Dr Muhammad Mukhtar is the Director in the Directorate of Malaria Control (DoMC); focal person for control of malaria vectors, author of national vector control policy & guidelines. He is an entomologits/vector control specialist. Also working as Incharge Research & Development Wing-DoMC; Ex-Head of Department of Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Divisions-National Institute of Health-Pakistan.

Amita joins from The Power of Nutrition as the Head of Asia (Partnerships and Brand) and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she led all programmes in India as Country Director. In this role, she was responsible for evaluating new opportunities, setting up partnerships, fundraising and managing all aspects of operations in the country. She was responsible for building and maintaining strategic relationships with pharmaceutical partners in India and facilitated access to lower prices for pediatric anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to more than 70 countries in the developing world.

She also served as the Head-South Asia, Strategy and Partnerships at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the largest private philanthropy in the UK. In this role, she provided strategic direction in developing CIFF’s investment portfolio in the region across the health, education and nutrition sectors.

She serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Biltech Building Elements Limited, an Avantha Group company and has over 16 years of experience across management functions in the public and private sectors. She has also worked in the commercial banking and credit rating industry. She is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Leo is a medical entomologist, having spent most of his life in Africa. He moved to Asia in early 2019 where he now works for Malaria Consortium as Senior Vector Control Specialist, supporting malaria and dengue vector control projects in mainly Cambodia and Myanmar. He is also Co-Chair and Technical Lead for the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) Vector Control Working Group (VCWG), and through that platform supports the development and implementation of various vector control capacity-building interventions for NMCP’s and other institutions in Asia Pacific. Leo believes that as malaria recedes in impact and importance in Asia in the decade ahead, dengue is going to emerge as a serious public health threat which deserves early attention.

Dr Kevin Kobylinski is a Medical Entomologist based at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Entomology. He has a PhD in Microbiology from Colorado State University and an MS in Medical Entomology from the University of Florida. He has spent the last several years developing the concept of ivermectin mass drug administration for malaria parasite transmission suppression, with keen interest on integration of malaria and neglected tropical disease control efforts. During his PhD he demonstrated the impact of ivermectin mass drug administration on malaria transmission in Southeastern Senegal. He has characterized the ivermectin susceptibility and sporontocidal impact on important Anopheles from the Greater Mekong Subregion, Africa, and South America in laboratory studies and clinical trials, and is collaborating with Mahidol University to evaluate the impact of ivermectin mass drug administration on Plasmodium transmission in Southern Thailand.

Dr Muhammad Mukhtar is the Director in the Directorate of Malaria Control (DoMC); focal person for control of malaria vectors, author of national vector control policy & guidelines. He is an entomologits/vector control specialist. Also working as Incharge Research & Development Wing-DoMC; Ex-Head of Department of Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Divisions-National Institute of Health-Pakistan.

Dr Muhammad Mukhtar is the Director in the Directorate of Malaria Control (DoMC); focal person for control of malaria vectors, author of national vector control policy & guidelines. He is an entomologits/vector control specialist. Also working as Incharge Research & Development Wing-DoMC; Ex-Head of Department of Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Divisions-National Institute of Health-Pakistan.