Nutritionist and Public Health Specialist
Jerusalem
Palestine
Rana al Qawasmi is a Palestinian nutritionist, public health specialist, and Hubert Humphrey alumna for Public Health Policies and Management. She works as a health systems strengthening consultant for the Stability, Services and Reform Program by DFID. In her role Rana works on strengthening and developing healthcare status and services for Palestinians through policies, despite political and social barriers...
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Artist & Community Advocate
San Francisco, California
United States
Gloria Aguirre is an artist and community advocate in San Francisco, serving as program manager for community outreach at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Advocating for long term investments to improve health literacy and access to care in often marginalized communities, she believes that humanity’s most powerful tools for change are curiosity and creativity...
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Hospital Medical Director
Nundu
Democratic Republic of Congo
Dr. Marx Itabelo Lwabanya is the Medical Director at Nundu Deaconess Hospital and the Executive Director & Co-founder of JALI AFYA, a non-profit in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marx is passionate about empowering healthcare workers to address mental health and trauma to provide holistic care for patients...
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Consultant
Giza
Egypt
Dr. Naglaa Fathy, OB/GYN specialist, works as Program Manager for OSRA program at Egyptian Red Crescent funded by USAID and Pathfinder Egypt which supports sexual and reproductive health and the family planning system in Egypt.
Naglaa is the founder of MG Company which aims to use innovative and Edutainment approaches to address sustainable development goals...
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Physical Therapy
Charleston, South Carolina
United States
Paige Knowlson is the Executive Director of Pattison’s Academy, an organization providing comprehensive services to children with severe disabilities in Charleston, South Carolina. Paige’s passion lies in building collaborative, interdisciplinary teams, programs and communities that collectively promote childhood health and 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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Oral Health & Community Health
Achham
Nepal
Dr. Pratiksha Dhungana is a dedicated healthcare professional serving as the Community Health Program Lead at Nyaya Health Nepal, a non-profit organization based in Nepal.
In her current capacity, she diligently strives to ensure that vulnerable populations residing in rural areas of Nepal have access to dignified and evidence-based healthcare...
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Healthcare Executive
Belfast, Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Pedro Delgado leads Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s portfolio of work in Europe and IHI’s equity work outside of the US. He has led IHI's work over the years in three regions (Latin America, Europe, and Australasia) as well as the IHI Open School.
Based in the United Kingdom, he has been a driving force in IHI’s global expansion...
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Public Health Physician
White Nile State
Sudan
Dr. Sara Lavinia Brair has an extensive background in health care management, policy, and public health. She served as the Director General of the White Nile State and Acting Minister of Health for 2 years during the transitional government in Sudan...
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Pharmacist & Women’s Health Advocate
Baghdad
Iraq
Zahraa Zaid is a Harvard Medical School - Global Health Delivery program alumni and Senior Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity. She holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and is a MBA student at Cardiff School of Business.
Currently she serves as civic engagement supervisor at War Child/ UNICEF project, and as youth advisor with the International Trade Center...
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