The Global Health Council's board of directors represents a wealth of experience and perspective that reflects our global society and stakeholders who work to improve health around the world. They represent the public and private sectors from government, corporate and non-governmental organizations to philanthropic, medical, faith-based and academic institutions.
Joel Lamstein serves as chair of the Global Health Council's Board of
Directors. He is founder and president of John Snow Inc, an international
public health consulting group, and he is also president of World Education.
Lamstein is on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health and teaches
organizational strategy, nonprofit management, international development and
strategic management. He received his BS in math and physics from the
University of Michigan, and attended the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Term expires 2012.
Valerie Nkamgang Bemo, MD, MPH, a native of Cameroon, is a senior program officer of
special initiatives in the global development division at the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, where she is responsible for the emergency response
portfolio. Before joining the foundation, she held various roles at the
International Rescue Committee, most recently serving as senior technical
advisor for health in the Democratic Republic of Congo and West Africa. She
also worked with various NGO and had extensive involvement in Aceh, Indonesia,
Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Kenya and Chad. Dr. Bemo received her
medical degree from the University of Côte d'Ivoire, her epidemiology diploma
at the University of Paris, and her MPH from Madrid Autonome
University. Term expires 2013.
Alvaro Bermejo, MD, MPH, serves as secretary of the Global Health Council's
Board of Directors. Dr. Bermejo, a Spanish national born in London, is the
executive director of the International AIDS Alliance, Europe’s largest NGO
dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS. The Alliance, where Bermejo has been since
2004, supports local and community organizations in 30 countries to take action
on AIDS. Dr. Bermejo’s career has been steeped in humanitarian assistance, most
notably at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
and AECI, Spain’s overseas aid agency. Bermejo received his medical degree from
the University of Madrid and his diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from
the University of Barcelona. He also received his MPH from Leeds
University. Term expires 2013.
George F. Brown, MD, MPH, a native of Canada, recently retired as director of
health equity at the Rockefeller Foundations, where he focused on support to
public-private partnerships to accelerate the development of drugs and vaccines
for neglected diseases, AIDS prevention and care, and efforts to address
problems of human resources for health. He has served as resident advisor in
family planning to the governments of Tunisia and Morocco, and as special
advisor in population to the Canadian International Development Agency, where
he established Canada's development assistance program in population. He was
director for population and health sciences at the International Development
Research Centre in Ottawa, as well as vice president of international programs
at the Population Council. Dr. Brown received his MD from the University of
Toronto, and his MPH from Harvard. Term expires 2012.
The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell is an ordained minister and a leader in
the ecumenical interfaith movement. She is currently director of the Department
of Religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution in New York. The Rev. Dr.
Campbell served for a decade as the secretary to the National Council of
Churches, USA. She was the first woman to be named executive director of the
World Council of Churches. She worked with Martin Luther King and brought him
to her own congregation in Cleveland; she served as a key election monitor in
the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa. She was previously
a member of the U.S. State Department's advisory committee on Religious Freedom
Abroad, and continues her commitment to peace as chair of the Global Women's
Peace Initiative. She is particularly dedicated to women's rights and their
physical security, and to enhancing the role of women in civil discourse and
civil society. Term expires 2011.
William Foege, MD, MPH, a native of the U.S., is chair-emeritus of the
Global Health Council's Board of Directors. Dr. Foege is a fellow at the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation and a professor emeritus in the Department of
International Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. He
is an epidemiologist who worked in the successful campaign to eradicate
smallpox in the 1970s. In 1984, several colleagues and he created the Task
Force for Child Survival, a working group for the World Health Organization,
UNICEF, the World Bank, UNDP and the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Foege has also
served as the executive director of The Carter Center. He received his BA from
Pacific Lutheran University, his MD from the University of Washington Medical
School and his MPH from Harvard University.
Elizabeth Furst Frank, MBA, is the treasurer of the Global Health Council Board of
Directors. She leads strategy and strategic partnerships for AMC Entertainment.
Previously, she led global program activities for AmeriCares, including global
emergency response, corporate in-kind donor relationships, AmeriCares India and
AmeriCares international and U.S. medical assistance partnerships, and global
logistics and inventory management. Before that she was Vice President of
Corporate Strategic Planning for Time Warner, and spent nine years at McKinsey
& Company as a partner in Media and Consumer Practices. Elizabeth graduated
from Lehigh University and received a Master’s of Business Administration from
Harvard University. Term expires 2013.
Julio Frenk has served as Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard School of
Public Health and the T&G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and
International Development - a joint appointment between the Harvard Kennedy
School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Frenk served
as the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, where he introduced
universal health insurance. He has also held leadership positions at the
National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, the Mexican Health Foundation,
the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the
Carso Health Institute. In September 2008, Dr. Frenk received the Clinton
Global Citizen Award for changing "the way practitioners and policy makers
across the world think about health." Term expires 2011.
Gretchen Howard joined Google in 2006 and is currently Director of New
Advertising Products. In this role, Gretchen is responsible for Google's New
Advertising Product Sales team, which focuses on incubating complex, new ad
products working closely with Product Management. Since joining Google in early
2006, Gretchen has managed Sales and Operations teams for AdWords, working to
maximize advertiser opportunities such as ROI, retention and customer
happiness. Prior to joining Google, Gretchen was VP of Market Development and Field
Sales for Fidelity Investments. Before that, Gretchen was a consulting manager
for Accenture and Mainspring. Gretchen is a graduate of Williams College and
holds a MBA from Harvard Business School. Term expires 2012.
Jim Kolbe currently serves as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow for the
German Marshall Fund United States. He advises on trade matters as well as
issues of effectiveness of US assistance to foreign countries, on US-EU
relationships, and on migration and its relationship to development. He also
serves as an adjunct Professor in the College of Business at the University of
Arizona, and serves on a part time basis as strategic consultant with McLarty
Associates. For 22 years, Jim Kolbe served in the United States House of
Representatives, elected for eleven consecutive terms, from 1985 to 2007. He
represented the Eighth (previously designated the Fifth) congressional
district, comprising the southeastern part of Arizona with Tucson as the main
population area. While in Congress, Jim served for 20 years on the
Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, responsible for
deciding the allocation of the budget and the terms for spending appropriated
funds. He was chairman of the Treasury, Post Office and Related Agencies
subcommittee for four years, and for the last six years in Congress, he chaired
the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Agencies
subcommittee. Term expires 2011.
Reeta
Roy, MA, a native of Malaysia, is vice-chair of the Global Health Council's
Board of Directors. She is president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation. She
previously was the divisional vice president of global citizenship and policy
at Abbott as well as vice president of the Abbott Fund, a philanthropic
foundation. Prior to joining Abbott, Roy worked with Bristol-Myers Squibb for
more than 10 years in a number of positions that addressed global policy
issues, social responsibility, and private-public partnerships. Her tenure at
the company included an assignment as director of strategic planning and public
affairs of the company's operations in China. Prior to joining the private
sector, she worked at the United Nations in New York. Roy is a member of the
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Pediatric Partnership, The Chicago
Council on Global Affairs and United Nations Association of the USA. She holds
an MA in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at
Tufts University, and a BA from St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Term
expires 2013.