Dr. Dalia Samhouri is a senior public health professional with over 20 years of experience in health emergency management at the scientific, policy, managerial, and academic levels. Currently, Dr Samhouri is the Lead Health Specialist for Pandemic Fund, hosted by the World Bank, where she provides expert technical and programmatic guidance on funding proposals, aligning with strategic priorities of the Pandemic Fund at national, regional and global levels.
The Pandemic Fund hosted a co-branded event during the G20 Health Working Group meeting in Brasilia. The event brought together health leaders from across G20 members and international organizations to share perspectives on what's needed to advance international cooperation in support of strengthening the capacities of low- and middle-income countries to build their resilience to future global health threats, and how the Pandemic Fund can help.
* Publicación de los copresidentes y los miembros con derecho a voto de la Junta Directiva del Fondo para Pandemias.
Last Updated: February 7, 2025
*Publié par les coprésidents et les membres votants du Conseil de direction du Fonds de lutte contre les pandémies
Last Updated: February 7, 2025
Nicola Stellino joined the Pandemic Fund Secretariat in May 2023 as a consultant, responsible for supporting the 1st Call for Proposals and, as of March 2024, he covers the position of Junior Professional Associate. His current duties are to provide support and expertise to the Health Technical and Monitoring and Evaluation workstream of the Secretariat.
In previous roles, Nicola worked at the Dutch Economic Research Center in the Competition Secretariat, where he studied new and innovative models to make economic and political predictions.
*Issued by the Pandemic Fund Governing Board’s Co-Chairs and Voting Members
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Last Updated: February 10, 2025
Samuel Mills, MD DrPH, joined the Health Nutrition & Population Global Practice, World Bank Group (WBG) in 2004. He is a Physician and Epidemiologist with over 25 years of broad range of global expertise in health systems strengthening. He is a Global Expert on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) and led the development of the 21st-century CRVS e-Learning course, which is delivered as part of the WBG Open Learning Campus and has been taken by over 7,000 people from about 160 countries.
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Dr Aalisha Sahukhan is a medical doctor specialising in public health and infectious disease epidemiology. Dr Sahukhan is the founding Head of Health Protection at the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services, where she leads the Fiji Centre for Disease Control (Fiji CDC), the Environmental Health Unit, and the Health Emergencies and Climate Change department.
