Global board and staff team
The World Hepatitis Alliance Board is made up of a majority of board members who have personal experience of living with hepatitis B or hepatitis C. This includes:
- The president and president-elect or immediate past- president, who are appointed by the board
- A board member from each of the six WHO regions, who are elected by the World Hepatitis Alliance members in their region
- A limited number of board members who have specific skills, knowledge or experience which the board requires, who are appointed by the board
Board members are unpaid and their primary role is to provide governance and strategic direction to the organisation and in doing so make sure that we always remain an organisation for people living with viral hepatitis.
The board are supported by a staff team who are primarily based in London who undertake the day to day operational delivery of the organisations strategy.
Global board





President
Danjuma Adda
President-elect
Rachel Halford
EMRO
Dr Gamal Shiha
PAHO
Dr Patricia Velez-Moller
AFRO
Theobald Owusu-Ansah





SEARO
MD Reazul Islam
WPRO
Lien Tran
Skills based board member
Helen Tyrrell
Skills based board member
Gaston Picchio
Treasurer
Ebuka Emebinah
Staff team

JESSICA HICKS

CARY JAMES
Chief Executive Officer

RUTH JESSOP
Finance Manager

Tobiloba Kolawole
Communications Officer

LAURA MALONE
Head of Global Partnerships
Laura.Malone@worldhepatitisalliance.org


BEN MURRAY
Operations Manager

CYNTHIA POKUAH
Project Coordinator

ALEXANDRA SMITH
Advocacy and Engagement Manager
alexandra.smith@worldhepatitisalliance.org

JUSTIN WEBB
Project Coordinator