About Us

Health In Your Hands is a global partnership of organizations and key leaders building health ecosystems around the world from various disciplines of health, policy, finance and development. The Health In Your Hands platform is an initiative of the SDG3 Global Council as part of the "SDGs in Action" labs, catalyzed by the Office of the Prime Minister, United Arab Emirates.

Co-founders

Dr. Shariha Khalid

Founding Partner, Mission & Co

Co-Founder, Health In Your Hands initiative

Prof. Judy Kuriansky

Past SDG3 Council Member, Main Representative to the UN, International Association of Applied Psychology / Co-Founder, Health In Your Hands initiative

SDG 3 Global Council

The Health In Your Hands initiative is endorsed by the SDG3 Global Council of the United Arab Emirates. Members of the council represent multi stakeholders from governments, United Nations agencies, civil societies, the private sector and academia. The 2nd term for the SDG3 Global Council (2021-2023) launched on 16 September 2021

Isra Yousuf AlBastaki

Director of Corporate Performance Management Department in Dubai Health Authority – UAE
Vice Chair of the SDG3 Global Council

Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab

Deputy Director-General, World Health Organization Co-Chair of the SDG3 Global Council

Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate

Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Co-Chair of the SDG3 Global Council

Dr. Tana Wuliji

Team Lead, WHO Academy,
World Health Organisation

Maha Yousif Alobeidli

Youth Member of SDG3 Council, Head of Special Projects at Federal Youth Authority - UAE

Pradeep Kakkattil

Director, Office of Innovation
UNAIDS

Dr. Mariam Claeson

Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child & Adolescent Health Expert, Various Organisations & Affiliations

Dr. Roopa Dhatt

Executive Director,
Women in Global Health

Saleem Sayani

Director, Digital Health Resources Centre, AKDN & Director Technology Innovation Support Center, AKU
Aga Khan Development Network & Aga Khan University

Dr. Githinji Gitahi

Group Chief Executive Officer, AMREF Health Africa

Dr. Lucy Fagan

Global Focal Point for SDG 3/WHA/FCTC-Health
United Nations Major Group on Children and Youth

Dr. Annie Theriault

Chief Investment Officer, and Managing Partner Grand Challenges Canada, and Cross Border Ventures

Dr. Stefan Germann

Chief Executive Officer,
Fondation Botnar

Dr. Judy Kuriansky

Past SDG3 Council Member, Main Representative to the UN, International Association of Applied Psychology / Co-Founder, Health In Your Hands initiative

Dr. Feng Zhao

World Bank Health Practice Manager of Strategy,
Operations and Global Engagement

1st Term - SDG 3 Global Council Members
(2018 - 2020)

Hon. Chris Fearne

Deputy Prime Minister &

Minister for Health,

Republic of Malta

Chair of the SDG3 Global Council

Mariam Dalmas

Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Office of the Chief Medical Officer
Department of Policy in Health
Ministry for Health

Secretariat of the SDG3 Global Council

Radheya AlHashmi

Director,

Policy Impact Department

Strategy and Innovation Sector

UAE Ministry of Cabinet Affairs & The Future

Shariha Khalid

Managing Partner,

Mission & Co

Amine Kebe

Portfolio Manager,

World Health Organisation

Ilona Kickbusch

Professor,
the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Rifat Atun

Professor,

Global Health Systems,

Harvard University

Thomas M.Carroll

Rhodes Scholar,

D.Phil, Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford

Marcelo D’Agostino

Senior Advisor,

Information Systems, Knowledge Management, Big Data at PAHO/WHO

Anna Korotkova

Deputy Director,
International Collaboration of Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Judy Kuriansky

United Nations Representative,

International Association of Applied Psychology

Martin McKee

Professor,
European Public Health,
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Bettina Menne

Coordinator,
Health and Sustainable Development (SDG) ,
World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe

Michael Moore

Emeritus President,
World Federation of
Public Health Associations

Christopher Murray

Head of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Laetitia Rispel

President,
World Federation of Public Health

Stefano Vella

Director,
National Centre for Global Health,

Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, Italy

Yang Weizhong

Vice President,
Chinese Preventive Medicine Association,
Beijing, China