The GAVI Alliance said it appointed Australian development expert Helen Evans as its first Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Evans will join GAVI in June after serving for the past four years as Deputy Executive Director at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. GAVI said that in this new role, Ms. Evans “will oversee the performance and management of the Alliance secretariat as it strives to expand immunisation to developing countries with the new introduction of support for pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines.”

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