Cintia Dantas

Cintia is a public health professional with over 10 years of experience in governments, multilateral technical agencies, non-governmental organizations and multiple international forums. She has post graduate qualifications in international cooperation ad public health and has a particular interest in political mobilization, access to health and social justice. Previous to working at Unitaid, Cintia worked at the Global Fund, the Global TB Caucus (a political network of TB advocacy) and the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

Matthew Black

Matthew joined Unitaid in 2021 to oversee a portfolio of malaria grants, with over 20 years’ of experience working in development settings including more than 15 years advising and managing public, private and Civil Society projects in the Sub-Saharan African health sector. Before Unitaid, Matthew managed a series of Global Fund grants on HIV, TB, malaria and COVID-19  at the Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia, where he was seconded from GIZ.  He holds post-graduate qualifications in both International Development and Health Economics.

Amélie Drillet

Before joining Unitaid, Amélie has mainly worked on resource mobilization, and partnership management for international NGOs and for the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, both at HQ and field level (Iraq, Afghanistan, and Tanzania).

Originally from France, she holds a master’s degree in European Studies and International Relations from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Strasbourg (Sciences Po Strasbourg) and a master’s degree in Political Sciences from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon).

Maxime Paquin

Maxime is a Canadian communication professional who specializes in digital marketing, multimedia, and strategic communication. He is adept at building and implementing strategies to improve brand awareness, online presence, and audience engagement. Prior to joining Unitaid, Maxime held communication roles with UNICEF, the UN Environment Programme, NGO BirdLife International, media conglomerate Next Digital, to name but a few.

Judith Polsky

Judith has over 20 years experieince in programme maagement, partnerships and resource mobilization. Before joining Unitaid in 2016, Judith served as senior adviser, external relations at UNAIDS, programme adviser on women and girls at UNAIDS, and programme officer, health at UNICEF. Judith has a background in public health, During the pandemic, she worked with the Access to Covid Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator) based at WHO to help coordinate donor engagement across global health agencies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Univeristy of Pennsylvania and a master’s in business and public policy from Yale University.  She is from the United States.

Eva Nathanson

Eva brings 20 years of public health experience with WHO, Sida, and Unitaid. She currently leads Unitaid’s initiative on inclusive, demand-driven partnerships. Previously, she coordinated Unitaid’s health innovation portfolios on malaria and tuberculosis. Eva also supported WHO in building political momentum on antimicrobial resistance through a UN Interagency Coordination Group. As a Health Advisor at Sida in Zambia, she managed health development cooperation efforts and worked to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health. From 1998 to 2014, she contributed to WHO’s tuberculosis programme across the former Soviet Union, Myanmar, and WHO Headquarters. Originally from Sweden, Eva holds MSc degrees in Molecular Biology and in Health, Development, and Environment.

Mārtiņš Pāvelsons

Mārtiņš, originally from Latvia, has more than 25 years’ experience working with UN organizations, specializing in public health issues. Before joining Unitaid in 2016, Mārtiņš worked in strategy, policy and governance positions at UNAIDS, TB Department of WHO and Roll Back Malaria Partnership.

Momcilo Orlovic

Momcilo draws on his background as a cognitive psychologist to engage and expand Unitaid’s digital audience. “I’m always thinking about how people perceive and process visual information,” says Momcilo, who creates and curates communications materials for Unitaid’s website and social media. Before joining Unitaid in 2011, Momcilo worked in communications at international organisations including UNHCR, WHO and UNAIDS, in the private sector with Hewlett-Packard spinoff Agilent Technologies, and as a teacher at the University of Geneva, showing students how to create and publish digital content. Momcilo, a dual citizen of Serbia and Switzerland, holds a master’s degree in psychology.