The World Hepatitis Alliance is pleased to announce Cary James as its new CEO. Cary brings decades of experience in public health programmes and health policy at national and international levels. He has worked extensively in hepatitis and HIV response, having developed innovative and successful campaigns and collaborated with numerous civil society organisations during his time as a member of the leadership team at the UK’s Terrence Higgins Trust. He has been part of international advisory panels and expert groups on diagnostics, digital communications, health equality, hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis and sexual health.
Dr Su Wang has been appointed WHA president-elect. She is an internal medicine physician who discovered she had hepatitis B after donating blood in college, and has used her personal experience to advocate for the elimination of hepatitis. She worked in New York for many years, leading outreach and care programmes for hepatitis B patients, and now directs a number of hepatitis B and C programmes in her current role as medical director for the Center for Asian Health at New Jersey's Saint Barnabas Medical Center. Su will shadow current president Michael Ninburg until January 2020, when she will take up the role.
