SPEAKER BIOS (2022) — Unite For Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference

Meet the 2022 Conference Speakers

Chris Addy

Chris Addy is a Partner and Head of South East Asia with The Bridgespan Group. He is based in Singapore.

Chris has been with Bridgespan for over a decade and in that time, has led the philanthropy practice, launched the impact investing practice, and managed the firms Boston office. He has worked on social issues across the United States, South/Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, serving organizations such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Audacious Project, TPG’s The Rise Fund, Temasek’s ABC Impact, Project ECHO, Last Mile Health, The Drive Electric Campaign, the Tenure Facility, and the African Leadership Group. His topical experience includes education from early childhood to post-secondary completion, public health/healthcare, livelihoods, equity and justice, and climate/environment.

Chris has been quoted as an expert in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He has co-authored “China is Finally Ready for Socially Beneficial Investing” (Caixin, 2020), “Calculating the Value of Impact Investing” (Harvard Business Review, 2018), "Making Big Bets for Social Change" (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2016) and authored "Wall Street Philanthropy: The 6 Do's And Don'ts From The Trading Floor" (Forbes, 2016), and “Philanthropic Opportunities for Climate Adaptation” (SSIR, 2012). Outside of Bridgespan, he is a senior advisor to the One Acre Fund, a nonprofit assisting more than 1 million smallholder-farming families in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is also a trustee of The Nature Conservancy’s Massachusetts chapter (on hiatus). Before joining Bridgespan, Chris advised Fortune 500 companies at Bain & Company in a wide array of industries, including agribusiness, airlines, and retail. He started his career as a middle-school environmental science and math teacher and a youth outdoor adventure trip leader, and also briefly worked on post-tsunami recovery in Sri Lanka.

Chris earned his BS in Biology, from the University of North Carolina and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was an FC Austin Scholar. Chris is a proud husband and father of two daughters and an avid outdoorsman and traveler.

Michelle Akande

**Michelle Akande** is Vice President of Global Commercial Access Partnerships at Pfizer. An experienced Global Access and Commercial Leader, she works across Africa, South and South East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. She is committed to driving access through inclusive R&D and business development strategies, product re-engineering to meet the needs of underserved populations, access and affordability solutions focussed on the bottom and middle of the income pyramid demographics in emerging markets, and market shaping that improves outcomes of health systems, improves patients experiences, and enables sustainable commercial solutions.

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, politics, and related fields on US and global health, particularly in understanding and designing the complex coalitions and systems required for 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 at the Farley Health Policy Center where he is designing systems to help marginalized populations thrive. (https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/farleyhealthpolicycenter) He is helping lead a broad coalition of leaders of communities, social services and health to address gross health disparities and transform the wellbeing of underserved people in Colorado. David has directed global health programs for Ashoka and the United Nations Foundation. He was the first Executive Director of the global mHealth Alliance. He has extensive experience with business and non-profit startups. As Chief Counsel and Staff Director, he led the staff of the US House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee during the advent of competition in telecommunications, the breakup of AT&T, the emergence of the wireless and cable television industries, and the introduction of electronic and competitive securities trading. He has managed and been a founding owner of radio and satellite companies, and represented a wide range of information, communications, health, finance and other clients and causes. 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. He is married with three children and ten amazing grandchildren.

Priyanka Bhasin

**Priyanka Bhasin** leads Acumen’s partnership engagement with corporations. Priyanka seeks to find synergies between corporate sustainability goals and Acumen’s work to drive meaningful impact on the lives of the poor. Priyanka has helped to build and sustain Acumen’s corporate portfolio of partners and has made corporate partner engagement a mainstay of our strategy.
Prior to joining Acumen, Priyanka was at Catchafire, a for-profit social venture that works to match professionals with nonprofits on meaningful skills based volunteering projects in order to build capacity for non profit organizations. While at Catchafire, Priyanka’s roles ranged from leading the Account Management team to setting up some of Catchafire’s first corporate partnership engagements, with corporations such as Merck, Viacom, and GLG. Previously, Priyanka was an Associate at Sanford C. Bernstein’s Private Wealth Management group. Priyanka has also worked as an entrepreneur, launching her own event planning company, catering to the niche market of South Asian weddings.
Priyanka holds an MBA from NYU Stern as well as a BS in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.

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.

