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Trustees
meningitis research foundation

Job Description

In September 2018 the MRF Board conducted a skills and board review and identified the need to increase its diversity and experience. We are, therefore, seeking 4-6 new Trustees to join the existing Board of 10 members.

In 2016, globally, meningitis and sepsis together were still the second biggest infectious killers of children under 5s and now kill more children in that age group than malaria. Progress against meningitis has been far slower in the last decade than for other leading killers such as measles, AIDS, tetanus and diarrhea. And if you do get meningitis and survive, your chances of having life-long severe disabilities as a result are very high.

In order to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of ‘leaving no one behind’ and ‘health and wellbeing’, the worldwide challenge of meningitis must be addressed.

Recognising this, two years ago MRF started campaigning for a new World Health Organization global roadmap aiming to defeat meningitis by 2030. The call was heard, and MRF is now a key member of a global task force that will deliver this new plan to the World Health Assembly in May 2020. The task force includes WHO, PATH, Centers for Disease Control, UNICEF, Medecins sans Frontieres, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. We are also implementing a new programme in Uganda building on our experience strengthening health systems in Malawi.

In this context, the MRF Board recognises the desirability of diversifying our Board to ensure that the much enlarged scope of our work has the necessary level of oversight and governance. We are also committed to ensuring that the diverse constituencies we serve are represented in our primary decision making body.

There has never been a more exciting time to become involved in the work of MRF. 

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