Thoko Elphick-Pooley is the Executive Director of Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (Uniting) and Co-Chair of the G7 Taskforce on Global Health. Thoko also serves as a member of the advisory board of Goalkeepers, a community of changemakers advancing the global Sustainable Development Goals for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Born and educated in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in business administration and international development. Thoko has a wealth of experience in strategic leadership, partnership development and institutional relations. Uniting is a unique and powerful coalition of global health institutions, pharmaceutical companies, international non-governmental organisations, philanthropic organisations, donor countries and the governments of countries in which NTDs are endemic, working together to end the suffering caused by NTDs.