ALIMA honors visionary global health leader, Dr. “Bill” Pape – Alliance Awards 2025
ALIMA is thrilled to announce that the inaugural Alliance Awards: Celebrating Global Health Leadership will honor Dr. Jean-William “Bill” Pape on November 19, 2025, in New York City.
For more than four decades, Dr. Pape has built partnerships that have transformed health systems in Haiti and beyond. As founder and director of Les Centres GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, he led groundbreaking efforts in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, and most recently COVID-19 — ensuring that health solutions are not only globally informed but Haitian-led and community-driven.
Some of his many achievements include:
- Co-founding GHESKIO, one of the first institutions worldwide dedicated to HIV/AIDS research and care
- Conducting ground-breaking HIV/AIDS research, that changed WHO guidelines on the timing for antiretroviral therapy
- Forging enduring partnerships with Haiti’s Ministry of Health, Cornell University, the CDC, and global research networks to advance treatment models now scaled internationally
- Pioneering community-based responses to crises, from the 2010 earthquake and cholera outbreak to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Implementing the use of cholera vaccines amid the 2010 outbreak, which challenged previous thinking, thus changing the standard of care
- Training generations of Haitian and international health leaders while expanding access to lifesaving care for hundreds of thousands of patients each year
Dr. Pape’s work demonstrates the power of collaboration — across governments, universities, foundations, and local communities — to drive sustainable solutions in global health. His vision and leadership embody the spirit of the Alliance Awards, which recognize those who not only step forward with courage in times of crisis, but also bring others together to forge enduring partnerships to advance medical innovation.
