TAG Advisory Group Members & Representatives from UN and International organization
The TAG (Technical Advisory Group) members were selected through an open call for independent experts in monitoring and evaluation of policies, programmes, and health and social care services focusing on older people. The TAG consists of 20 members representing 19 WHO Member States across all WHO Regions. The TAG includes geriatricians, epidemiologists, demographers, statisticians, policy analysts, and program implementers.
Representatives of five UN agencies have been nominated by their respective organizations to serve on the steering committee of the TAG.
To access the biography of the TAG members, the UN representatives, or the WHO Secretariat, click on the links next to the photos below.
Experts
Dr Dararatt Anantanasuwong
A former Associate Dean of School of Development Economics and a Director of Research Center, Senior Researcher and the Director of Center for Aging Society Research (CASR) at National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Thailand
Professor Deborah Blacker
Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Deputy Chair and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States of America
Prof Carol Brayne
Professor of Public Health Medicine, Co-Director of Cambridge Public Health Interdisciplinary Centre, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Hom Nath Chalise
Faculty Member, Mphil lead PhD Programme, Central Department of Population Studies, Kirtipur, Kathmandu. Vice President, Population Association of Nepal, Nepal Treasure, Geriatric Society of Nepal
Dr Luigi Ferrucci
Geriatrician and Epidemiologist, Scientific Director of NIA, United States of America
Dr Alden Gross
Psychiatric epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), United States of America
Professor Hongsoo Kim
Professor of health policy and aging at the Graduate School of Public Health, Director of the Center for AI Research in Health and Care at the Artificial Intelligence Institute at Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea
Prof Andrea Maier
Oon Chiew Seng Professor in Medicine Healthy Ageing and Dementia Research, Co-Director at Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University Health System, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof Dr Asghar Zaidi
Vice-Chancellor, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan, and Associate Professorial Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Professor Samia A. Abdul-Rahman
Professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University in Egypt
Dr Tine Buffel
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, and Director of the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Professor Prasun Chatterjee
Professor at the Department of Geriatric Medicine in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India
Dr Muthoni Gichu
Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the Ministry of Health, Kenya. Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute
Professor Rowan Harwood
Professor of Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of Nottingham, and a consultant in geriatric and general internal medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Professor Sebastiana Kalula
Emeritus Associate Professor and Specialist Physician in Medicine and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Katsunori Kondo
Professor, Social epidemiology and health policy, Center for Preventive Medical Science, Chiba University; President of the Japan Agency for Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES Agency), Japan
Dr Louise Lafortune
Principal Research Associate at Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge; Co-lead Lifecourse and Ageing research pillar, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Stephen Ojiambo Wandera
Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Population Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Prof Jean Woo
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Henry G Leong Research Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics; Co-Director, Institute of Health Equity; Director, Jockey Club Institute of Aging The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Representatives from UN and other International Organizations
Victor Gaigbe-Togbe
Chief, Demographic Analysis Section, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations, United States of America
Tapiwa Jhamba
Technical Adviser, Population Data and Research Population and Development Branch, Technical Division United Nations Population Fund, United States of America
Ana Llena
Senior Economist, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, France
Ms Daniela Pokorna
Analyst, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Switzerland
Papa Alioune Seck
Chief, Research and Data Section, UN Women, United States of America
Valentina Stoevska
Senior Statistician, Department of Statistics, The International Labour Organization, Switzerland
Ms Grace Sanico Steffan
Coordinator, Human Rights Indicators and Data Unit, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Switzerland
Rio Hada
Officer-in-Charge, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Switzerland
WHO Secretariat