Ilona Kickbusch is the founding director of the Global Health Centre and Chair of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland.

Ilona Kickbusch has significantly contributed to shaping the new field of global health. She brings a unique mix of practice and theory through her positions at the World Health Organization and her academic work. She is involved in many global health initiatives and contributes regularly to global health events and debates around the world. She focuses her twitter activities mainly on global health issues: @IlonaKickbusch

Ilona Kickbusch serves as

• Co-chair of UHC 2030
• principle investigator and co-chair of the Lancet FT Commission Governing Health Futures – growing up in a digital world
  www.governinghealthfutures2030.org

She serves on several important boards and Commissions:

• The WHO Independent Global High Level Commission on NCDs 
• The board of directors of FIND - Foundation for new diagnostics
• The board of the European Health Forum Gastein
• The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board hosted by WHO and the World Bank
• The global advisory council of Tobacco Free Portfolios 
• The board of Uniting to combat NTDs

Ilona Kickbusch was appointed a member of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All which was established on 13 November 2020 by the WHO Director-General to rethink how value in health and wellbeing is measured, produced, and distributed across the economy. The Council presented its report on occasion of the World Health Assembly 76 in May 2023.

The report can be downloaded here.