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Group members

Members of the GAMA Advisory Group have been selected through an open call. The group consists of members from countries across all WHO regions. Representatives of 7 UN agencies have been nominated by their respective organizations. To access the bios of the GAMA Advisory Group members, the UN representatives, or the WHO Secretariat, click on the links next to the photos below.

Experts

Adesola Olumide

Institute of Child Health, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Aisha Shalash

Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Occupied Palestinian Territory

Alina Cosma

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Anna Kågesten

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Aoife Doyle

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Daniel Tobón Garcia

Welbin, Bogotá, Colombia

Elizabeth Saewyc

School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Guy Harling

Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan Klein

Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University; Palo Alto; United States of America

Joseph Ward

Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Julliet Omwoha

Division of Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya

Mariko Hosozawa

National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Marina Melkumova

Arabkir Medical Centre- Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Yerevan, Armenia

Mathurin Dodo

University Institute of Abidjan, Abidjan Christian Alliance University, Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire

Peter Azzopardi

Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research institute, Melbourne, Australia

Quamrun Nahar

Formerly, Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Scott Hadland

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States of America

Shruti Shukla

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany and India

Tamar Chitashvili

Technical Director, JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc., Boston, United States of America and Georgia

Tang Kun

Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Young experts

Esias Bedingar

Prime Minister's Office, N'Djamena, Republic of Chad

Luo Li

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Nojus Saad

Youth For Women Foundation, Erbil, Iraq and Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Precious Azubuike

Health Development Initiative, Kigali, Rwanda

Ronald Olum

Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda

Surabhi Dogra

International Association for Adolescent Health, Emerging Professionals Network, New Delhi, India

UN representatives

Danielle Engel

Technical Division, UNFPA, New York, United States of America

Ilaria Schibba

Specialist, UN World Food Program

Nazneen Damji

Policy Advisor for Gender Equality, HIV and Health, UN Women

Parviz Abduvahobov

Monitoring and Evaluation Lead, Education Sector, UNESCO, France

Sameera Al Tuwaijri

Global Lead, Population and Development, World Bank Group

Tashrik Ahmed

Maternal, Neonatal, Child, Adolescent Health Data Lead, UNICEF, New York, United States of America

Victoria Bendaud

Technical Officer, UNAIDS

WHO secretariat

Titus Divala

Consultant, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department, WHO

Regina Guthold

Scientist, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department, WHO

Sarah Keogh

Consultant, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing Department, WHO