The Uniting to Combat NTDs Consultative Forum brings together voices from across our Partner Network, to aid decision making and ensure that the views of our community are carefully understood and considered. The Consultative Forum provides critical advice to the Board, Secretariat and any working groups that are set up, to help shape the overall strategic direction of the partnership. Key partnership constituencies are represented on the group, including endemic countries, non-governmental organizations, NTD donors, pharmaceutical companies, research organizations and NTD advocates.
The Consultative Forum members are:
- Aminu Magashi Garba Co-ordinator, Africa Health Budget Network
- Anjali Nayyar Executive Vice President, Global Health Strategies
- Antonieta Rojas de Arias Senior Researcher, Center for Scientific Research Development (CEDIC)
- Delna Ghandhi Retired Senior Health Adviser, DFID
- Diogo Martins Policy & Advocacy Lead, Wellcome Trust
- Fabian Gusovsky Vice President, Global Health Research, Eisai (Pharmaceutical Seat)
- Fatma Kabole Head of the NTD Unit, Ministry of Health, Zanzibar
- Gerald Chirinda Founder, Future Africa Forum and Youth Combating NTDs
- Girija Sankar, Head of NTDs, Inclusive Eye Health Initiative CBM
- Gregory S. Noland Director, River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, Schistosomiasis and Malaria Programs, The Carter Center
- Javier Sancho Mas Coordinator, Chagas Coalition
- Kebede Deribe Kassaye Director, NTDs Programme, CIFF
- Madelle Hatch Chief Development Officer Health Programs at The Carter Center (NGO seat)
- Mamadou Diallo Country Director, WaterAid, Mali
- Obiageli Nebe Deputy Director & National Schisto & STH Program Manager, Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria
- Rashad Abdul-Ghani Associate Professor, Sana’a University, Yemen
- Sammy Njenga Chief Research Scientist, Kenya Medical Research Institute (Research seat)
- Simon Bush Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sightsavers
- Suma Krishnasastry Professor and Head, Filariasis Research Unit, T D Medical College Hospital, Alappuzha, India
- Teshome Gebre Regional Director for Africa, International Trachoma Initiative
- Ulrich Madeja Head of Neglected Tropical Disease Programs, Bayer (Pharmaceutical seat)
- Wangeci Thuo Advocacy Specialist, Act to End NTDs | East, RTI International
- Wim H. van Brakel Medical Director, NLR
- Xiao-Nong Zhou Director, Professor, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, China CDC