Joel Lamstein, SM, 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.

Jeffrey L. Sturchio is president and CEO of the Global Health Council. Before joining the Council, Dr. Sturchio was vice president of Corporate Responsibility at Merck & Co. Inc., president of The Merck Company Foundation and chairman of the U. S. Corporate Council on Africa, whose 150 member companies represent some 85 percent of total US private sector investment in Africa. He is also currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received an AB in history from Princeton University and a PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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 general secretary to the National Council of Churches, USA. She was the first woman to be named executive director of the U.S. office 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.

Christopher J. Elias, , MD, MPH, is president and chief executive officer of Seattle-based PATH, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors. PATH currently works in more than 70 countries in the areas of health technologies, maternal and child health, reproductive health, vaccines and immunization, and emerging and epidemic diseases. Dr. Elias represents PATH at domestic and international forums, both as a spokesperson for PATH and as an advocate for innovative responses to global health challenges. He serves on the boards of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, InterAction, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Rural Development Institute, and Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association, among others. Dr. Elias was honored as the Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the United States in 2005 and named Global Health Research Ambassador by the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research in 2007. Under his leadership, PATH was awarded the Hilton Humanitarian Prize in 2009. Dr. Elias received his MD from Creighton University and his MPH from the University of Washington.
Term expires 2013.

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, joined AmeriCares in 2006 after serving on the board of directors from 2004-2006. She leads AmeriCares global program activities, 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. Under her leadership, AmeriCares has globalized its resource acquisition, enhanced its medical and pharmaceutical expertise and launched several strategic initiatives. Previously, 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 since January 2009, Dr. Frenk has served as Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and 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 of 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.

Michele Galen, MS, JD, a native of the United States located in Basel, Switzerland, is Global Head of Communications, Pharmaceuticals Division, Novartis AG. Michele serves as a member of the Novatis Pharmaceuticals Executive Committee and the Corporate Communications Management Board. From 2003 through March, 2010, Michele served as Vice President & Global Head, Oncology Affairs for Novartis Oncology and a member of the Oncology Executive Coordinating Committee. Michele also headed Global External Affairs & Communications for Molecular Diagnostics and sat on the leadership team for this new unit. Galen is a co-founder of EWIN (Empowering Women to Impact Novartis), the company's highly regarded women's leadership group that was recognized in 2008 by the Healthcare Business Women's Association. Before coming to Novartis, Galen was managing director of Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations and public affairs firm. Galen also served as an editor for BusinessWeek magazine, overseeing legal affairs and social issues coverage. A member of the New York State bar, Galen holds a JD from New York University School of Law. She received her BA in psychology from George Washington University and an MS in journalism from Columbia University.
Term expires 2011.

Gretchen Howard joined Google in 2006 and is currently AdWords Director, Online Sales & Operations for Google in San Francisco, which includes acting as a main point of contact for AdWords North America. In this role, Gretchen leads the Strategic Operations team that is responsible and works closely with advertisers to maximize opportunities in sales, retention and customer happiness. She also launched the Industry Marketing team, which provides vertical customer facing industry expertise, sales, support and training. Prior to joining Google, Gretchen was Vice President of Market Development and Field Sales for Fidelity Investments. Before that, she was a consulting manager for Accenture and Mainspring, Inc. Gretchen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Williams College.
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 treasurer 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.

Patricia McGrath is a commercial real estate investor, asset manager and consultant who has also worked to mobilize more than $200 million in foundation and corporate grants for health care initiatives in Africa and Asia and for health-related advocacy efforts. She was trained as an anthropologist at Harvard University and Cambridge University (which she attended as a Marshall Scholar). She has carried out ethnographic field studies in Central America, South America and Chad. She subsequently managed a number of primary and maternal/child health care programs in Liberia, Nigeria, Botswana and Swaziland. McGrath authored a couple of monographs in her 20's that were translated into dozens of languages and widely noted in the international press. These include "The Unfinished Assignment: Equal Education for Women and Twenty-Two Dimensions of the Population Problem (with Lester Brown and Bruce Stokes). She and her partners developed a number of landmark sites between the White House and the Capitol in Washington, D.C., as well as in nearby Virginia and Maryland. She was a founding member of the Pennsylvania Quarter Association and also owned and published The DC Zoning News in
the 1990s.
Term expires 2013.