WHS Academic Alliance Governance
Executive Committee
The WHS Academic Alliance Executive Committee is elected by the WHS Academic Alliance from amongst its members and has the purpose to speak and act for its interests. It represents the network publicly and assumes operative responsibility.
Axel R. PriesWorld Health Summit PresidentGermany
Balvir S. TomarInternational President 2025
Founder and Chancellor, NIMS UniversityIndia
Sophia ZoungasInternational President 2024
Head, School of Public Health and Preventive MedicineMonash University
Australia
Adnan HyderInternational President 2023
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Global HealthMilken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University
United States of America
Amirhossein Takian
International President 2019 Director, Department of Global Health and Public Policy, Vice Dean, School of Public HealthTehran University of Medical Sciences
Iran
Yik-Ying Teo
Vice President (Global Health), National University of Singapore, Dean, Saw Swee Hock School of Public HealthSingapore
Luis Almeida Sampaio
Portuguese Ambassador to Prague, Delegate, University of CoimbraPortugal
Damalie Nakanjako
Professor of Medicine and Principal, Makerere University College of Health SciencesUganda
Julian KickbuschWorld Health Summit
Senior Program Director
Germany