Kiran J. Agarwal-Harding

Kiran J. Agarwal-Harding is a chief orthopedic surgery resident at the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency Program. His clinical interests are in trauma and upper extremity surgery. His research interests are in the delivery of affordable and high-quality orthopedic trauma care in low-resource settings. He founded and directs the Harvard Global Orthopedics Collaborative, a group of orthopedic surgeons and trainees with a shared interest in sustainably improving orthopedic care delivery for poor and marginalized people. He is a former post-doctoral research fellow at The Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and a Global Surgery Research Associate at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School. He received his B.S. at Stanford University in Biomechanical Engineering, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Jane Aronson

Jane Aronson is a pediatrician and a sought-after child health advocate with a lifetime of collaborative experiences in the nonprofit, academic, and private sector. Her medical specialties include HIV/AIDS, adoption medicine, pediatric infectious diseases, and global behavioral health.  Adept at building infrastructure for systems change, Jane successfully founded and managed a nonprofit, Worldwide Orphans, for 22 years. Her global team served over 150,000 children in 20 countries and under her leadership, 62 toy libraries were established in Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Haiti, Vietnam, and the United States. She also deployed over 412 service learners called “Orphan Rangers” to mentor trademarked Element of Play programs providing art, camp, crafts, dance, music, sport, theater, writing programs building in-country capacity and sustainability. Today, as Director of Global Behavioral Health Network for Children and Young People, Jane envisions more for kids who live in foster care around the world and she consults with orphanages in order to provide better health care for special needs children.

In addition to running several successful medical practices in both academic and private practice settings, Jane has been a visiting professor and guest lecturer at many universities and medical schools including, SUNY-Stony Brook, Cornell Weill Medicine, Columbia University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Mount Sinai, UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine, Rutgers Medical School, NYU Langone, Tufts School of Medicine, SUNY Downstate.

David Aylward

David Aylward is an expert on the intersection of social innovation, public policy, communications and IT, finance, and related fields on US and global health, particularly in understanding and designing the new complex coalitions and systems required for innovation and systemic transformation. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Colorado and a Senior Advisor to the Farley Center where he is focused on the design of systems to help challenged communities thrive. He is assisting with a new initiative to address gross health disparities and transform the wellbeing of targeted communities in the Denver region on behalf of the University and its partners. David has directed global health programs for Ashoka and the United Nations Foundation. He has extensive experience with business and non-profit startups. David has a BA in Government from Dartmouth College, and a JD with High Honors from George Washington University Law School where he was a member of the Law Review.

Dan Berelowitz

Dan Berelowitz founded Spring Impact based on his experiences working across a range of social sector organizations, and his frustration on seeing great ideas not scaling up. With Spring Impact, Dan has developed scale strategies, innovation and implementation plans with over 150 organisations ranging from Skoll Awardees to GlaxoSmithKline, Shell Foundation and its investments, Oxfam to a number of leading social businesses. Dan is always looking for the next proven social innovation that deserves to scale up.

A regular presenter and writer, Dan is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a Clore Social Leadership Fellow and a Rothschild Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He graduated from the University of Nottingham and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Global Leadership and Public Policy Executive Program.

Jim Bildner

Jim Bildner is the CEO of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.  Jim is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Institute for Civil Society and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University.  Jim is a trustee of The Kresge Foundation and Chair of its Investment Committee. He serves on the board of Public Citizen Foundation, CAST, Education SuperHighway, OpenBiome, Open Up Resources, The GroundTruth Project, Climate Central, Service Year Alliance, Education Pioneers, Landed, Inc., UpTrust, Healthy Americas Foundation, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Dallas Symphony Association, Perez Art Museum Miami, and on the Board of Advisors of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College.  He is a Trustee Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, an Overseer Emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a member of the Board of Overseers of WBUR (Boston Public Radio), and a trustee emeritus of the Lizard Island Research Foundation in Australia.  He is a member of Young Presidents/World Presidents Organization and a member of the Chief Executives Organization.

In his board service, Jim serves on the Investment Committees of boards with aggregate endowments in excess of $4B as well as a member of numerous finance, investment, and/or audit committees of these boards.   Jim’s government service included an appointment by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Advisory Panel on Medicare Education for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Jeffrey Blander

Jeffrey Blander is a leapfrog innovator, strategic disruptor, and transformation specialist. Jeff is recognized for his exemplary leadership, innovative mindset, communication skills, and proven track record of success. Embedded within his DNA, is the belief in the game-changing power of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors working together. That by doing so, as local and global communities, we can reimagine sustainable financing for public health delivery systems, aggressively deploy new medical technologies, and accelerate equitable access to lifesaving services.

Jeff has over 25 years of professional experience and brings a unique perspective in shaping new ideas to tackle our biggest global challenges. Experience includes: Current positions as the Chief Innovation Officer and Coordinator, PEPFAR Program Management at the U.S. Department of State, supporting the global battle against two pandemics for HIV/AIDS and COVID-19.

Jeff received his Doctorate and Masters Degrees from The Harvard School of Public Health and his Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Tricia Bolender

Tricia Bolender is a strategy consultant and executive coach who works with leaders who are changing the world. Her coaching bridges head and heart, helping clients lead courageously and be more loyal to their dreams than to their fears.

She received her BA from Harvard University and MBA from Columbia Business School. She is passionate about authentic leadership and living a purpose-driven life, and has spoken on this topic at TEDx, Yale, MIT, Columbia, and at the Unite For Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference for the last ten years.

Pam Bolton

Pam Bolton is a reproductive, maternal, and child health expert who has worked extensively in Africa, Latin America, and India. Fifteen years into a public health career, she paused to earn an MBA and began seeking ways to increase private sector engagement in global health. Currently, she is Senior Vice President, Global Health, and Head of Partnerships with Tech Care for All, a social enterprise founded in 2018 that develops and sells digital health solutions for patients and healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.  From 2014-7 she was Vice President for Global Health and Innovation with Concern Worldwide U.S., where she directed a Gates-funded initiative to find and test creative ways to improve the health of mothers and children in resource-poor settings. She has also worked for Pfizer and for the Global Business Coalition on Health.

Elizabeth H. Bradley

Elizabeth H. Bradley has served as President of Vassar College since July 2017. In that time, she has led the College to establish new programs and partnerships in India, Rwanda, and China to bring the model of liberal arts higher education to these settings. In addition, Vassar has collaborated with Columbia University to create a 5-year BA-MPH program for Vassar students. She has most recently served on Governor Cuomo’s NY Forward Re-Opening Advisory Committee and helped draft the guidelines for New York higher education re-opening in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is a noted public health expert who created the first Masters of Health Administration on the African continent with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and pioneered a model of scale up with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to becoming the President of Vassar, she was on the faculty at Yale for more than twenty years and was most recently the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy and Faculty Director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute. Her research has focused on quality of hospital care and large-scale health system strengthening efforts within the US and abroad including in China, India, Ethiopia, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda, and the United Kingdom. She has published more nearly 320 peer-reviewed papers and has co-authored three books including The American Healthcare Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less. She is the 2018 recipient of the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.  She is a member of the Council of Foreign Affairs.

Elizabeth graduated phi beta kappa from Harvard in economics magna cum laude, earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in health economics from Yale University.

Ned Breslin

Ned Breslin has led a series of national and global initiatives that have rethought outcomes, made it impossible to leave anyone behind and ultimately changed funding flows from philanthropic investment to sustained public finance.  He is a winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2011) and is breaking into new areas once again. 

Christina Briegleb

Christina Briegleb is a global development leader with 15 years of experience in thoughtful program design and execution, mixed-methods research, and effective capacity building of individuals and organizations to lead change. She is Senior Director of Global Programs at We Care Solar where she leads a team of 8 staff in 5 countries, oversees implementation of 4 country-wide initiatives, and is responsible for coordination of all program and research activities.  Previously she has worked for the University of California San Francisco, Harvard School of Public Health, University of Sydney, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and has lived in both Tanzania and Ghana. She holds a Masters of Public Health from the University of New South Wales.

Kelly Brownell

Kelly Brownell is Director of the World Food Policy Center at Duke University, where he is also Robert L. Flowers Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. From 2013-2018 he served as Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke.

Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, Kelly was at Yale University where he was the James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. While at Yale he served as Chair of the Department of Psychology and as Master of Silliman College.

He has published 15 books and more than 350 scientific articles and chapters. He has served as President of several national organizations, including the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

Cal Bruns

Cal Bruns. In his first career, Cal spent 20 years across 5 continents as a highly awarded creative director with a global advertising agency Leo Burnett. Fifteen years ago he pivoted to co-found Africa's first Human-Centered Design firm, Matchboxology. By bringing those communities and individuals closest to challenges into the problem-solving process, they've helped global brands like Levi's® and international donors like USAID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve our impact in public health, enterprise development, policy implementation, and positive behavior change. While living in South Africa for the past two decades, Cal has become somewhat of a global expert on empathy and human-centered design and Matchboxology has won international accolades for innovation and creative excellence.  

