Neeraj Mistry, MD, MPH, joined the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases in July 2010 as Managing Director. With a focus on advocacy and resource mobilization, he creates partnerships and bridges cross-cutting development themes to grow and strengthen the movement of controlling and eliminating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). A public health physician, Dr. Mistry was a founding member and former Vice President of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), and brings extensive experience in global health policy and programming, having worked in developing and developed countries, in the public and private sectors, across clinical practice, health policy and social development.
While at GBC, Dr. Mistry led the technical strategy of business engagement in global health and developed the Business AIDS Methodology (BAM™) and Best Practice AIDS Standard (BPAS™) and conceptualized and led GBC’s work on co-investment and public-private partnerships with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund, where he continues to support the technical review panel.
Dr. Mistry serves on the Board of African Services Committee and the International Advisory Board of the END Fund, the world’s first private philanthropic initiative to combat the seven most common NTDs. Following the completion of his medical training at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dr. Mistry focused on HIV/AIDS, occupational health, family practice and sexual and reproductive health. Dr. Mistry also worked at the National Health Service (NHS) in London and with Merck & Co. Inc. dealing with public affairs for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
He holds a Master’s degree in Health Policy and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently reading for a Master’s degree in Liberal Arts at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two daughters.
