Nicaise Ndembi, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director General, Regional Director of the IVI Africa Regional Office, overseeing IVI’s operational, scientific, and partnership activities in the Africa region, including the Africa Regional Office in Kigali, Rwanda and a Country Office in Nairobi, Kenya. He is based in Kigali.
Jonathan is based at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), where he is a Group Lead for Partnerships and Capacity Building and a Principal Expert in Emergency Preparedness and Response. Jonathan is a multidisciplinary public health specialist who coordinates preparedness work at ECDC topics such as pandemic preparedness, non-pharmaceutical interventions, after-action reviews, risk prioritisation, and climate change adaptation.
Dr. Olusola Aruna is a medically qualified Fellow of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health (FPH). Sola qualified as a doctor in 1984 from the University of Ife, Nigeria. She gained her Masters in Public Health (MPH) with distinction from the University of Leeds in 1996 as a British Chevening Scholar, and holds the Diploma in Child Health (DCH) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Sola also holds a postgraduate teaching certificate from the Centre for Medical Education of the University of Bristol.
Dr. Bach Tran is a Health Economist, Professor at Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in decision-analytic modeling to guide the development and assessment of health technologies and policies. With extensive experience consulting for United Nations agencies, international organizations, and governments across Asia, his work focuses on identifying cost-effective interventions, evaluating health services and innovations, and strengthening health systems.
Esben Lunde Larsen has joined the Pandemic Fund as Senior One Health Specialist. Prior to this, he worked on AMR and One Health issues in the World Bank’s Agriculture and Food global practice, and before that, at the World Resources Institute.
Esben’s work has focused on addressing policy regulations, increasing government engagement, driving innovation, and cultivating awareness around AMR and One Health, including in low- and middle-income countries.
Jing Guo, Ph.D., has joined the Pandemic Fund as a Senior External Affairs Officer. Previously, she led communications for the World Bank’s Human Capital Project and the Chief Economist’s Office for Human Development.
Fatoumata joined the Pandemic Fund Secretariat as a World Bank Group Young Professional and works across the Board Operations and Portfolio Management workstreams. She is also in charge of writing project success stories collaborating with the communication and monitoring & evaluation teams.
Paige Snider is the Senior Partnerships Specialist at the Pandemic Fund, responsible for strengthening engagement with key stakeholders, including sovereign contributors, non-sovereign partners like the private sector, foundations and philanthropies, and overseeing development of the innovative finance strategy and portfolio.
Mikaël joins the Pandemic Fund from the French Ministry of Health, where he served as lead G20/G7 negotiator and as senior advisor on global health to the Director of European and International Affairs. In this capacity, he participated in multilateral discussions on the lessons learned from the global response to the pandemic and the future of global health architecture and financing.
by: Priya Basu, Executive Head, the Pandemic Fund
Last Updated: February 7, 2025
