| Dr Joel Keravec |
Dr Joel Keravec has come on board as manager ad interim of Global Drug Facility. Keravec has 22 years of experience as a public health consultant and project manager in Latin America, Africa and Europe, for UNDP, UNESCO, and Management Sciences for Health (MSH), the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PAHO and the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
Keravac’s technical areas of expertise include pharmaceutical management, product quality assurance and international quality standards for drugs, quality testing for laboratories, selection of essential medicines for standardised TB treatment, improved policy and regulatory environments for essential medicines and improved product management information systems.
Since 2004, Keravec has been MSH’s Office Director in Brazil where he managed an eight-year technical assistance and capacity building programme for strengthening DOTS implementation and MDR-TB control, for which the e-TB Manager system (www.etbmanager.org) was developed. He also previously served as Deputy Director of the National Institute for Health Quality and Control, Brazil, where he managed all aspects of a national reference laboratory for the Brazilian Food and Drug Administration/ Anvisa.
A doctor of veterinary medicine, Keravec is a graduate of the National Veterinary School of Nantes, France and also holds PhD in epidemiology from the Medical Faculty of Nantes and Pasteur Institute. Additionally he holds a Masters in business administration from the Institut Supérieur des Affaires, Groupe HEC, Paris.
Keravac has served as a GDF Technical Review Committee member since 2010 and as a member of the global Green Light Committee (gGLC).
EP News Bureau – Mumbai