Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

African Health Advisory Council and Technical Advisory Group

The African Health Advisory Council and the Technical Advisory Group provide advice and guidance to the foundation staff on the African Health Initiative.

African Health Advisory Council Members

  • Barry Bloom, PhD

    Dean, Faculty of Public Health
    Harvard School of Public Health

  • Jo Ivey Boufford, MD

    President, New York Academy of Medicine
    Foreign Secretary, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

  • Roger I. Glass, MD, PhD

    Director, Fogarty International Center
    National Institutes of Health

  • Demissie Habte, MD

    Former International Director
    James P. Grant School of Public Health
    BRAC University

  • Marian Jacobs, MD

    Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences
    University of Cape Town

  • Adetokunbo O. Lucas, MD

    Adjunct Professor of International Health
    Harvard School of Public Health

  • Cheikh Mbacke, PhD

    Independent Consultant

  • Peter Ndumbe, MD, MSc, PhD, DLSHTM

    Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences
    University of Buea

 Technical Advisory Group Members

  • Ties Boerma, MD, PhD 

    Director, Department of Measurement and Health Information Systems
    World Health Organization

  • Mickey Chopra, MD, PhD

    Chief of Health and Associate Director of Programmes
    UNICEF

  • Alex Ezeh, PhD

    Executive Director
    African Population and Health Research Center

  • Emmanuela Gakidou, PhD

    Associate Professor of Global Health, University of Washington
    Director, Education and Training, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

  • Charles Hongoro, PhD

    Director, Health Systems Research Unit
    South African Medical Research Council

  • Cheikh Mbacke, PhD

    Independent Consultant

Contact for Questions

Email questions about the Medical Research Program to ddcf@aibs.org.


Advisory Councils