PARTNERS IN HEALTH - Key Persons

Dr. Jim Yong Kim is Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners. Kim co-founded PIH, where he developed treatment programs for MDR-TB and AIDS in Haiti, Peru, and several other countries. From 2003 to 2005, Kim served as Director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department. In 2009, he was named the 17th President of Dartmouth College. Pres. Barack Obama nominated Kim to become the 12th President of the World Bank Group, a position he held from July 2012 to February 2019. Jim Yong Kim, M.D., PhD, is Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners, a fund that invests in infrastructure projects across several sectors around the world. From July 2012 to February 2019, Kim served as the 12th President of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed that position, the organization established two goals to guide its work: to end extreme poverty by 2030; and to boost shared prosperity, focusing on the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries. During Kim's tenure, the World Bank Group supported the development priorities of countries at levels never seen outside of a financial crisis. Along with partners, the World Bank achieved two successive, record replenishments of the International Development Association (IDA), the institution's fund for the poorest countries, which has enabled the Bank to greatly increase its work in areas suffering from fragility, conflict, and violence.

Dr. Paul Farmer

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Physician

Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., was Kolokotrones university professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health. Farmer and his colleagues pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrated the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. He wrote extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, from which he was the recipient of the 2018 Public Welfare Medal. He authored multiple books, including: In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction, and To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. His most recent book was released in November 2020: Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. Dr. Paul Farmer, physician and anthropologist, was chief strategist and co-founder of Partners In Health, Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He also served as U.N. Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti. Dr. Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. His most recent books are In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction, and To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. He died in Rwanda on February 21, 2022.

Dr. Sheila Davis - CEO

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Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Named New CEO

Dr. Sheila Davis, currently the Chief of Clinical Operations and Chief Nursing Officer, was named today the new Chief Executive Officer of Partners In Health, succeeding Dr. Gary Gottlieb.

Elaine Martyn

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Member of the Board of Directors

Elizabeth Cicchelli

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Ellie Wise - Founder

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Founder
Member of the Board of Directors

Father Fritz Lafontant

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Founding Member

Father Fritz Lafontant was a founding member of Partners In Health and the founding director of Zanmi Lasante, PIH's sister organization in Haiti. Photo courtesy of Zanmi Lasante

Film on Paul

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S Life

More than 30 years ago, Dr. Paul Farmer and co-founders started Partners In Health; this is the story of their life's work.

Francesco De Flaviis

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Principal, Chief Advancement & Communications Officer

Fred Groos

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Member of the Board of Directors

Greg White

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Member of the Board of Directors

Hannah Sehn

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Executive Director, Navajo Nation

Jacques Perold

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Member of the Board of Directors

Joanne Kagle

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Member of the Board of Directors

Jody Adams

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Joel Mubiligi

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Interim Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity Chief Innovation & Growth Planning Officer

John Green

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Joia Mukherjee

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Chief Medical Officer
Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Jonny Dorsey

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Joseph Rhatigan

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Member of the Board of Directors
Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Chairman, Global Health Delivery Partnership Chair, Board of University of Global Health Equity

Justin Gray

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Member of the Board of Directors

Kate Rojkov - CHRO

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Chief Human Resources Officer
Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Katie Bollbach

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Executive Director, United States

Kebba Jobarteh

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Member of the Board of Directors

Keith Joseph

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Member of the Board of Directors

Larry Shulman

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Member of the Board of Directors

Laurie Nuell

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Member of the Board of Directors

Leonid Lecca

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Executive Director, Peru

Lesley King

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Member of the Board of Directors

Leslye Faulk

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Lisa Gregg

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Member of the Board of Directors

Lori Silver - Chief Legal Officer

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General Counsel
Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Loune Viaud

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Chief
Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Luckson Dullie

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Chief Leadership Development & Engagement Officer

Luke Kelly

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Member of the Board of Directors

Lynn Edens

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Marika Anthony Shaw

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Member of the Board of Directors

Marjorie Benton

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Mark Brender

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
National Director, Canada

Max Stone

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Member of the Board of Directors

Maxo Luma

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Executive Director
Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Megan Carbone

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Principal, Chief Finance & Systems Officer

Melino Ndayizigiye

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Executive Director, Lesotho

Mercedes Becerra

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Michael Choe

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Member of the Board of Directors

Michelle Morse

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Member of the Board of Directors

Mike Masters

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Member of the Board of Directors

Nadia Raymond

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Member of the Board of Directors

Nadine Karema

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Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Executive Director, Rwanda

Oldine Deshommes

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Social Worker at University Hospital

Oldine Deshommes, a social worker at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, talks about the barriers breast cancer patients face in accessing care, their concerns, and what she has learned from them over time.