Andy Bryant

Andy Bryant joined the Segal Family Foundation as Executive Director in 2010. He leads the foundation’s team and implements the vision of the Segal family. He has overseen an increase in the foundation’s annual giving from $2 million in 2010 to over $12 million in 2018.

He has worked in international development for many years in Africa and Asia, including positions with Tanzanian Children’s Fund and TechnoServe. Andy completed a BA from Princeton University in 2003 and subsequently graduated from Syracuse University in 2007 with an MPA in International Development. He also served as a Princeton in Africa Fellow. He currently serves on the board of directors for Komo Learning Centres.

Andy believes that local solutions are the best solutions.

Arachu Castro

Arachu Castro is Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America and Director of the Collaborative Group for Health Equity in Latin America at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She conducts research on women’s health and reproduction and on early childhood development in contexts of poverty. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. Before joining Tulane in 2013, she was Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is the Past President of the Society for Medical Anthropology.

James Afful Clarke

James Afful Clarke graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School with an MBChB. After a year of internship at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana, he worked as a General Practitioner and did a General Surgery Residency at the University of Saarland Medical Faculty, Germany, and thereafter practiced as a general surgeon in Ghana. In 1996, he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Ophthalmology from the West African Postgraduate Medical College and has since been a practicing ophthalmologist. He also holds a Master's in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Liverpool (UK), and he also has a Diploma in Community Health and Tropical Medicine from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Berlin, Germany.

He has done clinical attachments at the University of Saarland Eye Clinic in Germany, Wake Forest Eye Center, Winston-Salem in North Carolina, and Wheaton Eye Clinic in Chicago. He is also a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He founded and directs Crystal Eye Clinic in Accra, Ghana, where he provides outreach services in eye care and performs various surgical procedures, including corneal transplantation. He is one of the few ophthalmologists providing corneal transplantation in Ghana. He is also a member of Unite For Sight's Medical Advisory Board and leads Unite For Sight's programs in Ghana as Ghana Medical Director.

Charlotte Cole

Charlotte Cole is co-founder and executive director of Blue Butterfly, an education organization that uses children’s media to advance international development goals. For over twenty-five years, Charlotte has applied her expertise in curriculum design, educational content creation, and research in the support of large-scale educational media projects in more than thirty countries across the globe. Prior to co-founding Blue Butterfly, she was senior vice president of global education at Sesame Workshop in New York City where she oversaw the education, research, and community engagement activities associated with the company’s international co-productions of Sesame Street. She was a primary visionary for the advancement of education innovations such as the creation of Kami, the HIV-positive Muppet character who appears on the South African version of Sesame Street, the development of strong educational content designed to support girls’ education in countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India, and initiatives to promote respect and understanding across group divides in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Kosovo and elsewhere. Charlotte received her doctorate in human development and psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the editor of The Sesame Effect: The Global Impact of the Longest Street in the World published by Routledge.

Scott Corlew

Scott Corlew is faculty at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School.  He previously served as Chief Medical Officer for Interplast, now called Resurge International.  At Resurge, he worked to expand the burn programs and continue a re-direction toward surgical development and capacity building, working with programs to develop surgical capacity and delivery in South Asia, Central and South America, and sub-Saharan Africa.   

A plastic surgeon and general surgeon by training, his research interests are in the assessment and facilitation of surgical care delivery in low- and lower-middle income countries, and in economic evaluation of health care delivery.  His major specific role at PGSSC is in facilitating National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plans in LMICs, particularly in the Southern Africa Development Community.

Shinichi Daimyo

Shinichi Daimyo is the Senior Clinical Lead, Mental Health and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner for Project HOME, a nonprofit in Philadelphia aimed at eliminating chronic homelessness through sustainable housing, education, medical care, and employment, where he is responsible for the provision and management of all psychiatric care throughout the organization. He currently also serves on the advisory boards of the American Psychological Association and Generation Mental Health, focusing on equity-based approaches to mental health treatment, training, recruitment, and systems building in the U.S. and globally. He has over 15 years of mental health delivery, clinical care, systems building, and senior-level advisement and leadership experience including acting as Senior Advisor for Mental Health, Clinical Program Officer, and Program Manager for Mental Health at Partners In Health, Mental Health Policy Fellow at the World Health Organization, Behavioral Health Advisor for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of the Deputy Executive Commissioner, and Director of the Obama Florida Health Care Advisory Committee. Shinichi is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals focusing on the translation and implementation of evidence-based and community-driven mental health systems in poor and rural communities globally and has authored policy briefs and reports with interdisciplinary stakeholders on the Affordable Care Act and improving health care quality in hospitals and health systems. Shinichi is a graduate of the Yale School of Nursing and is a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in the State of Pennsylvania. He is the first nursing student to be named a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, a recipient of the American Nurses Association/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Minority Fellowship-Youth, a graduate of the Boston University School of Public Health and the University of Southern California, and a Humanitarian and Human Rights Policy Fellow of the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy.

Sam Daley-Harris

Sam Daley-Harris founded the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS in 1980, co-founded the Microcredit Summit Campaign in 1995 with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and FINCA Founder John Hatch, and founded Civic Courage in 2012. Civic Courage helps non-profits transform their members into courageous citizen leaders and uses public speaking and the media to inspire Americans to engage powerfully with their democracy. Sam coached Citizens Climate Lobby its first 7 years and is author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break between People and Government. Ashoka founder Bill Drayton called Sam “one of the certified great social entrepreneurs of the last decades.”

Patricia Davidson

Patricia Davidson is the Dean of the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, USA. She is Co-Secretary General of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery and Counsel General of the International Council on Women’s Health Issues. She is actively involved in innovative, interprofessional care models in particular building the global nursing workforce.

Jennifer Dohrn

Jennifer Dohrn is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the Office of Global Initiatives and its PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. As Director of Midwifery Services, she initiated the first freestanding maternity center in an inner-city in the United States in the Bronx, New York. She has worked in Sub-Saharan African countries since 2003, helping to expand the role of nurses and midwives in primary and HIV care. Jennifer was the founding Project Director for the United States/PEPFAR-funded ICAP Global Nursing Capacity Building which provides technical assistance to build nursing and midwifery capacity in ten Sub-Saharan African countries in response to the HIV pandemic. At CUSON she has led the expansion of global clinical practicum experiences as central to nursing and midwifery education. She is currently leading an initiative to study the role of nurses in pandemic response through gathering oral histories of nurses who were on the frontline of care during the Ebola outbreak in western African countries, and midwives responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.  She is also Principal Investigator for a study of Syrian refugee women living in Jordan’s view of their reproductive health needs. She has integrated her global experiences in complex humanitarian emergencies and racial injustice into two decades of teaching in midwifery and global health equity. 

Michael Ekuoba-Gyasi

Michael Ekuoba-Gyasi is a Unite for Sight partner from Ghana. He is the President of the Ophthalmological Society of Ghana, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and a member of the American Society of Retinal Specialists. He is the lead research ophthalmologist for the Ghana Onchocerciasis Optical Coherence Tomography studies and the IDA Clinical Trials. Both studies are funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the DOLF Project at Washington University.

Paul Ellingstad

Paul Ellingstad: Managing Partner, PTI Advisors. Paul advises and accompanies leaders who want to innovate and grow by effectively navigating breakthrough change. He is a veteran of the technology sector and worked at iconic brands Gateway, Compaq, and HP. Paul is now Managing Partner at PTI Advisors, where he works with clients in all three sectors, especially on the growing importance of sustainability and responsible business in society. He is a lifelong learner and a systems thinker. He is passionate about mentoring and believes that mentors normally learn more than they can ever possibly teach. Paul is a fellow in the Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program, he serves as a director on several boards, he is a youth leadership advocate and a life-long member of the Scouting movement.

Edith Elliott

Edith Elliott is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an organization that unleashes the power of patients and their family members by training them with skills to tremendously improve clinical outcomes, provide care and save lives. Edith believes that everyone, everywhere deserves the agency and human dignity associated with access to high-quality healthcare. With a background in global health research, program implementation, design thinking, and a passion for meeting users where they are, Edith recognizes that the best solutions are often the most simple and overlooked ones. Prior to Noora Health, Edith worked first at The Aspen Institute and then at Population Services International, focusing on contractible disease prevention efforts. She has a BA in International Relations from Tufts University and an MA in International Policy and Global Health from Stanford University. Edith is an Ashoka Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow with the Mulago Foundation, a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Fellow, and a 2015 Echoing Green Fellow. In 2016, Noora Health was recognized by Fast Company as one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World, and #2 in India. Noora's program has reached over 1 million caregivers and their pandemic response has reached more than 14.8 million people across India and Bangladesh, equipping them with life-saving information and training on COVID-19.

