The Noma Project’s activities are led by three academic partners: the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel and the York Law School & Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York.

The research team benefits from the invaluable conceptual, methodological and operational support provided by inter-, non- and governmental partners and academic collaborators with extensive experience in the prevention, monitoring and treatment of noma and its consequences.

The project’s Advisory Board formed of world-renowned experts on noma provides our team with guidance and advice.

Non-governmental organisations and private foundations

Fondation Sentinelles, Lausanne, Switzerland

Health Frontiers Laos, Vientiane, Laos

Hilfsaktion Noma e.V., Regensburg, Germany

Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

SongES, Niamey, Niger

Winds of Hope Foundation & International No Noma Federation, Lausanne, Switzerland

Academics partners

Centre Inter-facultaire en droits de l’enfant, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Centre de recherche en santé, Burkina Faso 

Geneva Health Forum, Geneva, Switzerland

Governmental bodies

Ministry of Health, Burkina Faso

Programme National de lutte contre les maladies
bucco-dentaires et le noma, Niger

Intergovernmental partners

United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee 

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Niger

World Health Organisation, Geneva

Marie-Claude Bottineau, MD, MPH Paediatrician, formerly Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Philippe Chastonay, MD, MPH Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Cyril O. Enwonwu, ScD, PhD, MDS, BDS, Emeritus Professor Univ. of Baltimore and Paul G. Rogers Global Health Research Ambassador, Maryland, USA

Christophe Golay, PhD, MA, Senior Research Fellow and Strategic Advisor on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Switzerland

Klaas Marck, MD, PhD, FRCS, former plastic surgeon, former chairman of the Dutch Noma Foundation, Plastic Surgery, Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Reshma Susan Phillips, MSc, PhD, MPH Adjunct Faculty in Nutrition, Howard Community College and Consultant on Public Health Nutrition and Oral Health programs, Maryland, USA

Marcel Tanner, PhD, MPH Director Emeritus, Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland

Benoît Varenne, DDS, MPH, PhD Dental Officer, Global Oral Health Program, Non Communicable Diseases Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Jean Zermatten, Dr HC University of Fribourg and Geneva (Switzerland), former President of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Centre Inter-facultaire en droits de l’enfant University of Geneva, Switzerland

Jean Ziegler, former Vice-President & Member, Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food (2000-2008)