Ms Lara Pandya

As Team Leader for Strategic Partnerships and Communications, Lara Pandya oversees the external relations and international cooperation activities of Global Health EDCTP3, including communications and monitoring and evaluation. She is responsible for creating and nurturing collaboration and partnerships with the Member States participating in Global Health EDCTP3 and a wide variety of public and private stakeholders. This includes designing and executing joint initiatives with strategic partners and facilitating the coordination and alignment of European and African national research programmes around a joint research agenda on infectious diseases. Lara represents EDCTP in multiple cross-funder and partner initiatives and working groups, including as a member of the ESSENCE on Health Research Steering Committee since 2021. She initially joined EDCTP as a Project Officer in 2007. Lara graduated from the University of Bristol, where she completed both her bachelors and Master of Science in Geography. She subsequently obtained a Master’s in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).