Andrea Feigl-Ding

Andrea Feigl-Ding. As Health Finance Institute's CEO and Co-Founder, Andrea brings extensive leadership experience in academia, the public sector, international organizations (WHO, WB, OECD), and the global non-profit sector. Her past work focused on the economics and policies of preventing and treating the economic burden of chronic diseases, as well as on health financing and governance, UHC, and cost-effectiveness of chronic disease interventions. She has been recognized as the innovator of the Evidenced Formal Coverage Index metric for universal healthcare coverage and co-founded the Young Professional Network for Chronic Diseases (YP-CDN). Apart from being the recipient of multiple prestigious awards, such as several Harvard graduate awards and the Fulbright scholarship, she has also authored several high-level reports, including Development Aid Flows for Chronic Diseases for the Center for Global Development and a leading WEF/Harvard report on the global economic burden of chronic diseases. A native of Austria, Andrea received her Ph.D. in global health from Harvard University, MPH and BSc (First Class Honors) with a full scholarship from Simon Fraser University in Canada, and IB from Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway. Andrea is a Visiting Scientist at Harvard School of Public Health and a Salzburg Global Fellow.

Lena Fiebig

Lena Fiebig leads the Tuberculosis (TB) detection program at APOPO. She is trained as an epidemiologist and veterinarian doctor and has substantial practical experience in TB control. Her special interest lies in improving TB case finding, linkage to care, and prevention of spread through innovative approaches, namely using trained rats to diagnose TB.

Richard Gerver

Richard Gerver is an innovator and educator and adviser to the UK Government. He is profiled in Sir Ken Robinson's book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything as the exemplar of Sir Ken’s work on talent and human potential. Richard is a former school principal, and he charted this story in his first book -- now a second edition -- called Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today, which is an international bestseller, with a foreword by Sir Ken Robinson. His other international bestselling book is called Change: Learn to Love It, Learn to Lead It. He has been named UK Business Speaker of the Year twice and has spoken at both TED and RSA events. He works with organizations at the forefront of global innovation and excellence.

Rebecca Hardin

Rebecca Hardin is an environmental and educational anthropologist who has worked primarily in Africa and North America on human/wildlife interactions, corporate/community politics in concession economies, and the links between local and transnational environmental justice movements. She is currently an Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, where she directs curricular innovation programs leveraging digital media and software innovation to enhance face to face learning and move curricular materials beyond the classroom to address environmental challenges at civic, professional, and advocacy levels.

Alexandra Murray Harrison

Alexandra Murray Harrison is a practicing child and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Part-Time at Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Health Alliance, Training and Supervising Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Core Faculty at U Mass Boston Infant Parent Mental Health Course. She is Co-Founder and CEO of the nonprofit, Supporting Child Caregivers, dedicated to capacity building in parents and other child caregivers throughout the world through training, mentorship, and an informational website. She publishes in professional journals and has lectured widely nationally and internationally. 

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier is a biostatistician specializing in health systems and implementation science research in sub-Saharan Africa. She leads a portfolio of research related to access to and quality of surgical care in rural district hospitals in Rwanda. Dr. Hedt-Gauthier is committed to improving partnerships in global health research, by innovating within her own practice and by leading research and advocacy on issues of power dynamics and inequitable research collaborations.

Laura Herman

Laura Herman is a Principal in Dalberg’s New York office with nearly 20 years of experience in global development.  Her expertise focuses on Global Health, Gender Equity and Inclusive Business, working with organizations across the social sector spectrum – corporations, private foundations, multilaterals, and NGOs. Her work in global health has included engagements focused on issues of strategy, stakeholder engagement, new market entry, and collaborative approaches to social change.  Her work has included in-country research in dozens of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to inform strategies, evaluate in-country operations of partners, assess impact and opportunities for new initiatives, and develop relationships for long-term strategic initiatives. Her global health clients have included Pfizer, Abbott, Medicines for Malaria Venture, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Trachoma Initiative, Orbis, PATH, and many others. Prior to joining Dalberg, Laura was based in Singapore, leading the strategy, advocacy, and philanthropy functions at Essilor, to expand access to eyeglasses.  She was also a Managing Director and part of the founding team at FSG for 17 years.  Laura is a board member for the US Pharmacopoeia, working to advance the quality of medicines worldwide.  Laura is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to AshokaU. She has been a board member for VillageReach, a non-profit focused on improving “last mile” drug distribution in the global south, and she was honored to be named one of the “50 Most Influential Social Innovators” and one of the “Women Super Achievers” by the World Sustainability Congress in 2018 and 2019.  Laura holds an MBA with a certificate in Public Management from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She also holds a MA in International Policy from Stanford University and a BBA in International Business from the University of Michigan.

Brian Heuser

Brian Heuser is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He has research and work experience in more than 30 countries, including as a US Embassy Policy Specialist in the Republic of Georgia, where he worked on issues related to scientific and academic research conducted by tertiary institutions of the post-Soviet region. His research includes the role of universities in creating economic development, issues related to the relationships between global health policy and education policy, and cross-national differences in higher education functions.

Lisa Hirschhorn

Lisa Hirschhorn is Professor of Medical Social Science and Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Senior Director for Implementation and Improvement Science at Last Mile Health. Trained in medicine and HIV, she is an expert in implementation research and improvement science, actively applying these methods to improve the quality and equity of care in resource-limited settings including maternal and child health, HIV, primary care, and non-communicable diseases. Her current work includes understanding national strategies to effectively implement evidence-based interventions to reduce deaths in children under 5 in low and middle-income countries, supporting research of task shifting and system redesign to improve hypertension care in Nigeria, evaluating peer navigators to expand testing and treatment for youth in Nigeria, measuring experiential quality for MCH care in Liberia, and expanding access to PrEP for women in Chicago. She has served in leadership positions in a number of initiatives including as commissioner for the Lancet Global Health Commission on high-quality health systems and consultant to WHO in work to measure and improve quality in fragile and conflict settings. She is also active in building research capacity in implementation science and patient-centered outcome research in low-resourced settings through active collaborations in Rwanda, Tanzania, Botswana, and Nigeria. Current COVID-related work includes supporting work to advise Liberia in effective and safe approaches to leverage CHW to respond to the pandemic while sustaining PHC, using implementation research to understand the response in South Korea and evaluating models able to sustain quality primary care during COVID response and exploring equity in the response and impact.

Bobby Jefferson

Bobby Jefferson is a leader in digital health technology. He serves on the Board for health technology startups THINKMD, ClickMedix, DataElevates, Covelocity. Health,  Simprints and the Society for International Development-Washington (SID-W).  He performs technology reviews of early-stage companies, startup innovations, and early-stage social ventures to apply digital health solutions to address global health supply chain and cybersecurity issues in international development. He has performed technology due diligence of pre-revenue startups, early-round innovators and collaborates as a mentor with tech incubators and business accelerators. Bobby uses private-sector solutions to support international development projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Elizabeth Johansen

Elizabeth Johansen is the founder and principal consultant of Spark Health Design. Spark Health Design uses human-centered design to help its clients develop world-class technologies that lead to better health outcomes globally. They offer design research, user experience design, human factors engineering, program management, and human-centered design workshops. Elizabeth has contributed to seven products launched including healthcare apps, rapid diagnostic tests, drug delivery, consumer health packaging, and newborn medical devices. Notable products launched include Eli Lilly's Kwikpen insulin injector (when working at IDEO); Jana Care's improved Aina A1c point-of-care rapid diagnostic test app and kit for diabetes; and Design that Matters' Firefly phototherapy device currently treating newborns with jaundice in hospitals in over thirty under-resourced countries. Elizabeth is also the Director of Product Design at Vaxess Technologies and an adjunct faculty member with the Olin and Babson Colleges Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship program.

Ari Johnson

Ari Johnson is Co-Founder and CEO of Muso and Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco, Global Health Sciences. Ari trained at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at the University of California San Francisco. He has conducted research at UCSF, the National Institutes of Health, the International Health Institute, the Medical Research Council of South Africa, Brown University, Harvard University, and the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Jerusalem. He has published peer-reviewed articles and essays in the fields of infectious disease, health systems design, socioeconomic determinants of health, AIDS, and migration. Over the past fifteen years, Ari has supported Muso to design and build Proactive Community Case Management, a strategy for rapid, universal access to care. A recent study in BMJ Global Health documented how communities served by this proactive strategy have achieved and sustained a rate of child death lower than any country in Sub-Saharan Africa for five years running. Muso currently cares for 330,000 patients and supports the governments of Mali and Côte d’Ivoire to redesign health systems to connect more than 45 million people with health care.

Marc Julmisse

Marc Julmisse is the Chief Nursing Officer and the Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais in Haiti, a 300-bed facility. She is also the Deputy Director Clinical Programs Zanmi Lasante (ZL) and the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for Partners in Health (PIH).  

Prior to joining ZL and PIH she served as the Medical Education Program Coordinator and Chief of Party for Adventist Health International-Haiti.  With almost two decades of experience working in the nursing profession, Marc has been a strong voice and force for nurses all over the world, helping to provide health services to those without access. She has worked as a staff RN in the med-surge, NICU, ER, and ICU units, a visiting nurse in the foster care system for medically fragile children, a community health nurse, and nurse educator.    

