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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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.<br>
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Additional information on the Global Fund and Ambassador Dybul’s appointment can be found at <a href="http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/" target="_blank">http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/</a>. For more information about the O’Neill Institute, please visit <a href="http://www.oneillinstitute.org" target="_blank">www.oneillinstitute.org</a>.<br>