Heidi J. Larson, PhD, Chair and Co-Founder of the Global Listening Project.
“As the channels for discourse continue to evolve, somehow they manage to deteriorate at the same time. In the age of digital information, it seems the more we have at our fingertips, the further we are pushed apart. The Global Listening Project is working to overcome polarisation by seeking common ground.”
The Global Listening Project was co-founded and is chaired by Heidi J. Larson, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Pierre Van Damme, Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Initial funding for the project has been generously provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and GlaxoSmithKline.
If you are interested in providing financial support to the project, you can do so via our fiscal sponsor, KBFUS.
International Advisory Board
Professor Heidi Larson, Founder and Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, and Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Co-Founder and Chair, The Global Listening Project
Professor Pierre Van Damme, Full Professor, University of Antwerp, Board Member and Co-Founder, The Global Listening Project
Ann Aerts, M.D, Head of the Novartis Foundation
Dr. Irene Agyepong, Full-time Faculty in the Department of Health Policy, Planning, and Management, University of Ghana School of Public Health
Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Professor of the History of Medicine, Leeds University
Dr. Charbel El Bcheraoui, Head of Evidence-Based Public Health, Center for International Health Protection at Robert Koch Institute
Dr. David Bersoff, Head of Research, Edelman Trust Institute
David Blazes, Deputy Director, Vaccine Development & Surveillance – Modelling and Pathogen Genomic Sequencing, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Thomas Bollyky, Global Health Program Director, Council of Foreign Relations, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Luc Debruyne, Strategic Advisor to the CEO, CEPI, Former President of Vaccines, GSK, Board Member, The Global Listening Project
Serge Dumont, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, ImpactWayv Inc, Former Vice Chairman, Omnicom
Professor Stefanie C. Friedhoff, Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University
Professor Emmanuela Gakidou, Professor of Health Metrics Sciences and the Director of Health Systems at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington
Dr. Bruce Gellin, Chief of Global Public Health Strategy, Rockefeller Foundation
Dr. Kenneth Hartigan-Go, Head of Zuellig School of Development Management
Dr. Johanna Hanefeld, Head of Department Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch- Institute
Kathryn Hashey, Director, Government Affairs (Vaccines), GSK
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Assistant Director-General, WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence
Minne Iwamoto, Director, Global Health, GSK
Dr. Nagham El Karhili, Program Associate, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)
Professor Patricia Kingori, Professor of Global Health Ethics at Ethox (Oxford Population Health), University of Oxford
Chor Pharn Lee, Principal Foresight Analyst, Centre for Strategic Futures
Nancy Lee, Programme Director, Global Health and Health Policy, Wilton Park, Board Member, The Global Listening Project
Professor Gabriel Leung, Former Dean of Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Executive Director, Charities and Community, The Hong Kong Jockey Club
Dr. Joanne Liu, Former International President, Médecins sans Frontières, Professor at the School of Population and Global Health, McGill University
Professor Rafael Lozano, Professor of Health Metrics Sciences and the Director of Health Systems at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington
Steffen Pierini Lüders, Senior Vice President, Communication, Public Affairs, and International Collaboration, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Dr. Gustavo Matta, Public Health Researcher, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Nick Moon, Secretary, British Polling Council
Professor Hitoshi Oshitani, Professor of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Ben Plumley, Co-chair, MTV Staying Alive foundation
Prasada Rao, Special Envoy, The UN Secretary General
Andrew Rosen, Senior Director, Integrated Evidence Team Leader, Moderna
Yan Sergerie, Director (Global Medical Affairs, Vaccines), GSK
Mariana Servin, Head of Global Insights (Respiratory Vaccines), Moderna
Dr. Monica Schoch-Spana, Medical Anthropologist and Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Caitlin Semo, Head of Partnerships, Edelman Trust Institute
Elhadj As Sy, Chair of the Board, Kofi Annan Foundation
Beatriz da Costa Thomé, Physician, Preventive Medicine Department, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Tamara Giles-Vernick, Permanent Researcher, Anthropology and Ecology of Disease Emergence, Institut Pasteur
Ivo Vojtek, Head of Medical and Development Vaccines (Japan), GSK
Marloes Van Wouw, Senior Project Manager (R&D), GSK
Dr. Erin Saltman, Director of Programming, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)
Dr. Mathuram Santosham, M.D, Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Indigenous Health, Johns Hopkins University