Marc received her bachelor's in nursing from Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts and her Master's in Public health and a Certificate in Humanitarian Assistance from Loma Linda University in California. She has volunteered for several nonprofits to provide clinical care and community training with a focus on community capacity-building.

Cleveland Justis

Cleveland Justis An accomplished organizational leader in the environmental and entrepreneurial arenas for the past 25 years, Cleveland Justis is principal at the Potrero Group. Cleveland has held faculty positions at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, UC Davis Graduate School of Management, Georgetown University, and Dominican University. Cleveland has organized many conferences and programs and is a sought-after keynote speaker, having served in a keynote role at Net Impact, the Ahwahnee Conference, the Environmental Forum, and the Agricultural Institute of Marin. He received his MBA in strategic management and finance at the University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management his PhD in social entrepreneurship at UC Davis. Cleveland’s research interests include public/private partnerships, entrepreneurship, network analysis, and innovation. He currently directs the Executive Leadership Program at University of California, Davis.

Naz Karim

Naz Karim is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Brown University. She conducts research in Rwanda, has helped build their first residency curriculum there, and has helped write the first Emergency Medicine manual that was distributed to general practitioners in rural Rwanda.

Woodie Kessel

Woodie Kessel. His four-decade pediatric professional career has taken him from the cobblestone streets of Philadelphia to the battered neighborhoods of the South Bronx, through the turbulent quarters of Boston, to the seat of government in Washington, D.C. He has served as a primary care and public health practitioner, advocate, and public policy leader on behalf of America's children and families. He has been an advisor to White House officials in five administrations, directly serving eight Secretaries, nine Assistant Secretaries for Health, and six Surgeon Generals crafting programs and policy such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Bright Futures.

Firdaus Kharas

Firdaus Kharas is a world-renowned creator of mass communications, speaker, consultant, and thought leader on creativity and communications. He is a global leader in using animation for social change. He is the author of Creativity: The Key to a Remarkable Life.

Kaveh Khoshnood

Kaveh Khoshnood is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale School of Public Health and executive committee member at Yale Council on Middle East Studies. He is co-founder of Yale Violence and Health Study Group and a faculty member of the Program on Conflict, Resiliency, and Health at the Yale MacMillan Center. He is trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has more than three decades of domestic and international experience in HIV prevention research among people who use drugs and other at-risk populations. Kaveh’s research interests include: 1) epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, 2) research ethics and 3) humanitarian health. His projects are primarily in China, Lebanon, and Bhutan. He teaches courses on public health ethics and global health and is developing a new course on humanitarian health.

Martin Klein

Martin Klein is the Senior Advisor to the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health and Director, Executive MPH, an online degree program. He is also the Executive Director of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. He founded and directed InnovateHealth Yale, a program in social impact and entrepreneurship, the first program of its kind at a school of public health.

Thane Kreiner

Thane Kreiner is currently CEO of Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), focused on modeling regenerative, inclusive, local food systems; Co-Founder of the Black Corporate Board Readiness program, designed to accelerate diversity in corporate governance while driving better business outcomes and racial justice; and a member of the Board of Conservation X Labs (CXL), which spurs innovative solutions to end human-induced extinction He is a founding member of the Silicon Valley Executive Center Advisory Board and serves on the Advisory Board of the Conrad Challenge.

For a decade, Thane served as Executive Director of Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University where he led strategy and secured funding to accelerate more than 1,000 social enterprises (for-profit, non-profit, and hybrid) in 100 countries; these enterprises have improved, transformed, or saved the lives of over 450 million people with solutions including clean energy, sustainable food systems, maternal and child health, financial inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment.

Thane earned his MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, his PhD in Neurosciences from Stanford University School of Medicine, and his BS in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin.

A.J. Kumar

A.J. Kumar is the Director of Carbon Experimentation at Indigo Ag where he leads the design of large-scale field trials to study regenerative agricultural systems potential for sequestering carbon in soil and leads technology exploration to identify ground-breaking technologies to enable carbon markets to scale faster.

Prior to Indigo, A.J. was the Chief Scientific Officer at Jana Care where he led the development of multiple low-cost, point-of-care rapid blood tests for chronic diseases. He has a PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University, has authored over 20 publications, and is inventor on 10 patents and patent applications.

On March 14, 2020, A.J. joined several local residents to help form Malden Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a mutual aid group in Malden, MA to support the community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The group has worked with other organizations and community volunteers to provide food and supply deliveries, sew and distribute masks and sanitizer, distribute computers to students, prevent evictions, provide comfort calls, and assist with equitable vaccine access.

Gene Kwan

Gene Kwan is an Assistant Professor and Cardiologist at Boston University School of Medicine and an Associate Director for Cardiovascular Research and Training at Partners In Health. He has been active in developing and studying integrated chronic disease platforms in Rwanda and Haiti since 2008. His current work raises awareness for chronic diseases of poverty in rural low-income countries and provides an evidence base for thoughtful interventions to improve health and wellbeing for the most vulnerable patients.

Morgan Lance

Morgan Lance is CEO of OneSky for all children, a training organization with programs in China, Mongolia, and Vietnam focused on empowering low-resource communities to improve outcomes for vulnerable young children. Morgan comes from a family full of educators and earned a teaching credential herself before transitioning into a career in nonprofit management. For the past decade, she has led fundraising and communications efforts for NGOs with projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Rachel Leatham

Rachel Leatham is an Associate Director of the Career Center at Carleton College. She supports experiential learning, recruiting, and alumni and parent engagement efforts, while directly coaching students and alumni. Rachel joined Carleton in 2015 as Program Director for Internships and Experiential Learning.  A focus on student learning outcomes and access helps her to ensure that all students have access to and thrive in internships, regardless of their social capital and financial means. 

Before Carleton, Rachel worked as a diplomat for the U.S. Department of State, serving in Mexico, and representing the U.S. at the United Nations and the World Bank, among others, where she learned the art of building effective relationships. She launched her federal career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Justice’s Immigration and Nationality Services, adjudicating refugee and asylum cases for the Office of International Affairs. Her first full-time work experience was at the University of Minnesota in Student Activities, where she managed over 100 student volunteers to help create a sense of community through performance arts, concerts, and lectures. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Humphrey Institute and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Minnesota-Morris.

Leslie London

Leslie London is Chair of Public Health Medicine in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He served as Head of School from 2007 to 2012. He heads the Division of Public Health Medicine and is active in the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research, in which he leads research in the areas of pesticide hazards and chemical neurotoxicity, farmworker occupational health, and occupational and environmental epidemiology. He also heads the School’s Health and Human Rights Programme which has a broad research and training mandate addressing health as a socio-economic right and examining human rights and ethical issues in relation to the practice of occupational health professionals, including dual loyalty at the workplace. He has served on many committees dealing with ethics and human rights in research and professional contexts, has provided advice to the AIDS Law Project in test cases related to workplace discrimination involving HIV, and is active in the People’s Health Movement South Africa. He was a member of the National Health Research Ethics Council for the Department of Health from 2006 to 2010. He serves on the Scientific Committees on Rural Health and on Neurotoxicology for the International Commission on Occupational Health, and coordinated the Africa Group for ICOH’s revision of its Ethical Code. As part of an international Working Group on Dual Loyalty, he and his collaborators developed an international guideline for the protection of patient rights in the context of high-risk closed institutions. He has published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed international and national journals and 15 books or book chapters and is an NRF-rated scientist in the B3 category. He has been PI on several large grants over the past 10 years, including funding from SIDA, NIH, EU, and IDRC, raising in total more than ZAR 35 million in research funding whilst at UCT.

Charles MacCormack

Charles MacCormack is currently Senior Fellow at Interaction, the national association of more than 200 International Non- Governmental Organizations, where he chairs the board on NGO Futures. Most recently he has served as Senior Fellow at Yale University, Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University, and Executive-in Residence at Middlebury College. He was CEO of Save the Children for 18 years and of World Learning/ School for International Training for sixteen years.

Anatole Manzi

Anatole Manzi serves as Deputy Chief Medical Officer in charge of Clinical Quality and Health Systems Strengthening at Partners In Health (PIH). In his current role, he liaises with PIH-supported countries to develop and implement quality improvement and health systems strengthening strategies. His work involves engineering innovative solutions to integrate equity and quality management with clinical practice. He also serves as Director of PIH’s Learning Collaborative aiming at strengthening COVID-19 contact tracing and expanded public health response through learning and exchange series targeted to expert implementers as part of the US Public Health Accompaniment Unit. Manzi is the founder of Move Up Global, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, striving to improve access to better health and education in remote and resource-constrained communities. His research focuses on evaluating healthcare quality improvement and innovative interventions to eradicate Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in resource-limited settings. He is assistant professor of global health at University of Global Health Equity and Lecturer on Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Regan Marsh

Regan Marsh is the Senior Technical Lead for Partners In Health’s US Public Health Accompaniment Unit, working to support the COVID-19 public health response. She is also Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has worked with PIH since 2008, in Malawi, Haiti, Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Liberia to strengthen health equity with a focus on emergency systems and health systems strengthening. At the Brigham, she co-leads the Emergency Department health equity initiatives and, since 2020, has helped lead PIH’s domestic COVID-19 response, supporting public health departments in testing, contact tracing, and vaccination to stop the pandemic.

