The Alliance Manager, Dr Sara Bennett, has a PhD in health economics from the London School of Economics and degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities . She brings to the Alliance position nearly 20 years of experience in conducting and managing a wide range of health policy and systems research studies in developing countries.

John N. Lavis, MD PhD, is the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange, an Associate Professor (in both the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Political Science), and a Member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University . His principal research interests include knowledge transfer and exchange in public policymaking environments and the politics of healthcare systems. He directs the Program in Policy Decision-Making, a research program affiliated with McMaster’s Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, and he wrote the report that underpins the chapter on “linking research to action” in the World Report on Knowledge for Better Health.

Ms. MAYLENE M. BELTRAN took her Master in Public Administration at the University of the Philippines and also in the same university, earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Concomitant with her leadership functions as the Director of the HPDPB, she is also the Chairperson of the EVIPNET Asia Steering Group and co-chairs in the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) Technical Secretariat.

Dr. Reijo SALMELA, national of Finland , has been the responsible officer for health research and WHO collaborating centres in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific since 2004. He has been coordinating EVIPNet in the five Asian countries in the regional office, and is co-chair of the EVIPNet Asia steering group.

Ulysses Panisset, MD, with a Ph.D. in International Relations of the Johns Hopkins University ’s School of Advanced International Studies,with 20 years experience in international cooperation to promote health research in developing countries.

Pierre Ongolo Zogo conceived and completed installation as well as the creation of a national commission on health research. The Division comprise a clinical research unit, a scientific networks unit and a public health laboratory known as “Hygiène Mobile”. He is leading a team of close to twenty staff including two MD with a MPH, a consultant neurologist, a pharmacist, a micorbiologist, two sociologists, two senior nurses with public health skilss, five laboratory technicians as well as four administrative staff.