Speaker Profile

BIOGRAPHY

Precious Matsoso is the former Director-General of the South African National Department of Health. She was the World Health Organisation Director of Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property. She was the Head of the Medicines Control Council for six years. She has served on various advisory bodies both nationally and internationally and is Chair of the WHO Executive Board, a member of the UN High-Level Panel on Access to Health Technologies, and Chairperson of the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme. She served as a member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. She is currently the Director of the Health Regulatory Science Platform, a division of the Wits Health Consortium, and was an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of the Witwatersrand. She is a member of the Interim Executive Committee of the College for Africa Regulatory Science Professionals (CARSP). She is the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body for a pandemic agreement. She was appointed Adjunct Professor at Sunway University, Malaysia. She is the recipient of the South African MRC Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. She is currently chairing the G20 Health Working Group negotiations of the Declaration.