Marie H. Martin

Marie H. Martin - As an international educator, academic leader, and health policy researcher with nearly 20 years of experience in the field, Marie Martin is dedicated to capacity building initiatives globally. She directs education and training activities at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, including current grant-funded work in Zambia, Liberia and Ethiopia. Prior to VIGH, she was a Fulbright Scholar to Japan, worked as an Emmy award-winning journalist at CNN, and helped lead the first parliamentary internship program in the Czech Republic.

Nozibele Qamngana Mayaba

Nozibele Qamngana Mayaba is the South African International Youth Committee Ambassador and an active member of the International Youth Forum. She has received a number of accolades such as being listed in the Nelson Mandela Business Chamber Top 40 under 40, Businesswoman Association of South Africa Regional Achievers Award, the Fruits of Democracy Award for Excellence in Civil Society, and the Vision4Women - Beyond The Balance Sheet finalist. She is a self-published author. I Am Still Me is a book based on her life living with HIV after being diagnosed in August of 2013. Her YouTube Channel, based on her life living positively with HIV, was named Feedspot as one of the Top 15 HIV Youtube Channels on the web.

Lanch McCormick

Lanch McCormick serves as the Director of Student Engagement for Undergraduate Research and Distinguished Scholarships at University of Oregon. Previously, Lanch was Executive Director of Unite For Sight, where she directed Unite For Sight's global health education and healthcare delivery divisions. Prior to Unite For Sight, Lanch worked for over 15 years in higher education at Yale University, including as Associate Director of Yale Office of Career Development, Assistant Director at Yale Alumni Association as well as having the privilege of being a Resident Fellow at Timothy Dwight College. Lanch has extensive program management, international, and student advising experience.

Ana McCullough

Ana Rowena McCullough is Co-Founder and CEO of QuestBridge, a social venture connecting America's brightest low-income students to the nation's best universities and life opportunities. QuestBridge works to revolutionize the way leading colleges and universities recruit talented low-income students and the way these students approach their educations and futures. The QuestBridge partnership includes 45 of the nation's best colleges and universities, including Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Amherst, and Pomona. Ana has previously held positions as Co-Founder and former VP of Content at Shmoop.com, management consultant at McKinsey & Co., and consulting scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Ana speaks nationally to university, corporate, non-profit, and general audiences on topics such as access to higher education, the abundance of untapped talent in America, diversity and inclusion, high-impact social innovation, and making the most of college and early career. She serves on the Board of iSing Silicon Valley, and as an Advisor to D&I In Practice, Service2School for veterans, and numerous other companies and nonprofits. Ana holds a BA in Human Biology from Stanford and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Abraham Zerihun Megentta

Abraham Zerihun Megentta currently serves as Ethiopia Program Director for Last Mile Health. He has extensive experience working in various public health programs implemented at the primary healthcare and community level including health management, health system strengthening, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, human resources for health and other areas in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Jamaica and Rwanda. He has an MBA and MPH and worked for several international organizations advancing public health including UNAIDS, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Yale University, and the Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).

Lynn Murphy Michalopoulos

Lynn Murphy Michalopoulos began her work with trauma-affected populations in Zambia almost 10 years ago. Inspired by her work there, she developed the Global Post Trauma Symptom-Item Bank, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, which has been validated in multiple non-Western contexts. Building off of her clinical experience working with trauma survivors, she developed a research program focused on understanding the lives of migrant populations. From there, she expanded her work to other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, Malawi, and Zimbabwe which contributed to formative research indicating the complex risk environment among both labor and forced migrants in sub-Saharan Africa. This work served as the genesis of the Moving Well Project, International. Throughout her academic career at Columbia University and her role as the Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor at USAID, Lynn has sharpened her focus on the measurement of mental health outcomes and adaptation of evidence-based health and mental health programs among mobile trauma-affected populations. In addition, the extensive relationships she has built with stakeholders at the community, national, and international level has contributed to the organization’s foundational success. She has a Bachelors in Psychology from Williams College, an Masters from the University of Chicago in Social Service Administration and a PhD from the University of Maryland in Social Work. University.

Radharani Mitra

Radharani Mitra is Global Creative Advisor at BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international NGO that uses media and communication for development. She mines insights, shapes strategies, and tells stories using new and legacy media to bring about social and behavior change – from 30 second adverts to social media campaigns, from graphic novels on appearance ideals to Nugget, a mobile app for adolescents, from the fast fiction radio series Mr Plan Plan for Ebola to two TV dramas - AdhaFULL (Half-full), a whodunit series on adolescence and gender and Navrangi Re! (Nine To A Shade) on urban sanitation. Radharani has played a key role in designing BBC Media Action’s mHealth innovations that have been scaled up nationally by the Government of India. She has worked across Asia and Africa country programs on a variety of themes ranging from the recent pandemic to social cohesion and livelihoods and rights. Her work has won several Indian and international awards.

Alyson Moadel-Robblee

Alyson Moadel-Robblee is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of the BOLD Cancer Wellness Program, a Psychosocial & Integrative Oncology initiative of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care in Bronx, NY.   She received her doctorate in Health Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in 1995 in Bronx, NY, and completed postdoctoral fellowship training in Psycho-oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.  Alyson is a clinician, educator, and researcher with an interest in promoting quality of life and psychosocial care for those living with cancer, driven from her own experience of losing her mother to breast cancer when she was a teenager.  

In 2008, she launched a cancer support initiative entitled the Bronx Oncology Living Daily (BOLD Living) Program which offers *FREE* patient-centered services featuring mind-body therapies, creative arts, fitness/nutrition workshops, and peer support and counseling to residents of one of the most underserved urban communities in the U.S.  The mission of BOLD is to promote the holistic care of cancer patients addressing mind, body, and spirit among anyone affected by cancer in the Bronx regardless of ability to pay or where they receive their medical care.  An underlying mission is to help reduce ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in mental health care, cancer treatment adherence, and cancer outcomes among this diverse and financially disadvantaged New York City borough. 

Rose L. Molina

Rose L. Molina is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. She completed the Global Women’s Health Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and obtained a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She works as a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist at The Dimock Center, a federally qualified community health center, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She is the Faculty Director of the Medical Language Program at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the OB-GYN Diversity, Inclusion & Advocacy Committee at BIDMC. Rose works as Faculty at Ariadne Labs to design, test, and spread solutions to ensure that everyone receives appropriate, safe, and respectful care during pregnancy and childbirth with a focus on equity. Her current research focuses on addressing racial/ethnic inequities in maternal health in the Greater Boston Area with the Delivery Decisions Initiative. She also leads the Safe Childbirth Checklist work with the BetterBirth Program. Her advocacy work seeks to advance access to language-concordant and culturally-humble health care for all. She is a member of Physicians for Human Rights and performs asylum evaluations. She also serves as a Women's Health Advisor for Partners In Health in Chiapas, Mexico, an organization she has worked with since 2008.

Rachel Tomas Morgan

Rachel Tomas Morgan is Associate Director and Assistant Professor of the Practice for International Engagement at the Center for Social Concerns of the University of Notre Dame. Tomas Morgan oversees the Center’s international engagement area and directs the International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) which she established. She works with faculty on community-based learning abroad,  consults on international related initiatives across the University, and collaborates with partners nationally and internationally. Her teaching and research interests include global citizenship, civic and political engagement, cultural competency, global learning, international development, ethics, and best practice in engaged teaching and learning abroad. Her more recent publications include co-authored chapters in Crossing Boundaries: Tension and Transformation in International Service-Learning (2014) and in Putting the Local in Global Education (2015), and a co-authored paper on “Examining relationships between educational abroad program design and college students' global learning" in Frontiers Journal (Fall, 2019). She has previously worked in the fields of international development and natural disaster assistance, secondary education and religious studies, and faith-based social outreach.

Julie Mountcastle

Julie Mountcastle is Head of School, Grade 2/3 Teacher, and a member of the founding team of Slate School in North Haven, Connecticut, where she developed and leads the school’s unique curiosity-driven curriculum. Julie has been an educator since 2001 and has been at the forefront of child-centered education. Before becoming a teacher, Julie was a professional actress and appeared in plays and musicals on Broadway, on London's West End, and in regional theatre across the country, and she is a passionate advocate for arts in the classroom.

