Tikki Pang

Professor Tikki PANG is an Indonesian citizen and is presently a senior academic at a leading university in Asia. He was formerly Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland (1999-2012). He has held senior academic positions at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, including as Professor of Biomedical Sciences. He holds a PhD in Immunology from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK), American Academy of Microbiology (USA), and Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. He has published >250 scientific articles, and was lead author on several major WHO reports including the World Health Report 2013: Research for Universal Health Coverage (2013), Knowledge for Better Health (2004) and Genomics and World Health (2002). Professor Pang has a recognisable profile as a global health expert and his research interests are in the fields of infectious diseases, biosecurity, global health governance, linkages between research and policy, and harm reduction approaches to mitigate health problems.