Atlantic Fellows Global Cohort 2016-2020 Brochure

GLOBAL COHORT 2016 – 2020

INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 1 EQUITY IN BRAIN HEALTH . . ................................. 4 HEALTH EQUITY ................................................... 24 HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA ......... 36 HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTH AFRICA .............. 50 RACIAL EQUITY .. .................................................... 60 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY.................... 70 SOCIAL EQUITY...................................................... 80

Welcome to the Atlantic Fellows community Our mission is to empower catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

Our world is complex, uncertain and full of ambiguities. Although there has been progress, social and economic inequalities persist across the world, with already endangered groups of people suffering disproportionately. In the context of demographic and social change, rapid urbanization, climate change and shifts in economic power and technology, there is an urgent need for collective action.

Atlantic Fellows are exceptional leaders in their field of work with a deep resolve for a more equal and just world. United in their pursuit of equity, Fellows come from all walks of life and a variety of professions. They include advocates, artists, journalists, lawyers, business professionals, health practitioners, government officials, academics, and researchers. Working across diverse settings and contexts, and from within the communities they serve, Atlantic Fellows are courageous, compassionate, and collaborative thinkers and doers, who collectively seek to bring lasting improvements, locally and globally.

After completing one of seven Atlantic Fellows programs, which share a purpose of advancing fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies, Fellows join a lifelong local community and a global community, which is supported by the Atlantic Institute. They are provided with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn, and act to address the underlying systemic causes of inequity.

The Fellows represented in this book are from a wide range of disciplines, geographies and perspectives. However diverse in experience and approach, Atlantic Fellows have a common goal: to achieve transformational power for the communities they serve.

Together, we seek to accelerate the eradication of global inequities.

A better world begins with you.

“ We see an urgent need to harness the potential of thousands of thinkers and doers addressing inequalities in the world, and we believe that in coming together to imagine, provoke, innovate and collaborate, their collective impact will be greater. That’s the idea behind the Atlantic Institute and the lifelong community of Atlantic Fellows.”

– CHRISTOPHER G. OECHSLI, BOARD CHAIR OF THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE

ATLANTIC FELLOWS GLOBAL COHORT

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1 Canada 100

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Mexico 4 Costa Rica 1 Colombia 3

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Sierra 1 1 Ghana Leone 1 Liberia

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Improving brain health and reducing the impact of dementia worldwide.

BASED AT THE GLOBAL BRAIN HEALTH INSTITUTE

EQUITY IN BRAIN HEALTH

2016 FELLOWS

JALAYNE ARIAS

MIRCEA BALASA

NICOLE BATSCH

ELEANORE BAYEN

Investigating the legal and ethical challenges associated with the individual and social burden associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through public policy initiatives.

Developing new tools for an early diagnosis of cognitive impairment. Also interested in new modalities of patient engagement for an early identification of cognitive decline in the general population.

Understanding how people with dementia can lead more meaningful lives under human rights’ objectives.

Designing, testing and validating new prototypes monitoring cognitive disorders; studying patterns of disability, clinical evolution, and unmet care needs; analyzing socioeconomics datasets.

ALISSA BERNSTEIN

DOMINIC CAMPBELL

MARÍA CARMONA-IRAGUI

HEIDI CLARE LAMBERT

Creating effective interventions tailored to the sociocultural context of patients and their caregivers, with attention to the social determinants that cause and perpetuate ill health and disease.

Developing new project prototypes, infused with art and creativity, backed by solid evidence and responding to need and local circumstance to help reduce the fear of age and its related illnesses among elders.

Researching cognitive impairment and biomarkers in the continuum of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease and in Down syndrome to provide insights into the biological and epidemiological contributors to Alzheimer’s disease.

Producing a radio program with high-profile musicians and clinical scientists about aging and the creative process, showing how brains benefit from musical engagement. Also developing a musical curriculum for adult day health.

Assistant Professor, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, UCSF San Francisco, California, USA

Medical Anthropologist San Francisco, California, USA

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Neurologist, Hospital Clinic Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

Co-founder of Creative Aging International Dublin, Ireland

Gerontologist and Global Consultant Chicago, Illinois, USA

Cognitive Neurologist Barcelona, Spain

Assistant Professor, Sorbonne Université Paris, France

Music Educator and Performer Cotopaxi, Colorado, USA

LAURENT CLERET DE LANGAVANT

BĂ RBARA COSTA BEBER

CHRISTINE FITZGERALD

ELAINE HOWARD

Analyzing large, populationbased cohort studies to generate a global perspective on dementia risk factors in the general population in two different continents.

Raising awareness in dementia in 40,000 speech and language therapists in Brazil by examining their current knowledge and awareness of dementia and communication disorders in dementia.

Exploring the role that community services such as Alzheimer cafĂŠs play in supporting social citizenship and developing a psychosocial evaluation strategy to mobilize and enhance psychosocial interventions.

Delivering bespoke consultancy in service reform and training solutions to dementia service providers and innovators who seek to provide personalized care and support for people living with dementia.

HANY IBRAHIM

ELISSAIOS KARAGEORGIOU

SILVIA KOCHEN

JOSH KORNBLUTH

Elucidating brain rhythm patterns of dementia syndromes across the sleepwake cycle, with the goal of improving diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response, and promoting dementia health.

Providing primary care dementia training and education packages for GPs for improving the early diagnosis of dementia and developing treatment and prevention strategies.

Connecting brain science with social justice by hosting, writing, and producing the video series, Citizen Brain, and by creating a theatrical monologue about empathy and democracy.

Neurologist Paris, France

Geriatric Medicine Consultant and Senior Lecturer, Ain Shams University Hospital Cairo, Egypt

Working to use modern technology and software platforms for early detection and diagnosis of dementia.

Co-Founder of Ain Shams Cognitive Training Lab.

Assistant Professor of Speech and Language Pathology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil

Behavioral and Sleep Neurologist, Sleep and Memory Center, Neurological Institute of Athens Athens, Greece

Nurse and Psychosocial Researcher Galway, Ireland

Neurologist, Director Neurosciences and Complex Systems Unit Hospital El Cruce, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Founder, Dementia Focus Myshall, Ireland

Monologuist, Filmmaker and Video Host, UCSF Berkeley, California, USA

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2016 FELLOWS

JORGE LLIBRE GUERRA

Cognitive Neurologist, National Institute of Neurology Havana, Cuba

CLAIRE MCEVOY

Nutritional Epidemiologist and Dietitian Belfast, United Kingdom

ROGERIO PANIZZUTTI

Psychiatrist and Neuroscience Researcher Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

ELISA DE PAULA FRANÇA RESENDE Neurologist Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Researching admixture, ethnicity and health-social disparities in dementia.

Developing a program in Cuba to train health care providers and educate the community about aging, mental health and dementia.

Investigating the role of diet in brain aging and dementia by analyzing population data and testing scalable dietary interventions for brain health.

Understanding how computerized tools can be integrated into scalable, multidisciplinary interventions for the longterm care of brain health.

Studying the effects of latelife literacy acquisition as a dementia prevention tool through improving memory and increasing connections between brain areas.

GEESKE PEETERS

ADRIĂ€ ROFES

FIONNUALA SWEENEY

JAMIE TALAN

Understanding and improving strategies to promote physical and cognitive functioning and prevent functional decline, falls, fear of falling and dementia.

Enhancing our understanding of brain behavior relations and applying this knowledge to improve assessment and treatment protocols for neurological conditions leading to aphasia.

Hearing from a wide range of people working in the dementia space, her podcast series, Dementia is Global, aims to raise global awareness about brain health to change attitudes and policies.

Developing and implementing an online monthly lecture series and a US support group for patients with posterior cortical atrophy and their caregivers.

Senior Researcher, Dept of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center The Netherlands

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Assistant Professor, University of Groningen The Netherlands

Journalist Dublin, Ireland

Science Writer Boise, Idaho, USA

IOANNIS TARNANAS

LINA VELILLA

ADAM WASKOW

STELIOS ZYGOURIS

Developing computational biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and developing a responsible strategy to implement this technology and utilize machine intelligence for disease prevention.

Developing strategies to address the caregiver-stress and burden-related stigma among caregivers of patients with early onset dementia caused by the e280a mutation in Antioquia.

Researching how animalassisted therapies and interventions could affect care and improve outcomes in a variety of environments and applications, in particular, the use of therapy dogs working with dementia patients and their caregivers.

Developing computerized memory tests for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, including the first serious game that older adults can use on their own to screen for signs of subtle cognitive decline.

Neuroscientist Greece

Psychologist and Epidemiologist Medellin, Colombia

Josh Kornbluth applies his storytelling skills to the subject of dementia.

Founder, Memory Dog Inc, a nonprofit exploring the use of highly trained dogs for people with neurodegenerative diseases.

Marin County, California, USA

PhD Candidate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece

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2017 FELLOWS

TALA AL-ROUSAN

PHAEDRA BELL

KRYSTAL L. CULLER

EMMA CUNNINGHAM

Investigating how the stress resulting from war and displacement affects rates of dementia in a group of refugees in the Middle East.

Co-designed and co-created the Atlantic Fellows Thematic Forum in Jordan for learning about migration and health.

Developing a program for young adults to partner with older adults to mitigate risk factors for dementia and other health challenges through regular, meaningful interactions across generations.

Developing innovative brain health and memory programs and services. Implementing population health approaches for individuals and carers, aimed at dementia risk prevention.

Advancing perioperative research and care.

Contributing to the global literature on cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

ELIZABETH DZENG

DERYA DURUSU EMEK-SAVAS

CORRINA GRIMES

ALEJANDRA GUERRERO BARRAGĂ N

Developing and using computerized cognitive training programs as an intervention for people with cognitive impairment and for the prevention of cognitive decline in the aging population.

