Non-profit Leader & Nurse
Kampala
Uganda
Rose Mary Nakame is an health equity optimist.
She founded and has served as the first Executive director of REMI East Africa, an organization that utilizes story telling to address rural health inequities...
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Director International Policy and Advocacy
Nairobi
Kenya
Maureen Milanga is the Director of International Policy and Advocacy at Health Global Access Project (Health GAP) where works across sub-Saharan countries to campaign for increased access to HIV treatment, change outdated HIV treatment policies, mobilize civil society to demand better science, increase meaningful civil society engagement and support the enhancement of key population service delivery by governments and donors...
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Assistant Professor & Social Scientist
Phoenix, Arizona
United States
Dr. Gilberto Lopez is a broadly trained social scientist with experience in mixed methods of research. He is particularly interested in identifying and addressing structural and cultural factors that pattern the unequal distribution of disease in racialized minority and rural populations...
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Senior Lecturer, Consultant Nephrologist & Non-profit Leader
Kumasi
Ghana
Dr. Elliot Koranteng Tannor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine of the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), a Senior Specialist Physician and Consultant Nephrologist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana and an International Society of Nephrology - Global Kidney Health Atlas Fellow...
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Strategy & Operations
Los Angeles, California
United States
Jes Milberg-Haydu is a strategic and operational planner, systems thinker and connector currently serving as Senior Director of Business Continuity for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Working at the intersection of public health, crisis management, and organizational resilience she brings an innovative and human-centered approach to building culture that centers equity in all shapes and forms to nurture more resilient organizations and communities...
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Director for Policy and Planning
Quezon City
Philippines
Bringing a decade of expertise in health system governance and financing, Dr. Nikka Hao commenced her career in PhilHealth's (Social Health Insurance) Primary Care Benefit Team. Transitioning to the Department of Health in 2015, she has held pivotal roles in different DOH offices incuding the Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau, Field Implementation and Management Cluster, and Health Facilities Infrastructure Development Team...
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Director of Business Operations
Chicago, Illinois
United States
Emily MacDonald is the Director of Business Operations for Erie Family Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Chicago, IL serving 88,000 patients in over 70 languages each year, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. She leads and supports efforts across the organization’s 13 clinics related to reproductive health, hospital partnerships, and clinical education programs...
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Municipal Health Officer
Gamay
Philippines
Dr. Deborrah Liao is a primary care physician working in the rural, remote area in the Visayas region in the Philippines. She implements public health programs and provides primary care, specially to communities living in geographically-isolated parts of the region. Now that the Universal Health Care Law is being fully implemented in the country, she endeavors to improve provision of health services in the community in order to have better health outcomes with a healthier and more resilient community.
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Doctor and Health Official
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Dr. Jontan Konfino is a medical doctor, Master in Clinical Effectiveness and PhD in Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. He is a researcher at CEDES, one of the most important research centers in Argentina, focusing on social medicine, public health and non-communicable diseases...
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Public Servant
Cleveland, Ohio
United States
Jordi Luke (they & he) was appointed as the Chief Quality & Innovation Officer at Care Alliance Health Center in 2022. Jordi led the organization’s quality programs, grants, development, marketing, research, and outreach. Prior to joining Care Alliance, Jordi served in several senior leadership roles at the US Department of Health and Human Services where they developed and implemented the CMS Framework for Health Equity, the Health Equity Technical Assistance Program, and the Minority Research Grant Program...
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