GALVmed's board members are drawn from a wide range of public bodies, private institutions including pharmaceutical companies, and non-governmental organisations from around the world.

Chairman
Dr Shadrack Moephuli

Vice-Chair Professor Julie Fitzpatrick - Chair, Technical Sub-Committee & Member, Global Access Sub-Committee

Board Members

• Dr Pierre-Marie Borne - Chair, Global Access Sub-Committee
• Amanda Caine - Chair, Finance & Audit Sub-Committee
• Dr Narayan Hegde Chair of South Asian Regional Advisory Committee
• Dr Ashok Pande
• Professor Funso Sonaiya
• Dr Karim Tounkara
• Dr Peter Wells

Observers

Observers at board meetings are drawn from government and development, corporate and academic organisations- they provide information to the board:

• African Union/Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources - AU/IBAR
• BMGF
• FARM-Africa
• Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations - FAO
• IFAH
• ILRI
• Merial
• MSD Animal Health
• Pfizer
• UK Department for International Development-DFID
• World Organisation for Animal Health - OIE

Staff list

Partners

GALVmed has developed partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), government organisations and international agencies and foundations. These partnerships are vital to GALVmed's existence and the success of its mission. GALVmed strives to ensure that its decisions are driven by regular dialogue with community stakeholders.

In September 2011, GALVmed had in place:

• 128 partnerships
• 82 legal agreements
• 45 pending agreements with more coming on-stream all the time

 
Founder Members

• FARM-Africa
• ILRI
• Merial
• MSD Animal Health
• Pfizer

Members

• BSAS
• CEVA
• IDEXX
• IFAH
• Moredun Research Institute
• NESPOD
• VetAid

Patron: Mr Midge Ure

Multi-award winning musician Midge Ure has made a historic contribution to international development aid. In 1984, 36 artists gathered under Mr Ure's production as the world's most famous one-off group, Band Aid. Band Aid recorded 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' a song that Ure wrote with Bob Geldof as the industry's contribution to Ethiopian famine relief. In the first week, 600,000 copies of the song were sold in the UK alone, 800,000 more were bought in the second week, and more than three million worldwide. This led to Live Aid, the summer 1985 global concert. Within months, 8 million GBP had been raised for people who were starving. Geldof said that without Ure's initial enthusiasm for the idea, neither Band Aid nor Live Aid could have happened. GALVmed is delighted that Midge Ure is its Patron.