PHM-Exch> Amb. Mark Dybul appointed as Executive Director of the Global Fund

[Claudio Schuftan]

Ambassador Mark Dybul, Washington's O’Neill Institute Co-Director of the
Global Health Law Program was appointed as the next Executive Director of
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.  He will join the
Fund in early 2013.


  Amb Dybul co-directs the Global Health Law Program and is also a
Distinguished Scholar. He is also the Global Health Fellow at the George W.
Bush Institute. He has also served as chair of the Joint United Nations
Programme on AIDS’ coordinating board and as a member of the board of
trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Ambassador Dybul served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator from
2006 to 2009. In that role, he led the implementation of the President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest international health
initiative in history for a single disease. He oversaw U.S. government
engagement in the Global Fund and was Chair of the Finance and Audit
Committee.  He was a member of the Planning Task Force that created PEPFAR
and the principal architect of the initial plan and implementation of
PEPFAR.  He joined PEPFAR’s staff in 2004, and served as Assistant, then
Deputy, then Acting U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. In 2006, he was appointed
by to head the organization as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, which was the
equivalent of an Assistant Secretary of State.
Ambassador Dybul received his A.B. in philosophy and his M.D. from
Georgetown University before completing a residency in Internal Medicine at
the University of Chicago Hospitals. He completed a fellowship in
Infectious Diseases from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases in 1995.

Additional information on the Global Fund and Ambassador Dybul’s
appointment can be found at http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/.  For more
information about the O’Neill Institute, please visit
www.oneillinstitute.org.
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