Akram Ali Eltom

Dr. Akram Ali Eltoum Mohamed earned an MBBS (1985; Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan), an MPH (1993; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA) and a Fellowship by Distinction (2015; Faculty of Public Health, UK Royal College of Physicians) with post-graduate training in Advanced Epidemiological Analysis, Leadership, Global Health Diplomacy, Project Development, Child and Adolescent Health, Rural Health Services Management, HIV and Advocacy. He previously represented EMRO in WHO’s GVAC and in Egypt’s National Hepatitis TAG while, as Sudan’s former Federal Minister of Health, he was elected Africa CDC Board Member, WHO WHA Vice-Chair and Executive Board Member. Since August 2022, he is an appointed Expert Member in two global WHO IHR Review Committees for COVID-19 and Mpox as well as in Gavi’s Independent Review Committee. Dr Akram brings over 35 years of experience in global health leadership, policy influence, operational research, strategic analysis, partnerships as well as program development and management; focused on health sector resilience, epidemic/pandemic risk management, humanitarian response, migration health, health systems strengthening, communicable & non-communicable disease control (including nutrition), primary health care (PHC) as well as SRMNCAH. He worked in various global, regional and country-level senior management and advisory roles across industrialized, middle-income, lower-income and fragile and states in WHO’s EMRO, EURO, AFRO, SEARO and WPRO regions. He has published extensively on refugee and migrant health, HIV, SRMNCAH, epidemic and pandemic control and health system reforms. He developed AU’s African Health Strategy 2016-2030 and was awarded as Outstanding Manager in WHO AFRO in 2009.  He is trilingual (fully fluent Arabic and English; working French proficiency) and is currently based in Cairo, Egypt.