Virchow Foundation
The Virchow Foundation’s Council is comprised of members with diverse expertise and competencies, across sectors – academia, civil society, politics, international organisations, private – and global representation. As part of its work, the Council may establish ad hoc or long-term committees and working groups for specific activities. A core task of the Council is to nominate and elect the members of the Virchow Prize Committee.
Members of the Council provide strategic guidance and advise on the direction towards realizing the Foundation’s purpose and mission as laid down in the Foundation Statutes. Council Members advise on how the Foundation and the Prize can contribute to SDG 3 and other health-related SDGs of the UN 2030 Agenda, and they represent, promote and support the Foundation and its goals within their own networks and in relevant meetings and events.
DR. CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU
Council Chair
Assistant Director-General
World Health Organization (WHO)
PROF. DR. HEIDI LARSON
Past Council Chair
Founding Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
PROF. DR. TILL BÄRNIGHAUSEN
Director
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
PROF. DAME SALLY DAVIES
UK Special Envoy on AMR
Department of Health and Social Care
PROF. DR. CHRISTIAN DROSTEN
Director, Institute of Virology
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
PROF. DR. VICTOR J. DZAU
President
U.S. National Academy of Medicine
DR. RANA A. HAJJEH
Former Director | Program Management
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
DR. MARIAM JASHI
CEO, Global Sepsis Alliance
Secretary General, Medical Women’s International Association
PROF. DR. ILONA KICKBUSCH
Founding Director, Global Health Centre
Graduate Inst. of Intl and Development Studies Geneva
PROF. DR. FABIAN LEENDERTZ
Founding Director
Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) Greifswald
PROF. DR. JOANNE LIU
Former International President
Doctors Without Borders
PROF. DR. ELIZABETH MACINTYRE
President, Biomedical Alliance in Europe
Board Member, European Haematology Association (EHA)
BENOÎT MIRIBEL
President
One Sustainable Health For All Foundation
PROF. DR. TOLULLAH ONI
Director, Global Diet and Physical Activity Group
University of Cambridge
DR. ANDERS NORDSTRÖM
Advisor Global Health
Acting Director-General, WHO (2006)
PROF. DR. JÖRG ROCHOLL
President
European School of Management and Technology, ESMT Berlin
PROF. DR. NICOLE REDVERS
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario | Western Research Chair & Director, Indigenous Planetary Health
PROF. DR. LUCIANO SASO
Former Deputy Rector
Sapienza University of Rome
DR. JOHN-ARNE RØTTINGEN
Chief Executive Officer
Wellcome Trust
PROF. DR. GEORG SEIFERT
Director | Competence Center for Traditional and Integrative Medicine (CCCTIM), Charité – University Medicine Berlin
DR. BERNHARD SCHWARTLÄNDER
Global Health Envoy
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Beijing
PROF. DR. AMIRHOSSEIN TAKIAN
Vice Dean, School of Public Health
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
PROF. DR. LOTHAR H. WIELER
Head of the Chair, Professor for Digital Global Public Health
Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI)
GUESTS OF THE COUNCIL
PROF. DR. EUGENIO GAUDIO
President, Rome Sapienza Foundation
H.E. MONICA GEINGOS
Former First Lady of Namibia | Executive Chairperson, One Economy Foundation
HON. MICHEL SIDIBÉ
Special Envoy for the Africa Medicine Agency (AMA)
African Union (AU)