Dr. Jonathan Quick, serves as interim chair of the Global Health Council's Board of Directors. He is a family physician and health management specialist and is the President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health (MSH). An international nonprofit organization with teams in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, MSH builds local capacity to achieve greater health impact through stronger health systems. Dr. Quick was Director of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy at the World Health Organization from 1996 to 2004. Prior to that, he served with MSH as founding director of the Drug Management program/center for pharmaceutical management, then as a long-term advisor for the Afghanistan Health Sector Support Project and the Kenya Health Care Financing Project.
Dr. Quick has worked in international health since 1978, and has carried out assignments in over 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He is the senior editor of Managing Drug Supply, coauthor of the Financial Times Guide to Executive Health, and has written over 70 other books, articles, and chapters. He is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and the Boston University School of Public Health, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has a first degree from Harvard University and a Doctor of Medicine, with distinction in research, and Master of Public Health from the University of Rochester.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Ms. Lindsay Coates is Executive Vice President of InterAction a community of nearly 200 US based NGOs where she leads the public policy and outreach work. Lindsay serves on board of the Global Health Council, the steering committee of the World Bank Global Partnership for Social Accountability, the Obama administration’s Task Force on Global Poverty, the Board of Episcopal Relief and Development and the Public Policy Committee of the Independent Sector. She has been the COO of Population Action International, which advocates for access to family planning services and began her career as a civil rights lawyer in Mississippi. From 2008-2009, Lindsay was a nonresident Fellow of Seminar XXI, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. She holds a JD from the University of Mississippi, a BA magna cum laude from the University of the South at Sewanee.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Mr. Chris Collins is Vice President and Director of Public Policy at amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, where he leads the organization’s policy analysis and advocacy efforts. Mr. Collins also oversees amfAR’s GMT Initiative, a global grant-making program.
Before joining amfAR, Mr. Collins was a policy and communications consultant for numerous domestic and global health organizations. In 2007, he authored “Improving Outcomes: Blueprint for a National AIDS Plan for the United States,” which helped to catalyze the movement for the first comprehensive U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy. He then helped organize advocacy for development and design of the Strategy. As a consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Collins coordinated the work of the Global HIV Prevention Working Group. He also oversaw production of the “Missing the Target” series on international AIDS service scale up, produced by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC).
Mr. Collins is a cofounder of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC), served as its executive director for two years, and remains on its board. As Appropriations Associate for Rep. Nancy Pelosi in the late 1990s, Mr. Collins developed the first Congressional legislation designed to provide incentives for the development and delivery of vaccines against AIDS, malaria, and TB. He is the author of dozens of publications on health policy.
Mr. Collins holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Ms. Elizabeth Creel is the Communications Director at John Snow, Inc., a public health management and research consulting organization. She has 20 years of experience in communications, public policy and advocacy, program management and research, with technical expertise in global health, gender and environmental health issues and 10 years of incountry experience in Africa, Europe, and Latin America. She heads the Knowledge Management Services Project (KMS), which supports the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau of Global Health.
After 10 years in print journalism and publishing, Ms. Creel worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and United Nations agencies, nonprofit and for-profit organizations on numerous public health issues, including efforts to restore the ozone layer, abandon female genital cutting, promote child survival, and improve protections for refugees and internally displaced persons caught in emergency situations. She is a seasoned editor and writer with experience reaching out to technical and nontechnical audiences through technical reports and articles, traditional media, blogs, and social media, congressional testimony, advocacy toolkits, marketing material, and video.
Ms. Creel has rich experience in public policy and advocacy. As a project manager with USEPA, she was a member of the U.S. Government negotiating team to the Executive Committee of the Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund, as well as the Office of Air and Radiation’s representative to the Task Force on Women in preparation for the Fourth World Conference on Women. She received numerous awards for these efforts. While at International Relief & Development, she managed and coordinated public policy and advocacy efforts, conducted extensive outreach to U.S. legislators, and tracked appropriations. She has also served as a representative on numerous coalitions, including the Alliance for Global Food Security, the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival (as a member of the Steering Committee), InterAction (on the Executive Committee of the Public Policy Committee), and the WASH Advocacy Coalition.
Ms. Creel is highly adept at managing public affairs and communication efforts, including experience working on USAIDfunded projects, and on legislative campaign analysis, development, and strategy. She has experience building and managing multidisciplinary communications teams (print, Web, video, media, advocacy/policy, events) and conducting press outreach.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Ms. Pat Daly is the Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Nutrition for Save the Children. Her work in international public health for more than 30 years exemplifies a strong commitment to improving the lives of women and children. Ms. Daly has many years of experience with working with NGOs, including more than a decade with Save the Children.