Adeline Boatin

Adeline Boatin is an Assistant Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and an Attending at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, USA. She received her undergraduate education at Harvard University, her medical degree at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and an MPH with a focus on international health at the Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health. She was trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Harvard Integrated Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program, where she also served as chief resident. She completed a two-year Global Health Research Scholarship at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) where she focused on innovative methods to improve obstetric care delivery and decision-making around caesarean delivery in resource-limited settings. In addition to obstetric and gynecologic clinical care and resident education at MGH she is an NIH-funded clinical researcher with a focus on reducing global reproductive health inequities. Her current research focuses on using wireless monitoring technology to overcome human resource limitations in post-operative care and the spectrum of quality of care around reproductive surgery in low and middle-income countries. She co-directs Research at the Program for Global Surgery and Social Change and is director of the MGH Global OB/GYN Program. She is also affiliate faculty of the MGH Center for Global Health. Adeline is a Ghanaian native and has lived, studied and worked in Zambia, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Boris Bulayev

Boris Bulayev is the CEO and Co-founder of Educate!, which he co-founded when he was 19. Under his leadership, the organization has grown to become the biggest youth skills provider in East Africa and has received various recognition, including a highlight by Bill Gates and recognition from the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative.

**Corrado Cancedda**

**Corrado Cancedda** is the Director of the Botswana University of Pennsylvania Partnership and Strategic Advisor for Academic Partnerships at the Center for Global Health of the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his current position, he was an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Corrado has over twelve years of experience in Global Health as a clinician, educator, researcher, implementer, leader, advocate, and scholar. He has lived and worked extensively in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Lesotho, Haiti, and Peru. His academic interest lies in the establishment, implementation, and evaluation of the impact of large-scale and multi-disciplinary Global Health Initiatives. He is especially interested in health workforce development and health system strengthening, with a particular focus on the notions of institutional capacity strengthening and sustainability.

**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, in New Orleans. She is a medical anthropologist trained in public health. Before joining Tulane in 2013, she was Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Among other awards, Dr. Castro is the recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship for her research on the management of HIV and syphilis during pregnancy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently, she researches the differential impact of obstetric violence on maternal and child health outcomes and the indirect effects of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to health services for women, children, and adolescents. She has testified in the United States Congress and Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittees on the Western Hemisphere on COVID-19 vaccine access in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr Castro is former President of the Society for Medical Anthropology. She’s a member of WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health & Nutrition, the Executive Committees of the Health Equity Network of the Americas and the Sustainable Health Equity Movement, and of IPPF's International Medical Advisory Panel. She has published widely.

Dixon Chibanda

**Dixon Chibanda** is a psychiatrist based in Zimbabwe. He is the founder of the Friendship Bench and is director of the African Mental Health research Initiative. He is also an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine attached to the Centre for Global Mental Health.

**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), and he also has a Diploma in Community Health and Tropical Medicine from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Berlin, Germany.
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 the only ophthalmologist 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.

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.”

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.

Kevin Frick

Kevin Frick is a health economist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, where he has been on faculty for nine years following more than sixteen years at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has long had an interest in how economics motivates eye care-seeking behavior and the cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote eye health and refractive error correction. His research has included both domestic (e.g., age-related macular degeneration) and international projects (e.g., trachoma). For most of his nine years at the Carey Business School, he served as the vice dean for education. In that time, he led a multi-faceted team of professionals serving the students in a variety of roles including career development that was focused on both coaching for domestic and international professional development and employer relations for domestic and international jobs. Since stepping down as vice dean and returning to a teaching-based and research-based faculty role, he has had the opportunity to speak about mentorship, leadership in academia, advocacy, and lifelong learning.

Rebecca Hardin

Rebecca Hardin, Faculty Director for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, has long worked at the interface of environmental anthropology, community health and corporate political accountability. Her current research and teaching integrates Digital and Environmental Justice issues, and undergirds new approaches to the creation and iterative improvement of open educational resources for both classroom and organizational or civic learning about social and environmental sustainability.

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.

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.