Ophelia Dahl - Chairman

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Chairman of the Board of Directors

Ophelia Dahl co-founded Partners In Health, which began in Haiti's rural Central Plateau more than 30 years ago and now serves millions of patients in 11 countries on four continents around the world. PIH's community-based model has helped to redefine what's possible in health care delivery in settings of poverty, proving that HIV, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and other diseases that stalk the poor can be effectively treated in communities from Peru to Rwanda to West Africa. Dahl led PIH as executive director for 16 years and now chairs its Board of Directors. She continues to write, teach, and speak about the health and rights of the poor, moral imagination, and accompaniment. Dahl also helps to lead the Roald Dahl Literary Estate, which manages the works of her late father, the writer Roald Dahl. She is a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, and a trustee of Wellesley College, her alma mater. Dahl is a recipient of the Union Theological Seminary's Union Medal and, together with her PIH colleagues, the Hilton Humanitarian prize. She lives in Cambridge with her family.

Patrick Ulysse - COO

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Chief Operating Officer
Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Paul Buttenwieser

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Paul English

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Pierre Cremieux

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Member of the Board of Directors

Rwanda Oncology

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Doctor: Global Community Must "Reduce the Disparities in Cancer Care

Régine Chassagne

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Scott Malkin

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Member of the Board of Directors

Sharon Fenn

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Srishti Gupta Narasimhan

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Member of the Board of Directors

Steve Reifenberg

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Member of the Board of Directors

Suprotik Basu

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Member of the Board of Directors

Thomas J. White

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PIH Co - Founder

Since its beginning, Tom White enabled Partners In Health to do "whatever it takes" to improve the lives and health of patients in vulnerable communities around the world, whether financing the construction of a small clinic in Cange, purchasing a microscope, or paying $30,000 per patient for PIH's first multidrug-resistant tuberculosis program. The owner and president of construction company J.F. White Contracting Co., he helped found PIH with his first $1 million donation and then systematically gave away his wealth-tens of millions of dollars-by selling his company, his assets, and his house to continue supporting PIH projects aimed at alleviating human suffering and poverty. He died peacefully in Boston Jan. 7, 2011.

Tim Broas

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Todd McCormack - Founder

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Co - Founder
Member of the Board of Directors

Todd McCormack is a co-founder of Partners In Health and has supported his friend, Paul Farmer, since they first met at Duke University in 1978. He serves on both the Board of Trustees and Board of Directors, focusing the majority of his time stewarding and collaborating with fellow Trustees to bring new resources to support PIH's mission. McCormack also chairs PIH's Governance and Nominating Committee. McCormack is a Senior Corporate Vice President at IMG-the world's premier sports and entertainment marketing and media company, founded by his father, Mark McCormack in 1960. McCormack led IMG's initial foray into Digital Media in 1995, serving as the Chief Executive Officer of TWI Interactive, an independently financed company that exclusively managed IMG's new media rights from 1999 through 2003. Although the McCormack family sold its controlling interest in IMG in 2004, McCormack continues to advise the company with respect to its digital media businesses on a part-time basis. In addition, he is working to document key historical milestones in the sports marketing industry that IMG pioneered. McCormack also independently works with a variety of digital media businesses as both an angel investor and advisor. Todd McCormack is a co-founder of Partners In Health and has supported his friend, Paul Farmer, since they first met at Duke University in 1978. He serves on the Board of Trustees and Board of Directors, focusing the majority of his time stewarding and collaborating with fellow Trustees to bring new resources to support PIH's mission. McCormack is a Senior Corporate Vice President at IMG.