PHFI

Governance Structure of PHFI

PHFI is an autonomously governed public private initiative registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act 1860. Under the governance structure adopted by the Society, the Foundation is governed by a fully empowered, independent, General Body (comprising of all the members of the Society) that has representatives from multiple constituencies - government, Indian and international academia and scientific community, civil society and private sector.

The management of the affairs of the Society is entrusted to the “Executive Committee”, the governing body of PHFI that is elected by the Members of the Society in accordance with the Rules and Regulations. The Chairperson of the General Body also chairs the Executive Committee. The President (the Chief Executive Officer) of the Society is a non-voting, ex-officio member of the Executive Committee and holds the position of the Member Secretary.

General Body

Chairperson

Mr. N R Narayana Murthy
Founder and Chairman Emeritus Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Members (listed in order of second name)

• Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia
  Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India
  
  
• Mr. Ashok Alexander
  Former Director, Avahan - India AIDS Initiative, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  
  
• Ms. Mirai Chatterjee
  Director, Social Security, SEWA - Self Employed Women's Association
  
  
• Dr. Lincoln Chen
  Director of Global Equity Center, Harvard’s Kennedy School
  
  
• Dr. James W. Curran
  Dean, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
  
  
• Dr. Gary Darmstadt
  Director, Family Health, Global Health Program Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  
  
• Mr. Keshav Desiraju
  Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GOI
  
  
• Dr. Timothy G. Evans
  Dean, James P Grant School of Public Health BRAC University, Bangladesh
  
  
• Dr. Vishwa Mohan Katoch
  Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research
  
  
• Mr. Uday Nabha Khemka
  Vice Chairman, Sun Group
  
  
• Mr. Gautam Kumra
  Director, McKinsey & Company
  
  
• Dr. David Lynn
  Director, Strategic Planning & Policy Wellcome Trust
  
  
• Ms. Kiran Malhotra
  Chairperson, AKM Systems Pvt. Ltd
  
  
• Mr. T.N. Manoharan
  Founder Partner, Manohar Chowdhary & Associates
  
  
• Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar
  CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, National Chemical Laboratory
  
  
• Mr. Raj Mitta
  Chairman, Essential Value Associates Pvt. Ltd.
  
  
• Mr. Shiv Nadar
  Founder, HCL
  
  
• Mr. T. K. A. Nair
  Advisor, Prime Minister's Office
  
  
• Dr. Ravi Narayan
  Community Health Advisor, Society for Community Health Awareness, Research & Action (SOCHARA)
  
  
• Dr. Peter Piot
  Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  
  
• Dr. Jagdish Prasad
  Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GOI
  
  
• Mr. J. V. R. Prasada Rao
  UN Secretary General Special Envoy for AIDS, Asia & the Pacific
  
  
• Prof. K. Srinath Reddy
  President, Public Health Foundation of India
  
  
• Dr. Anil Seal
  Director, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Cambridge Overseas Trust
  
  
• Dr. Amartya Sen
  Professor of Economics & Philosophy, Department of Economics, Harvard University
  
  
• Dr. Jaime Sepulveda
  Executive Director, Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
  
  
• Dr. A. K. Shiva Kumar
  Advisor, UNICEF
  
  
• Mr. Michel Sidibé
  Executive Director, UNAIDS
  
  
• Mr. Harpal Singh
  Chairman, Save the Children Mentor & Chairman Emeritus, Fortis Healthcare (India) Limited
  
  

Note: The following are ex-officio Members of the General Body: (a) The Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; (b) The Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; (c) The Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research; and (d) One representative from the office of the Prime Minister of India ("PMO"), as may be nominated by the PMO from time to time.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

• Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy (Chairperson)
• Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia
• Ms. Mirai Chatterjee
• Dr. Gary Darmstadt
• Mr. Keshav Desiraju
• Dr. Timothy G. Evans
• Mr. Uday Nabha Khemka
• Dr. A. K. Shiva Kumar
• Mr. Gautam Kumra
• Dr. David Lynn
• Ms. Kiran Malhotra
• Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar
• Mr. Shiv Nadar
• Prof. K. Srinath Reddy
• Mr. Harpal Singh