Steve Ollis

Steve Ollis serves as Project Director for the USAID funded Country Health Information Systems and Data Use (CHISU) project at John Snow Research and Training Inc. (JSI). Prior to CHISU Steve was the JSI team lead for the PMI Measure Malaria and MEASURE Evaluation project and Senior Digital Health Advisor for USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program. Before joining JSI, Steve served as COO of D-tree International, developing digital health solutions aimed at improving the quality of care provided by frontline health workers. Steve has over 20 years of professional experience in Public Health, Digital Health, Information Technology, Program and Project Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Accounting, Financial Analysis, and Audit. He is a recognized leader in effectively managing innovative programs in multiple sectors from international e-health to construction management for the United States Government. Steve holds certifications as a Project Management Professional and a Six Sigma Green belt and is on the WHO’s roster of Digital Health Experts.

Santa Ono

Santa J. Ono is the 15th President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia. Installed as President and Vice-Chancellor in 2016, he also serves as Chair of the U15 Group of Universities, on the Board of Directors of Universities Canada, and as Past Chair of Research Universities of British Columbia. He is also a member of the Boards of Fulbright and MITACS. He has also served on the Boards of the American Council on Education and the Council on Competitiveness and as Chief Innovation Advisor to the Province of British Columbia. Prior to his appointment as President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC, Dr. Ono served as the 28th President of the University of Cincinnati and Senior Vice-Provost and Deputy to the Provost at Emory University. A molecular immunologist educated at the University of Chicago and McGill, he has taught at Johns Hopkins, Harvard University and University College London. He has advised national and regional governments on higher education and mental health. He has also advised companies such as GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Novartis on R&D. He has served on a number of editorial boards, including Immunology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Journal of Immunology and The Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology. He has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, USA and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.

Wendy Ostroff

Wendy Ostroff is an applied developmental and cognitive psychologist and Associate Professor in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University, where she teaches future teachers. The author of the books, Understanding How Young Children Learn (2012, ASCD) and Cultivating Curiosity in K-12 Classrooms (2016, ASCD), and numerous articles on children’s learning, she is passionate about innovative and emergent pedagogies, and state of the art teacher education. She leads workshops and professional development events worldwide on curiosity, cognition, and the brain.

Natacha Poggio

Natacha Poggio is a social impact designer, educator, strategist, and passionate advocate of design for social change. She teaches Graphic Design at the University of Houston-Downtown, in Texas. In 2008, she founded Design Global Change, a collaborative of designers working to contribute innovative solutions to social issues; her social impact initiatives have garnered recognition, most notably she is a two-time recipient of the prestigious "Sappi Ideas that Matter" award creating socially responsible design work.

Lindsey Pollaczek

Lindsey Pollaczek joined Fistula Foundation in 2014, initially based out of Nairobi, Kenya. She is currently serving as the Vice President of Programs overseeing the Foundation’s programs in over 20 countries in Africa and Asia. Amongst her accomplishments is leading the successful Action on Fistula program in Kenya, and launching a countrywide program in Zambia that have collectively provided over 7,000 fistula surgeries and strengthened national capacity for treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation.

Prior to joining Fistula Foundation, Lindsey worked with the humanitarian organization Direct Relief, overseeing the organization’s Maternal and Child Health portfolio, where she designed and implemented programs to improve access to essential health services for women and children, particularly the right to a safe pregnancy and delivery, and treatment for obstetric fistula. Lindsey holds a MPH in Community Health Sciences from UCLA and is a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Fellowship for Health Equity, a program that supports global leaders working to combat health disparity and promote equity.

Alison Porcelli

Alison Porcelli is a district-wide staff developer in the Katonah-Lewisboro School District in Westchester County, NY. She is the co-author of 2 books published by Heinemann on the role of play in learning: Purposeful Play and A Quick Guide to Boosting English Language Acquisition through Choice Time.

Andy Posner

Andy Posner founded Capital Good Fund in February of 2009 while getting his Master of Arts in Environmental Studies at Brown University, where he was studying financing mechanisms for clean energy. After reading Banker to the Poor by Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the 'Father of Microfinance' and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, he quickly realized that equitable financial services could unlock the potential of the poor just as they could do the same for clean energy technologies. At the same time, as the financial crisis of 2008 began to unravel the economy and devastate low-income communities, Andy decided to take action. He created Capital Good Fund with an eye toward using financial services to tackle endemic poverty, first in Rhode Island, and then nationwide.

Andy has published his ideas in the Huffington Post, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and nearly a dozen poetry journals, to name a few examples. He was also selected as a 2011 Hitachi Yoshiyama Young Entrepreneur and a 2013 American Express Emerging Innovator (one of 45 globally), and a 2015 Rhode Island Foundation Nonprofit CEO Fellow. 

Linda Reinstein

Linda Reinstein became a public health advocate after her husband, Alan, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2003. One year later, she co-founded the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) dedicated to eliminating asbestos-caused diseases and protecting asbestos victims' civil rights through education, advocacy, and community initiatives. Recognized as a prevention and public policy influencer, she has been a strong voice for educational campaigns and policy in the U.S. and around the world. Serving as ADAO’s President and CEO, she organizes the only annual international educational conference in the U.S. solely dedicated to eliminating asbestos-caused diseases.

Rebecca Wear Robinson

Rebecca Wear Robinson is an expert in Social Marketing, which is not social media marketing.  Social Marketing is far more powerful.  Social Marketing is a blend of social psychology and marketing that creates sustainable, internalized behavioral change for the public good.  Rebecca has both academic and field experience in marketing and social psychology.  Her first Master’s is in Marketing, Economics, and International Management from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and her second master’s is in Organizational and Social Psychology from London School of Economics.  She has been successfully implementing social marketing into efforts to reduce the global epidemic of drowning for 13 years, most recently as part of the Steering Committee to create a National Water Safety Action Plan for the U.S., in accordance with WHO recommendations, and as a member of the Chicago Water Safety Task Force.

Ash Rogers

Ash Rogers is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Lwala Community Alliance (Lwala). Lwala's work in Western Kenya has driven a 300% increase in contraceptive use and 64% decrease in under-5 deaths. Now, Lwala is on an ambitious path to influence how 1 million people access health care and demonstrate that locally-driven solutions are uniquely positioned to transform systems. Ash comes to Lwala from the Segal Family Foundation (SFF), where she served as Director of Operations, overseeing a $12m portfolio of 180 grantee organizations across 20 Sub-Saharan African countries. Prior to SFF, Ash was a Global Health Corps Fellow in Uganda. Ash has worked with organizations including the U.S. State Department, Komo Learning Centers, and HELP International – the common focus being developing tools to support grassroots innovators. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University.

Mark Roithmayr

Mark Roithmayr is Chief Executive Officer of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), and his primary focus is securing the resources needed to find effective drugs for Alzheimer's disease. He is a seasoned nonprofit executive with experience in both start-ups and mature organizations. His areas of expertise include strategic planning, fundraising, volunteer development, and brand-building. He has helped to increase the ADDF’s revenue three-fold to $60 million and was instrumental in securing Bill Gates, as well as Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott, as donors to the organization’s venture philanthropy efforts.

Mark was previously Chief Relationship Officer at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. There, he helped launch its venture philanthropy initiative, directed its 56 national chapters, and led annual fundraising of over $200 million. Prior to joining the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in 2013, he served for seven years as president of Autism Speaks. As that organization's first president, he shepherded its growth from a start-up into the world's largest autism research and advocacy organization. During his tenure, Autism Speaks invested more than $170 million in research, resulting in discoveries about the genetic and environmental factors that lead to autism as well as effective treatments for it. Earlier in his career, Mark held several executive positions with the March of Dimes. He earned a bachelor's degree in communications at Rowan University.

Lisa Russell

Lisa Russell is an Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker, curator, and Founder of Create2030 who has 15+ years producing films and curating creative events that lie at the intersection of arts, social justice, and global development.

An established global speaker and thought leader, she is an FXB Board Member, SheDecides Global Champion, EarthxFilm Advisory Council Member, UN/NGO contracted storyteller and arts curator, Fulbright Specialist, writer and is a regular presenter at film festivals, storytelling summits, leading universities, international conferences, and youth leadership programs.

As a first-time screenwriter, Lisa's award-winning feature-length script, "A Revolutionary Act" has placed in many of the top Hollywood and film industry screenplay festivals including the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices, Screencraft Drama Competition, and others and has secured an award-winning producer to begin production in 2022.  Her episodic television series, "America's TRC" made it to the second round of the Sundance Episodic Lab.  She is currently working on her second feature-length script, "Madame Secretary General" and is committed to bringing untold global health and development stories to the big screen.   

For more information, visit lisarussellfilms.com and create2030.org.

David Scheiman

David Scheiman has been working in international development for over 30 years with a special focus on healthcare in Africa. He started his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia and Cameroon and then was hired by World Vision to manage a USAID funded, Child Survival Program in Mauritania. After this, he received a Master of Public Health from the University of Alabama and a Master of Business Administration from Eastern University. During his time with World Vision, David served in many roles including being the Senior Director over programs in Africa and also being a Senior Technical Advisor for the Health Team. Currently, David serves as the Vice President of Programs for LifeNet International which focuses on building capacity and health systems strengthening at 244 rural clinics in the countries of Uganda, Burundi, DRC, and Malawi. 

