title: Tore Godal: pragmatic opportunist championing global public health.
abstract: Recently retired as head of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) secretariat and as a health advisor to leading global entities, Tore Godal is now a Special Advisor to the Norwegian Prime Minister. He is nevertheless continuing to fight for better global health, cogently articulating the needs of the world's poor and disadvantaged. He is a leading leprosy expert, ex-director of the world's premier agency for research and training in tropical diseases, instigator and prime mover of some global innovative public-private health sector partnerships, adept fund mobilizer, and advocate of the 'let's get it done' school of leadership. Few individuals are, therefore, more experienced or better suited for such a crucial and much-needed role.
authors.affiliation: Kitasato Institute, 5-9-1 Shirokane, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan. crumpa@easynet.co.uk
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Crump
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D014943:Global Health; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation / Q000266:history; D007918:Leprosy / Q000266:history; D009664:Norway; D011203:Poverty / Q000266:history; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*