Global Health President Dr. Lutz Hegemann is responsible for integrating global health and environmental, social, and governance matters into the core of the Novartis business. This includes our global health programs in communicable and noncommunicable diseases, our business in sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Novartis Foundation. Since joining Novartis in the Consumer Health Division in 2005, Hegemann held roles of increasing responsibility. He began his career as a public health physician and scientist.