Members of the Develop Country NGO Constituency Delegation
Name | Organization | Country of work |
Board Members | ||
Deliana Garcia | Migrants Clinicians Network | United States |
Alternate Board Members | ||
Katy Kydd Wright | Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) | Canada |
Delegation Members | ||
Joanne Carter | Results US | United States |
Alex Runswick | Results UK | United Kingdom |
Patrick Bertrand | Global Health Advocates | France |
Mona Drage | LHL International Tuberculosis Foundation (LHL International) | Norway |
Jennifer Peake | Results International Australia | Australia |
Laszlo Madaras | MCN (Migrant Clinicians network) | United States |
Mike Frick | TAG (Treatment Action Group) | United States |
Dr Ralf Otto-Knapp | DZK (German Central Committee against Tuberculosis) | Germany |
Brit Hacker | DZK (German Central Committee against Tuberculosis) | Germany |
Silvia Kelbert | JHPIEGO | United States |
Jennifer Kurylowicz | YWAM Medical & Training Ship - Campus | Australia/Papua New Guinea |
Dr Salman Khan | International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA) | Denmark |
TB Alliance and Stop TB Canada | Canada |
-To reach the Constituency Focal Point (CFP) of this delegation, please contact: Selamawit Bekele - selmawitadugnab@unops.org
-Deliana Garcia has worked for 30 years to meet the health care needs of migrant workers and other underserved mobile populations. With expertise in reproductive health, access to primary care, chronic care management and infectious disease control and prevention, Del is responsible for the development of MCN’s Health Network, a global system of bridge case management to provide continuity of care and health records transfer across international border for migrants. She serves as a liaison between the governmental and nongovernmental health organizations of the United States and other countries. | |
-Katy Kydd Wright is a Senior Policy Advisor and coordinates the Global Fund Advocates Network. Katy, who is based in Ottawa, Canada, spent close to a decade working for Canadian Parliamentarians in various roles at the House of Commons. Her work to introduce the first Canadian Access to Medicines regime, adopted in 2004, brought her into the field of community and civil society advocacy in global health. Katy was the Director of Campaigns at RESULTS Canada, where she led global health and poverty-related campaigns. In 2012, shortly after the formal launch of the Global Fund Advocates Network, Katy joined International Civil Society Support to coordinate GFAN and bring together voices to support a fully funded and effective Global Fund. GFAN hosted the Community and Civil Society Platform for the TB High-Level Meeting in 2018, and Katy has been a participant of the Developed Country NGO delegation to the Global Fund board since 2015. Katy joined the Developed Country NGO Delegation to the Stop TB Partnership Board in October 2019.
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-Joanne Carter is the Executive Director of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund since 2008. She works with key U.S. administration and congressional allies, partner organizations, and technical agencies to orchestrate U.S.A. and international campaigns to tackle major diseases of poverty, increase access to education, expand economic opportunity for the poorest, and reform World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies. Under her leadership, RESULTS/REF has grown to include chapters now found in every state in the US. In that time, RESULTS was instrumental in the creation and expansion of the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund, expansion of global TB funding, and provisions that require U.S. representatives to the World Bank and IMF to oppose user fees for primary health and education. As founding Project Lead for ACTION, Joanne has helped build this global health advocacy partnership across ten countries on five continents and guide its efforts to help mobilize billions of dollars of financial resources to end diseases of poverty and ensure equitable access to health. | |
-Alexandra Runswick is Head of Policy Advocacy and leads the team responsible for the evidence base for Results UK’s advocacy on global health, including tuberculosis. She has over 20 years experience of advocacy at a local, national and international level. Alex has particular experience of human rights based approaches and community engagement in policy making. | |
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-Jennifer Peake is Results' Global Health Manager, bringing over 15 years of experience in health, policy, and leadership across government, corporate, and not-for-profit sectors. Her deep fascination with infectious diseases and their impact on global communities has been a driving force throughout her career, shaping her approach to public health challenges. Jennifer excels at creating collaborative, high-performing environments, maintaining key stakeholder relationships, and implementing data-driven strategies. Her talent lies in translating complex scientific research into compelling advocacy messages, fostering strong partnerships between academic researchers and policymakers. She is particularly skilled at empowering communities to understand and advocate for evidence-based health interventions that can save lives. Her academic credentials include a Master of International Public Health (MIPH) from University of New South Wales, where she focused on infectious disease epidemiology, a Graduate Certificate in Nutrition from Deakin University, and a Bachelor of Health Sciences from Sydney University. Jennifer has also completed additional studies in Clinical Governance and Health Informatics, strengthening her ability to tackle complex health challenges at both local and global levels. | |
-Mike Frick is one of the co-directors of TAG’s tuberculosis program. He joined TAG in 2013 as a TB project officer. Mike leads the following areas of TAG’s TB portfolio: 1) advocacy to support universal access to TB prevention, including research to develop new TB vaccines and preventive therapies; 2) research to track global funding for TB research and development (published in TAG’s signature annual report Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends); and 3) work to define and apply the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress to advance TB research and access. Mike holds a BA in international studies from Kenyon College and an MSc in global health and population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2009, he was a Fulbright Fellow at Kunming Medical College in Yunnan, China. Born in Oklahoma, he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and is an enthusiastic cook and fire escape gardener. | |
-Dr. Silvia Kelbert is a Principal Technical Advisor for the HIV and Infectious Diseases Unit at Jhpiego, based in Baltimore, United States. Dr. Kelbert provides strategic leadership and technical guidance to Jhpiego’s global HIV care, treatment, and Tuberculosis (TB) programs. As TB Lead, she partners with leaders and experts across Africa and Asia to implement critical priorities to close the gap toward ending the global TB epidemic, integrating lessons learned to enhance program impact and strengthen service delivery at regional, national, and community levels in alignment with country priorities. She has over 20 years of extensive experience delivering technical leadership, strategic direction, and program oversight across multi-million-dollar global public health initiatives. An inclusive and people-centered leader with deep expertise in supporting national HIV and TB programs across nearly 20 countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Recognized for success in sustaining locally led approaches to enhance health program integration while advancing thought leadership on technical excellence and emerging ideas. | |
Dr. Robyn Christine Waite is currently working as an independent consultant and squarely focusing her efforts on applying community building, project management, research, and advocacy skills to the fight to end TB. Robyn currently works with the TB Alliance to project lead and manage the Fast Track the Cure initiative. She is also an active steering committee member with Stop TB Canada. In 2023, she worked with GFAN to co-secretariat the #2023TBHLM Affected Communities and Coordination Hub, and previously, while with Results Canada she played a leading role in building and coordinating a high-impact coalition of 14 Canadian based CSOs engaged in advocacy in support of the Global Fund's 7th Replenishment. Dr. Waite holds a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London; a MSc in Global Health from McMaster University, a Graduate Diploma from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health; and a BSc in Health Promotion from Dalhousie University. |