Michel Kazatchkine is an academic physician. He’s the former head of France’s National Agency for AIDS Research and health ambassador. He led The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as executive director from 2007 to 2012. He is a former member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
Timely and equitable access to effective medical countermeasures that are suited to the realities of the local health context is critical to stop disease outbreaks when and where they occur.