Dr Mary Moran
Director, Health Policy Division
Dr Mary Moran trained as a medical doctor, working for 13 years in Emergency Medicine in Australia. A post-graduate degree in international relations and politics at University of NSW and Monash University (1995) led her into a diplomatic career with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, including a posting to London where she specialised in environmental issues and international trade. Mary subsequently worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres, initially as Director of the Access to Essential Medicines Campaign in Australia and later as a Europe-based advocate on issues relating to access to medicines for neglected patients. In 2004, she founded the Pharmaceutical R&D Policy Project (PRPP) at the London School of Economics & Political Science and supervised its relocation to The George Institute for International Health, Sydney, in 2006 where it was consolidated as the Health Policy Division, with Mary as Director.
Mary is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has participated in numerous Workings Groups and Committees examining neglected diseases, including the WHO Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH); the Rockefeller Health Innovation Systems in Developing Countries Working Group; and the European Union "Priority Medicines for Europe and the World" project. She has been an adviser to the European Commission; and is a member of the Scientific Review Committee of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership Programme, and the Healthcare Council of the Gerson Lehrman Group.