Sharonann Lynch

Board Member

Sharonann Lynch has worked for 25 years in the global health field. She is currently Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics (GHPP) at Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

 

Olayide Akanni

Alternate Board Member

Over the past two decades, Olayide Akanni has served in various capacities with several other advocacy-based coalitions in promoting Health financing, HIV/AIDS and TB treatment literacy, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), capacity building for media and a diverse range of civil society groups in research, community engagement, and policy monitoring to support universal access to prevention, treatment, and care services. 

She is the National Coordinator for the Civil Society Network for the Eradication of Tuberculosis in Nigeria (TB) Network. Before working in the non-profit sector, Olayide was a Health Correspondent for Punch Newspapers, a leading National Newspaper in Nigeria. Olayide holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Biochemistry from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and an MBA from the Lagos Business School of the Pan Atlantic University (formerly Pan African University).

Brook K Baker

Key Advisor & Previous Board member 

Senior Policy Analyst, Health GAP (Global Access Project), Professor Emeritus, Northeastern U. School of Law, Boston, USA

Unitaid Areas of Interest:  HIV/AIDS and co-infections, covid-19 and pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, mpox, diagnostics, intellectual property, regional manufacturing, equitable access, long-acting formulations, regulatory issues, committees and governance

Having previously served as alternate board member and board member from 2013-2018, I have been a key advisor since 2018.  My goal is for Unitaid to become even more effective in accelerating affordable and equitable access to well-adapted health technologies needed in low- and middle-income countries.

Dr Fifa A Rahman PhD

Key Advisor & Previous Board member 

Principal Consultant at Matahari Global Solutions

Unitaid Areas of Interest: 
Covid, PPR, Cross-cutting/ Strategic Initiatives, Governance.

Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni MPhil. MBE

Key Advisor & Previous Board member 

Consultant in global health policy and programmes and access to medicines

Unitaid Areas of Interest: 
Covid, PPPR, Mpox, IP, Regional Manufacturing, Resource Mobilisation.

David Deakin

Key Advisor

Executive Director of Chasing Zero 

Unitaid Areas of Interest: HIV, Intellectual property, R&D system, licensing, Resource mobilisation/communications in global health, RMNCH, Injecting drug use  – addiction treatment, harm reduction & Mental health

Shatyam Issur

Key Advisor
 
Shatyam Issur, LLM, MSc, Mauritius
 
Unitaid Areas of Interest: HIV & Co-infection, TB, HCV, Intellectual Property, Climate & Health, Access, Community engagement.
 
 
As a leading global health platform dedicated to fostering innovation, Unitaid continues to be the foremost initiative focused on increasing accessibility and affordability of essential health products in low-and middle income countries. I am humbled to be part of the Key Advisor team, providing me with the opportunity to contribute to these innovative efforts that are focused in advancing the fight against global diseases.
 
 
 
 

Karin Kanewske Turner

Key Advisor

Senior Business Consultant/Advisor, Edinburgh UK

Unitaid Areas of Interest: Climate and Health, Regional Manufacturing, Access, Community Engagement, Digital Health and AI, Resource Mobilisation, Primary

Infection Diseases TB, HIV Malaria, RNMCH PPPR secondary.
 
 
Joining Unitaid’s NGO delegation board as a key advisor is an opportunity for me to take my experience with Unitaid (and other complimentary donors) to drive global health innovation and shape policies that save millions of lives. I am excited that Unitaid is opening up to some new areas of investment to spearhead groundbreaking initiatives to bring affordable, cutting-edge health solutions to low- and middle-income countries, tackling critical challenges like HIV, TB, and malaria and beyond. My passion area is the growing support in grants for community engagement and I am eager to champion civil society perspectives, collaborate with world-class partners, and catalyze transformative change in global health equity and access.

Maureen Luba

Key Advisor

Senior Advisor, Global Policy at AVAC based in Lilongwe, Malawi

Unitaid Areas of Interest: HIV & co-infections, PPPR, AMR, Covid-19 & Pandemic related, Climate Change and Health, Mpox, Regional Manufacturing, Community Engagement, regulatory

I am looking forward to working with the incredible team of community leaders that are shaping conversations around equitable access to health products and technologies

Aaron Sunday

Key Advisor
 
 
Executive Director, African Network of Adolescents and Young Persons Development (ANAYD) based in Kaduna State Nigeria.
 
Unitaid Areas of Interest: HIV & Co-infections, TB, RMNCH, Oxygen, Climate and Health, Youth Engagement, CS/Community engagement, Resource mobilization, Governance and Policy.
 
 
Unitaid focuses on addressing some of the world’s biggest health challenges: HIV, TB and malaria; women’s and children’s health; and pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. I hope being invovled with Unitaid will enable me to get acquainted with relevant policies, procedures, strategy, systems and operations; which will help boost my performance outputs and position me to continually contribute my quota within the Global Health Initiatives ecosystem.

Sithembile (Themby) Chiware

Founder/Director, Mayittah Group, Harare, Zimbabwe

Unitaid Areas of Interest: Cross-Cutting / Strategic Initiatives, Secretariat/Board and Delegation work areas

I am joining the Key Advisor team to contribute my expertise in driving equitable access to healthcare innovations, particularly for underserved communities in the Global South, and to ensure that voices from marginalised groups are represented in UNITAID’s strategic decisions.

Luis W Villarroel Villalon

Key Advisor

Founder and Director of the Latin American Corporation for Intellectual Property Research for Development, Corporación Innovarte

Dr Ngozi Erondu

Key Advisor

Co-Chair of O’Neill Institute – Lancet Commission on Racism and Structural Discrimination and Global Health.

Founding member of the Decolonizing Global Health Alumni group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). 

Technical Director of the Global Institute for Disease Elimination.

Senior Scholar at the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law University and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House.

Molly Thompson

NGO Delegation Liaison Officer

molly@stopaids.org.uk