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Partnership Board

The Partnership Board (PB) is a scientifically independent panel of experts as full members with voting rights.

The PB designs the strategic framework of the EDCTP and advises the Assembly on technical and scientific matters relating to the EDCTP programme. The PB prepares proposals and recommendations to be submitted via the Secretariat to the Assembly, specifically with regard to:

  • Strategic needs and priorities for new clinical interventions, training and capacity building
  • Calls for project proposals and other procedures for implementing plans of action
  • Criteria and procedures for peer reviews
  • Annual action plans, including the calls foreseen for the year
  • Results of evaluation sessions and priority lists of projects.

Members

Specialist field

Dr Sodiomon Sirima (Chair)
Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme (CNRFP), Burkina Faso

Malaria

Prof. Eric Sandström (Vice-chair)
Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden

HIV/AIDS

Dr Christian Burri
Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland

Generalist

Prof. Shabbar Jaffar
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

HIV/AIDS

Dr Rosemary Musonda (Vice-chair)
Botswana Harvard School of Public Health, Botswana

HIV/AIDS

Prof. Martin Grobusch
Amsterdam Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Tuberculosis

Prof. Tumani Corrah
MRC (UK) The Gambia

Tuberculosis

Prof. Robert Sauerwein
Radbound University Nijmegen Medical Center, the Netherlands

Malaria