The Health Impact Fund offers a unique model to achieve big gains in global health. We are working hard to bring it to reality but we need your help! Incentives for Global Health is a registered charity with 501(c)(3) status in the US — so we will be happy to send you a personal thank you and a tax receipt.
For the remainder of 2020, an anonymous donor has offered to match donations made through this website one for one, so you can effectively double your donation.
If you can, we urge you to donate monthly.
If pharmaceutical innovation has been important in your life, you know what a big difference it can make. The Health Impact Fund can help to bring pharmaceutical innovation at affordable prices to everyone.
- Aidan Hollis
President and Co-Founder of IGH
Aidan Hollis is Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary, and President of Incentives for Global Health.
Hollis studied at Cambridge University and the University of Toronto, where he obtained a PhD in economics. His research focuses on innovation and competition in pharmaceutical markets, and he has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and two books in a range of fields of economics. In 2003-4 he served as the T.D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Canadian Competition Bureau. He has provided expert reports and testimony in a variety of pharmaceutical-related cases in Federal, Appeals and Supreme Court cases in Canada, and has advised companies and governments. He served on the WHO Guideline Development Group on Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals and Expert Advisory Panel of the Global AMR R&D Hub. In recent years, he has made invited presentations at (among others) OECD, UNESCO, UN, World Bank, Harvard, Yale, Université Paris Descartes, and LSE.
- Peggy Tse
Director (Asia)
Peggy Tse is an Investment Specialist in the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) in Beijing. She is has special responsibility for commercial relationships for IGH, and for developing and managing internal systems. With a background in commercial finance at Goldman Sachs, she is well attuned to the needs of commercial partners.
- Maria Ginevra Cattaneo
Director (Europe)
Maria Ginevra is an attorney in Milano and works on civil and commercial law, particularly on intellectual property law. She completed her PhD in Law and Technologies at the University of Bologna with a dissertation on International Intellectual Property and International law (Human right and health right -Access to drugs as a global justice problem). She has been awarded research fellowships and has published several research papers. Among other activities, she currently assists the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, notably the Working Group on Research & Development matters. She is developing and managing resources and connections in Europe.
- Max Alexander Matthey
Director of Communications
Max Alexander Matthey manages communications at IGH. Max currently works in the Covid-19 project management team of the public health department in Wuppertal, Germany. An experienced paramedic, he also has a degree in economics from the University of Münster and is working towards a Ph.D. in economics.
- Felicitas Holzer
Coordinator, Government Relations
Felicitas Holzer is a researcher at the Program of Bioethics at FLACSO Argentina and participates in the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Network of Collaborating Centers for Bioethics. She has PhD from Sorbonne Université in Paris. Her dissertation focussed on fair benefit-sharing in health research. She is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish.
- Daniele Botti
Treasurer
Daniele Botti is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Political Science at Quinnipiac University, and a Fellow of the Global Justice Program at Yale University. He holds a Laurea, summa cum laude, in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Milan (Italy), and a PhD degree in History from the University of Eastern Piedmont (Vercelli, Italy). He has published extensively on the history of ideas in peer-reviewed journals.
- Yasmine Bark
Regional Coordinator, Middle East and North Africa
Registered Pharmacist with an MSc in Experimental Therapeutics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Public Health, currently working as a Healthcare Consultant and Pharmacy Advisor in London, United Kingdom.
- Vikita Mehta
Outreach Coordinator
Vikita Mehta coordinates outreach and social media at IGH. She is a Research and Fundraising Director for the charity Hemoglobal with the aim of reducing inequities in care for blood diseases in Asia, and is also pursuing various policy projects to promote disability justice and reduce period poverty in Canada and Kenya.
- Seung Chan (Kevin) Lee
Assistant Country Coordinator for Republic of Korea
- Zeke Ngcobo
Regional Coordinator, Sub-Saharan Africa
Zeke is a South African writer and entrepreneur with a passion for public health. She is leading outreach in Sub-Saharan Africa for Incentives for Global Health. She earned a Masters in Public Health from Sahmyook University in Seoul, South Korea.
- Abdullah Kaya
Acting Country Coordinator, Turkey
Abdullah studied political science and public administration at Marmara University and Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and has a special interest in public health and global inequalities. He is a former athlete who hopes to become a scholar.
- Thalia Arawi
Bioethics Consultant
Dr. Thalia Arawi is Founding Director of the Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program (SHBPP) at the American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center. The SHBPP the first and only Regional Bioethics and Professionalism Program in the Arab Region and was recently announced as the first WHO Collaborating Center for Ethics in the Arab Region. Dr. Arawi is the first Arab to specialize in Bioethics. She is also the Clinical Bioethicist, Clinical Ethics Consultant and Certified Healthcare Mediator. Dr. Arawi is the first Arab member to be appointed on the board of the International Association of Bioethics. Dr. Arawi is founding member and Advisory Board member of the Bioethics Network on Women's Issues in the Arab Region and has been elected as the First Chair of the Network. She has also been elected as senior fellow at the ge2p2 global foundation for the advancement of ethical and scientific rigour in research and evidence generation for governance, policy and practice in human rights action, humanitarian response, health, education, heritage stewardship, and sustainable development - serving governments, international agencies, civil society organizations (csos), commercial entities, consortia and alliances then promoted to Senior Fellow. She is also senior fellow at the ge2p2 Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Ethics. Dr. Arawi is also a member of the WHO COVID-19 Ethics Working Group and was appointed as Liaison Officer and Bioethics Focal Point to the Prime Minister. Dr. Arawi is also a member of the World Emergency COVID Pandemic Ethics Committee.
- Vita Mithi
Partnerships Officer
Founder of Armref Data for Action in Public Health Research Consultancy in Malawi, and a communication lead for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Genetics and Omics Network and research scholar in the Leaders of Africa Institute 2022 research methods program. He is a Medical Toxicology in Industry fellow at the American College of Medical Toxicology, and Africa Oxford Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scheme2022 fellow and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health from the University of Livingstonia, in Malawi.
- Victor Serre
Africa Activation and Outreach Coordinator
Victor Serre has a wealth of experience collaborating across the globe with diverse partners on a multiplicity of microsocial and macrosocial issues. Cosmopolitan from an early age, Victor was trained in the life sciences, social sciences and humanities in England, the United States, Germany and France.
- Boris Yakubchik
Webmaster
Boris Yakubchik is a web developer in charge of upkeeping the current website. He is proud to be a part of the Effective Altruism movement.