Cliff Schmidt

Cliff Schmidt founded Amplio (as Literacy Bridge) in 2007 to address global poverty through innovative technology, the Talking Book audio device. Cliff is a two-time recipient of Microsoft’s Integral Fellows Award (2010, 2014) and has received a range of awards, including the top prize at The Tech Awards (2012), a Computerworld Honors Award (2013), and Wise Award (2015) for the Talking Book program. He also was selected as a Clinton Global Initiative member and featured as a PBS Newshour Agent of Change. Prior to starting Amplio, Cliff was a software developer for Microsoft and a nuclear engineering officer for the U.S. Navy Submarine Force. He received a BS in cognitive science from MIT and an MS in computer science and engineering from the University of Washington.

Katherine Semrau

Katherine Semrau is an epidemiologist and the Director of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs, a joint health innovation center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her program aims to improve the quality of care, minimize complications, and end the preventable deaths of women and infants through effective implementation of evidence-based, scalable solutions at the frontline of care. Katherine is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Division of Global Health Equity.

Nomawethu Siswana

Nomawethu Siswana is a parent communication coordinator who works with the Ubuntu Pathways team to grow the educational and psychosocial resources available to students and to encourage parent commitment to the program. She has been a community leader working with and for NGOs for 15 years. She studied teaching reception at the University of South Africa and completed the Learning Program on Youth and the Challenges of the Developing World at Nelson Mandela University. 

In 2011, she was part of the team that started the Early Childhood Development (ECD) program in Ibhayi township near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She has continued to work with Ubuntu Pathways to develop the ECD program and in 2020 Ubuntu Pathways opened a primary school with grades R – 4.

Michael Schmoyer

Michael W. Schmoyer is currently detailed as the Assistant Director for Health Security Threats at the White House within the Office of Science and Technology Policy. His portfolio focuses on the juxtaposition of health with national security. When not on detail, Michael is the National Security Advisor to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Michael also oversees the Office of National Security (ONS) and serves as the Secretary’s Senior Intelligence Official and Federal Senior Intelligence Coordinator for HHS. ONS provides Departmental oversight in the areas of intelligence, counterintelligence, personnel security, and the safeguarding of classified information. Prior to his work in ONS, Michael was the Director of the Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats (PET) within the Office of Global Affairs at HHS. Preceding his time with PET, Michael was the HHS Senior Advisor and representative to U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), covering 31 countries and 10 territories in Latin America. Before USSOUTHCOM, Michael was the Deputy Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Central America and Panama Regional Office in Guatemala; he also simultaneously served as acting regional director for six months. Before Guatemala, Michael was Interim Director for the CDC Central Asia Regional Office in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Prior to serving as Interim Director, Michael was the Regional Deputy Director. Before this assignment, he had served in several domestic-related positions within the U.S. Government as well as institutes of higher education.

Jaimie Steinmetz

Jaimie Steinmetz is a research scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation where she works on sensory and neurological disorders for the Global Burden of Disease Study. Her background is in biomedical research and public health; she has work experience in Indonesia and Namibia, and previously interned at Unite For Sight. She has a neuroscience PhD from Stanford University and a public health master’s degree from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Richard Skolnik

Richard Skolnik is the former Director for HNP for the South Asia Region of the World Bank. He taught global health at George Washington and Yale and was the Executive Director of the Harvard PEPFAR program. He is the author of Global Health 101 and the instructor for the Yale/Coursera course Essentials of Global Health.

Robin Allinson Smalley

Robin Allinson Smalley - After an Emmy Award-winning career as a television producer/director/writer, Robin uprooted her family from Los Angeles to South Africa to co-found mothers2mothers (m2m), an NGO that unlocks the power of women to dramatically improve the health and wellbeing of women, children, and adolescents. m2m employs and trains local women living with HIV as Mentor Mothers—frontline health workers who work in under-resourced and over-burdened health facilities and communities to educate and support women and their families to access healthcare, start on any treatment they need, and stay in care. From an initial focus on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), m2m now deploys its proven peer-based model to address broader family health needs, including early childhood development (ECD), adolescent sexual and reproductive health, orphans, and vulnerable children (OVC) programming, management of non-communicable diseases, and, increasingly, more clinical services. As m2m’s first Executive Director and currently its Co-Founder and Chief Connector,  Robin has helped guide the organization through this extraordinary growth, from a tiny grassroots start-up to an international organization operating in ten sub-Saharan countries that has reached over 11 million women and children under two, created jobs for over 11,000 women living with HIV as Mentor Mothers, and empowered millions of their peers to achieve positive health outcomes for themselves and their families.  She is thrilled that m2m celebrates its 20th anniversary this year!

Eliza Squibb

Eliza Squibb uses textile design to bridge the worlds of art and science. Her textiles designs for health campaigns in West Africa, including cervical cancer prevention in Mali and infant vaccination in Niger, have received two “Grand Challenge Explorations” grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Eliza’s research in traditional art practices and artisan entrepreneurship has taken her to Tunisia and the Peruvian Amazon, where she organized design workshops in Yine-Yami, Shuar, and Shipibo indigenous communities. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Eliza is a co-instructor for D-Lab Design, a course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that connects innovative global start-ups and nonprofits with teams of student engineers.

Laura Stachel

Laura Stachel is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of We Care Solar® and has worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist for 14 years. She holds an MD from University of California, San Francisco and an MPH and DrPH from University of California, Berkeley in Maternal and Child Health. Her research on maternal mortality in Nigeria in 2008 alerted her to the deleterious effects of energy poverty on maternal health outcomes. She co-founded We Care Solar with Hal Aronson to bring simple solar electric solutions to maternal and child health care in regions without reliable electricity. We Care Solar has equipped more than 5,200 health facilities in over 30 countries with We Care Solar Suitcases®, compact solar energy systems providing essential lighting and power to improve childbirth outcomes. We Care Solar launched the international Light Every Birth initiative to ensure every woman can access safe childbirth services, prioritizing African countries with high rates of maternal mortality, including Liberia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone.

Daniel Student

Daniel Student is a business and social sector leader who brings a cross-section of creativity and strategy to his work. At Potrero Group, Student has led organizational design, change management, board development, and executive searches. He also initiates thought leadership on innovation and strategy by curating a monthly newsletter and designing conference presentations, workshops, and webinars. In his first career, Student was a cultural nonprofit leader, heading organizations such as International Performing Arts for Youth and the historic Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia. Student also was a theater director of over thirty plays nationwide, gaining experience building spaces to engender creativity in others. He now utilizes this unique background to provide new and untraditional ways to look at and solve business challenges. He is a graduate of Vassar College and received his MBA from the University of California, Davis.

Harsh Sule

Harsh Sule is a practicing emergency physician who serves as Residency Program Director for Emergency Medicine and Associate Director for the Office of Global Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ.  Harsh has broad global health experience related to administrative, educational, and service activities. He has previously worked in Azerbaijan for International Medical Corps on an emergency medicine development project and also served as its Country Director.  In academia, at Thomas Jefferson University he co-founded a fellowship in Global Health for emergency physicians and at Rutgers NJMS, Harsh helps coordinate global health at an institutional level, including a Global Health Distinction Program for students.  His involvements have spanned several countries including Azerbaijan, Sierra Leone, and currently Ghana, with a focus on medical education and human capacity development.

John Tarpley

John Tarpley is a “general-general surgeon” with key interests in global health, medical education, and capacity building.  He has divided his career between sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, and Botswana) and stateside (Johns Hopkins University and Vanderbilt University).  Currently, he is professor and head of department, surgery, the University of Botswana where the nation’s first General Surgery residency program was launched in 2020.

Margaret Tarpley

Margaret Tarpley is adjunct lecturer in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Botswana and adjunct instructor in surgery at Vanderbilt University. After 15 years as a theological librarian in Nigeria, she spent 15 years in surgery education at Vanderbilt and the past 4 ½ years in Kenya, Rwanda, and currently Botswana working in medical education and medical journal editing.   

David Tovey

David Tovey is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Center for Biomedical Research Transparency. He was previously Editor in Chief of the Cochrane Library. In his early career, David worked as an inner-city family doctor in London, UK, but since 2003 he has worked in various leadership posts relating to Evidence-Informed Health Care at the BMJ and Cochrane Collaboration. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of high quality, timely and actionable evidence to guide decision making. It has highlighted many problems that were previously well understood, including those caused by incomplete or inaccurate reporting of research. It has also introduced new challenges such as the rapid rise in pre-print publication. However, some long-standing problems have found solutions, which should now feed into areas unrelated to the pandemic, thus leading to a more robust evidence eco-system and improvements in the provision of accurate information to the public. David is based in London and Sussex in the UK.

