Executive Director, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems ResearchGlobal Institute for Disease Elimination
Dr Kumanan Rasanathan is the
Executive Director at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO, in Geneva.
Dr Rasanathan is a public health physician with a strong background in health policy and
systems research and extensive experience working at different levels of WHO and within the wider UN system. During his almost 25 years working in health systems, career highlights have included serving as Incident Manager for WHO for the COVID-19 response in Cambodia, helping to drive the development of the Sustainable Development Goal health agenda while at UNICEF, contributing to the work of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, co-writing the 2008 WHO World Health Report on primary health
care, and running meningococcal vaccine trials that enabled vaccine licensure and roll-out in
New Zealand.