2019 REACH Award Finalists

Finalists

Unsung Hero

Harriet Mutaawe

Community Health Promoter, Ministry of Health, Uganda

Boakye Adwini Boatin

Senior Scientific Advisor, Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre for Africa, University of Ghana

Rahane Lawal

Frontline Polio Worker

Mohamed Shire

Zonal Polio Eradication Officer, WHO, Mogadishu

Hollman Alfonso Miller Hurtado

Coordinator, Department of Vector-Borne Diseases, Secretary of Health, Vaupès Government, Colombia

Victor Kande Betu Kumeso

Coordinating Expert, Neglected Tropical Diseases Program, Ministry of Health, Democratic Republic of Congo

Richard Kojan

Medical Advisor and President, The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA)

Misaki Wayengera

Senior Lecturer, Unit of Genetics and Genomics, Makerere University

Emily Gower

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Elizabeth Winzeler

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego

Fatimah Saeed Alhamlan

Scientist and Assistant Professor, Department of Infection and Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre

Saurabh Dinesh Rane

TB Activist, Survivors Against TB

Rose Mary Nakame

Founder and Executive Director, REMI East Africa

Olivia Ngou

Founder and Executive Director, Impact Santé Afrique

Enock Omondi

Team Leader and Speaker, Ugunja Youth Parliament

Honorary Mention

Tumani Corrah

Director, Africa Research Excellence Fund

Adama Kane

Founder and CEO, JokkoSanté

Perry Gottesfeld

Executive Director, Occupational Knowledge International

Katherine Clayton

Co-Founder and CEO, OmniVis

Simon Hay

Professor, Health Metrics Science, University of Washington

Dyann Wirth

Richard Pearson Strong Professor and Institute Member, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The Broad Institute

Oscar Noya Alarcón

Public Health Physician and Coordinator, Onchocerciasis Elimination Program, Amazonian Center for Research and Control of Tropical Diseases

Askwar Hilonga

Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology

Mark Feinberg

CEO and President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Winnie Anyango Singwa

Co-Founder and Program Manager, Wing It Up Kenya

Elisha Opiyo

Sexual and Reproductive Health Coordinator, Lwala Community Alliance

Sarah Kuponiyi

Youth Resource Centre Manager, CUSO-International, Nigeria

Martha Saboya

Advisor, Neglected Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Madhukar Pai

Director, McGill International TB Centre, McGill University

Ramesh Ferris

Polio Survivor and Global Health Advocate

Victor Mukonka

Director, Zambia National Public Health Institute

H.E. Sawsan Al Fahoum Jafar

Founding Board Member and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Friends of Cancer Patients

Deepti Chavan

Patient Advocate, Survivors Against TB

Blessina Amulya Kumar

CEO, Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA)

Peter Ngo'la Owiti

Executive Director, Wote Youth Development Projects

Edgar Valdez

Director, Instituto para el Desarrollo Humano, Bolivia

Aji Mohammed Aji

Polio Surveillance Officer, WHO, Borno State, Nigeria

Adeodata Kekitiinwa

Executive Director, Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation Uganda

Mariella Anselmi

President, Cecomet, Ecuador

Audu Musa

State Coordinator and National Surveillance Program Officer, WHO, Borno State, Nigeria

El Hadj Diop

Founder and President, AISM Thiénaba

Roma Solomon

Director, CORE Group Polio Project, India

Sarfaraz Khan Afridi

National Coordinator, Polio Eradication Programme, WHO, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

Marie-Roseline Darnycka Bélizaire

Surveillance Team Lead and Field Coordinator, WHO, Democratic Republic of Congo

Souhaila Ben Said

Founder and President, Association Tunisienne De Prévention Positive

Norbert Ndjeka

Director, Drug-Resistant TB, TB & HIV Programme, National Department of Health, Republic of South Africa

Ibtihal Fadhil

Founder and Chair, Eastern Mediterranean NCD Alliance

Karin Huster

Field Coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Nthabeleng Lephoto

Managing Director, Touching Tiny Lives

Baltazar Candrinho

Program Director, National Malaria Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Mozambique

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