Past Leadership

2020-2023 Steering Committee

The inaugural AlignMNH Steering Committee consisted of 20 global MNH leaders who influenced the direction of the initiative and provided valuable strategic management and oversight to the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC) 2023.

Co-Chairs

Director, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Aging

World Health Organization

Switzerland

Newborn Health Program Lead

WHO HQ

Switzerland

Members

Senior Director and Senior Scientist, Maternal and Child Health Division

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Bangladesh

Advisory Board Member

Afghan Midwives Association

Afghanistan

In Memoriam

Cameroon

Assistant Professor

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

United Kingdom

Global Solutions Lead, Service Delivery

World Bank

United States

Maternal and Child Health Director

Ministry of Health

Sudan

Professor of Population and Family Health

Columbia University

United States

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bayero University

Founding Director of African Centre of Excellence in Population Health and Policy

Nigeria

Executive Director, Center for Catalyzing Change

National Coordinator, White Ribbon Alliance

India

Researcher, School of Public Health

University of the Western Cape

South Africa

Director General

Ghana Health Service

Ghana

Chief Director of Women’s, Maternal and Reproductive Health

National Department of Health

South Africa

UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, SRHR Expert and Distinguished Lecturer

O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

South Africa

Executive Director

White Ribbon Alliance

Kenya

Medical Doctor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali (CHUK)

Rwanda

Senior Consultant Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Senior MNCH Advisor

Nidan Hospital

Nepal

Director General for INSP, Director General of Center for Vaccine Development Mali

Mali Ministry of Health and Social Development

Mali

Minister of Health

Ministry of Health

Ethiopia