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Governing bodies

Board of Trustees

Executive Committee

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee (SC) plays an important role as both leader and decision-maker, and should ensure that it is well-informed in its decisions through effective planning, monitoring and review of the organization and its activities. The SC is composed by the General Director (SC Chair), Scientific Director (SC vice-Chair), General Manager, Deputy Manager, Policy and Global Development Director, Training and Education Director, Innovation Director, Directors of Initiatives and Directors of Programs (up to 6) and three ad hoc members.

Advisory bodies

Academic Commitee

  • Antoni Castells

    Medical Director of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

  • Amelia Díaz

    Vice-rector for Teaching and Academic Planning, University of Barcelona

  • Olga Pané

    Manager of the Barcelona MAR Health Park Consortium

  • Cristina Pujades

    Vice-rector in charge of directing projects in the field of teaching staff, Pompeu Fabra University

External Advisory Committee (EAC)

  • David A. Savitz

    Co-chair Professor of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, USA. Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Alpert Medical School, Providence, USA

  • Marcel Tanner

    Co-chair Professor and Chair of Epidemiology and Medical Parasitology, University of Basel, Switzerland

  • Zeno Bisoffi

    Director of the Centre for Tropical Diseases Sacro Cuore, Don Calabria Hospital of Negrar, Verona, Italy. Professor of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Verona University

  • Robert A. Bonomo

    Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology; Microbiology Chief, Medical Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center; Vice Chair for Veteran Affairs, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, USA

  • Menno Bouma

    Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Co-opted member for the 2017 site visit

  • Chetan Chitnis

    Head of the Malaria Parasite Biology &, Vaccines Unit, Institut Pasteur, France

  • Simon Croft

    Professor of Parasitology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene &, Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK

  • Brenda Eskenazi

    Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health at UC Berkeley, USA; Jennifer and Brian Maxwell Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology; Chair of Community Health and Human Development at the School of Public Health

  • Montserrat Garcia-Closas

    Director and Acting Chief, Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Co-opted member for the 2017 site visit

  • Amanda Glassman

    Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington DC, USA

  • Mercedes Pascual

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator; Rosemary Grant Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Ecology &, Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, USA

  • Neil Pearce

    Head of Department and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London School of Hygiene &, Tropical Medicine (LSTMH), London, UK

  • Annette Peters

    Director of the Institute of Epidemiology II at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center of Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

  • David Richardson

    Associate Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, USA

International Global Health Partnership Board

The International Global Health Partnership Board helps ISGlobal´s Board to shape its mission and achieve its objectives. The Committee is composed of renowned experts in the fields in which ISGlobal works and representatives of the leading institutions.