Change Management

GAVI is undergoing significant organisational change following Board decisions to merge the Alliance and Fund Boards. Although the unique partnership of GAVI will remain unchanged, governance is being fundamentally revamped and an application has gone to the Swiss authorities for the GAVI Foundation to become an international institution, with immunities and privileges similar to other international agencies in Geneva. A new human resource regime will be put in place, and all systems and procedures will be redesigned. Part of the change process will be to build on the best of what already exists.

Dr Carole Presern, Director, Change Management
Dr Carole Presern joined GAVI in March 2008 as Director, Change Management. Prior to this Carole worked as Counsellor at the UK Mission in Geneva, covering specialised agencies, health and humanitarian affairs. She was UK and Australia Board Member at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria for four years, a founding Board Member for the UK of UNITAID, and worked closely with WHO, UNAIDS and other agencies. Carole has worked for more than 18 years in developing countries. For DFID, Carole has worked in Zimbabwe (covering several countries) as a regional health adviser and Africa AIDS Adviser. She has also worked in Pakistan, and Nepal. Other posts have included Director of VSO Nepal for several years, and consultancies for multilateral organisations. Carole has a doctorate in public health policy, and qualifications in anthropology, nursing and midwifery. She is also Vice Chair of the International HIV Alliance..