Commission Chair

  • Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng

    United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health; Medical Doctor

Commissioners

  • Tendayi Achiume

    Tendayi Achiume

    Former UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Pretoria

  • Catherine Burns

    Associate Professor of History, University of Johannesburg

  • Rokhaya Diallo

    Journalist, writer and award winning filmmaker, RTL, France

  • Vuyiseka Dubula

    Centre for Civil Society, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal

  • Kevin Fenton

    Regional Public Health Director, London and President, UK Faculty of Public Health

  • Walter Flores

    Founder, Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza en Sistemas de Salud, Guatemala & Research Professor, Accountability Research Center

  • Renzo Guinto

    Associate Professor of Global and Planetary Health, National University of Singapore

  • Camara Jones

    Senior Fellow, Morehouse School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

  • Margareta (Magda) Matache

    Co-founder and Director, Roma Program, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University

  • Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane

    South African Lawyer; Social Justice Activist

  • Loyce Pace

    Former Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  • Kumanan Rasanathan

    Executive Director, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

  • Osama Tanous

    Pediatrician; Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University & Harvard FXB Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights

  • Alissa Trotz

    Professor of Caribbean studies, University of Toronto; Faculty Affiliate, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

  • Attiya Waris

    UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights; Professor, University of Nairobi

  • Chelsea Watego

    Founding Board Member, Inala Wangarra; Professor of Indigenous Health, Queensland University of Technology

  • Chamindra Weerawardhana

    Founder and Trustee, Consortium for Intersectional Justice

  • Suraj Yengde

    Author of “Caste A Global Story” (2025), “Caste Matters” (2019), Transnational Dalit rights activist, Assistant Professor of History & Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Secretariat

The Secretariat for the Commission is housed at the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics at Georgetown University

  • Matthew M. Kavanagh

    Matthew M. Kavanagh

    Director, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics

  • Alice Mutebi Kayongo

    Senior Associate, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics

  • Vyoma Dhar Sharma

    Scholar, Georgetown and Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Oslo

  • Schadrac Agbla

    Tenure Track Fellow, Health Data Science, University of Liverpool

Advisory Group

  • Anil Soni

    Anil Soni

    CEO, World Health Organization Foundation

  • Senait Fisseha

    Senait Fisseha

    Vice President, Global Programs, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation

  • Shirley Lin

    Founder, Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation

  • David Williams

    Professor of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health