Dr. Anban Pillay is the Deputy Director General at the National Department of Health in South Africa. His currently responsibilities relate to Health Regulation and Compliance He has served in various roles at the National Department of Health over the past 20 years. These include development of pharmaceutical policies on medicine registration, treatment guidelines, medicine formularies, procurement, and service delivery strategies. He has also been instrumental in the developmental of the Universal Health Coverage (National Health Insurance) policy and its legislative development in South Africa.





He currently serves on the Pandemic Fund Board and has previously served on a number of Global Bodies including the World Health Organization (Co-Chair Essential Medicines Committee, Advisory Committee on Medicine Pricing), Medicines Patent Pool (Board member), Global Fund (Market Dynamics Advisory group), UNICEF (Procurement advisory group) and Health Action International (Advisory Committee). Most recently he co-chaired the ACT Accelerator which was a WHO mechanism to foster collaboration and accelerate development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines.





Dr. Anban Pillay holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy (University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa), master’s in clinical pharmacology (Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa) and PhD (University of Newcastle, Australia). He is extensively published in peer reviewed journals and book chapters.