avid is a senior public health lawyer and a health policy and governance specialist. David currently works at WHO HQ in Geneva as a lead technical specialist on health law and governance. Before joining WHO he worked as a senior official in the New Zealand Ministry of Health, and as an advisor to global health and international development agencies and an advisor to Ministries of Health in over fifty different countries across four continents. At WHO HQ, David is the global lead for the institutions and law theme at WHO HQ. In this capacity, he leads on private sector engagement for UHC, anticorruption accountability and transparency in health, UHC law and working with parliamentarians to achieve UHC. David’s day to day work involves research and the development of advice and guidance for WHO member states and providing technical assistance to WHO member states in collaboration with colleagues from WHO Regional offices and Country offices. He also is the WHO representative on the Steering Group of the Alliance for Anti-Corruption in health, technical lead and focal point for the WHO Advisory Group on the Private Sector and UHC and represents WHO on HANSHEP (Harnesing non state actors for better health for the poor). David is heavily involved in the COVID 19 response. He is currently working on anti-corruption and public health emergencies, how countries are reforming their laws to strengthen their COVID 19 response and mobilising the private sector for the COVID 19 response.