MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS - 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. Joia Mukherjee

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Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Joia Mukherjee to med school graduates: "Hope is as important now than it ever has been. ... It powers a willingness to wade into messy waters of sickness and suffering, to analyze the milieu of social injustice, and to address the root causes of disparate suffering."

Dr. Paul Farmer

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Physician
Its Founder
PIH 's Chief Strategist and Co - Founder

Dr. Paul Farmer, PIH's chief strategist and co-founder, passed away in Rwanda on Monday. Three decades ago, he helped found Partners In Health, which currently works in 12 countries around the world providing health care in impoverished communities and educating the next generation of global health clinicians. Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in Rwanda from an acute cardiac event while he was sleeping. Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children. 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, co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health, and chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. He wrote extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. Dr. Farmer 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. Sheila Davis - CEO

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Chief Executive Officer
Named New CEO of Partners in Health
Partners in Health 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. Photo by Zack DeClerck / Partners In Health Partners In Health today named Dr. Sheila Davis as its new Chief Executive Officer. Currently the Chief of Clinical Operations and Chief Nursing Officer, Dr. Davis will succeed Dr. Gary Gottlieb, who in the spring of 2018 informed the board of his intention to step down. "Thanks to her vast experience, strategic acumen, unwavering solidarity, and passionate commitment to our mission, Sheila is a brilliant choice to help the organization meet more of the needs of those we serve," Dr. Gottlieb said.

Elizabeth Blake

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Elizabeth Cicchelli

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Member of the Board of Trustees

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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Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Member of the Cross - Site Leadership Team

Fred Groos

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Hannah Sehn

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Executive Director, Navajo Nation

Jody Adams

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Joel Mubiligi

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Executive Director, Rwanda

John Green

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Jonny Dorsey

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Joseph Rhatigan

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Member of the Cross - Site Leadership Team
Chairman, Global Health Delivery Partnership

Katie Bollbach

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Executive Director, United States

Kebba Jobarteh

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Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Finance Committee

Keith Joseph

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Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Board of Trustees

Leonid Lecca

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Executive Director, Peru

Lesley King

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Chairman of the Audit Committee
Co - Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee
Member of the Executive Committee
Chairman / Talent & Compensation Committee

Leslye Faulk

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Member of the Board of Trustees
Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee

Lisa Gregg

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Lori Silver - Chief Legal Officer

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Clerk
General Counsel
Member of the Cross - Site Leadership Team

Loune Viaud

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Vice Chancellor

Luckson Dullie

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Executive Director, Malawi

Lynn Edens

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Marc Julmisse

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Interim Executive Director, Haiti

Marjorie Benton

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Mark Brender

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Member of the Cross - Site Leadership Team
National Director, Canada

Max Stone

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Member of the Finance Committee

Maxo Luma

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Executive Director

Megan Carbone - CFO

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Chief Financial Officer

Melino Ndayizigiye

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Executive Director, Lesotho

Mercedes Becerra

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Michael Choe

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Chairman of the Finance Committee
Member of the Board of Trustees
Member of the Executive Committee

Michelle Morse

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Member of the Finance Committee

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
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Board of Trustees
Member of the Finance Committee
Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee

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 Operations Officer

Paul Buttenwieser

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Paul English

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Paul Samuelson

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Member of the Finance Committee

Pierre Cremieux

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Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Board of Trustees

Robert Heine

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Member of the Board of Trustees
Member of the Finance Committee

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

Steve Reifenberg

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Member of the Audit Committee

Suprotik Basu

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Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Board of Trustees

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
Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee

Todd McCormack

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Co - Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Executive Committee
Co - Founder of Partners in Health

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. He also chairs PIH's Governance and Nominating Committee. McCormack is a Senior Corporate Vice President at IMG.

Toni Hays

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Valeria Macias

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Executive Director, Mexico

Wendy Bennett

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Member of the Board of Trustees