ENGENDERHEALTH - Key Persons
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- Country Representative, India
Ajay oversees EngenderHealth's diverse portfolio of sexual and reproductive health and maternal and obstetric care programs in India. He brings more than 30 years of experience in adolescent and child health, obstetrics and gynecology, HIV and AIDS, and communicable diseases in India. Prior to joining EngenderHealth, he served as the Commissioner for Maternal and Child Health at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Ajay earned a doctorate of medicine in preventative and social medicine from Lady Hardinge Medical College and a diploma in gynecology and obstetrics from Maulana Azad Medical College.
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- Global Director
- Director, Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Ana provides global programmatic and technical leadership to develop and scale up EngenderHealth's adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights strategy and portfolio, with a focus on the integration of meaningful youth participation and leadership throughout the organization's processes, programs, and structures. She brings over 10 years of experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights and youth leadership programs. Ana earned a master of public health from the Boston University School of Public Health.
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- Country Representative, Mozambique
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Denise Dunning is a passionate advocate for girls, women, and young people. She is the founder and executive director of Rise Up-comprising three sister initiatives: Let Girls Lead, Champions For Change, and the Youth Champions Initiative-which has improved the lives of 7 million girls, youth, and women globally. Rise Up's impacts include the passage and implementation of national laws, programs, and funding that save the lives of women, newborns, and children, protect girls from violence, and ensure access to quality healthcare, education, and economic opportunity. Dunning has a doctor of philosophy in sociology from the University of California Berkeley and a master of public affairs from Princeton University. She also graduated summa cum laude from Duke University. Dunning teaches courses at the University of California San Francisco and also served as a Fulbright Scholar in Honduras. She previously worked for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and is a renowned global speaker whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, and Huffington Post, and she is now writing a book about girls' empowerment globally. Dunning has lived in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, India, Ghana, and South Africa and loves to hike and scuba dive.
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- Global Director
- Director, Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management
Dominique is responsible for organizational risk management, which includes advising on financial and operational procedures for all EngenderHealth offices and supporting contracts, finance, and programs teams to improve systems and ensure compliance. He has more than 15 years of experience in finance and accounting, audit and risk management, and fraud investigation and internal controls. Dominque earned a master of business administration from Southern New Hampshire University and a bachelor of science in international business from Champlain College.
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- Director Emeritus
- Member of the Board of Directors
Donald J. Abrams is the former chief financial officer, treasurer, and secretary at the Population Council where he served for almost two decades. In his tenure there, Abrams revamped budgeting and reporting processes, directed the organization's transition to computers, and oversaw the investment management and policies for its endowment fund during a period of strong growth. Prior to joining the nonprofit sector he held financial positions at Bristol-Myers and Merck. He is an independent consultant and a director on several boards of directors in both New York and Florida. Abrams has an MBA in finance from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BA in economics from Queens College.
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Dr. Linda Rosenstock served from 2000 until 2012 as dean of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Fielding School of Public Health. She currently holds appointments at UCLA as a professor in the Departments of Medicine, Health Policy & Management, and Environmental Health Sciences. She is a recognized authority in occupational and environmental health as well as global public health and science policy. Prior to UCLA, Rosenstock served as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health where she was instrumental in creating the National Occupational Research Agenda, a framework for guiding occupational safety and health research. In recognition of her efforts, Rosenstock received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award, the highest executive service award in the government. Rosenstock received her MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins University. Internationally, Rosenstock has been active in teaching and research in many developing countries and has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Elizabeth (Liz) Maguire brings five decades of leadership in the international family planning and reproductive health and rights field and is the recipient of numerous awards. She had a distinguished career at USAID from 1977-99 where she served during the 1990s as the first woman director of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, overseeing the largest bilateral donor program in this area for the developing world. From 1999-2015, she was president and CEO of Ipas, an international nonprofit dedicated to providing comprehensive abortion care and advancing women's sexual and reproductive rights.
Maguire has experience in low- and middle-income countries in all regions, facilitated by strong foreign language capabilities and cross-cultural and diplomatic skills. She has excellent working relations with an extensive network of international NGOs, foundations, governments, and multilateral agencies as well as with leaders and organizations in every region. In her retirement, she continues to serve as a passionate advocate, guest lecturer, mentor, and writer. Maguire also authored an award-winning memoir, Advancing Reproductive Choice: Leading with Conviction and Compassion.
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- Director Emeritus
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Public Health Specialist
Francine Coeytaux is a public health specialist with more than 40 years of experience in the development of comprehensive reproductive health services and new reproductive technologies, including emergency contraception and medication abortion. She is a co-founder of Plan C, which is transforming access to abortion in the US by normalizing the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail. She was a founder of the Pacific Institute for Women's Health, the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, and the Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research.
Coeytaux has consulted for many organizations, including the World Health Organization, International Planned Parenthood Federation, the World Bank, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Center for Genetics and Society and has served on the boards of several public interest organizations. Coeytaux has a master of public health from the University of California-Los Angeles, a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, and is the recipient of the 2010 Felicia Stewart Award for Lifetime Achievement in Emergency Contraception, the 2011 Carl S. Shultz Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 2013 Ruth Roemer Social Justice Leadership Award.
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- Country Representative, Burkina Faso
Georges is responsible for managing EngenderHealth's sexual and reproductive health programming in Burkina Faso, including establishing a strong safe abortion program and supporting high-quality contraceptive care. He brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic planning, program management, and partnership building in the public and private health sectors in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, and Niger. With a master's degree from Université Aix Marseille and a diploma from École nationale de la sécurité et de l'administration de la mer, Georges brings expertise in health services, health information systems, and hospital administration.
