Yogan Pillay is the Deputy Director-General for Health in South Africa. He is responsible for policy making, guiding implementation, and monitoring of national programs in HIV, TB, and maternal child and women’s health. He is also currently facilitating the implementation of a national program to re-engineer the primary health care system in South Africa.

Yogan has contributed to a large number of journal articles including co-authorship of papers on financing of HIV and AIDS programs and drug resistant TB. He is a co-author of the Textbook of International Health: Global health in a Dynamic World.

He has a PhD in health policy and planning from Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health (1992–1995). Pillay has been a member of several World Health Organization (WHO) expert committees and is currently on the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for HIV.