Professor David Heymann launches GARC Advisory Council

GARC is setting up an Advisory Council of experts to support and guide us as we advocate for rabies elimination at the global and regional levels. We are pleased to announce that Professor David Heymann has accepted a position on this Board, and we would like to welcome him and thank him for taking on this role.

Professor Heymann brings a wealth of global public health experience to GARC.  At the World Health Organization he led the global SARS response, headed research on the WHO global programme on AIDS, represented the director-general on eradication of polio and oversaw WHO rabies control activities. Prior to that he worked as a medical epidemiologist in India and sub-Saharan Africa (for the US CDC), dealing with smallpox, Ebola, and malaria, among other diseases. 

He is currently the head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, chairman of Public Health England, and professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to global public health.  

His experience will strengthen our team and help us to advance the movement towards global rabies elimination.