Agnes Binagwaho

Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity; Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Agnes Binagwaho is a pediatrician, vice chancellor and professor of pediatrics at the University of Global Health Equity, a senior lecturer in the Pediatric Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an adjunct clinical professor of pediatrics at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She also serves as a senior advisor to the director general of the World Health Organization. With 20 years’ experience in the public health sector, Binagwaho previously served in the Rwandan government as executive secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission, permanent secretary of the Rwanda Ministry of Health, and health minister from 2011 to 2016. She has over 150 peer-reviewed publications.