Leading business change in a health and social care system initiative that introduces a digital, integrated care record to Northern Ireland, improving patient safety and population health outcomes.

Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego San Diego, California, USA

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology, UCSF San Francisco, California USA

Examining the influence of cultures and ethics of neoliberalism on the provision of non-beneficial, high-intensity, life-sustaining treatments near the end of life in older adults with dementia in the US and UK.

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Education Leader and Social Intervention Designer San Francisco, California, USA

Neuroscientist Izmir, Turkey

Founder and Director, Your Brain Health Matters Poland, Ohio, USA

Head of Business Change, Encompass Northern Ireland Belfast, United Kingdom

Academic Geriatrician Belfast, United Kingdom

Neurologist Bogota city, Colombia

Conducting epidemiological research to understand better the situation of dementia patients and their caregivers in Bogota. Studying cognitive impairment in different vulnerable populations.

KRISTA HARRISON

SANDRA HIGUET

CATHERINE JORDAN

YUE LENG

Developing mixed-methods evidence and interventions to address palliative care needs of people with dementia, prion disease, and other serious illnesses through clinical interventions, systems of care, or equitable policy supporting quality of life.

Working to create an integrated care facility for the management of patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia.

Pursuing the relationship between musical expertise and the development of dementia, and exploring the mechanisms underpinning this association, and music as therapy.

Developing interventional studies targeting improved sleep and cognition, which have the potential to help prevent the onset and progression of dementia in high-risk populations.

MARIANA LONGORIA IBARROLA

DAVID LOUGHREY

JERONIMO MARTIN

LUIS ARNOLDO MUĂ‘OZ NEVAREZ

Part of 10/66 Dementia Research Group, carrying out population-based research into dementia in low income and middle income countries, focusing on frontotemporal dementias research and neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia.

Researching the relationship between hearing loss and the development of dementia through neurocognitive assessment of older adults with hearing loss.

Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics & Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF San Francisco, California, USA

Psychiatrist and Professor at Medicine School, West Hill Institute Mexico City, Mexico

Head of the Geriatric Department, University Hospital of Charleroi Nivelles, Belgium

Research Psychologist Dublin, Ireland

Experimental Psychologist Dublin, Ireland

Emergency Medicine Specialist Mexico City, Mexico

Improving the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of stroke. Developing multi-center studies and programs to diminish stroke risk factors, and work to identify populations at high risk of stroke.

Epidemiologist specializing in the research of sleep and aging China

Geriatric and Internal Medicine Specialist Guadalajara, Mexico

Improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for older adults living with HIV and HIVassociated neurocognitive disorder, as well as promoting dementia awareness and early diagnosis in Mexico.

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2017 FELLOWS

BRENDA PÉREZ CERPA

CLAUDIA PATRICIA RAMOS-PEREZ

ANA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ SALGADO

TALITA ROSA

Neuro-Psychologist Havana, Cuba

Family Physician and Global Health Scientist Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Establishing innovative ways of bringing palliative and supportive care to people with dementia and developing tangible policies or strategies that raise awareness of advanced directives.

Working to determine factors related to onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Introducing technologybased cognitive assessments and support to the Cuban population.

Studying the economic and psychological burden of informal caregiving for dementia in Brazil.

CLAIRE SEXTON

KONSTANTINA SYKARA

BOON LEAD TEE

JENNIFER ZITSER

Leading research programs and initiatives to accelerate the Alzheimer’s Association’s scientific agenda.

Evaluating whether cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is an effective treatment intervention in patients with mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers.

Developing an anatomicalspecific and linguistically adapted Chinese Language Assessment in PPA (CLAP) battery for the Chinesespeaking population.

Studying the impact of cultural characteristics on social cognitive functions.

Investigating non-motor manifestations of synucleinopathies, including cognitive, sleep and autonomic disturbances to be used as biomarkers for this specific group of diseases.

Geriatric Medicine Specialist Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Director, Scientific Programs and Outreach, Alzheimer’s Association Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Psychiatrist - PhD Student, Neuroscience Group of Antioquia Medellin, Colombia

Clinical Psychologist Athens, Greece

Associate Specialist, UCSF San Francisco, California, USA

Neurologist, UCSF San Francisco, California, USA

Cindy Weinstein, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, with Shamiel McFarlane, a general practitioner working in rural Jamaica.

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2018 FELLOWS

RUFUS AKINYEMI

JANE BENTLEY

KIRSTY BOBROW

LAURA BOOI

Nurturing leaders in Africa for collaborative work to improve brain health.

Clinical, research and advocacy work focusing on vascular and degenerative brain disorders.

Developing engagement in accessible participative music as a resource for social inclusion, building communicative partnerships, and community integration across the lifespan.

Developing and testing mobile phone messaging through clinical trials to support treatment adherence in adults with high blood pressure and diabetes in primary care settings.

Leading efforts to build inclusive communities through co-producing research with people living with dementia and developing social entrepreneurial ventures to connect and support dementia-focused leaders.

LENISA BRANDAO

SIOBHAN CASEY

GABRI CHRISTA

WALTER DAWSON

Promoting the social inclusion of older adults living with aphasia and raising awareness of health professionals to the power of art in improving communication and the quality of life.

Driving change in the aging agenda to improve the wellbeing of older people.

Facilitating art initiatives focused on understanding one another’s humanity.

Curating dance, education and film events aimed at removing stigmas around age and race.

Developing strategies to reduce the economic burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia through public policy interventions that better support individuals, family care partners, and the public programs that fund care.

Senior Research Fellow, University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria

Associate Professor, Department of Health and Communication Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Music specialist, Freelance Glasgow, United Kingdom

Director of Marketing & Business Development, Age NI Holywood, United Kingdom

Public Health Physician and Epidemiologist Cape Town, South Africa

Associate Professor of Professional Practice; Director Movement Lab, Barnard College, Columbia University New York, USA

Research Associate, Newcastle University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University Portland, Oregon, USA

MYRIAM DE LA CRUZ PUEBLA

LAIS FAJERSZTJAN

MIRIAM GALVIN

SANA-E-ZEHRA HAIDRY

Researching headaches to develop clinical, neurophysiological and genetical studies.

Investigating urban and environmental health to understand the effects of air pollution on neurodegenerative diseases.

Working on research tracking patient and caregiver journeys, interaction with health services, as well as the conceptualization and assessment of quality of life and caregiver experiences.

Employing a model to de-stigmatize, prevent and manage dementia.

Addressing the lack of awareness about dementia in low and middle income countries.

AGUSTIN IBANEZ

STEFANIA ILINCA

OPHIR KERET

EMI KIYOTA

Empowering Latin American networks and researchers to fight dementia collaboratively.

Focusing on understanding the effects of demographic aging on health and social policy in Europe, including patterns of use of care among the elderly.

Determining the unique features of young onset Alzheimer’s and dementia in diverse and disparate populations of Israel.

Creating socially integrated communities that value elders through Ibasho (a notfor-profit organization) and consulting in the design of communities and cities.

Neurologist (Neuroscience researcher), VHIR (Vall d’Hebron Research Institute) Barcelona, Spain

Director, Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience Buenos Aires, Argentina

Researcher, Laboratory of Environmental Air Pollution, University of São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil

Health Economist Vienna, Austria

Associate Professor in Research Methodology, Academic Unit of Neurology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Neurologist, Rabin Medical Center Tel Aviv, Israel

Scientific Researcher and Research Consultant, University of Groningen, Hashmanis Hospitals Castricum and Karachi The Netherlands

President and Founder, Ibasho (NGO) Maryland, USA

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2018 FELLOWS

ALEX KORNHUBER

LINGANI MBAKILE MAHLANZA

SHAMIEL McFARLANE

EIMEAR McGLINCHEY

Writing books and creating exhibits on the modernist movement in Lima, Pisco, as an element of Peruvian identity; and what it is to be Peruvian.

Leading efforts to improve dementia diagnosis by translating, culturally adapting and validating tablet-based and paper-based cognitive and functional assessments for the Botswana population.

Developing a home-based primary care program for cognitively impaired, isolated older adults in rural Jamaica.

Developing an intervention program using online cognitive training with adults with Down syndrome to examine the effects on levels of executive function.

Identifying early biomarkers of dementia for people with Down syndrome.

MAIRA OKADA DE OLIVEIRA

STEFANIE PIÑA-ESCUDERO

MARITZA PINTADO-CAIPA

KIRTI RANCHOD

Developing strategies to evaluate cognition in low education populations.

Working on the development of screening tools for cognitive impairment to identify cognitive decline in individuals with low schooling.

Establishing best practice for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of dementia, supported by the development of an international, multidisciplinary network.

Addressing the fact that many diseases like dementia are ignored by society and the authorities, and a lack of epidemiological data on dementia in Peru.

Making brain health practical and relevant.

Promoting an understanding of traditional and cultural practices which promote brain health.

Photographer Lima, Peru

Neuropsychologist, Hospital das Clínicas and Hospital Santa Marcelina São Paulo, Brazil

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Assistant Professor, Neuropsychologist, University of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana

Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Tacna, Peru

General Practitioner Jamaica

Neurologist, UCSF San Francisco, California, USA

Intellectual Disability Researcher Dublin, Ireland

Neurologist, Self-employed Johannesburg, South Africa

ROWENA RICHIE

LORNA ROE

MOHAMED SALAMA

JORGE MARIO LEON SALAS

Promoting positive aging through movement-based, creative engagement with elders in various settings.

Investigating how older people with complex needs access health care and the implications for designing an integrated health care system.

Leading the Egyptian Longitudinal Study of Aging to try to reshape the current understanding of aging.

Developing mental health strategies for successful aging and leading efforts to understand and optimize treatments for people living with dementia.

DANA WALRATH

FIONA WALSH

GREG WALSH

CINDY WEINSTEIN

Practicing a blend of creative writing, comics, art and anthropology. Believing in the power of the arts for social change. Offering ways to heal from and to end global challenges of dehumanisation, dementia, racism, and genocide.

Designing inclusive environments to support the health and wellbeing of people with dementia.

Translating research and inclusive building design principles into everyday use to ensure they are accessible to people living with cognitive and/or sensory impairments.

Writing a book based on the personal experiences of her father who had Alzheimer’s disease.

Dance Theater Artist and Movement Educator, Freelance San Francisco, California, USA

Writer, Artist, Anthropologist, Self-employed Underhill, Vermont, USA

Academic Health Services Researcher Dublin, Ireland

Principal Architect, DDS Architects Ltd Hungerford, United Kingdom

Associate Professor, The American University in Cairo Cairo, Egypt

Managing Director, DDS Architects Ltd Hungerford, United Kingdom

Neuro-psychiatrist, Hospital Clinica Biblica San Jose, Costa Rica

Vice Provost, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, USA

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2019 FELLOWS

WILBY WILLIAMSON

MERON ABEY

OLAKUNLE ADEWALE

EMILY ADRION

Working to treat patients presenting for management of hypertension and primary prevention of heart disease and stroke.

Exploring how the arts could strengthen the health care service, social equity, and to establish arts in a brain health center for research and training in Ethiopia.

Facilitating arts in health engagements in Africa and United States. Raising awareness of dementia and trying to reduce the stigmatization often faced by those with cognitive disabilities.

Improving understanding of the impact of health and social care system design on patterns of care and spending for those with dementia and their families/ caregivers. Aiming to reduce the devastating financial toll of dementia.

FERNANDO AGUZZOLI-PERES

ARIANNA ALMIRALL SĂ NCHEZ

AYA ASHOUR

Exploring positive ways to communicate dementia with empathy and compassion in different settings, from books to social networks, to connect different generations.

Researching the relationship between cognitive reserve and cognitive decline by analyzing population data from high, middle and low income countries to identify mid-life risk factors for dementias.

Developing a training program for caregivers.

Improving the lives of people living with cognitive impairment by providing the best clinical settings and maximizing the research outcomes to patients with dementia in Egypt.

Physician and Clinical Academic Cardiovascular Prevention and Brain-Health Nottingham, United Kingdom

Theater Artist, Owner of theater production company Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Writer and Dementia Advocate, VovĂł Nilva Dublin, Ireland

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Founder and Executive Director, Arts in Medicine Projects Lagos, Nigeria

Biostatistician and Head of Research Projects, National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology Havana, Cuba

Global Health Policy Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lecturer of Neurology, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt

ANNE BROWNING

ANNA BRUGULAT-SERRAT

SHEILA CASTRO-SUAREZ

YAOHUA CHEN

Promoting resilience, brain health and wellbeing for health care teams.

Developing support for people engaging in equity work, expanding practices and competencies for distress tolerance.

Developing strategies to increase the understanding of how risk factors render the sex-specific brain vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology.

Developing personalized prevention programs.

Leading efforts to run a behavioral neurology clinic in Peru. Creating a network in frontotemporal dementia and exploring difficulties relating to diagnosis. Carrying out research into the validation of cognitive screening tests and the genetics of dementia.

Developing collaboration between pre-clinical and clinical work, and between neurology and geriatrics.

Leading a translational work of a murine model and a cohort of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

SARAH D’ALESSIO

NAIARA DEMNITZ

KARIN DIAMOND

CLARA DOMINGUEZ VIVERO

Developing and strengthening long-term care and social care systems and practices, so they become more equitable through inclusion and by enhancing the quality of life for people with cognitive impairment.

Examining the role of lifestyle factors on the aging brain, with the aim of developing targeted lifestyle interventions that promote healthy brain aging.

Exploring the health and wellbeing benefits of participating in arts in health practice for people living with dementia and their families.

Working for the Galician Health Service as a clinician with an interest in dementia and behavioral neurology.

Aiming to improve communication between clinicians and patients, and increase patient access to nonpharmacological care and support.

Assistant Dean for Wellbeing, The University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, Washington, USA

Policy Analyst, Ministry of Health, Government of Bermuda Bermuda

Neuropsychologist, Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center Barcelona, Spain

Cognitive Neuroscientist, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance Copenhagen, Denmark

Neurologist, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas Lima, Peru

Co-founder and Artistic Director, Re-Live Cardiff, Wales

Neurogeriatrician, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Neurologist, Servicio Galego de Saúde Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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2019 FELLOWS

NEUS FALGÀS MARTINEZ

ADIT FRIEDBERG

JONI GILISSEN

JENNIE GUBNER

Developing strategies to improve Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and its biomarkers, specifically regarding sleepwake alterations.

Unraveling the neural mechanisms that underlie the emergence of visual artistic creativity in frontotemporal dementia.

Working primarily on research of palliative care in older people, specifically regarding communication about the end of life.

Promoting models of dementia education through music, filmmaking and service-learning.

Building bridges between ethnomusicology and the health sciences.

MAËLENN GUERCHET

LAUREN HUNT

IGNACIO ILLÁN GALA

WAMBUI KARANJA

Developing new aging and brain health research in sub-Saharan Africa to better understand the burden of dementia and raise awareness. Encouraging initiatives that support caregivers and train health care professionals.

Evaluating existing and developing new models of hospice and palliative care for older adults with dementia and their caregivers.

Researching and leading a multidisciplinary clinic to improve the diagnosis and clinical care of people living with frontotemporal dementia and their families.

Leading efforts to increase understanding of brain health among health care workers and the general population in Kenya, with a focus on age-related, neurodegenerative disorders.

Neurologist, Alzheimer’s Unit, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

Epidemiologist, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development Limoges, France

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Neurology Specialist, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Tel Aviv, Israel

Assistant Professor, San Francisco School of Nursing, UCSF San Francisco, California, USA

Social Health Scientist; Social Worker, Global Brain Health Institute,UCSF San Francisco, California, USA

Neurologist, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Barcelona, Spain

Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology|Chair, Applied Intercultural Arts Reserach Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona USA

Research Assistant, Alzheimer’s & Dementia Organisation Kenya (ADOK) Nairobi, Kenya

IRINA KINCHIN

BEATRIZ MARCELA MAR MEZA

CHEYENNE MIZE

SEBASTIAN MOGUILNER

Applying a broad range of health economic methods towards ensuring more efficiency, cost-effectiveness and supportive care needs for priority populations.

Working to develop a comprehensive care program for the management of patients with cognitive disorders and caregiver support. Developing geriatric services to optimize care of chronic diseases, such as dementia, affecting the Peruvian elderly.

Using music for individual and community aims, with a particular interest in equitable access to creative wellness opportunities for people of all ages and levels of ability or experience.

Researching new neuroimaging biomarkers of neurodegeneration and the artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis of dementia.

DIDEM ÖZ

IEVA PETKUTĖ

SILVIA RODRIGO-HERRERO

NICOLE ROGERS CASTILLO

Developing an electroencephalography model to monitor the electrical activity of the brain for diagnosis and differentiation of dementia, and investigating clinicopathological correlation.

Implementing local and international arts projects that aim for social change.

Researching early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in patients around the region of Andalusia (Spain), especially in patients with a low educational level.

Developing non-pharmacological interventions and introducing technology-based tools that may be integrated into current health programs for older adults and patients with dementia.

Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia

Associate Neurologist, Dokuz Eylül University Izmir, Turkey

Geriatric Medicine Specialist and University Professor, Geriatric Department of Air Force Central Hospital, and Peruvian Institute of Neuroscience, Lima, Peru

Arts Director, Socialiniai meno projektai (NGO) Vilnius, Lithuania

Music Therapist and Owner, Wishing Well Music, LLC Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Neurologist, Hospital Juan Ramon Jimenez Huelva, Spain

Neuroscientist, Fuesmen Mendoza, Argentina

Neurologist, Universidad de Chile Chile

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SANJIB SAHA

Assistant Researcher, Health Economics, Lund University Lund, Sweden

Conducting research on the health care utilization of people living with dementia and their caregivers, primarily in Sweden. Estimating the cost-effectiveness of different interventions in clinical settings.

DVERA SAXTON

Assistant Professor, California State University Fresno, California, USA

Developing communitybased approaches to research design, problem solving, and creative teaching and learning around aging and brain health in rural and immigrant communities in California.

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Health economist Stefania Ilinca is examining the effects of demographic aging on policy in Europe.

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Combating health disparities and promoting equity.

BASED AT THE FITZHUGH MULLAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH WORKFORCE EQUITY

HEALTH EQUITY

2017 FELLOWS

MARY AJWANG

Consultant, Global Health Corps Kampala, Uganda

SARAH BATTISTICH

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Former Director of the Bellevue NYU Survivors of Torture Program, New York University Medical Center New York, New York, USA

JOEDRECKA S. BROWN SPEIGHTS

BRIGIT M. CARTER

Associate Professor and Chair of Family Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine Tallahasse, Florida, USA

Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Duke University School of Nursing Durham, North Carolina, USA

Engaging in advocacy, technical assistance, and program coordination to improve public health in Uganda.

Overseeing the delivery of comprehensive medical and mental health care, as well as social and legal services to survivors of torture and war trauma.

Working to eliminate health disparities and promote health equity, especially in maternal and child health and address black infant mortality.

Working to ensure the Duke University School of Nursing celebrates diversity and enhances inclusive practices for all members of the community.

KENNETH T. JONES

THOMAS MERRILL

SCOTT NASS

TOYESE OYEYEMI

Advancing health equity for military veterans and ensuring the availability of data and tools to understand health, social, and economic needs.

Designing, developing, and managing projects within the Muskie School of Public Service. Assisting with publications and dissemination, collecting and analysing data, and mentoring graduate assistants.

Advocating for equitable health policies and access to care for LGBTQ patients.

Providing primary care and HIV services to the Southern California desert community.

Leading an organization that provides grant writing and program evaluation for community-based, equitydriven nonprofits.

Supervisory Program Analyst, VHA Office of Health Equity Washington, DC, USA

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Senior Data Analyst, Muskie School of Public Service Portland, Maine, USA

Program Director, Eisenhower Family Medicine Residency; President, GLMA, Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality Palm Springs, California, USA

Faculty, University of New Mexico Department of Family and Community Medicine; Director, November Mill Consulting Cape Town, South Africa

MARIA PORTELA MARTINEZ

CAROLINE MAE RAMIREZ

NEHA RAYKAR

ZULAYKA SANTIAGO

Leading efforts to re-envision primary care training focused on transforming health care delivery systems aimed at improving access, quality of care, and cost effectiveness for vulnerable populations.

Developing policies as well as future leaders who champion health equity in the Philippines.

Leading evaluations of public health and nutrition programs on maternal and child health in rural India.

Providing inspiration, instigation, and support for projects, organizations, and foundations focused on equity, social justice, and authentic community engagement.

SARA SELIG

CARLA A. ARENA VENTURA

YVONNE YIU

Working to eliminate health disparities and improve the wellbeing of American Indian/Alaska Native communities.

Advocating for human rights education among vulnerable groups and building capacity for participatory research on health equity.

Empowering leadership to utilize data to drive quality improvement initiatives throughout the health care system.

Chief of the Family Medicine Section, Medical Faculty Associates; Medical Director, George Washington Immediate Primary Care Clinics Washington, DC, USA

Associate Physician; Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Director of US Engagement, Partners in Health Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Medical Officer IV, Health Facility Development Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines Manila, Philippines

Full Professor, College of Nursing, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto; Director, PAHO/ WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development Riberão Preto, Brazil

Senior Consultant (Health, WASH and Nutrition), Oxford Policy Management New Delhi, India

Founder & Creative Director, Libélula Consulting Durham, North Carolina, USA

Program Manager, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System Irvine, California, USA

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2018 FELLOWS

AMANDA BROSNAN

LESFORD H. DUNCAN

ANGELA T. ECHIVERRI

SARAH M. HOOPER

Practicing health care in a public health department, working primarily in infectious disease management. Cultivating a passion for providing care for the community’s underserved population.

Introducing at-risk, underrepresented, and systeminvolved youth to the transformative and healing power of the outdoors.

Practicing family and community medicine and partnering with families in Contra Costa County, California, to help people lead healthy and well lives.

Cultivating leaders and change agents in young people and learners.

Developing medical-legal collaborations in education, research, and clinical service that advance equity in the care of older adults.

JAMES HUANG

V. KAI KENNEDY

JONATAN KONFINO

Secretary of Health at Quilmes Municipality; Professor of Public Health, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ); Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University Quilmes, Argentina

ANJALI SINGH KULKARNI

Vice Chair of Equity and Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of California, Oakland, California, USA

Teaching principles of equity, professionalism, and leadership to physical therapy trainees and multidisciplinary health equity champions.

Building a local health system with both a social justice and equity perspective and a political perspective for health discussions and decisions.

Physician Assistant, Tarrant County Public Health Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Medical Director of Family Medicine, Unity Health Care Washington, DC, USA

Providing comprehensive medical care for immigrant and deaf communities through direct patient care, education, and quality improvement. Advocating for healthy food access for all communities.

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Senior Director of Programs, Outdoor Outreach San Diego, California, USA

Family Physician & Family Medicine Residency Faculty, Contra Costa Health Services Richmond, California, USA

Executive Director, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law Science & Health Policy; Policy Director, Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors; Adjunct Professor of Law San Francisco, California, USA

Public Health Specialist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India Gurgaon, India

Teaching a public health program for postgraduate students, focusing on health equity. Developing a communication strategy for one division of a state in India to increase health information access to lowliterate populations.

DEBORRAH G. LIAO

JORDAN LUKE

EMILY MACDONALD

CHRISTINA T. ROSENTHAL

Providing primary health care and advocating for health equity through universal health care in a rural and remote area in the Visayas region of the Philippines.

Working across Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to embed equity into the agency’s programs, policies, models, and demonstrations.

Strengthening clinical operations to optimize health outcomes and workforce development at a federally qualified health center that provides care in underresourced communities in Chicago.

Practicing dentistry and connecting under-represented or under-resourced youth to mentors and the resources needed to become health care professionals.

ZEINA SALIBA

STEPHEN SEVALIE

Psychiatrist and Family Physician, Inpatient Medical Director for Psychiatric and Behavioral Health Services at The George Washington University Hospital Washington, DC, USA

Psychiatrist and Public Health Officer Freetown, Sierra Leone

TYLER SPENCER

Improving health care access and quality across multiple domains by overseeing consultation and inpatient psychiatric services. Working to decrease stigma in mental health and caring for marginalized populations.

Working to establish collaboration, local and international, to support mental health, substance abuse and epilepsy services, and reduce treatment gaps in Sierra Leone.

Municipal Health Officer, Rural Health Unit-Gamay Gamay, Northern Samar, Philippines

Director, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of Minority Health, Program Alignment and Partner Engagement Group Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Director, Health Center Clinical Operations, Erie Family Health Centers Chicago, Illinois, USA

Owner/CEO, Paradigm Dental Center; Founder, The 516 Foundation; Author, “You Can Become a Doctor Too” Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Founder and President, The Grassroot Project Washington, DC, USA

Advancing health equity by recruiting and training NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) athletes to bring health education and physical activity back into American schools.

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2019 FELLOWS

ADEKEMI KIKELOMO ADENIYAN

ALAQ AL-MUWALI

Founder and Executive Director, Dentalcare Foundation Ado-ekiti, Nigeria

Resident Doctor, Al-Kadhmiya Teaching Hospital; Program Assistant, Partners Iraq Baghdad, Iraq

Promoting, optimizing, and fostering oral health equity in the Nigerian health care system and exploring oral health-related issues and culture of underserved communities.

Practicing medicine and working to reduce sexual harassment and women’s rights violations in the workplace by promoting the gender provisions of the Iraqi labor law.

Advocating for less disparate health care resources for rural patients and providers.

Building more capacity for health care infrastructure along the United StatesMexico border.

Mobilizing resident involvement in decisionmaking to ensure efforts are driven by community needs and assets. Developing strategies to support public health infrastructure.

ESNATT GONDWE-MATEKESA

RAZEL NIKKA M. HAO

ARTANESHA L. JACKSON

DANIELLE WOODHOUSE JOHNSON

Engaging communities to develop authentic efforts that strengthen the health care system and promote equitable access for all.

Developing strategic policy interventions and linkages to ensure equitable distribution and efficient management of health facilities in the Philippines.

Gender Specialist, Emmanuel International Zomba, Malawi

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Medical Specialist II, Health Facilities and Infrastructure Development Team, Office of the Undersecretary, Department of Health, Manila Quezon City, Philippines

ADRIAN N. BILLINGS

Chief Medical Officer, Preventative Care Health Services; Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine Alpine, Texas, USA

FINDconnect Program Manager, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Oakland, California, USA

Improving access to resources addressing social determinants of health to eliminate health disparities among adolescents with complex trauma in Oakland, California.

ESPERANZA FELICIDAD CANTÚ

Director of Community Engagement and Inclusion, United Way for Southeastern Michigan Detroit, Michigan, USA

Founder, The Oasis Alliance Lakeridge, Virginia, USA

Improving the lives of trauma survivors by cocreating personal spaces that promote mental health and wellbeing.

ANNE LAUX

Field Training Compliance Officer, Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission; Ohio Attorney General, Cleveland Brecksville, Ohio, USA

JESSICA MILBERG-HAYDU

Director of National Office Emergency Preparedness, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Los Angeles, California, USA

SHUBHA NAGESH

Director, Community Follow Up and Research Programs , Latika Roy Foundation Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

IFEANYI McWILLIAMS NSOFOR

Chief Executive Officer, EpiAFRIC Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Researching the availability and accessibility of mental health wellness services for law enforcement officers in Ohio, and developing a resource guide for creating and funding wellness bureaus.

Supporting organizations with training, technical assistance, organizational management, program management, and strategic planning expertise.

Addressing social determinants of health.

Striving to make childhood disabilities a global health priority, with a focus on young children with developmental disabilities in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas.

Advocating for active citizenship for health in Nigeria to create a critical mass of Nigerians who can demand improved health care for all and hold the government accountable.

MONALISA PADHEE

BRANDI M. PAYTON

LINDSEY POLLACZEK

HOPE ELIZABETH RHODES

Designing and implementing health initiatives to disrupt the cycle of poor health in girls and women in rural India through a communitydriven model.

Leading efforts to re-envision primary care training that focuses on the integration of behavioral health into primary care.

Championing holistic programs dedicated to the elimination of childbirth injury obstetric fistula, a gross inequity that affects more than a million women and girls worldwide.

Advocating for improved access to teen-friendly and culturally sensitive reproductive health services for high-risk teens in underresourced communities.

Program Head, Women Wellness Initiative, Barefoot College Tilonia, Ajmer, India

Clinic Administrator, Cherokee Nation Cooweescoowee Health Center Owasso, Oklahoma, USA

Vice President of Programs, Fistula Foundation San Francisco, California, USA

Associate Medical Director, Children’s Health Center; Assistant Professor, George Washington University Washington, DC, USA

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2019 FELLOWS

2020 FELLOWS

ELIZA SQUIBB

BILAL ASIM

MONIQUE E. BROWN

SHUBHAM CHOUDHARY

Collaborating with artists and artisans worldwide to create culturally contextualized patient education tools to improve information equity and health literacy among lowresource populations.

Working with the corporate partners of Fatima Memorial Hospital to increase revenue to extend free or subsidized quality care to those most affected by high health care expenditures.

Co-creating a sustainability plan with an underserved community to address vacant or abandoned properties, mitigate gentrification and displacement, and increase placemaking in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Building an ecosystem to advance equitable health care for the LGBTQ community in India through education, advocacy, and community organizing.

ELLIOT KORANTENG TANNOR

ABRAHAM L. B. FREEMAN

HYELADZIRA D. GARNVWA

KEVIN HECKMAN

Advocating reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases, especially kidney disease, and health disparities in the diagnosis.

Recycling plastic waste into construction materials and creating awareness of plastic pollution. Sampling and testing environmental monitoring points to ensure compliance.

Working in the national government to facilitate access to quality primary health care for women and children in underserved communities.

Improving the diversity of medical students by gathering and sharing examples and evidence of equitable admissions processes and tools.

Co-Founder and Art Director, ZTwist Design LLC; Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design; Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Senior Specialist Physician, a Nephrologist and an Adjunct Lecturer of the School of Medical Sciences Kumasi, Ghana

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Assistant Director Planning & Business Development, Fatima Memorial Hospital Lahore, Pakistan

Environmental Officer, Liberia Electricity Corporation; Founder, Environmental Rescue Initiative Monrovia, Liberia

Program Manager, Healthy Neighborhoods Project, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Health Specialist, Nigeria State Health Investment Project, National Primary Health Care Development Agency Abuja, Nigeria

Founder/CEO, Safe Access, Qequal Foundation Delhi, India

Director, Product Development, American Medical Association Chicago, Illinois, USA

LIAM C. HEIN

GABRIELLE JACKSON

GILBERTO LOPEZ

MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF

Advancing LGBTQ social justice and health equity on a local level in partnership with the community and on a national level through policy.

Advocating and educating for transgender health care access.

Training and ensuring the development of community mental health facilitators to support undocumented immigrant communities nationwide.

Focusing on the relationships between socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and disease in Latinx populations.

Researching and advocating for equitable solutions to legal and policy issues at the intersection of US health law and immigration law.

Preparing law students to work for health justice.

MAUREEN MILANGA

BERTRAND MOSES

SYED MUSTAFA H NADIR

ROSE MARY NAKAME

Improving access for key populations and pediatrics in the Kenyan HIV program to ensure marginalized populations are included in the efforts to eliminate health disparities.

Developing national child-related policies, programs, strategies, and communication material to promote child protection, wellbeing, and holistic development. Promoting mental health and wellness through workshops.

Leading an awardwinning startup focused on storytelling and conflict communication. Working on media content aimed at fostering health equity, tolerance, and countering destructive narratives.

Implementing a multifaceted approach for tackling teenage pregnancy in Uganda.

Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Associate Director International Policy and Advocacy, Health Global Access Project Nairobi, Kenya

Co-Founder and Co-Director, UndocuBlack Network Washington, DC, USA

National Coordinator of Child Affairs, Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago; Founder, Balance 365 Org Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

Research Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, New York, USA

Founder and CEO, Creative Frontiers LLC; Director, Onebyte LLC; Founder and Director, Frontiers Animation Nairobi, Kenya

Assistant Professor of Law; Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, Penn State’s Dickinson Law; Ass. Prof., Penn State College of Medicine, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA

Executive Director/ Founder, REMI East Africa Kampala, Uganda

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2020 FELLOWS

MILDRED OMINO

NKEMAKOLEM OSIAN

ELENA RIVERA

PETER GAN KIM SOON

Advocating for the sexual and reproductive health rights of girls and women with disabilities in Kenya.

Increasing national awareness through education and advocacy about the uterine fibroid epidemic that plagues women and disproportionately affects women of color.

Advocating to improve child health and wellbeing in Oregon. Uniting the voices of communities directly affected by early health and learning disparities and co-creating solutions to ensure healthy and thriving children.

Improving public health through health literacy for individuals, their local community, and colleagues within the health sector by prioritizing social determinants of health.

MEGAN L. SRINIVAS

LINDSLEY JEREMIAH VILLARANTE

BRAM P. WISPELWEY

Improving the system of health planning in the Philippines to attain universal health coverage goals, such as equitable health financing, responsive health systems, and better health outcomes.

Researching and implementing strategies to eliminate racial inequities in hospital triage. Designing and building a community health program alongside Palestinian refugees living in camps.

Founder, Advocacy & Partnerships Officer, Women and Realities of Disability Society, Kenya Nairobi, Kenya

Infectious Disease Clinical Instructor and Research Fellow, University of North Carolina School of Medicine Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA

Utilizing politics and heath policy to improve health care access in the rural United States. Researching social innovation and entrepreneurship for sexual and reproductive health in resource-limited settings around the world.

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Public Health Analyst, Health Resources and Services Administration; Board Member, The White Dress Project Rockville, Maryland, USA

Team Leader for Sectoral Planning and Budget Allocation; Department Legislative Liaison Specialist, Department of Health Manila City Muntinlupa, Philippines

Senior Health Policy and Program Advisor, Children’s Institute Portland, Oregon, USA

Ex-Officio, MERCY Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Chief Strategist, Health for Palestine; Associate Physician; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Zulayka Santiago speaking at the Global Convening 2019 in Oxford.

Her work focuses on equity, social justice and community engagement.

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Creating a community for health equity in Southeast Asia.

BASED AT THE EQUITY INITIATIVE AT CMB FOUNDATION

HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

2016 FELLOWS

TIM AYE-HARDY

LIU CHENHUI

CHHORVANN CHHEA

OANH PHAM KIEU

Providing education via mobile classrooms to children in Myanmar who are in indentured servitude at teashop restaurants.

Working to develop policies and strategies to address inclusivity and equity in education.

Advancing use of mobile technology to help 1.5 million doctors deliver high quality primary care for everyone, anytime, anywhere, across China.

Leading research into maternal and child health and the health system in Cambodia. Leading in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Working to develop a national health management and leadership training curriculum.

Helping build a new sector for social entrepreneurship in Viet Nam and the region.

CHALERMSAK KITTITRAKUL

JEREMY LIM

HOANG VAN MINH

THU HA NGUYEN

Working to ensure that policies on the promotion of access to HIV and HCV treatment are developed and implemented effectively and systematically.

Working on increasing the use of technology to improve health equity and access to care.

Publishing widely in national and international scientific journals; undertaking research studies on health and health care in Viet Nam on topics including the social determinants of health, noncommunicable diseases, and universal health coverage.

Overseeing content development for national television on social issues, including gender and domestic violence, women’s health and HIV/AIDS.

Co-Founder/Executive Director, myME: Myanmar Mobile Education Project Yangon, Myanmar

Coordinator for Access to Medicines Campaign, AIDS Access Foundation Bangkok, Thailand

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CEO, FamilyDoc Medical Mechnology Co Ltd Beijing, China

Partner, Oliver Wyman; Co-founder & CEO of AMiLi Singapore

Director, National Institute of Public Health, Ministry of Health Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Vice-Rector/Director of Center for Population, Hanoi University of Public Health Hanoi, Viet Nam

Founder/CEO, Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion Hanoi, Viet Nam

Executive Director and Morning News Producer, Vietnam National Television Hanoi, Viet Nam

THI THUY TRAM PHAN

SOULIVANH PHOLSENA

Chief Physician, Lao Medical Care Center, Ban Phonxay, Xaysettha District Lao People’s Democratic Republic

NICOLA POCOCK

Deputy Director General, Ministry of Planning and Investment Hanoi, Viet Nam

Leading the organization towards conservation excellence and efficiency. Protecting biodiversity and preserving its habitats, combatting illegal wildlife trade, as well as implementing plastic pollution reduction programs in major coastal cities.

Practicing social justice through ideas and implementation of the Community Development Program and the White Cane Initiative for the Blind in Viet Nam.

Strengthening primary health care by focusing on the community-based health service through private sector involvement. Running two community medical centers, providing over 100,000 outpatient visits a year.

Working on migration, forced labor, and health, especially the health needs of trafficked fishermen.

JIRUTH SRIRATANABAN

NILA TANZIL

Founder and CEO of Taman Bacaan Pelangi (Rainbow Reading Gardens); Travel Sparks DKI Jakarta, Indonesia

SI ZHANJIE

Director, Thailand Research Center for Health Service Systems, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand

Focusing on health service systems in Thailand, including universal coverage, quality management, health sector financing, and health security schemes. Also working to promote equity and quality in education.

Nurturing children’s habit of reading and improving their literacy skills in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia, having set up over 100 libraries and trained thousands of local teachers.

NATALIE PHAHOLYOTHIN CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Thailand Bangkok, Thailand

Postdoctoral Fellow, United Nations University International Institute of Global Health Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Director, Aizhen Yunnan, China

Addressing the psychological, physical, social and economic problems of people affected by leprosy in China.

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2017 FELLOWS

BENJAMIN LAWRENCE PATRICK E. ARITAO

LYNNA CHANDRA

DENG RUI (RITA)

DO THUY DUONG

Rescuing victims of trafficking from places of exploitation and using casework lessons to derive systemic remedies.

Bringing humanity to medicine with compassionate and excellent care for all.

Founded first pediatric palliative care service in Indonesia.

Teaching students and conducting research contributing to the improvement of health for ethnic minorities, especially women and young girls.

Designing and implementing leadership development programs to enhance the quality of women’s lives.

WAI WAI HAN

ARIEL CARINGAL HERNANDEZ

BEVERLY LORRAINE HO

CHANNÉ SUY LAN

Combating rural poverty and promoting equity-based development and sustainable peace.

Helping put into operation the mandate of the Universal Health Care Act in the Philippines, ensuring all Filipinos are health literate and have healthy living and working conditions.

Designing solutions to help people elevate their dignity and living conditions through improvements in health, education and economic development.

Director of Prosecution Development, International Justice Mission Manila, Philippines

Research Scientist, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Sports Yangon, Myanmar

Enhancing social justice in health through research of vulnerable populations.

Initiating efforts to improve the practice of evidencebased policy-making by mentoring and facilitating data to the policy program in Myanmar.

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Founder and Trustee, Rachel House (children’s hospice); Ashoka Fellow serving on boards of Assisi Hospice & Bamboo Capital Management Singapore

Managing Director/School Director, Bangko sa Balay Foundation/ Global Mindanaw Polytechnic Northern Mindanao, Philippines

Associate Professor, Kunming Medical University’s School of Public Health Kunming City, Yunnan, China

Director of Health Promotion and Communications Service, Health Promotion Bureau Manila, Philippines

CEO and Founder, TalentPool Hanoi, Viet Nam

Regional Lead, InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia Phnom Penh, Cambodia

SANTI LAPBENJAKUL

THARANI LOGANATHAN

LUONG THE-HUY

NGUYEN THI LAN ANH

Working with the government to train caregivers and redirect health care resources toward home care.

Focusing on achieving universal health coverage, and providing financial risk protection to households.

Advocating for LGBTI in Viet Nam, focusing on raising public awareness, legal advocacy for law makers, media, youth, public and private sectors.

Empowering communities of people with disabilities. She advocated the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is actively monitoring the implementation.

PAN MYAT MON

SOMPORN (NUI) PENGKAM

ALAY PHONVISAY

KANAPON (TUM) PHUMRATPRAPIN

Director, Lamsonthi Hospital Lopburi, Thailand

Country Program Manager, Australian Volunteers (Myanmar) Yangon, Myanmar

Helping bring a sustainable social and development change in Myanmar.

Medical Lecturer, Social and Preventive Medicine Department at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Founder and Director, Community Health Impact Assessment Platform in Southeast Asia Bangkok, Thailand

Leading efforts to empower communities to carry out health impact assessments to encourage them to negotiate with policy makers, with a focus on mining and coalfired power plants.

Director, iSEE Institute Hanoi, Viet Nam

Lecturer, Faculty of Economic and Business Management, National University of Laos Vientiane, Lao PDR

Focusing on trade and poverty reduction.

Founder and Director, Action at the Community Development Institute, Hanoi, Viet Nam

CEO/Co-Founder, Health at Home Bangkok, Thailand

Combining expertise in geriatric medicine with a passion for home health care technology to serve Thailand’s growing elderly population.

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2017 FELLOWS

2018 FELLOWS

SATIRIANTINAH (SATI) BUR RASUANTO

ABELARDO APOLLO DAVID JUNIOR

BUI THI THUY

Enabling Digital Trust and catalyzing financial inclusion through VIDA, an earlystage technology company providing a frictionless and secure digital identity system.

Supporting entrepreneurs, investing and health equity issues.

Advancing access to quality and inclusive health and education resources that equip children of all abilities and needs.

Developing training programs and policies to support community health, such as those ensuring patient safety and supporting parents in caring for and understanding their child’s medical care needs.

Developing coherent and compelling positions, using primarily the rights-based approach, to ensure that requests of government agencies for legal assistance to their bills, rules and regulations are in line with the constitution and laws.

SHI NAN

NUR KHAULAH FADZIL

SOPHIA BENEDICTA HAGE

HOANG TU ANH

Focusing on health, food, and drug safety across China.

Focusing on health care in detention and health policy for refugees.

Focusing on issues of sexual and gender-based violence and on promoting healthy lifestyles.

Empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged communities and enhancing state accountability.

Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, VIDA Digital Identity Jakarta, Indonesia

Lecturer, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University Beijing, China

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Founder/Executive Director, Independent Living Learning Centre (ILLC)/Academia Progresiva de Manila (APDM)/REACH Foundation Manila, Philippines

Health Field Officer, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Head of the Nursing Department, Viet Nam National Children’s Hospital Hanoi, Viet Nam

Clinic Manager/Founding Member Medifit Clinic Jakarta, Indonesia

ABDEL JAMAL DISANGCOPAN

Attorney/Law Reform Specialist IV, University of the Philippines Law Center Iligan City, Philippines

Founding Member/Vice Director, Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population Hanoi, Viet Nam

HAN WIN HTAT

Deputy Country Director Population Services International Yangon, Myanmar

JIANG FAN

Vice Chancellor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Consultant, National Health and Family Planning Commission Shanghai, China

NORAIDA ABDULLAH KARIM

KOUNG LO

Director for Mindanao Programme, Community and Family Services International Cotabato City, Philippines

Director, Preah Vihear Provincial Health Department Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Strengthening health systems to tackle health and social inequity issues for the poor and vulnerable populations through the strategic purchasing of primary health care services to improve quality in the non-public sector.

Researching social and environmental change and child health, and taking part in a national large-scale early child development intervention program in Shanghai and rural western China.

Working to improve the resilience of the Internally Displaced Persons. Training para-social workers to serve as a social service catalyst in the Bangsamoro communities.

Working to improve access to health information and health services, especially for remote patient populations.

Spearheaded an initiative to support high-risk pregnant women.

BORWORNSOM (ACK) LEERAPAN

BAWI MANG LIAN

ELISABETH LISTYANI

SHARON LOW

Applying systems thinking to solve complex issues, such as regional governance of Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage, communitybased health interventions for vulnerable populations, and patient safety in health workforce planning.

Focusing on monitoring Myanmar’s National Health Plan, toward improving the allocation of health resources in Myanmar, especially the distribution of health facilities.

Supporting hospitals to improve services in collaboration with local government to strengthen Indonesia’s health system.

Researching the inequitable distributions of hospitals and health services of remote areas in Indonesia.

Supporting assessment, evaluation, and research projects in fragile and conflict-affected states.

Health Systems Researcher/Faculty Member, Ramathibodi Medical School, Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand

Medical Officer, National Health Plan Implementation Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Health and Sport Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

Researcher, Center for Health and Policy Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Research Manager, REACH Initiative Syria Singapore

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2018 FELLOWS

TIARA MARTHIAS

CARMENEZA DOS SANTOS MONTEIRO

NGUYEN THI LAN ANH

NGUYEN TRAN NGUYEN

Assessing geographical equity in reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health.

Working toward a just and equal society through fair, inclusive public policy formulation and implementation.

Creating change through supporting access to health and social services for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, such as children in special circumstances, persons with disabilities, HIV/AIDs patients and marginalized groups.

Working to expand health insurance coverage and health service provision, with a focus on the growing elderly population.

ANA P. SANTOS

PAIROJ SAONUAM

MAY SRIPATANASKUL

KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM

Lecturer/PhD Student, Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University Gadjah Mada/Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne West Java, Indonesia

Journalist, Independent Manila, Philippines

Writing about culturally taboo topics such as sexual and reproductive health to bridge the gap between vulnerable women in Philippine society and legislators who draft policies that affect their rights.

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Strategic Policy Adviser, Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion Canberra, Australia

Assistant CEO, Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) Bangkok, Thailand

Seeking to empower individuals and organizations for a healthy society and environment.

Lecturer, Social Work, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Viet Nam National University Hanoi, Viet Nam

Founder/CEO, LUKKID/Asian Leadership Academy Bangkok, Thailand

Developing humancentered work processes that allow people to tackle social challenges through collaboration.

Official, Office of People’s Committee of Dong Thap Province Dong Thap, Viet Nam

Founder/CEO, Porous City Network/Landprocess Bangkok, Thailand

Working to tackle climate change and increase urban resilience in Thailand and Southeast Asian cities through landscape architecture.

XU JIN

Lecturer, Peking University’s Center for Health Development Studies Beijing, China

Working to bring greater recognition to the importance and feasibility of reducing health inequities and facilitating China’s contribution to global health equity.

Ana Santos, a journalist in the Philippines, dancing - one of the group activities to connect the diverse cultures of Atlantic Fellows at the Global Convening.

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BLANDINA ROSALINA BAIT

GIDEON CAUTON

RENNTA CHRISTDIANA

LETCHIMI DEVI DORAISAMY

Leading field implementation of UNICEF’s landmark research project on the management of severe acute malnutrition, which contributed to the effective scale up process of this life-saving intervention for children.

Building the capacity of public law enforcement to rescue and protect children in vulnerable communities against violent offenders.

His current project focuses on the online sexual exploitation of children.

Improving quality health care and empowering patients through collaborative works with providers, health practitioners, government, and society.

Supporting Malaysia’s reform toward a more democratic, inclusive and accepting home for all its people.

ALFREDO MATUGAS CORO

ZHANG KUN

PHETDAVANH LEAUNGVILAY

PAUL GIDEON LASCO

Technical officer, WHO Health Emergency Programme, World Health Organization, Lao PDR country office Vientiane, Lao PDR

Senior Lecturer, University of the Philippines Diliman, Department of Anthropology; Research Fellow, Ateneo de Manila University, Development Studies Program Manila, Philippines

Strengthening public health emergency preparedness and response capacity through engaging with stakeholders to implement the national health security plan, ensuring equitable access to health services.

Pursuing ethnographic and qualitative researches on medical, social, and environmental issues relevant to the Philippines and the region. Writing for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and other publications.

Nutrition Officer, UNICEF Indonesia Kupang, Indonesia

Municipal Vice Mayor and Former Mayor, Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, Philippines Del Carmen Municipality Philippines

Innovating local governance in areas of public health, focusing on social determinants such as education, climate change, environmental management, and income and social protection.

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Director, National Law Enforcement Development, International Justice Mission, Philippines Manila, Philippines

President, Evercare Health Group Beijing, China

Developing the group strategy and strong relationships with local communities. Leading, inspiring and managing the top leadership teams.

Ensuring the company’s profitable growth.

Commissioner of the Yogyakarta Hospital Supervisory Board Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Grants Officer with DAI Global, LLC, Malaysia Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

PHAN THI NGOC LINH

XIAO LONG

GORIS MUSTAQIM

LE THI NHAT

Bringing together all available resources, domestically and internationally, to support the improvement of health care services in Viet Nam.

Professor and Deputy Director of Plastic Surgery Department, Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

Board member of a nonprofit foundation, Peking Union Medical Foundation.

Building solutions to tackle maternal deaths using big data analytics. Driving up community empowerment across Indonesia to improve the local economy, a social determinant of health equity.

Aiming to ensure access to quality and affordable physical rehabilitation services for people with disabilities in Viet Nam.

RATAWIT OUAPRACHANON

SEAN SOK PHAY

PANUSART (MIDNIGHT) POONKASETWATTANA

NATARAJAN RAJARAMAN

Developing a broad range of projects to advance the health, rights and wellbeing of people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Providing low cost primary care to migrant workers in Singapore; and strengthening the health systems in Timor-Leste.

CEO, Center for Healthcare Improvement Research Center Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Educator, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand

Educating and conducting research to promote peace, human rights, reconciliation and conflict transformation in Thailand and neighboring countries.

Professor, Peking Union Medical College Hospital; Board member, Peking Union Medical Foundation Beijing, China

Executive Director, Child Helpline Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Advocating for child protection law and cybercrime law to criminalize online child sexual exploitation in Cambodia.

Developing the online helpline platform to give children increased protection.

Founder and CEO of Semut Nusantara Consulting; Founder of Asgar Muda Foundation (Saving Next Gen Institute) Jakarta, Indonesia

Executive Director, APCOM Foundation Bangkok, Thailand

Country Project Manager, ICRC MoveAbility Foundation Hanoi, Viet Nam

Head of Medical Services, HealthServe Ltd Singapore

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SAM OUEN SAM

Managing Director, Buddhism for Health Takeo Province, Cambodia

VANNAPHONE SITTHIRATH Media Consultant, Film Producer, Journalist and Co-Founder, Lao New Wave Cinema Production Vientiane, Lao PDR

KRITAYA SREESUNPAGIT Founder and Board Member, Why I Why Group; Consultant, Vajira Hospital Bangkok, Thailand

Improving access to quality health care services for the poor and vulnerable.

Strengthening capacity of local government officials in developing responsive local investment plans and accountability.

Producing socially responsible documentaries of life in Laos and Southeast Asia, with a focus on social, health and environmental issues.

Creating networks of support for health care professionals to remove obstacles that prevent them from reaching their full potential.

NGUYEN QUOC THANH

ZHANG YUNTING (EDWINA)

RAUDAH MOHD YUNUS

Exploring issues of queer aesthetics and activism, working through art and film projects, and exhibitions that are usually collaborative, and participatory.

Establishing an early child development monitoring system, identifying a target population with equity analysis and carrying out interventions to improve child health and development.

Conducting research and advocating for the rights and protection of older adults, refugees and migrant workers. Building and training young minds to stand up for equity and social justice from the health perspective.

Artist, Curator, Founding Director of Queer Forever!

Hanoi, Viet Nam

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Associate Professor, Child Health Advocacy Institute, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center Shanghai, China

RAPEEPONG SUPHANCHAIMAT

Senior Researcher, International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand Nonthaburi, Thailand

Focusing on research into universal health coverage, especially in low and middle income countries. Researching the health of migrants and vulnerable populations, applying epidemiology and econometrics.

Researcher and Public Health Specialist, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sophia Benedicta Hage from Indonesia (on left), with Nur Khaulah Fadzil from Malaysia, at the Atlantic Senior Fellows Convening in 2019.

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Building a healthier, more equal South Africa.

BASED AT TEKANO

HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

2017 FELLOWS

DUDUZILE (DUDU) DLAMINI Human Rights Defender, Advocacy and Law Reform Programme (ALRP) Team Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT) Pretoria, South Africa

MICHELLE DU TOIT

Advocate, Rhodes University Makana, South Africa

NTOMBIZANELE (ZANELE) FIGLAN

THANIA GOPAL

Principal Environmental Health Practitioner, City of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Communications Officer, UCT Faculty of Health Sciences Cape Town, South Africa

Fighting for the decriminalization of sex work.

Specializing as an advocate in international human rights, health rights, and health care systems. Currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy.

Pursuing a health activism agenda to change people’s quality of life for the better.

Exploring the role of the media in influencing and developing more equitable and socially just health systems.

AMY GREEN

THAMSANQA HAMILTON HUKWE

KHULULWA JAMPO

LANCE LOUSKIETER

Organizing and mobilizing communities in the southern region of Johannesburg around land, housing and other socioeconomic issues.

Providing support, counselling and basic health education to pregnant women, with a focus on chronic treatment adherence, mostly related to HIV and AIDS.

Advocating for health systems’ responsiveness and championing sexual and reproductive justice for sex workers and queer persons through influencing policy and implementation.

Senior writer, Health-e News Service Johannesburg, South Africa

Reporting on non-communicable diseases and food security and how the two intersect.

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Chairperson, Abahlali Base Freedom Park (a shack dweller movement) Johannesburg, South Africa

Enable Mentor Mother programme Ngqeleni, Eastern Cape, South Africa

PhD Candidate, Researcher, Educator, Health Policy and Systems Research Division, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

TRACEY MALAWANA

THAMI NOMATHAMSANQA MNGXEKEZA

SHANNON MORGAN

KODWA MPEPHO

Advocating for social justice and human rights through education and policy change/ introduction, grassroot organizing and mobilization, building alliances and community resilience.

Providing support and guidance to women-led, not-for-profit organizations on good governance and best financial management practices. Advocating for the parental involvement in sexual and reproductive health education.

Exploring the field of global mental health, with a special interest in learning about the integration of mental health into primary care.

Promoting access to sexual and reproductive health and justice for girls and women in rural and peri-urban areas through advocacy and strengthening leadership skills.

SIBONGILE MTUNGWA

SHEHNAZ MUNSHI

BERNARD MUTSAGO

LINDI MZANKOMO

Advocating for affordable and accessible health for all by engaging in research and social mobilization to reform health systems and policy.

Advocating for a South Africa where primary health care takes centre stage and all South Africans have access to affordable, quality health care.

Developing social assistance models, budgets and policy advancements for improved health and education outcomes for the poor.

Deputy General Secretary, Equal Education Tembisa, South Africa

Director, Women’s Leadership and Training Programme Underberg, South Africa

Strengthening girls’ and women’s leadership skills, so they use their agency to dismantle the patriarchal and structural norms and systems that oppress them.

Operations Manager, Kozi Foundation Cape Town, South Africa

Research Project Manager for the Sheiham/Wits Family Programme on Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Master’s Student (Global Mental Health), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and King’s College London London, United Kingdom

Nutritionist; Public Health Researcher and Activist Johannesburg, South Africa

Director, Women and Girls Leadership Foundation Pretoria, South Africa

Senior Budget Analyst, Public Finance, National Treasury (Department of Finance) Pretoria, South Africa

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NOLUTHANDO NDLOVU

TINASHE T NJANJI

MAFOKO PHOMANE

KENTSE RADEBE

Conducting evidence-based research that contributes to policy strengthening health systems in South Africa, using predominantly quantitative data to address health equity.

Promoting socioeconomic justice for all, including addressing social determinants for health.

Providing novel and integrated solutions in health for communities in remote places, in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning and Technical Support Services for USAID/ South Africa’s Health Office.

Identifying the processes and levers that lead to social innovation across various sectors, with a focus on health and mental health in the global south.

WENDY SOMLAVI

LENA STOFILE

CARINA TRUYTS

BULELA VAVA

Promoting recycling in townships.

Addressing issues of access to basic sanitation, water and a healthy environment for all, with special focus on identifying conditions posing an environmental health risk and addressing access to effective and dignified basic services.

Developing new anthropology courses and program, based on her nourishment MA research drawing on public health, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, and epigenetic findings.

Building an activist oral health workforce with a focus on grassroots community and peer-topeer engagement to realize, preserve and protect society’s right to quality oral health services.

Researcher, Health Systems Trust Durban, South Africa

Founder, Wheely in a Wheelie Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

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Coordinator, People’s Health Movement South Africa Cape Town, South Africa

Environmental Health Manager, City of Cape Town Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

Project Specialist, Panagora Group South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa

Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Sol Plaatje University Kimberley, South Africa

Project Manager, Systems Innovation, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship Cape Town, South Africa

Public Sector Dentist Eastern Cape, South Africa

Zanele (Ntombizanele) Figlan is driving up standards of environmental health in the city of Cape Town, South Africa.

NIKKI GREEN (NEE VERMEULEN)

Self Employed, Health Equity & Community Development Consultant Cape Town, South Africa

Reimagining the ways in which corporate and NGO spaces can be connected and developed to enhance access to resources and opportunities for social change.

LUQMAN YESUFU

Africa Coordinator, Global Green and Health Hospital Initiative; Ground Work, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Edmonton, Canada

Developing strategies to address the health sector’s climate footprint through research, training and the implementation of sustainable health care practices in Africa.

Building relationships and developing policies to address environmental health issues.

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CHALEEN ARENDSE

CYAN BROWN

LUNGILE QUINY DUBE

SIBUSISO FIHLANI

Advancing the rights and improving the lives of young people and women living on farms, through the experiential knowledge of growing up on a farm herself.

Addressing social injustices and inequalities through a human rights context.

