Agnes BINAGWAHO

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD is the retired Vice Chancellor and co-founder of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. She is a Rwandan paediatrician who returned to Rwanda in 1996, two years after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Previously, she has served the Rwandan health sector in high-level government positions, first as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission, then as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and lastly as Minister of Health. 

She is a Professor of Pediatrics at UGHE, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. 

She is a member of multiple editorial, advisory and directors’ boards, including the Think20, the Rockefeller Foundation, the African Europe Foundation and the African Union Commission on African COVID-19 Response. 

Professor Binagwaho is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the World Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. She is an Emerson Elder and has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and was named among the 100 Most Influential African Women for 2020 and 2021.