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Staff
Nasrullah Amirzai, IT/Web and System Administrator
Dani Behonick, Digital & Updates Editor
Michael Birnbach, Customer Relationship Coordinator
Kate Bobrow-Strain, Director of Finance & Administration
Jenny Chung, Staff Accountant
Alicia Flores, Bilingual Editor
Todd Jailer, Editorial Director
Rosemary Jason, Publications Designer
Tawnia Litwin, Director of Digital Projects
Aditi Malhotra, Writer/Researcher
Susan McCallister, Senior Editor
Maile Robles, Executive Assistant
Sarah Shannon, Executive Director
Keziah Sullivan, Grants Manager
Kathleen Tandy, Publications Designer
Vanessa Tran, Communications and Outreach Associate
Leilani Westman, Development Associate
Paula Worby, Project Coordinator and Editor
Board
Trupthi Basavaraj, MPH
Independent Consultant, Organization Development Specialist
Dani Behonick
Staff Representative to the Board
Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH, Secretary
Coordinator of the Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network; retired Compliance Safety and Health Officer, Cal/OSHA
Pauline Butcher
Board Member Emeritus
Eva Harris, PhD
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, UC Berkeley; Co-founder and Board President, Sustainable Sciences Institute
Leigh Haynes, JD, LLM, MPH
Lawyer with an expertise in human rights and international law; Adjunct Professor, Simmons University; Executive Committee Chair, Framework Convention on Global Health Alliance; Co-Program Chair, Law Section of APHA.
Samantha Heep, JD, Treasurer
Background in business law and finance having worked as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, and attorney at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP.
Sarah Jane Holcombe, PhD
Senior Learning Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
Katherine Jones Debay, MSPH
Assistant Professor, Global Health, Loma Linda University School of Public Health
Larry Kressley
Former Executive Director, the Public Welfare Foundation
Bill Lankford, PhD, Co-Chair
Founder, The Central American Solar Energy Project (CASEP)
Purnima Mane
Internationally recognized expert on gender and sexual and reproductive health including HIV/AIDS, who has worked in senior positions in both the United Nations (including with UNFPA, UNAIDS, and WHO) and non-profit organizations
Oladele A. Ogunseitan, PhD, MPH
University of California Presidential Chair and Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention, UC Irvine
Sarah Shannon (ex officio)
Hesperian Health Guides, Executive Director
Melissa Smith, MD
Family practice physician; Director of Education and Training, Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment Center of Expertise, University of California Global Health Institute; Author of Health Actions for Women
Linda Spangler, MD
Physician, Adult Primary Care, Alameda County Medical Center; Medical Director, Options Recovery Services.
Keziah Sullivan
Staff Representative to the Board
Susan Weissert, Co-Chair
Former AIDS Taskforce Coordinator, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Ellen Vor der Brugge, Board Member Emeritus
Long-time trainer of health educators and former Senior Vice President of the Freedom from Hunger Foundation
Prentice Zinn
Director, GMA Foundations