The Team Behind the Summit
Scientific Advisory Committee
A multi-sectoral group of research and evidence-to-policy experts with representatives from all WHO regions provided thematic advice and strategic support to the organization of the WHO Global E2P Summit.
John Lavis
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health Systems; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy; Co-Lead, COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END), McMaster University, Canada
Susann Roth
Advisor and Chief of Knowledge Advisory Services Center, Asian Development Bank
Kerry Albright
Deputy Director and Chief, Research Facilitation & Knowledge Management, Office of Research-Innocenti (UNICEF-Innocenti), Italy
Euphrasia Ebai-Atuh Ndi
Team lead, Cameroon Consumer Service Organisation, Cameroon
Fadi El-Jardali
Professor of Health Systems and Policy, Director of the Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center; Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Claire Glenton
Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Editor at the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
Laurenz Langer
Senior Researcher, Africa Centre for Evidence, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Simon Lewin
Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Health Systems Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council
Daniel Maceira
Professor the Economic Department, National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Independent Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research; Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society; and Director of Health Policy at the Foundation for the Argentinean Development
Yodi Mahendradhata
Vice Dean for Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Arash Rashidian
Director of Science, Information, and Dissemination, WHO EMRO
Emma Rhule
Policy Translation Lead, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
Birte Snilstveit
Director of Synthesis and Reviews and Head of London office, 3ie
Ulysses Panisset
Professor of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lubna Al-Ansary
Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Executive Committee
WHO HQ
Tanja Kuchenmüller
Unit Head, Evidence to Policy and Impact, Research for Health Department, Science Division, WHO
Samuel Sieber
Consultant, Evidence to Policy and Impact, Research for Health Department, Science Division, WHO
Sharad Agarwal
Consultant, Evidence to Policy and Impact, Research for Health Department, Science Division, WHO
Regional Offices
Joseph Okeibunor
Research Development and Innovation programme in the Assistant Regional Director’s cluster at the WHO Regional Office for Africa
Mehrnaz Kheirandish
Regional Advisor for Evidence and Data to Policy at the Division for Science, Information, and Dissemination in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization
Marge Reinap
Lead, Evidence to Policy Development, Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Evelina Chapman
Consultant, AMRO PAHO Health Emergencies Department; Researcher, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation- Fiocruz Brasília, Brazil; Researcher, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES), Argentina
Jorge Barreto
Consultant AMRO PAHO,
Fio Cruz Foundation, Brazil
Ludovic Reveiz
Regional Advisor on Health Research Management, Department for Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, AMRO PAHO
Verônica Abdala
Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
Siswanto Siswanto
Regional Adviser, Science Research and Innovation, at WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
EVIPNet Country Members
Lucy Kuhn-Barrientos
Coordinator for the Evidence-Informed Health Policies Unit in the Ministry of Health of Chile and Team Lead in the Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems (PEERSS)
Rocío Bravo Jeria
Researcher at the Evidence-Informed Health Policies Unit in the Ministry of Health of Chile
Marcela Tirdea
Head of Department Policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Moldova
Polonca Truden-Dobrin
Senior Specialist in Epidemiology and Public Health, National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
Marina Melo Arruda Marinho
Analyst of Social Policies, Ministry of Health, Brazil
Support Staff
Juliana Miranda Cerqueira
Specialist in New Communication Technologies, Content Producer, Creative and journalistic writing, Copywriter, member of the editorial team of Cadernos de Ética em Pesquisa, Ministry of Health, Brazil
Augusto Alves Brasil
Information Technology Manager and Content Producer at the National Research Ethics Commission - CONEP/DECIT/MS, Ministry of Health, Brazil
Dênio Cardoso de Matos
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, Brazil
WHO Headquarters
Tanja Kuchenmüller
Unit Head, Evidence to Policy and Impact, Research for Health Department, Science Division, WHO
Matthias Helble
Scientist, Evidence to Policy and Impact, Research for Health Department, Science Division, WHO
Sharad Agarwal
Consultant, Evidence to Policy and Impact, Research for Health Department, Science Division, WHO
Samuel Sieber
Consultant, Evidence to Policy and Impact, Research for Health Department, Science Division, WHO