Global Health Architecture and Funding: An AMA with Visiting Professor Daniel Thornton

LSE Global Health Initiative is pleased to host Daniel Thornton for this 'Ask Me Anything' Event.

Daniel Thornton is a visiting professor in practice in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He brings more than three decades of experience at the heart of global health financing and UK government.

He is currently supporting fundraising and strategy at several international organisations, having previously led WHO’s fundraising department and spent more than a decade at Gavi, where he served as Chief of Staff and helped establish and fund COVAX. Across these roles, he has played a central part in raising more than $27 billion for global health. His policy experience includes senior positions in the UK government, including at No.10 Downing Street, HM Treasury, and the Foreign Office.

Daniel will speak about the discussions underway about the global health architecture, the potential for AI wealth to provide the next wave of philanthropy in international development and global health, and about potential pathways into global health careers. The event will be designed as an 'Ask Me Anything,' an opportunity for LSE students interested in global health can ask questions and engage in an informal dialogue with Daniel.

The event will be chaired by GHI co-chair, Dr Philipa Mladovsky (Associate Professor in Health and International Development).

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