Helen Evans

Sabina Rai receives a vaccination from Health Worker Jiban Poudel at the temporary Batulechaur Health Post, Pokhara, Nepal (Flickr/AusAID/Jim Holmes CC BY 2.0)

For immunisation, Australia must continue to also look beyond its borders

April 28, 2017

by Helen Evans

Helen Evans

Helen Evans AO served as Deputy CEO at Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance based in Geneva from 2009 until her retirement in 2014. Prior to joining Gavi, she served as Deputy Executive Director at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, also based in Geneva, between 2005 and 2009. She brings to the TERG a depth of experience in global health policy and strategy development, the three diseases and working in public private partnerships to deliver results. In the early 1990s Helen managed the National Communicable Diseases Program in the Australian Department of Health. For the seven years prior to moving to Geneva she headed up the Australian Government Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.

Now living in Melbourne she currently has an honorary appointment as Associate Professor at the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne.