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Alison Hayward, MD, Director – Alison works as an emergency medicine physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She has been involved in Uganda Village Project as co-founder since its inception in 2003 and has served as director and assistant director since 2005. She has also served as a member of the board of trustees of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations – USA.
director ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
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Lawrence Mumbe, Assistant Director – Lawrence has been a tireless supporter of UVP in Uganda, serving as a volunteer on our summer teams for multiple consecutive years, including serving this summer on our Healthcare Team. Lawrence finds time for volunteer work despite also serving in a position as Program Officer for PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) programs in the AIDS Control Program at the Uganda Ministry of Health.
lawrence ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
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Jenn Jones, Fundraising Chair – Jenn is new to Uganda Village Project! She graduated from Pepperdine University in California in 2010, where she studied Intercultural Communications with an additional focus on International Business. Jenn has previously consulted a California non-profit called ARC of Ventura County, and served as the Fundraising Chair for her sorority. Since then she has been working as a Walker Recruitment Coordinator for Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. She spent a year teaching English at a university in China and has volunteer experience both in Costa Rica and in Kenya, where she worked with a HIV women’s income generation group. She is currently based in the Houston, Texas area.
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Andrew J. P. Lowe, Treasurer – Andrew has worked in finance, administration and operations for biomedical research for ten years; first with the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center within the Harvard medical community and now as the Business Manager of the Center for Developmental Therapeutics at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Andrew has a BS in Environmental and Forest Biology from SUNY-ESF and an MPA from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He was a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Central Africa.
andrew ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
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Anthony Bui, Marketing and Communications Chair – Anthony served as a Healthy Villages Program team leader in 2009 and helped with the conception and development of the Village Health Teams. He now is a strategy consultant with Monitor Group in New York, where he works on health care and economic development projects for for-profit, nonprofit, and government organizations in the U.S., Vietnam, and Kenya. Prior to Monitor, Anthony conducted water/sanitation research in Indian slums and led a nonprofit social impact consultancy. He has a BA in Economics and Public Health from UC Berkeley.
anthony ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
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Kyla Pearlman, Internships Coordinator – Kyla is passionate about public health, both in the United States and abroad. She has worked in the areas of immunizations, sexual health, substance abuse, nutrition, health worker training, and communicable disease control. She currently works in the food safety program at Boulder County Public Health in Boulder, Colorado. Kyla served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic and Liberia, and has an MPH from the University of Alabama at
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Dick Schroth, IT Officer – Dick is the founder and president of Schroth Systems Consulting, and has been developing custom database applications for the last 28 years. He graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Economics in 1971. He lives with his wife, Linda in Connecticut and has three children (Alison, Jon and Brian), and one grandson (Clayton). He has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and Big Brothers, and spent a month in Iganga, Uganda in 2009 volunteering with UVP. When he is not working you will probably find him biking, hiking or playing tennis.
dick ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
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Krista Beckwith, Member At Large – Krista Beckwith is new to Uganda Village Project this year. Krista comes to UVP with prior experience in both the non-profit and public health world, including work in HIV/AIDS, sexual health and maternal and child health. Krista has a Bachelor’s of Arts in Integrative Physiology from University of Colorado Boulder and a Master’s of Science in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, and has spent time living in both West Africa and Central America. Krista currently lives in Denver, Colorado and works at the state health department.
krista ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
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Kathleen Bongiovanni, Member At Large – Kathleen works as a Program Manager in the Center for Developmental Therapeutics at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and her work focuses on projects seeking to reduce the impact of preterm birth on neonatal mortality and morbidity. She has a Masters in Genetics and a Masters in International Public Health. Kathleen is passionate about global public health, and is always looking for opportunities to promote evidence based health and development programs and research.
kathleen ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
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Bruce Cormack, Member at Large – Bruce has extensive experience, from information technology to finance & accounting and project management. Bruce has an MBA from Southern Cross University in Australia. Currently Bruce is located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he works for regional legal firm DFDL Mekong as their Regional Human Resources Manager. He has also previously worked for a nonprofit in Cambodia called Austcare (now ActionAid Australia), an Australian charity focused on landmine removal and community development, well construction, sanitation improvements, and other relevant public health and development programs.
bruce ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
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Mohamed (Medie) Mukalu, Member at Large – Medie is a new UVP board member at large. Medie has worked with Uganda Village Project summer teams for several years and has a degree in social work. He currently serves as the Program Manager for SAFE (Safe Mothers, Safe Babies) in Iganga. |
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Gwen Wernersbach, Member At Large- Gwen is passionate about global public health and humanitarian relief efforts, both domestically and internationally. She has worked in the areas of HIV prevention, refugee health, nutrition, fitness, water and sanitation projects, and public health emergency preparedness. Gwen has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho, and holds an MPH from Emory University in Atlanta. She currently works with the American Red Cross. |
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