Non-profit Leader
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Melikte Paulos Weldetensaye is the founder and executive director of ZuZu for health and education, a non-profit organization based in Ethiopia, which aims to provide free mental health resources and promote inclusive education. In this role, she designs various projects and teaching manuals that promote mental health for women and youth, as well as audio educational materials for blind and visually impaired students...
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Director of Healthcare Initiatives for Justice-Involved Populations
Akron, Ohio
United States
Daniel Mistak is acting president and director of Health Care Initiatives for Justice-Involved Populations at Community Oriented Correctional Health Services. Dan connects community systems of care to services provided in jails to improve care on both sides of the wall...
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Disability Rights Activist
Nairobi
Kenya
Felicia Mburu holds a masters in international human rights law from American University, Washington College of Law. Felicia is interested in pursuing the rights of persons with disabilities to live and be included in the community on an equal basis with others. In the past, Felicia has worked with various civil societies in Kenya, Latvia, Hungary, the United States and across Africa on intersectional matters of gender and disability justice...
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Broadcast Journalist and News Anchor
Accra
Ghana
Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman is a multiple Pulitzer Center grantee and an award-winning broadcast journalist and news presenter in Ghana. He is a regular contributor on the U.S. public radio program The World as a freelance journalist reporting on science, global health inequities, racism, and sustainable development...
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Oral Health & Public Health Education
Phoenix, Arizona
United States
Dr. Scott Howell is a board certified public health dentist and director of public health dentistry & teledentistry at A.T. Still University. His work in health equity focuses on developing innovative models in the field of teledentistry to help increase access to oral health care...
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Chief Health Program Officer
Muntinlupa
Philippines
Lindsley Jeremiah Villarante has ten years of health policy development experience in the national setting. He is currently the Chief of the Performance Monitoring and Strategy Management Division of the Philippines Department of Health’s Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau...
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Public Health Physician
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Peter Gan Kim Soon is a multidisciplinary public health physician and an amateur humanitarian. He works at the nexus between providing primary care and developing and advocating evidence-based health policy and research. Additionally, he aspires to use public health to disrupt the system in a responsible way to achieve Sustainable Development Goals through health for all...
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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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Health Financing
Abuja
Nigeria
As a Health Financing Specialist, Hyeladzira Garnvwa advocates for the enhancement of quality and equitable access to Primary Health Care by formulating strategic documents and leveraging evidence to shape national policies. With over eight years of experience in research and health policy implementation, she has demonstrated a history of contributing to policy research, development, analysis, and monitoring and evaluation for Results-Based Financing in Health...
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