Agnes Binagwaho

Agnes Binagwaho joined The Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 2019.

Agnes Binagwaho is the Vice Chancellor of The University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda. She completed her MD in General Medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and her MA in Pediatrics MA at the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale. She returned to Rwanda in 1996. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from Dartmouth College and earned a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Rwanda College of Business and Economics, with her Ph.D. Dissertation titled “Children’s Right to Health in the Context of the HIV Epidemic”.

Professor Binagwaho was named Vice Chancellor of the Partners In Health initiative, at the University of Global Health Equity, in 2017. From 2002-2016, she served the Rwandan Health Sector in high-level government positions, first as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission, then as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and then for five years as the Minister of Health. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of the Practice of Global Health Delivery at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda, and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.