GUYANA GLOBAL FUND COUNTRY COORDINATING MECHANISM - Key Persons

Adel Lilly

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Manager, Gender Affairs Bureau Ministry of Human Services and Social Security - Labour / Governance Committee
Manager, Gender Affairs Bureau Ministry of Human Services and Social Security - Labour / Member

Alana Shury

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Project Management Specialist - USAID US Embassy / Member

Alexi LaRose

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Management Development Officer - Ministry of Amerindian Affairs / Governance Committee
Management Development Officer - Ministry of Amerindian Affairs / Member

Andrea Benjamin

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Senior Project Manager Food for the Poor Inc. Member

Catherine Martin

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Member of the Governance Committee

Cherryl Williams

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President - National Mining Syndicate Inc. Member

Colin Blaize

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Prevention Officer Guyana Trans United / Member
Prevention Officer Guyana Trans United / Oversight Committee

Dr Frank Anthony graduated from the People's Friendship University, Russia. He has been practising medicine in Guyana since1993. In 2000, he graduated with a Masters of Public Health in Israel at the Braun School of Public Health (Hebrew University). On returning home, he became the Executive Director of the Health Sector Development Unit, which was responsible for the reorganising of the health sector in Guyana. During his time at the unit, Dr Anthony served as the Project Manager for the World Bank-funded program on HIV Prevention and Control, Inter-American Development Bank-funded Health Sector Program, Basic Nutrition Program, Health Sector Policy and Institutional Development Grant and also for the Global Fund Grant on HIV, TB and Malaria. In addition to being in clinical practice over the years, Dr Anthony has been teaching at the University of Guyana as an adjunct professor in Public Health. He has also consulted for several organisations in the area of public health. He served as an elected member of the Guyana Medical Council. Dr Anthony brings many years of parliamentary experience, having served the people of Guyana as the Minister of Culture Youth and Sports (2006-2015) and as the shadow minister of Health (2015-2019). Dr Anthony has functioned in various capacities including as a Member of the Constitution Reform Commission, Member of the University of Guyana Council, Vice-Chair of the Ethnic Relations Commission, Chairman of Georgetown Prisons Visiting Committee, Member of the Guyana Medical Council and among others. Dr Anthony is married with two children.