Over the past ten years, she has served as Deputy Director of the USAID Global Partnership, Maternal and Child Integrated Partnership (MCHIP), and ACCESS, the USAID global award for maternal and newborn health. Ms. Daly was also the Deputy Director of Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives Initiative, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in which she helped lead and shape efforts to improve neonatal health worldwide. From 19942000, Ms. Daly worked with the World Bank in Washington and Indonesia as a technical advisor for safe motherhood and community health and nutrition. She worked with John Snow, Inc., in Nepal and in Senegal as a technical advisor on Primary Health Care with USAID/Senegal. Ms. Daly has lived in Indonesia, Nepal and Senegal and has over 30 years of experience in international health, including 14 years overseas in Asia and Africa, with specialized expertise in maternal, newborn and child health.
Ms. Daly has dedicated her professional career to advancing reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. She is a strong advocate for the continuum of care from reproductive, maternal to newborn to child health and from household to hospital. Ms. Daly also advocates for issues of concern to NGOs, and is committed to being an advocate for communities and local NGOs, whose voices often go unheard.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Dr. Peter J. Donaldson is the President of the Population Council, as appointed by its board of trustees in January 2005. His first postdoctoral employment was as a Council staff associate in Thailand (1973–75) and a representative in South Korea (1975–77). He then spent eight years at Family Health International in North Carolina, where he served ultimately as Director of Development and Government Relations. From 1985 to 1989, Dr. Donaldson was the Director of the Committee on Population of the National Research Council. In 1989, he returned to the Council to become a senior associate and Regional Director for South and East Asia, once again located in Thailand. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Washington, DC-based Population Reference Bureau from 1994 to 2003.
Dr. Donaldson rejoined the Population Council in 2003 as Vice President and Director of the International Programs Division, the Council's largest division, and also served as acting president prior to becoming president. In addition to his management and leadership responsibilities, Dr. Donaldson served on the board of directors of the Population Association of America, on the council of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, and as a member of the advisory committee of the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Bangkok.
Dr. Donaldson earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University, as well as Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Fordham University. In 2010, he received an honorary doctorate from Mahidol University in Thailand. Dr. Donaldson has written or edited six books and numerous articles for both scientific and popular publications on population, development, and Asian affairs.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Ms. Suzanne Ehlers is President and CEO of Population Action International, and has worked for the last 15 years to promote women's health, rights and empowerment across the globe. Ms. Ehlers has led PAI since 2009, building the case for women's health as an integral development issue that impacts everything from the environment, to state stability, to food security.
Ms. Ehlers repeatedly serves on the U.S. Government delegation to the United Nations’ Commission on Population and Development. She also sits on the Steering Committee of the Bangkokbased reproductive health group, the Asia Pacific Alliance, and serves as an Environmental Leadership Liaison for Rachel's Network, a network of women leaders dedicated to the stewardship of the earth. Ms. Ehlers is a frequent speaker on reproductive health issues and has been profiled by New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, National Journal and Grist. She was honored as one of Devex’s “40 under 40” International Development Leaders for 2011, and as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Ms. Karen Goraleski is Executive Director of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a worldwide organization of scientists, clinicians and program professionals, whose mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious and other diseases that disproportionately impact the world’s poorest individuals. Ms. Goraleski oversees all aspects of the Society’s efforts, which include: the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; the CTropMed® Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health; the Annual Meeting, which attracts a global audience and is widely considered the premier meeting in tropical medicine; and a portfolio of activities that includes awards and research opportunities, policy development, advocacy and membership.
Prior to joining ASTMH in 2010, Ms. Goraleski was Vice President of Public Health Partnerships at Research!America, an advocacy alliance located in Alexandria, Virginia, that works to make research to improve health a much higher national priority. She oversaw its global health research advocacy efforts that included the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, named for the late Honorable Paul G. Rogers. She worked with highly respected U.S.based global health researchers, engaging them in targeted outreach to policy leaders and other decision makers on the need for increased U.S. investment in global health research. She also managed the organization’s public health advocacy activities, engaging the broad public health community in a national effort to raise awareness of the value of prevention and public health - from research through the delivery of services. A key strategy was the development of targeted messages utilized by the organization’s advocacy network.
An experienced presenter, knowledgeable in the translation of complex issues for decision makers, media and public, Ms. Goraleski has led national and local workshops for the science community that focus on innovative advocacy using strategies designed to help a nonscience audience better understand the value and importance of a strong U.S. investment in research.
Earlier positions included executive roles at the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, both in Chicago. As Chief of Staff to the AMA’s Senior Vice President for Professional Standards, Ms. Goraleski integrated activities of 125 staff and a $12.5 million budget. As Associate Director of the American Society for Health Care Marketing and Public Relations at the AHA, she planned, managed and evaluated professional educational programs and directed its national professional award program.
Ms. Goraleski received a Master of Social Work from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts from St. Xavier University in Chicago.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Dr. Akudo Anyanwu Ikemba is Founder and CEO of Friends Africa (Friends of the Global Fund Africa). For three years, she served as Technical Advisor for Global Fund Projects in Nigeria, under Columbia University’s Access Project. In this role, she provided technical assistance to countries to enable them access and manage the Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB Malaria (GFATM) and successfully secured $480 million in funding for Nigeria from the Global Fund. She has worked for the Centers for Disease Control – (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia and as an Associate Scientist with Life Technologies in Palo Alto, California. She is currently a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for years 2012-2017.
