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Executive Board

Jeffrey P. Koplan
President
Director, Emory University Global Health Institute

Jeffrey Koplan is vice president for Global Health at Emory University and director of the Emory Global Health Institute, an organization created to advance Emory University’s efforts to improve health around the world.

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Pekka Puska
IANPHI Vice President
Director General, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Pekka Puska was appointed director general of THL in 2008. From 1972 to 1997, he was the director and principal investigator of the North Karelia Project, a highly successful public health project targeting noncommunicable diseases – particularly cardiovascular disease – in Finland.

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Paulo Buss
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/FIOCRUZ
President

Dr. Buss is trained as a pediatrician. He is a researcher at the National School of Public Health and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He also serves as Brazil's representative in the Executive Board of the World Health Organization.

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Mohammed Hassar
Institute Pasteur du Maroc
Director

Professor Mohammed Hassar has been director of the Institute Pasteur du Maroc (IPM) since 2001 and is a board member of IANPHI.

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Tsehaynesh Messele
Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute
Director General

Pathom Sawanpanyalert
National Institute of Health
Director General

Dr. Sawanpanyalert received his medical degree from Mahidol University in Bangkok in 1986. In 1995, he received a doctorate in public health from the School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Barry Schoub
South Africa National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Executive Director

The newest member of IANPHI's Executive Board is Prof Barry Schoub, whose South Africa NICD hosted the 2009 Annual Meeting of IANPHi in November 2009

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Geir Stene-Larsen
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Director General

Director General Geir Stene-Larsen is trained as a medical doctor and has worked as a specialist in internal medicine in several major hospitals in Norway.

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Yu Wang
China CDC
Director-General

Dr. Yu Wang has been a molecular-virologist and immunologist since 1983 and accelerated the development and production of the pandemic H1N1 vaccine.

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"One of our greatest strengths is the dedication of our Executive Board and members. We share a belief in the importance of building broader and deeper public health capacity and infrastructure globally through strong and connected national public health institutes." –Jeff Koplan, IANPHI President
  Director, Emory Global Health
  Institute
  Past Director, U.S. CDC
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