Incentives for Global Health is a US-based non-profit organization with the principal mandate of advancing the Health Impact Fund proposal. We welcome new team volunteers to collaborate with us in this important work.
If you are interested in getting involved or in supporting Incentives for Global Health, please write us at info@healthimpactfund.org or consider making a donation.
- 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.
- Jami Taylor
Board member
Jami Taylor is a recognized expert in innovative financing for pharmaceutical research, development, access and delivery. Most recently, as an investor relations lead at Reata Pharmaceuticals, she helped to secure a $350 million investment from Blackstone Life Sciences to advance promising compounds within Reata's pipeline. Previously, Jami was a managing director at Stanton Park Capital, a boutique investment bank providing merger and acquisition, capital raising, and consulting services to private companies in the life sciences field.
Earlier, Jami spent more than seven years in global leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson, working across Janssen R&D, Janssen Global Commercial Strategy, and key committees and functions at the Corporate level. There, she was a co-founder of the Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health organization.
Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Jami spent more than 10 years at the firm she founded as an undergraduate, providing alliance development and communications services to an elite roster of clients, including major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Jami's experience beyond industry includes work with the White House Office of Public Liaison, members of the U.S. Congress, and the U.S. Departments of Treasury, Commerce, and Health & Human Services to advance legislative and policy priorities on a nationwide scale. In 2014, Jami was named a Cross-Sector Leadership Fellow at the Presidio Institute, a program created by the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation to advance the work of leaders addressing society's most complex challenges.
Jami is an alumna of Northwestern University, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia. She is a frequent presenter at major international forums and a lecturer at leading universities, including the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
- Sachin Chaturvedi
Board member
Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi is currently Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based Think-Tank. He works on issues related to development economics, involving development finance, SDGs and South-South Cooperation, apart from trade, investment and innovation linkages with special focus on WTO. He is also Member, Board of Governors, Reserve Bank of India.
Professor Sachin Chaturvedi has been part of several important initiatives of the Government of India and takes keen interest in transforming economic policymaking towards integrated and evidence based approaches. He is one of the foremost commentators on India's external sector economic engagements and partnerships. He is considered as most dynamic and affable by his peers and has mentored several bright scholars and researchers in the profession.
He has authored/edited more than 20 books, apart from contributing several chapters in the edited volumes and also publishing several research articles in prestigious journals. He is on the Editorial Board of several journals including the South Asian Economic Journal, IDS Bulletin, Sussex, UK among others. His book “The Logic of Sharing - Indian Approach to South-South Cooperation” has been acclaimed internationally as one of the best volumes on international development cooperation.
Professor Sachin Chaturvedi was also the ‘Global Justice Fellow, at the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at Yale University (2009-2010) and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and was a Developing Country Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (1996), Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla (2003), and Visiting Scholar at the German Development Institute (2007).
Professor Chaturvedi has taken keen interest in building of institutions and in launching of networks. He is credited with the launch of Network of Southern Think Tanks (NeST) and Forum for Indian Development Cooperation (FIDC) . He has also created “Delhi Process”, a major forum for exchange of ideas on South-South Cooperation.
- Thomas Pogge
Board Member and Co-founder of IGH
Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science as well as co-founder of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers and students on global poverty. More information at campuspress.yale.edu/thomaspogge
- Tim Gilbert
Board member
Tim Gilbert is the founder and managing partner of Gilberts LLP. He has acted as lead counsel on some of Canada's largest disputes in the pharmaceutical and technology industries and acts as a trusted advisor to major companies and investment funds across Canada.
Tim is known for creative approaches to complex legal problems. While he is a litigator by training, he constantly seeks to create value by monetising IP assets through licensing, joint ventures or - where necessary - litigation. When in litigation, Tim is constantly looking for innovative ways to fund matters, whether that's by having skin in the game or by coming up with unique funding models.
The respect Tim has earned extends to regulatory work as well, where Tim has successfully advocated for his clients, interests before Canadian and U.S. legislators, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Health Canada, the Competition Bureau, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The respect also extends across the border: while a Canadian at heart, Tim has acted and continues to act on major cross border litigation.
With a keen eye for entrepreneurship, persuasion, leadership and design, Tim is the former Chair of the Design Exchange, Canada's national design museum, and teaches at OCAD.
When Tim is not leading the firm, or litigating the most sophisticated and high-stakes intellectual property issues in the country, Tim squeezes in a little time to train for marathons and distance running events and triathlons.
- 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.
- Noam Chomsky
former Institute Professor, Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT.
- John J. DeGioia
President of Georgetown University.
- Ruth Faden
Professor of Biomedical Ethics and founder of the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University.
- Robert C. Gallo
Director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus.
- Professor David Haslam
former Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
- Paul Martin
twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada.
- Christopher Murray
Institute Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
- Gustav Nossal
Research Biologist; Australian of the Year in 2000.
- Baroness Onora O'Neill
Member of the UK House of Lords; former President of the British Academy.
- James Orbinski
Professor and inaugural Director of the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research at York University; former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières; co-founder of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi); co-founder of Dignitas International.
- Sir Michael Rawlins
former Chair of the UK National Institute of Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE).
- Jan Rosier
Professor of Biotech Business at University College Dublin; Former Vice President of Janssen Drug Development.
- Karin Roth
former member of the German Parliament and former speaker of the SPD-faction in the Subcommittee on Health in Developing Countries.
- Amartya Sen
Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University; Nobel Prize Winner in Economics.
- Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University.
- Judith Whitworth
former Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU; former Chair of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Health Research.
- Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
former German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development.
- Richard Wilder
General Counsel and Director of Business Development at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
We have open positions for volunteers at this time. While we are able to consider volunteers of many different skills, we would particularly value individuals who:
Key characteristics are enthusiasm for improving global health and a willingness to work as part of a team. We welcome collaborators from all countries, ethnicities, etc.