Dr. Ikemba has also worked as a lecturer at Tufts University School of Medicine and has done extensive molecular biology research at Tufts University and Katholique University, Belgium on DNA analysis of Cryptosporium parvum and the motilin protein respectively. She holds a Doctorate degree in medicine from Tufts University, a Master of International Public Health from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University. She has also done postgraduate studies at the University of London and the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Her interests are in infectious diseases, economic development and in publicprivate partnerships for health in developing countries. Dr. Ikemba is deeply affected by Africa’s astoundingly poor health indicators and the low quality of health systems and infrastructure. Her life goal is to play a pivotal leadership role in improving Africa’s health status and development as a whole.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Dr. Keith Martin is the Senior Advisor at the Consortium of University for Global Health (CUGH) and a distinguished leader in global health. He spent 17 years as a Canadian Member of Parliament, acting in many senior roles in the areas of foreign affairs, international development, defense, and environment. He has taken a leadership role in these areas in North America and internationally. Dr. Martin is widely connected to the global health community across a broad range of disciplines. As CUGH’s Senior Advisor and point person in our Washington, D.C. office, Dr. Martin is ideally suited to help catalyze strong, synergistic collaborations between CUGH and GHC.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Dr. Peter Ngatia is the Director of Capacity Building at African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF). In his time at AMREF, he has spearheaded the development of Programmes and Strategies and policies for Health Systems, particularly Human Resources for Health in the continent. He has contributed immensely to health system strengthening and scaling up and skilling up HRH in such countries as Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Southern Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda, among others.
He is a member of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and its African Platform and the Chair of the Africa Health Leadership and Management Network. Dr. Ngatia is also a cochair of WHO’s Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI) Secretariat. He has conducted numerous research projects on Human Resources for Health (HRH) and authored papers and books on HRH issues and subjects, such as brain drain, innovative curricula and training of health professionals in general. His expertise in Health Systems Development and programming has been sought by Regional Ministries of Health, the World Bank, EU, UNESCO, WHO, universities throughout Africa and Europe and several international development agencies (Ireland Aid, CIDA, SIDA, USAID, DFID, etc). Dr. Ngatia also serves on the Technical Working Group of the MPowering alliance of USAID.
He holds academic qualifications in Rehabilitation Medicine (BSc.), M.Ed. in Medical Education and Public Health, and PhD in Medical Education, Planning and Development from the University of Alberta, Canada.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Mr. Leonard S. Rubenstein is Senior Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has a joint appointment at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, he founded the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, which brings together global health, human rights, humanitarian, and health professional communities to advance protection of health in situations of conflict. Mr. Rubenstein has served as Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (20082009), Executive Director and then President of Physicians for Human Rights (19962009) and Executive Director of the Judge David Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (19911996). Mr. Rubenstein has written extensively both for scientific journals and in major media and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations. He has served on the board of directors of InterAction and global health organizations, as well as on the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, where he now is a member of APHA’s Human Rights Committee and Action Board. He is the recipient the Congressional Minority Caucuses’ Healthcare Hero Award and the APHA Award for Peace.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Ms. Rachel Wilson is Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy at PATH, and responsible for the development, management, and evaluation of the organization’s advocacy and public policy initiatives. In this role, Ms. Wilson oversees the advocacy and public policy department at PATH, which consists of 24 staff who work with partners in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa to inform the global health policies and priorities of bilateral donors, global multilaterals, and national governments in low resource settings. Ms. Wilson oversees an advocacy portfolio that ranges from topics of maternal, newborn, child health and malaria to global health research and development and regulatory policy. She has held numerous advisory roles, with entities including the Global Health Technologies Coalition, Women Deliver, the UN Every Woman Every Child Innovation Working Group, the Maternal Health Supplies Working Group, the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival, the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, and the Stop TB Partnership. PATH is an international nonprofit organization that transforms global health through innovation.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
Mr. Jason Taylor Wright is the U.S. Director of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance after having assuming the position in October 2011. The AIDS Alliance is a network of national, independent, locally governed and managed Linking Organizations working in 40 countries. He is based in Washington. Mr. Wright most recently was Multilateral Team Leader in the Office of HIV/AIDS at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington. He served as USAID Liaison to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and was the longestserving member of the U.S. Government delegations to the Global Fund Board and UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board (PCB). His multilateral team managed the U.S. Government Global Fund technical assistance portfolio. He previously was Donor Coordination Advisor in the Office of Strategic Planning, Budgeting, and Operations at USAID and HIV/AIDS Policy Advisor in the Office of Global Health Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington.
He earned a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) and a Master of Arts (MA) in History from Georgetown University in Washington and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) summa cum laude in Political Economy and German from Tulane University in New Orleans.
Term expires December 31, 2015.
