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HELEN
EVANS will join the GAVI Alliance in June as its first Deputy Chief Executive
Officer.
The
Australian development expert served for the past four years as Deputy
Executive Director at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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GAVI ALLIANCE
APPOINTS HELEN EVANS AS NEW DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: 27/05/2009
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 27
May 2009 - Geneva - The
GAVI Alliance has appointed Australian development expert Helen Evans as its
first Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Ms.
Evans will join GAVI in June after serving for the past four years as Deputy
Executive Director at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
"I
am delighted we’re able to attract such a well-respected professional,”
said GAVI Alliance CEO Dr Julian Lob-Levyt. “Helen’s
extensive experience and strong management skills will strengthen our
operations and further the ties between GAVI and the Global Fund.”
In
this newly-created role, Ms. Evans will oversee the performance and management
of the Alliance secretariat as it strives to expand immunisation to developing
countries with the new introduction of support for pneumococcal and rotavirus
vaccines.
Ms.
Evans brings more than 30 years of management experience in health and social
policy as well as a proven track record in leadership. In the early 1990s, she
managed the National Communicable Diseases Programme and the international
health responsibilities at the health ministry in Australia.
She also
represented the Australian Government at international health forums including
the first UNAIDS board.
“Few
people are fortunate enough to be part of pioneering a new model of
development that combines innovation with a pragmatic focus on delivering
results that can be clearly shown to save millions of lives," said Ms.
Evans.
"Both GAVI and the
Global Fund are leading the way and I feel extremely privileged and humbled to
have been a part of the Global Fund and now to move to the GAVI Alliance,”
she said.
The
GAVI Alliance is a
Geneva-based public-private partnership aimed at improving health in the
world’s poorest countries. The Alliance brings together developing country and
donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the
vaccine industry in both industrialized and developing countries, research and
technical agencies, NGOs, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other
private philanthropists.
GAVI
support consists of providing life-saving vaccines and strengthening health
systems. Since 2000, 213 million children have been vaccinated and 3.4 million
premature deaths averted thanks to GAVI-funded programmes. GAVI has also been
recognised for developing innovative financing mechanisms like the International
Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) and the Advance Market Commitments.
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