Precious Matsoso

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 regulatory authority of South Africa for six years. She has served on various advisory bodies both nationally and internationally and was chair of the WHO executive board. She served as 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 was a member of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems, co-chair of the WHO Digital Health Advisory Group and 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 an honorary lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of the Witwatersrand. She is the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body for the development of a legal instrument, a Pandemic Convention, or Treaty. She is appointed adjunct professor at Sunway University, Malaysia.