Krishna Udayakumar

Krishna Udayakumar is the founding Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, focused on generating deeper evidence and support for the study, scaling, and adaptation of health innovations and policy reforms globally.  He is also Executive Director of Innovations in Healthcare, a non-profit co-founded by Duke, McKinsey & Company, and the World Economic Forum to curate and scale the impact of transformative health solutions globally. At Duke University, he holds the rank of Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine and is a core faculty member of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. He also serves as Associate Director for Innovation of the Duke Global Health Institute.

Chris Underhill

Chris Underhill works as a social entrepreneur in the field of quality of life and health, he is a mentor and a thinker in the field of community and development. He has developed a number of social enterprises, for example, Thrive, an organization working in gardening, disability, and community (www.thrive.org.uk) and ADD International (www.add.org.uk), working in the developing world with disabled people creating systems of representation, advocacy, and policy creation. He has created several organizations in the field of global mental health, e.g. BasicNeeds (www.basicneeds.org) which promotes the Model for Mental Health and Development created by Chris in 2000. He runs his own mentoring practice called Mentor Services (www.mentorservices.org.uk) and presents on health, quality of life, mental health, and resilience. Chris is co-founder of a new organization benefitting social entrepreneurs: The Council of Elders for Social Entrepreneurs. He is a Skoll Foundation awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, an awardee in Social Entrepreneurship of the Schwab Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of Ashoka and has been honored with an MBE by HRH the Queen for his work in disability.

Arti Patel Varanasi

Arti Patel Varanasi is President and CEO of the social enterprise, Advancing Synergy, LLC and co-founder of the non-profit organization, Health Tech Alley. She has over 25 years combined experience in cancer research, advocacy, capacity building, public health, and project management and maintains close ties to the medical, public health, and research community. Advancing Synergy served as the technology partner on a grant awarded to Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD from Susan G. Komen for the Cure® to provide virtual, personalized support to women undergoing breast cancer treatment through innovative technology. She is interested in leveraging technology to address chronic disease and increase health equity. To this end, Health Tech Alley exists to deliver on the promise of health tech for all by serving healthcare organizations in providing quality and affordable healthcare. She is a lecturer in the Master’s in Biotechnology Program at The Johns Hopkins University where she teaches molecular biology, cell biology, epidemiology, and psychosocial determinants of health. She recently co-developed a continuing education course in Health Information Technology Fundamentals for Howard Community College. Arti was a fellow in the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program from 2001-2005 where her research interests focused on nutrition, immunity, and cancer prevention. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MPH from the Johns Hopkins University. Arti is also a graduate of the National Science Foundation-funded ACTiVATE® program for women technology entrepreneurs.

Sten Vermund

Sten H. Vermund is Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine.  He is a pediatrician and infectious disease epidemiologist with his appointment in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. His research focus is on diseases of low- and middle-income countries, and on health disparities in the U.S. His research has focused on health care access, adolescent reproductive health, and prevention of HIV transmission, both mother-to-child and among adolescents/adults. As with so many other public health faculty, his most recent work has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic. Sten has founded two non-governmental organizations in Zambia and the other in Mozambique and Nigeria. He served as the principal investigator of the HIV Prevention Trials Network from 2006-2012 and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Seth Wanye

Seth Wanye is an ophthalmologist at Friends Eye Centre in Kumasi, Ghana, and a member of Unite For Sight's Medical Advisory Board. Since 2004, he was the only ophthalmologist for more than 2 million people in the Northern Region of Ghana. Born in Ghana, he started his medical education in Kharkov Medical School (Ukraine) and received his medical degree at Ulianovsk State University (Russia) in June 1997. From September 1997 -2000, he completed his internship and Master of Surgery (Ophthalmology) in Moscow Medical Academy and completed his PhD in Ophthalmology at the Russian Academy for Advanced Medical Training in 2002. He subsequently worked with SDA Hospital at Asamang near Kumasi and at Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. In May 2004, Dr. Wanye became the Regional Ophthalmologist and Coordinator for the Trachoma Control Program for Northern Region, Ghana. He is also a part-time lecturer at the University for Development Studies in Tamale. Dr. Wanye is an international member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and recently participated in a fellowship program in cornea transplantation at the Kentucky Lions Eye Center and the Kentucky Lions Eye Bank in Louisville. He has also participated in educational programs at Wake Forest University Department of Ophthalmology and at the Ophthalmology Department of Yale University.

Kiah Williams

Kiah Williams bio to come.

Derek Yach

Derek Yach bio to come.

Alicia Ely Yamin

Alicia Ely Yamin is currently a Lecturer on Law and Senior Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and Senior Advisor on Human Rights at the global health justice organization, Partners In Health (PIH).

In 2016, the UN Secretary General appointed Yamin as one of ten international global health experts to the Independent Accountability Panel for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health in the Sustainable Development Goals. She currently serves on the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Health Technology Assessments, as well as the Lancet Commission on Arctic Health and the Expert Working Group on Global Public Investment.  Yamin regularly provides expert testimony and guidance to national and supra-national tribunals and legislative bodies around the globe, in relation to the application of international and constitutional law to health issues. 

Stefani Zimmerman

Stefani Zimmerman works for SAS, a world leader in analytics, as an Account Executive for South Carolina and Virginia in the Government and Education practice. With over fifteen years of experience working in the US government, on various Congressional campaigns, the international NGO space, and leading a successful nonprofit consulting business, Stefani is recognized for her human rights and advocacy expertise in DC and around the world. Just a few of her professional accomplishments include serving on the UNDP's Roster of Communication Experts in sub-Saharan Africa, as a disaster relief expert for USAID funded organizations, and leading advocacy and public relations efforts for Water Mission, an engineering non-profit. As an analytical thinker and storytelling expert, Stefani is a sought after speaker on how government agencies can elevate their influence and broaden their impact through data with a purpose. 

Jana Zindell

Jana Zindell - As Ubuntu Pathways’ Chief Strategy Officer, Jana Zindell oversees the strategic development, impact measurement, and implementation of all programs. Over her 20 years at the organization, Jana has professionalized the grassroots service delivery model, creating a global blueprint for community transformation. She has been instrumental in building all aspects of the model. She has led the creation of a comprehensive pathway of interventions taking orphans and vulnerable children from cradle to career, drove complex organizational change, and guided the development of Ubuntu's capacity building program, a globally recognized best practice in recruitment, empowerment, and retention in low-resource settings. In 2010, Jana spearheaded the design and building of the Ubuntu Centre, a 24,000 square foot, state-of-the-art building that houses a mother-and-child clinic, an early childhood wing, and job skills training hub.

Jana is a passionate advocate of contextualized, locally-driven poverty solutions as well as the importance of staff development, creating a learning culture, and the value of intrapreneurship. She writes and speaks regularly about these topics. She is currently leading the Ubuntu Advisory, a nonprofit incubator that will train and empower other community institutions capable of delivering sustainable change. Jana received a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of Wisconsin and a Master's in Development and Policy from Georgetown University. 

Rachel Turkel

Rachel Turkel holds an MSPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she received a Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health Scholarship. She is currently a Coach at Crisis Text Line, a mental health NGO. Prior to joining Crisis Text Line she was a Program Associate at PATH. Previously, Rachel was Unite For Sight's Program Manager for three years, where she managed and implemented initiatives in each of Unite For Sight's program divisions. As the manager of Unite For Sight's Global Health & Innovation Conference and Global Health University, she directed Unite For Sight's initiatives to advance education about global health. Additionally, she worked with and trained Unite For Sight's Global Impact Fellows, who are the next generation of leaders in global health. Rachel also managed Unite For Sight's research division, which yields public health publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Richard Thorsten

Rich Thorsten is Chief Insights Officer at Water.org. Rich oversees collaboration and innovation across the Global Impact department to generate a credible evidence base to advance insights, influence action, and contribute to thought leadership. His team works with water and sanitation enterprises and service providers to find effective ways to maintain and scale Water.org’s programs to improve the health and welfare of people living in poverty worldwide.

Rich’s 25+ year career has included programmatic and leadership roles at Water.org and U.S. conservation organizations. Rich holds a master’s and a doctorate degree in planning, with a focus on water and sanitation in developing countries.

Daniel Palazuelos

Daniel Palazuelos is a global health implementer-educator who holds positions at Harvard Medical School (HMS), the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and Partners In Health (PIH). He started his career in global health equity by living and working with community health workers (CHWs) in impoverished communities in Chiapas, Mexico, and these grassroots experiences have deeply influenced his approach to addressing the biggest challenges in global health. Over the last decade, he helped to launch Compañeros En Salud - México (PIH's program in Mexico), the Financing Alliance for Health (which helps governments design and fund ambitious, affordable, and at-scale community health programs), and the Community Health Impact Coalition (a five-year quality initiative by some of the field’s most innovative implementers to catalyze the adoption of high-impact community health systems design).