Katja Iversen

Katja Iversen is an executive adviser, author, board member and global advocate on sustainability, purpose driven leadership, global health and gender equality. She is a sought keynote speaker and moderator, and she holds various board and executive advisory roles, including with the World Economic Forum, Women Political Leaders, 4LifeSolutions, Kings College Institute for Women’s Leadership, Goal Goals World Cup and Global Health 50/50.
Ms. Iversen, who is Danish, has a background as a leader in civil society, the United Nations, and as a cross-cultural leadership trainer for Fortune 500 executives. She has been a member of Prime Minister Trudeau’s and President Macron’s G7 Gender Equality Councils, an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, on MIT Solve Challenge’s Women and Tech Leadership Group, and the President of the global NGO, Women Deliver.
Katja is appointed a *UN Food Champion* and *Copenhagen Goodwill Ambassador*. She was one of the original members of 100Women@Davos, was named *Dane of the Year* in 2018, and included in Apolitical’s Top 20 of *Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2019*. In 2018, her book on women and networking came out.

Krishna Jafa

Krishna Jafa is the CEO of Medic, a tech-for-good nonprofit building open source tools for community health systems globally. As a physician, epidemiologist, and public health executive, Krishna brings 25 years of deep expertise in health system design and strengthening, digital health innovation, and complex global partnerships on the frontier of public health progress. As a visible and visionary leader in the movement for global health equity, Krishna builds community, creates space and momentum for change, and continues the legacy of values-driven leadership into Medic's second decade of work. Krishna previously held key leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Population Services International, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A deeply committed advocate for women’s and girls’ empowerment, health and reproductive rights, Krishna holds a Medical degree from Rajasthan University (India), an MPH from Harvard University (USA), is an alumna of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, and serves as an Advisory Council member of Last Mile Health and Board member of the Washington Institute of Coagulation.

Bobby Jefferson

**Bobby Jefferson** is DAI’s first-ever VP, Global Head of Diversity, Equity, Engagement, and Inclusion (DEEI) steeped in the issues of racial and social justice. He has reflected on those issues for two decades as a professional in the global development industry. He has lent his insights by serving on DAI’s Racial and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) Steering Committee since its inception.
In 2020 Bobby joined the Board of Directors of the Society for International Development-Washington, (SIDW) D.C. Chapter, a position to which he was re-elected in 2021. As a member of SID-Washington’s Executive Committee, he has been instrumental in shaping the organization’s strategic thinking on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): chairing the DEI Committee; establishing the Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Workgroup; and setting in motion the DEI Strategic Plan. Bobby is a founding member organization of the Coalition for Racial & Ethnic Equity in Development (CREED) and a co-chair of the Council of International Development Companies (CIDC) new DEIA Committee. He participates in British Expertise International’s Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Working Group.

Michelle Joseph

Michelle Joseph is an academic trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from University College London and trained on the Warwick Orthopaedic Programme. During her orthopaedic training Michelle completed her PhD in Medicine, researching the biomechanics and conducting a randomised clinical trial in knee replacement surgery. In 2018, she was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and appointed as a National Institute Health Research Clinical Lecturer at the University of Warwick. In 2017, following her strong desire to work with populations facing limited access to health care and resources, Michelle was appointed to the board of trustees of an international NGO, Hope Health Action. Two years later, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School where she is now academic faculty, turning her focus fully to global health, specifically global surgery and health equity. Most recently, in addition to her other positions, Michelle has been appointed as the Stepping Strong Orthoplastics Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Michelle has research interests in trauma systems strengthening in low-middle income countries and the development of health equity frameworks. She is the Principal Investigator on the PROTHA Study (PROject Trauma HAiti), IMPACT Study (Integrated Military Partnerships and Civilian Trauma Systems), and Lessons Learned from the Civilian-Military Response to the 2010 and 2021 Haiti Earthquakes. At the PGSSC, Michelle Joseph holds a co-leadership position as, Chief Strategy and Health Equity Officer, leading health equity research and anti-racism training, for which she is one of the inaugural recipients of the American College of Surgeons – Board of Regents Innovative Grant for DEI and Anti-Racism. Michelle is the Director of the Equity Research Hub, a platform that aims to make research more equitable. Michelle mentors a number of students in the USA, Haiti, Dominica, and Nigeria. She strongly believes in investing in the future generation and creating opportunities that transform aspirations into reality.

Jon Jureidini

Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist who also trained in philosophy (PhD, Flinders University), critical appraisal (University of British Columbia) and psychotherapy (Tavistock Clinic). He heads Adelaide University’s *Critical and Ethical Mental Health research group* (CEMH), which conducts research, teaching and advocacy to promote safer, more effective and more ethical research and practice in mental health; and the *Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit* (PMHTU), providing training and support to medical students GPs, allied health professionals, teachers and counsellors in non-pathologising approaches to primary care mental health. He is co-author of *The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine*. Wakefield Press, 2020.

