Below is list of the current UACT Board of Directors.

  • Jordan Donn Jarvis

Jordan Jarvis is the Executive Director of Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, one of the UACT partner organizations. She previously worked on integrating cancer screening and care into existing health programs with Amref Health Africa in Kenya, cancer epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and cancer policy in low- and middle-income countries at the World Health Organization (WHO). Jordan was a member of the The Lancet Youth Commission on Essential Medicines Policies, a volunteer for the Kenya Cancer Association, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Globalization and Health. She holds a Bachelors of Science from The University of Western Ontario, a Master of Science in Medical Biophysics/Cancer Biology from the University of Toronto, completed a global health fellowship through Duke University and a research fellowship on global cancer control with the Harvard Global Equity Initiative/Harvard Medical School.

 

  • Mohga M Kamal-Yanni

Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni is a senior health & HIV policy advisor in Oxfam. She has extensive experience of health policy and programming in developing countries. Currently Mohga is a key advisor to the NGOs delegation to UNITAID board, having served for 4 years as NGOs representative. For four years she was also a member of the World Bank civil society consultation group. She represented NGOs on the medicine committees of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and was the alternate board member for the Developed Countries NGOs delegation to the Global Fund. Mohga has written policy papers, published articles, and made presentations on health issues including access to medicines, financing and delivery of health care, HIV/AIDS, non- communicable diseases and gender and health. After graduation as a medical doctor in Egypt, she has worked in a number of developing countries as a medical doctor, programme manager, and health policy advisor. Mohga holds an MPhil in Primary Health Care and has been awarded an MBE in 2009.

 

  • James Love

James Packard Love is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI). He advises UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, and is the author of a number of articles and monographs on innovation and intellectual property rights. Knowledge Ecology International was created in 2006 as a separate entity to carry out work earlier done through the Center for Study of Responsive Law and Essential Information, where Love was employed from 1990 to 2006. Prior to that, he was Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. James Love holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2006, Knowledge Ecology International received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. In 2007, Love received the Public Knowledge IP3 award. In 2013, Love received the EFF Pioneer Award, to recognize leaders who extend freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology. In 2015, he received, with his wife Manon Ress, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage.

  • Leena Menghaney

Leena Menghaney is a lawyer who works in India on the right to access affordable medicines with a focus on patent law safeguards that protect generic competition in pharmaceuticals. In her professional capacity she works withMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access Campaign focusing on availability of generic medicines from India for HIV, DR TB, Hepatitis and neglected diseases. In her personal capacity, she works on access to treatments for cancer. Leena graduated from the Department of Political Science & International Relations, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and received a law degree from the Campus Law Centre, Delhi University.

 

 

  • Kirsten Myhr

Kirsten Myhr is currently a pharmaceutical consultant in public health living in Norway, working for the public sector or independent NGOs. Previously, she was head of a Medicines Information Centre at Oslo University Hospital, an advisor to the Norwegian Board of Health, project officer at UNICEF, a consultant to WHO, and the European Union project in Bosnia, head of the pharmacovigilance unit for the Norwegian Medicines Agency, the Principal Pharmacist at Central Medical Stores at the Ministry of Health (Botswana), the Chief Hospital Pharmacist at the University Hospitals of Tromsø¸ and Trondheim (Norway), and has worked as a board member, advisor or consultant to a number of entities, including the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria, and UNITAID (advising Norad). During the years as hospital pharmacist and later she has had a special interest in cancer treatment and has written handbooks on cytotoxic medicines. Kirsten is a long time member of Health Action International and has been involved in the WHO/HAI Measuring Medicine Prices project since the beginning. She holds an MScPharm from the University of Oslo, and a Master of Public Health from the University of Tromsø.

    • Catherine Tomlinson

    Catherine Tomlinson is an independent advocate for affordable and equitable medicine access who has previously worked with the Treatment Action Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Open Society Foundations and the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Cape Town. While at the Treatment Action Campaign, Catherine co-founded the Fix the Patent Laws campaign to advocate for legal and policy reforms to improve medicine access in South Africa. Catherine is currently working with the Cancer Alliance to identify patent-related barriers to cancer treatment access, and develop and implement strategies to improve access. Catherine was educated at the University of Washington and the University of Cape Town.