South Africa
Dr Brey has worked in leadership positions where his core role was that of change agent. He has served as a process analyst for the Western Cape Department of Health; as internal consultant to the Deanery of the faculty of Health Sciences UCT; and as has been involved with consulting to the National Departments of Health and Higher Education. His expertise centres on improving efficiency and quality in healthcare using existing resources relating to personnel, equipment and finances. His passion is about creating impact and improving healthcare in South Africa. His qualifications and experience make him well suited to effecting real and meaningful change. His experience moves beyond the workplace and he is an active Board member for 3 organisations and vice chairperson of two provincial structures- all related to healthcare.
Zameer Brey leads the strategic coordination of the foundation’s approach to the equitable and safe use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance equity and global health and development outcomes. With the establishment of an internal AI Task Force representing the full breadth of the foundation’s focus areas, Zameer also oversees various initiatives, to include AI-related Grand Challenges grant opportunities, the establishment of an external AI advisory board and guiding principles, and the development of use cases for building an AI evidence-base in partnership with colleagues representing priority focus areas within the foundation. This work is grounded in an equitable, safe, reliable, and transparent approach to the use of AI tools in priority geographies.https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/zameer-brey
In this role, I was responsible for working with internal foundation teams and leveraging an ecosystem of partners at the country, regional and global levels at the direction of the Southern Africa regional representative to support the continent-wide spread and scale of the foundation’s programmatic priorities. The focus of the Africa team is to enable collective impact for the foundation in Africa by influencing policy and finance towards key development priorities, strengthening capacity and enabling systems for delivery, and innovating and leveraging cross-cutting enablers for impact at scale. Key Achievements: • Co-lead the first Foundation SA country plan which was formally approved and endorsed by Foundation leadership in 2021. The plan is currently in execution mode with several investments in play supporting cross cutting priorities. • Played an active technical support role to Polio, Malaria and EMR in Mozambique in configuring an investment to support cross cutting data systems investment • Played an active technical support partner to HIV in Malawi
Currently consulting to the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences; Training and lecturing at UCT Graduate School of Business -related to resource utilisation, process mapping and implementing improvements
The main purpose of this position is to develop and to direct the business and operations management of SATVI. It involves serving on the Exco and having a full mandate on all operational matters including HR, Finance, Systems, ICTS, Internal Relations and Marketing. The person will be responsible for the spectrum of strategic oversight, strategic alignment between the science and the operational elements of SATVI. The COO is also responsible for enhancing the internal organization processes and infrastructure. Through a respectful, constructive and energetic style, guided by the objectives of SATVI, the COO provides the leadership, management and vision necessary to ensure thatSATVI has the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, people and systems in place to effectively grow the organization and to ensure long term sustainability