Executive Committee

Here’s the list of members of the Global Network for Health in All Policies (GNHiAP) Executive Committee.

Tipicha Posayanonda

Assistant Secretary-General of the National Health Commission
Director of Knowledge and Innovation Management Department
National Health Commission Office of Thailand (NHCO)

Peter Beznec

Director
Centre for Health and Development
Murska Sobota

Peter has over 20 years of experience as a project manager and has served as Director of the Centre for Health and Development Murska Sobota since 2014. He is also a PhD candidate in Health Sciences at the Angela Boškin Faculty of Health Care, in Slovenia. Among his many areas of expertise, his coordination and leadership skills have been demonstrated in several health and development projects with the WHO. He also has extensive experience in international projects, including his collaboration as a part of an expert consultation group for an information paper on Policies to Address Social Determinants of Health. Peter is a member of the WHO Regions for Health Network Steering Group focused on approaches to health and development.

Nicole Valentine

Technical Officer & Programme Lead
Equity/Social Determinants of Health
World Health Organization (WHO)

Lauri Kokkinen

Co-director
WHO Collaborating Centre on Health in All Policies
and the Social Determinants of Health
Tampere University

Lauri has extensive experience in Health in All Policies (HiAP) at both national and local levels, including serving on the Finnish inter-ministerial Advisory Board for Public Health. Lauri co-directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health in All Policies and the Social Determinants of Health at Tampere University in Finland. His theoretical expertise focuses on the institutional foundations of population health and wellbeing, making him an institutionalist. Methodologically, he employs a diverse range of approaches, often utilizing data from registers, questionnaires, interviews, and documents in his research.

Julian Fisher

Director
German registered non-governmental organization
Zero Water Day Partnership (ZWDP)

Julian is a policy advisor and educator with focused expertise in social and environmental determinants of health, health in all policies and multisectoral action, health security, and capacity development for sustainable development.

Julian is Director of German registered non-governmental organization Zero Water Day Partnership (ZWDP) which is a member of the UN Mountain Partnership. ZWDP is a co-sponsor of the Children’s Call to Action to protect mountain areas from the impact of climate change and is lead organization for the ‘Saving the World’s Water Towers’ campaign. ZWDP is cooperation partner with the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations, supporting policy work on sustainable mountain tourism and guiding with a focus on health equity. ZWDP has hosted side events at the UN Water Conference 2023 and at COP Climate Conferences.

Julian’s work experience covers a diverse range of professional domains including international public health policy and advocacy (consultancies for UN agencies including WHO, UNESCO & UNEP), health profession (federation) management, health workforce undergraduate and post-graduate education, as well as primary and secondary school education.

Julian is co-editor of the WHO publication Integrating the social determinants of health into health workforce education and training. He leads international HiAP and SDH summer schools at universities around the world.

Horacio Arruda
GNHiAP Chairperson

Assistant Deputy Minister
Health Promotion and Prevention
Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec

Dr. Arruda is a medical specialist in public health and preventive medicine. For many years, he focused on field epidemiology as well as prevention and control of infectious diseases.

From 2012 to 2022, he served as the National Director of Public Health at the Québec Department of Health and Social Services. He was a leader in the fields of infectious and communicable diseases, nosocomial infections, occupational and environmental health, emergency measures, as well as health promotion and prevention.

It was also under his leadership that the first Governmental Health Prevention Policy – 2015-2025 (PGPS) was launched. This policy and its resulting action plan were the first of their kind in North America in the field of preventive medicine. It was designed as a global governmental approach for stakeholders to include prevention in all decision making. Since June 2022, Dr Arruda has served as the ambassador of the PGPS.

Dr. Arruda also contributes to making Québec shine internationally. Notably, he is President of the Global Network for Health in All Policies (GNHiAP), created at the 70th WHO Annual Assembly in May 2017.

Charlotte Marchandise

Executive Director European Public Health Association (EUPHA

Gladys Mugambi

Acting Head of the Directorate of
Health Promotion and Education,
Ministry of Health, Kenya

Carmel Williams

Director
Centre for Health in All Policies Research Translation
Health and Medical Research Institute
School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide

Debashis Basu

Clinical and Academic Head of Public Health Medicine
Steve Biko Academic Hospital
University of Pretoria

Julia Caplan

Executive Director
State of Equity
Public Health Institute

Julia is the Executive Director of State of Equity, a program which seeks to “move racial equity and health to the heart of public institutions.” In this role, Julia and her team have spent nearly 14 years working with over 60 state agencies, departments, and offices to build collaborative partnerships and incorporate racial equity, health equity, and environmental sustainability considerations into decision making and government operations. This includes launching the California Health in All Policies Task Force in 2010, the Capitol Collaborative on Race and Equity (CCORE) in 2017, and now building a national strategy for racial equity in state governments across the United States. Julia holds master’s degrees in public policy and public health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Kelsey Lucyk

Manager
Health Equity Policy Directorate,
Public Health Agency of Canada

Kelsey has a background in population and public health. She works out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where she oversees a team that is dedicated to working across sectors and advancing the conditions for success required for HIAP governance. To date, her team has brought health perspectives into key whole-of-government initiatives, such as wellbeing policy (Quality of Life Framework for Canada) and federal Impact Assessment. The team also supports knowledge exchange among HIAP practitioners in Canada (Canadian Network for Health in All Policies) and was responsible for launching PHAC’s first community funding program dedicated to upstream, intersectoral action on the social determinants of health (Intersectoral Action Fund).