DNDi’s Board of Directors has established “Friends of DNDi” to recognize select individuals who support DNDi’s mission and vision by engaging global influencers, policymakers and supporters to help DNDi succeed in reaching its objectives.
Paulo Buss, Specialist in Pediatrics and Public Health
Yves Champey, Founder of ITEEC
Abdallah Daar, Professor of Public Health Sciences and of Surgery at the University of Toronto
Philippe Desjeux, Specialist in Leishmaniasis
Nirmal Ganguly, Former Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research
Rowan Gillies, Former President of MSF International Council
Reinaldo Guimaraes, Director of ABIFINA, Brazil
Nila Heredia, Former Minister of Health and Sports, Bolivia
Lalit Kant, Former Senior Scientific Adviser, Gates Foundation
Unni Karunakara, Former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders
Stephen Lewis, Chair of the Board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, Canada
Datuk Mohd Ismail Merican, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Governors MAHSA University, Malaysia
Sheba K. Meymandi, Director of the Center of Excellence for Chagas Disease at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Carlos Morel, Director of the Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS) and Senior Researcher, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ)
Carlos Henrique Nery Costa, Former President of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
Piero Olliaro, WHO / TDR, University of Oxford
Bernard Pécoul, Founder of DNDi
Ricardo Preve, Argentine filmmaker, photographer, and activist
Mirta Roses Periago, Former Director of PAHO
Morten Rostrup, Former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders
Eloan dos Santos, Consultant for Brazilian and International organizations in the field of Public Health Policy
José Gomes Temporão, Former Minister of Health, Brazil
Germán Velasquez, Special Adviser, South Center
Rafael Vilasanjuan, Director, ISGlobal’s Think Tank
Dyann Wirth, Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Yongyuth Yuthavong, Deputy Prime Minister, Thailand
