Dr Stefano Lazzari

Dr Stefano Lazzari is a public health physician with over 30 years of international health experience with the World Health Organization and the Global Fund, including 12 years of long-term assignments in North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. During his 24 years with the WHO he was involved at different levels of responsibility in the health emergencies and response programme (AFRO); in the surveillance, prevention and response to HIV/AIDS (Lesotho, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and HQ) and in epidemic preparedness and alert and response operations (HQ). He was appointed Director of the WHO office in Lyon for national surveillance and laboratory strengthening, Senior Health Advisor to the Executive Director of the Global Fund (on loan from WHO) and ended his career as WHO Representative to Tunisia. After his retirement from WHO (2012), he has worked as independent consultant with the International Federation of Red Cross, the GF Secretariat and the GF Office of the Inspector General, GAVI and GIZ.Areas of expertise: Prevention and control of infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS and other sSTDs; Epidemic alert and response operations; Health and immunization systems strengthening; Development, management, monitoring and evaluation of health programs; and capability building.