Siobhan Kelley
Siobhan Kelley is the Director of Communications at Last Mile Health, an organization that partners with governments to save lives in the world's most remote communities by training professionalized community health workers. She joined Last Mile Health in 2013 as a Global Health Corps fellow and was the founding member of the Communications team, where she now oversees the organization's brand, thought leadership, and storytelling. Siobhan also serves on the organization’s gender mainstreaming and anti-racism working groups. Prior to Last Mile Health, she was on the founding team for Partners In Health’s community organizing initiative, PIH Engage, and was a community organizer for a number of global issues. She graduated with a BA & MA in International Development and Social Change from Clark University.

**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.

Felicia Knaul

**Felicia Knaul** (BA, University of Toronto; MA, PhD, Harvard University) is Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and Professor, Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. A health and social sector economist, Felicia maintains a synergistic program of research and advocacy. She has produced over 250 publications and books including a memoir on her cancer experience. Felicia spearheads research networks, co-chairs both the Lancet Commission on Cancer And Health Systems and the Lancet Commission on Gender-based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People, is a member of the Lancet Commission on Breast Cancer and chaired The Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief. As director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, she founded the Global Task Force on Cancer Care and Control and led the publication of the book "Closing the Cancer Divide” in 2012 that inspired research, policy, and advocacy. She is founding President of Tómatelo a Pecho, a non-governmental organization dedicated to women’s cancers and health, and leads research on health systems with the Mexican Health Foundation. She has extensive experience living and working in the Americas, including in governmental leadership positions in Mexico and Colombia.

**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.

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** is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy in the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and serves as the Associate Director for Education and Training at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH). She received her B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University and M.Ed. in International Education Policy from Vanderbilt’s George Peabody College of Education and Human Development. She completed her Ph.D. at Tennessee State University in Public Administration. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of global health, public policy and education with a particular focus on agenda-setting and public finance. Previously, Marie was a Fulbright Scholar to Japan in international education and worked for three years at the Global Education Office at Vanderbilt developing international service-learning programs. Her professional background includes seven years as an assignment editor for CNN.

Kala Mehta

**Kala Mehta** is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Kala focuses her research on both domestic and international vulnerable populations. Her early work examines disparities in older adult health. Her more recent work focuses on the intersection of social entrepreneurship and health in a global context. From 2011-2014, she was a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she led a research evaluation on the impact of a management and transportation intervention on health in Zambia. Her current research evaluates a large maternal and child health intervention in Bihar, India.

Kala received her DSc. in Epidemiology from the Erasmus University Medical School in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and has obtained post-graduate specialization in epidemiology and clinical research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco.

Rorisang Mhlaba

**Rorisang Mhlaba** is Head of School at Ubuntu Pathways in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, a nonprofit institution in the Township that focuses on holistic education supporting scholars and their families with academic, psychosocial, and high-quality medical services. She is passionate about serving and working with people with underprivileged backgrounds to be part of the solution and working from cradle to career with scholars and their local community enabling a long-term solution to poverty in South Africa. Rorisang has a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Sciences in Physiology and Psychology and a Postgraduate Degree in Education.

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.

**Ziyanda Ndyoko**

**Ziyanda Ndyoko** is the External Relations (ER) and Job Skills Training (JST) Manager at Ubuntu Pathways a NPO based in Zwide, Port Elizabeth. Ziyanda has been in the NPO space for the past 5 years focusing on development particularly on youth development.
She holds a degree in International Relations and Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Master’s degree from Shanghai University in International Trade. During her time at the University of the Witwatersrand, she got chosen to be a part of the prestigious African Presidential Roundtable. This is a platform that allows for discourse amongst former African heads of states together with the youth about issues affecting African youth and other issues affecting Africa as a whole.
In 2010, Ziyanda was selected by the China Scholarship Council to attain her Master’s degree in Shanghai, China where she stayed for 3 years. Ziyanda has experience in Marketing and youth development as her last role was at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator where she was a Project Coordinator and Facilitator of work readiness programs.
At Ubuntu Pathways Ziyanda is responsible for overseeing the Job Skills Training Program which entails recruitment of unemployed youth and placing them in prospective companies. As the External Relations Manager she does Client Relationship Management with donors and makes sure that when international and local donors visit the Ubuntu Pathways campus, they are well informed about the various programs that are offered.

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.