[ingodirectors] ANNOUNCEMENT: Alternate INGO Representative to CCM of GFATM

[Marko Lovrekovic]

Dear INGO Colleagues,

I would like to announce that Dr Greg Fox, Country Director for Woolcock 
Institute of Medical Research Vietnam, has been appointed as an 
alternate INGO representative to the Country Coordinating Mechanism 
(CCM) of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) 
at the request of CCM. The decision was made by the VUFO-NGO Resource 
Centre's Steering Committee last week, based on our call for nominations 
in September this year. As we were looking for one candidate; and we 
received one nomination, which meets the criteria, the Steering 
Committee has approved Greg's appointment unanimously.

Please join me in congratulating Greg on this appointment. For those of 
you who have not met him, Dr Greg Fox has been the Country Director for 
the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research Vietnam since 2009. The 
Woolcock Institute, a member of the VUFO-NGO Resource Centre, is a 
leading research institute of the University of Sydney, Australia. 
Greg's main project has been implementing a large national 
randomised-controlled trial of active case finding for tuberculosis 
among close contacts of patients, in partnership with the Vietnam 
National Tuberculosis Program. This study is in its second year, and has 
already recruited over 8,000 participants in 75 districts throughout 
Vietnam. The Woolcock Institute also delivers training in operational 
research into lung disease for Vietnamese health-care workers and 
academics, in partnership with the American Thoracic Society's MECOR 
program. Dr Fox is a Respiratory Physician trained in Australia, with a 
background in clinical medicine and public health.

As a reminder, an alternate INGO representative will serve in the 
absence of Mr Matthew Tiedemann, Country Director for Pact in Vietnam, 
who was appointed in March 2011. INGO representatives to the CCM 
represent all INGOs in Vietnam during discussions on AIDS, Tuberculosis 
and Malaria. The CCM meets up to four times a year to discuss and review 
GFATM proposal development and implementation. There are also sub 
committees for each of the three diseases.

Warm regards!

Marko

-- 
Marko Lovrekovic, Managing Co-Director
VUFO-NGO Resource Centre
La Thanh Hotel, 218  Doi Can
Hanoi, Vietnam
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