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- Country Representative, Ethiopia
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- Global Director
- Director, Philanthropy
Jennifer is responsible for developing and executing EngenderHealth's individual giving strategy, including major gifts, planned giving, and family foundation gifts. She also oversees the philanthropy team and annual giving. Jennifer has more than 17 years of experience in fundraising, management, and leadership at higher education, public media, and arts organizations. Prior to joining EngenderHealth, she served as development director at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Jennifer holds a bachelor of arts in history and American culture studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a master of business administration from the University of South Florida.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director of Global Health at the University of Utah
Juan Carlos Negrette is currently the director of global health at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He has nearly 30 years of international experience in health institutions management, strategic partnerships development, and programs design and implementation.
In more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Negrette has adapted and utilized modern managerial tools, techniques, and approaches in primary care programs and has designed and implemented strategic health interventions in challenging environments. Before his work at the University of Utah, Negrette was the managing director of Africa and multilateral organizations at John Hopkins Medicine International. Previously, he directed a health services social franchise in Bangladesh for Chemonics International, and worked at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications as the senior programs officer and technical resident advisor.
Negrette is particularly interested in studying organizational sustainability and the lasting impact of health programs in low resource settings, in helping identify innovative approaches that promote access to quality health services, and in global health equity issues. He holds a master of business administration in health services management from Johns Hopkins and a bachelor of arts in business administration from Javeriana University in Bogota. He is fluent in Spanish and English and lives in Salt Lake City.
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- Member of the Country Leadership Team
- Country Representative, Nigeria
Kabiru is responsible for managing EngenderHealth's maternal and obstetric care programming in Nigeria. With 15 years of experience supporting health programs in Nigeria, including sexual and reproductive health and maternal health programs, he brings expertise in such areas as gender integration, health systems strengthening, community mobilization, and social and behavior change communications. Kabiru earned a medical degree from the University of Ibadan as well as a master of public health and a postgraduate diploma in public health from the University of Liverpool and a master's degree in development studies from Nigeria Defence Academy.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Assistant Secretary of the Board
- Journalist
Karen Koh is a broadcast journalist with 25 years of experience with the world's top television networks. She has produced, reported, and anchored general news, business programs, and current affairs for BBC World, CNBC Asia, CNN International, and Thomson Reuters in London, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and was CNBC's Hong Kong bureau chief from 1997-1998. She has also reported for regional Asian networks like STAR News Asia, Channel News Asia, and CCTV. Koh also co-produced and hosted a weekly radio show focused on women's social and sexual issues for Radio Television Hong Kong. She is the founder of Intermedia, a consultancy that helps leading companies in financial services, hospitality, media, luxury goods, and other sectors communicate their stories and messages in an engaging and memorable way. Koh is based in Hong Kong and has a bachelor of economics from the University of Sydney.
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- Senior Director, Technical Leadership
Kate leads and manages EngenderHealth's global technical team and provides oversight and guidance across its core impact areas-including clinical quality; sexual and reproductive health and rights; gender, youth, and social inclusion; and monitoring and evaluation. She oversees the organization's technical work priorities, identifies opportunities to disseminate learnings, and ensures high-quality program results and data. Kate brings more than 20 years of experience working in monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and research in the international public health sector. Kate earned a doctorate of philosophy in psychology and a master of science in health psychology from the University of Bath and a master of arts in psychology from the University of St. Andrews.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Kimberly Gregory is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) and maternal-fetal medicine and maintains an active clinical practice in high-risk obstetrics. She is vice-chair of Women's Healthcare Quality & Performance Improvement and the helping hand chair in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. In addition, she is an OB/GYN professor, with a joint appointment at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Gregory has served in various leadership positions, including the U.S. Public Health Services Prevention Task Force, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Preventive Services for Women, the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Board of Directors, various committees for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, California Maternal Mortality Review Committee, National Quality Forum, and numerous health and public policy committees at the state and national level.
Gregory received her bachelor of science from UCLA, master of public health from Harvard University's School of Public Health, and completed medical training at the Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science/UCLA Medical Education Program. She completed her residency training at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and her fellowship training in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Southern California Women's Hospital.
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- Senior Director, Business Development
Kristin is responsible for generating new and renewed business with public and private sector donors and managing the organization's business development team. She brings over 10 years of experience managing and supporting global health proposals and proposal teams, including for family planning and reproductive health programs. Kristin earned a master of public health and a master of international development studies from George Washington University and a bachelor of arts in international studies and Latin American studies from Colby College.
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- Director, International Human Resources
Lekha provides human resources (HR) support for EngenderHealth's country operations worldwide, including leading recruitment, preparing HR policy manuals, designing salary scales and compensation structures, conducting compensation surveys, facilitating trainings, and managing employee engagement and reward and recognition initiatives. She brings more than 20 years of experience supporting public health programs, including over 10 years of experience providing international HR assistance for EngenderHealth. Lekha earned a master of business administration focusing on HR and marketing from Birla Institute of Technology in India.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Regional Director, West and Central Africa
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- Country Representative, Tanzania
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- Country Program Manager, Guinea
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- Global Director
- Senior Director, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Treasurer of the Board
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- Chief of Staff
- Member of the Executive Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Secretary of the Board
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of Board Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Vice President, Programs
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Country Leadership Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Executive Team
- Vice President, Finance and Administration
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- CEO
- Member of the Executive Team
- President
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- Director, MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics
Vandana currently leads EngenderHealth's global USAID-funded MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics program and previously served as director for its predecessor Fistula Care Plus program. She brings demonstrated expertise and more than 20 years of experience in the fields of maternal and obstetric care (including fistula prevention, care, and treatment) and sexual and reproductive health. Vandana earned a doctor of philosophy from Johns Hopkins University and a master of public health in maternal and child health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- Senior Director, Clinical Family Planning and Reproductive Health