Dr Brian Brink advises Anglo American plc group companies on the funding and delivery of healthcare benefits and on community health issues. Brian has a special interest in the funding, delivery and management of healthcare services and strives to enhance the role of the private sector in broadening access to sustainable, quality healthcare, particularly in developing countries.

Brian has been actively involved in HIV & AIDS issues since the mid-1980s. He is responsible for guiding Anglo American’s response to the epidemic, both in the workplace and in communities associated with the company’s operations. Anglo American sponsors one of the largest employer-based AIDS treatment programmes in the world, with approximately 3600 employees currently receiving free ARV therapy.

Brian is actively involved in addressing the challenge the HIV & AIDS epidemic poses to business. He has an active interest in gender issues in relation to HIV & AIDS, particularly the vulnerability of young women and girls to HIV infection as a consequence of their lack of access to sexual and reproductive rights.

Brian is an alternate board member for the Private Sector delegation on the board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. He is Chair of the International Women’s Health Coalition, based in New York, and a board member of the AIDS Law Project and of Discovery Holdings Ltd.