Health Programs

International Task Force for Disease Eradication - Current Members

Olusoji Adeyi, M.D., M.P.H, Dr.PH (2005-Present)
Coordinator
Global Partnerships for Communicable Diseases
The World Bank
Washington, D.C., USA
Former Senior Advisor United Nations AIDS Secretariat; former Associate Technical Director AIDS Prevention Initiative (Nigeria); holds a Master of Public Health (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine); Medical Degree (University of Ife/Nigeria); Adjunct Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


Sir George Alleyne, M.D., F.R.C.P. (2001 - Present)
Director Emeritus
Pan-American Health Organization
Washington, D.C., USA
Former director Pan-American Health Organization; former chairman of the Department of Medicine, University of the West Indies; former member/chairman of the PAHO/WHO Advisory Committee for Medical Research; christened Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services to medicine (1990).


Julie Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H (2002 - Present)
Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Ga., USA
Former director of the Prevention Epicenter at the University of California, San Francisco; former director of the Healthcare Quality Promotion Division, CDC; led the national response to bioterrorism after the Sept. 11 events as acting director of the CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases; associate clinical professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Emory University; CDC director since July 2002.


David L. Heymann, M.D. (2001 - Present)
Executive Director
Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
Served as a medical officer in India's Smallpox Eradication Programme; served as an Ebola investigator (former Zaire); CDC medical epidemiologist (Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, former Zaire, Malawi); former WHO chief of research activities in the Global Programme on AIDS.


Donald R. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H. (Chair, 2001 - Present)
Task Force Chair
Vice President for Health Programs
The Carter Center
Atlanta, Ga., USA
Participated in the Smallpox Eradication Program (Sierra Leone, India, Ethiopia); co-chaired the 1997 Dahlem Conference (Berlin); project director for the first International Task Force for Disease Eradication; former CDC deputy director.


Adetokunbo Lucas, M.D. (2001 - Present)
Professor of International Health
Ibadan, Nigeria
Former chairman of the Department of Community Medicine/University of Ibadan (Nigeria); served as chair of the Carnegie Corporation's Grant Programme for Strengthening Human Resources in Developing Countries; former director of WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases; member of the first International Task Force for Disease Eradication.


David Molyneux, Ph.D., M.A. (2001 - Present)
Director
Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Former director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom); member of the WHO Expert Panel on Parasitic Diseases; former president of the British Society of Parasitology; member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the World Bank/UNDP/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases; member of the International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication.


Mark L. Rosenberg, M.D., M.P.H. (2001 - Present)
Executive Director
Task Force for Child Survival and Development
Decatur, Ga., USA
Completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital; served in enteric diseases, HIV/AIDS, and injury control with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; founding director of CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.


Harrison Spencer, M.D., M.P.H., D.T.M.&H. (2001 - Present)
President and CEO
Association of Schools of Public Health
1105 Fifteenth Street NW
Washington, D.C., USA
Directed the CDC research station in Nairobi, Kenya; served as senior medical officer of the WHO Malaria Action Program; former chief of CDC Parasitic Diseases Branch; former dean of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine; former dean of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.


Pascal Villeneuve, M.D., M.Sc. (2003 - Present)
Chief of Health
UNICEF
New York, N.Y., USA
Started as an EPI officer in Brazzaville/Congo (UNICEF), 1987; worked in New York headquarters as desk officer for the Great Lakes region in Africa, 1993-1997; was UNICEF representative in Cameroon, 1998-2000, and in Mali, 2000-2003; received M.D. from Rennes Medical School/France, 1982; M.Sc. in human nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1983-1984.


Dyann Wirth, Ph.D., M.A. (2001 - Present)
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Director of Harvard Malaria Initiative
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Mass., USA
Former chair of the WHO/UNDP/World Bank Tropical Disease Research Steering Committee on Drugs for Malaria; recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Award in Molecular Parasitology; immediate past president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; present chair of Harvard's Division of Biological Sciences.


Yoichi Yamagata, Ph.D., M.Sc. (2001 - Present)
Senior Adviser
Institute of International Cooperation
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Tokyo, Japan
Worked as a field entomology researcher for the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme (Burkina Faso); managed the JICA Malaria Control Project (Tanzania); serves as an expert in medical zoology for the Onchocerciasis Research and Control Project (Guatemala); member of the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme Expert Advisory Committee.

Former Members:

Yves Bergevin (2001 - 2004)
Chief of Health - Programme Division
UNICEF
New York, N.Y., USA


Dr. Mariam Claeson (2002 - 2004)
Lead Public Health Specialist
Health, Nutrition and Population
The World Bank
Washington, D.C., USA


Jeff Koplan, M.D., M.P.H. (2001 - 2002)
Former Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Ga., USA


James Lovelace (2001 - 2002)
Former Director
Health, Nutrition and Population
Human Development Network
The World Bank
Washington, D.C., USA