Anders Nordström

Anders Nordström

Affiliated to Teaching/Tutoring
Visiting address: Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: K9 Global folkhälsa, K9 GPH Alfvén, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Anders Nordström is the former Swedish Ambassador for Global Health. Medical doctor by background from the Karolinska Institute. Today advisor associated with the Karolinska Institute and the Stockholm School of Economics .

     

  • He is currently a member of the Alliance for Health Systems Research’s board, the SUN-Lancet PRIME Commission, the International Vaccine Institute Global Advisory Group of Experts, and the Virchow Foundation for Global Health Council.

     

  • Recently he headed the Secretariat for the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (2020-21). 

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  • He served as Acting Director-General for WHO 

  • (May 2006 – January 2007) and as Assistant Director General for General Management (2003-2006), Assistant Director General for Health Systems and Services (2007) and Head of the WHO Country Office in Sierra Leone (2015-17).

     

  • As the Interim Executive Director, he established the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as a legal entity in 2002.  

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  • He has previously served as board member of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, GAVI, UNAIDS and PMNCH and chaired a number of international working groups and processes.

     

  • He was the Director-General for the Swedish International Agency for Development Cooperation (2007-2010).

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