 1999 to 2003, with a very active role in the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines since its inception. In 2005 she joined the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) as policy and advocacy adviser, until 2008. In this position, she became very involved as an expert in the negotiation of the Intergovernmental Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG), which led to the Global Strategy on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property ( GSPA). As a health policy consultant to IQSensato, she particularly focused on the GSPA implementation, starting some preliminary support work in countries. In late 2009 and in spring 2010, she worked as consultant with WHO/PHI. She is the acting chair of the Italian Global Health Watch.