The foundation’s leaders come from a broad range of backgrounds and have a diversity of expertise and experience that spans science and technology, medicine, public policy, education, communications, law, and business. Our leaders are guided by the foundation’s mission to create a world in which every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life.
We are governed by a board, which in 2022 was expanded to include the CEO and five independent experts. The members of the board contribute diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and expertise to help guide and strengthen the foundation's governance, strategic direction, operations, financial planning, and overall performance. Click here to meet our board.
Trevor Mundel leads the foundation’s efforts to develop high-impact interventions against the leading causes of death and disability in developing countries.
Dr. Toni Hoover leads a team that supports the programs and functions with business strategy and operations, portfolio and project management, and engagement with industry and product development partners.
Chris Karp leads the team whose mission is to catalyze innovation for the discovery and translation of transformative solutions to global health and development inequity.
Director, Vaccine Development and Neglected Tropical Diseases
Katey Einterz Owen, Ph. D. leads efforts in controlling, eliminating, and eradicating the diseases of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases, which collectively put at risk more than one billion people in the world.
Dr. Sharon Achilles leads the foundation’s efforts in drug discovery and innovative approaches to improving reproductive and sexual health, with a focus on women in low-resource settings.
Rob Baker leads a team that works to streamline existing or implement new technologies to improve the experience of external partners who collaborate on research projects with the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) or independently use IDM’s modeling tools.
Fran Berlioz-Seux leads a team that focuses on accelerating the translation of scientific discoveries to practical solutions that address global health inequity across the foundation’s work.
Zameer Brey leads the strategic coordination of the foundation’s approach to the equitable and safe use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance equity and global health and development outcomes.
Deputy Director, Eradication and Elimination, Artificial Intelligence, and Frontiers in Modeling
Guillaume Chabot-Couture leads disease elimination and eradication efforts at the Institute for Disease Modeling, focusing on polio eradication, malaria eradication, vaccine preventable disease control, neglected tropical diseases control, and disease eradication genomics.
Deputy Director, Vaccine Development & Surveillance – Surveillance and Epidemiology
Scott Dowell, a pediatric infectious disease specialist by training, focuses on tracking the causes of global childhood mortality. and oversees the foundations work in epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response.
Learn about where we work around the globe and the programs we've created to address urgent issues in global health, global development, and education.