Leading efforts to create healthier and more sustainable communities that uplift, protect and enable young women and girls to reach their full potential in South Africa.

Contributing to the development of educational approaches that are empowering and for liberation purposes by understanding gendered dimensions of alternative forms of work.

Using theatre and drama therapy with patients to help them overcome emotional trauma and addiction.

AMANDA PHAPHAMA FONONDA

ATHOLL KLEINHANS

HASEENA MAJID

PATRICK MDELETSHE

Leading efforts to end TB through advocacy where people affected by TB contribute to improving health outcomes and quality of care.

Working to improve access to health care for all sexual minority, gender and sexually diverse groups.

Developing strategies to address the backlog of patients requiring essential health services in the public sector in uMgungundlovu, KwaZulu-Natal. Her specific focus is cataract surgery services and universal eye health.

Working to address inequality and social justice.

Mobilizing community by building the voice and capacity of civil society from below for health system strengthening.

Program Officer, Women on Farms Project Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Assistant Programme Manager, TB and HIV Care Durban, South Africa

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Medical Doctor and Founder of the TuksRes Women in Leadership Academy Johannesburg, South Africa

Lecturer, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Pretoria, South Africa

Master’s Student, Nelson Mandela University Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Public health project consultant, Active Citizens Movement Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Drama Therapist, Drama for Life Johannesburg, South Afria

Researcher, SECTION27 Khayelitsha, South Africa

SEHLAKO GILBERT MOELA

SINDISA MONAKALI

NTEBALENG MORAKE

ERIC MOTAU

Developing strategies for mining-affected communities in the field of mine community health and safety, based on ethical principles of continuous education.

Developing and organizing young leaders through democratic structures to fight for social justice.

Building a South Africa that addresses the injustices of the past while seeking alternatives for a just and equal society.

Advocating for access to community-based mental health care and treatment services in underserved communities. Addressing bottlenecks in the health system with design strategies that enhance service delivery.

SIPAMANDLA MPIKELELI

NOSIPHELELE MSESIWE

ANDILE MTHOMBENI

BAYANDA NDUMISO

Advancing rural development by supporting young people to participate in placements throughout the sugar cane value chain.

Mobilizing and educating communities to gain access to their rights.

Assisting the South African National Aids Council as Trustees Member, also appointed as a student representative in the Ministerial Technical Task Team for Sexual & GenderBased Violence in Institutions of Higher Learning (2017).

Striving for quality and equality in South African education through analysis and activism.

Mining and Environmental Activist, Sekhukhune Combined Mining Affected Communities (SCMAC) Polokwane, South Africa

Development and CSI Manager, South African Sugar Association Durban, South Africa

Activist, Equal Education Khayelitsha, South Africa

Activist, Social Justice Coalition (SJC) Khayelitsha, South Africa

Curriculum and Education Coordinator, Social Justice Coalition Cape Town, South Africa

Project Manager, Plus 94 Research Johannesburg, South Africa

Country Director, REPSSI Johannesburg, South Africa

Curriculum Developer, Equal Education Cape Town, South Africa

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SAMSON PHAKATHI

VINKEY SIBUYI

ANELE SIGCAU

SYLVIA SIYO

Mobilizing communities in rural South Africa to engage with conservation projects that provide environmentally friendly alternative livelihoods.

Advocating for the right to education for children with learning impairments.

Collaborating with other stakeholders to develop learning tools that could be used to accommodate their learning needs.

Developing strategies to ensure that people living with HIV and other chronic conditions have access to treatment and are able to adhere to it.

Training, mentoring and inspiring women and girls from under-privileged communities to succeed in industry.

HARSHA SOMAROO

RENÉ SPARKS

RAZIA VALLIE

ERNA VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

Senior Field Officer, The Endangered Wildlife Trust Mpophomeni, South Africa

Public Health Medicine Specialist, WITS School of Public Health Johannesburg, South Africa

Advancing health equity as a public health medicine specialist.

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Social Worker, Epilepsy South Africa Acornhoek, South Africa

RTCQI/CLI Provincial Project Coordinator, SEAD (Strategic Evaluation, Advisory & Development Consulting Ltd) Cape Town, South Africa

Supporting HIV prevention programmes for key and vulnerable populations in South Africa. Active in numerous civil society roles, and passionate about access to quality health services.

Pharmacist, Coordinator, Khethimpilo East London, South Africa

Program Manager at an NPO seconded to the Western Cape Health Department Cape Town, South Africa

Developing and supporting equitable TB and HIV protection programs.

Business Case Development Manager, Transnet National Ports Authority Durban, South Africa

Impact & Learning Manager, Shonaquip Social Enterprise Wynberg, South Africa

Leading efforts to build ecosystems for inclusion for people with disabilities, their families and service providers.

GANZAMUNGU ZIHINDULA Independent Consultant in Epidemiology| Public Health practitioner | Founder of HRS, Healthy Rural Societies (HRS) Mtubatuba, South Africa

Developing a care model for older people based in rural areas as one of the ways to combat the problems of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) that are highly prevalent among the elderly.

Duduzile Dlamini, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa, is a human rights defender for sex workers.

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Connecting Changemakers.

Advancing Equity. BASED AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION

RACIAL EQUITY

2018 FELLOWS

OBENEWA AMPONSAH

ASANDA BENYA

DEVON CARBADO

ALICIA GARZA

Advancing racial and gender equity through training and workshops to help organizations become more diverse and inclusive spaces in which everyone can thrive; supporting individuals/ teams through coaching, management, and leadership development.

Lecturing in sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand where her thesis was on the construction of gendered identities of women who work in the mines.

Working to advance an intersectional approach to racial justice. Also creating and sustaining inclusive, equitable learning environments.

Building the movement for Black lives by engaging in narrative change efforts and direct action organizing.

MARY HOOKS

CHRISTOPHER JOHN

BRIAN KAMANZI

KELLY-EVE KOOPMAN

Building the leadership capacity of the LGBTQ community in the South through direct action efforts and dynamic campaigns.

Developing community projects and funding to assist talented people from disadvantaged communities to access education in the creative industries, and helping in grassroots training and economic development in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Contributing to local and international debates on social justice issues.

Co-founded the Alternative Energy Popular Education Programme.

Driving social transformation through Coloured Mentality, a community media platform that has become a unique interactive storytelling space for the colored community.

Coach | Facilitator | Storyteller Obenewa Amponsah & Associates Johannesburg, South Africa

Co-Director, Southerners On New Ground Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Lecturer, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Social Responsibility and Funding Officer, AFDA (The School of Creative Economies) Durban, South Africa

Associate Vice Chancellor & Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, USA

Independent researcher, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research Cape Town, South Africa

Principal, Black Futures Lab Oakland, California, USA

Director & Co-Creator, Coloured Mentality Cape Town, South Africa

TALILA LEWIS

RUKIA LUMUMBA

NTOMBIKANINA MALINGA

JOEL MODIRI

Developing a framework to situate ableism as central to every form of systemic oppression while leading efforts to dismantle all carceral institutions.

Incubating initiatives that transform our response to violence, challenge the need for prisons, and centers community-led governance.

Creating new narratives to invoke soul consciousness as a tool for shaping private and public sector leadership in Africa. Imagining new political economic paradigms for ending racial injustice globally.

Teaching critical race theory to deliver graduates who are historically and politically literate and engaged with inequality and injustice.

NEO MUYANGA

MARLON PETERSON

CHRISTOPHER PETRELLA

RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS

Using storytelling and music to transcend the barriers erected by apartheid between diverse communities.

Improving the services and leadership capacity of organizations working towards criminal justice reform. Hosting a podcast, Decarcerated, which highlights resilience, redemption and success of formerly incarcerated people.

Collaborating with young people for a more just, humane world. Exploring the histories of racialization and resistance, and the ways that race is constructed and contested.

Addressing racial inequity in community redevelopment, preservation of affordable housing and disinvestment from neighborhoods.

Community Lawyer and Organizer Washington, DC, USA

Composer-in-Residence, Johannesburg International Mozart Festival & National Arts Festival Cape Town, South Africa

Executive Director, People’s Advocacy Institute Jackson, Mississippi, USA

President, The Precedential Group Brooklyn, New York, USA

President & CEO, Sastela Johannesburg, South Africa

Associate Director for Advocacy, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Lecturer, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa

Managing Attorney, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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2018 FELLOWS

ALBERTO RETANA

RASHAD ROBINSON

SIYABONGA SHANGE

HOLIDAY SIMMONS

Building a multi-racial organizing model that increases the ability of Black and Brown residents to win policy change, resource redistribution and neighborhood improvements.

Developing an infrastructure of a strategic, powerful Black response to the needs and injustices of the Black community. Developing campaigns to change the rules in employment, the economy, voting, criminal justice, news and entertainment.

Mentoring, pastoring and hosting restorative conversations to empower and educate people in the lowest levels of society to have equal opportunities and combat racism.

Facilitating mediation for group conflicts, convening healers to support the wellness of frontline organizers and those most impacted by trauma and oppression.

MICHAEL SMITH

THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJAN

SARAH SUMMERS

RICHARD WALLACE

Building the power of Black and Dalit movements to overcome white supremacy and caste apartheid.

Co-creating Coloured Mentality, an online platform with 20,000 followers who engage in conversations around Coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa.

Organizing civil rights activism and leading Equity and Transformation (EAT), a nonprofit organization that won the first recreational cannabis policy to include reparations for the war on drugs.

President & CEO, Community Coalition Los Angeles, California, USA

Executive Director, MBK Alliance & Director, Youth Opportunity Programs Obama Foundation Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Leading the Obama Foundation’s efforts to scale the My Brother’s Keeper initiative and align efforts focused on boys and men of color; creating pathways of opportunity from cradle to college, career and beyond.

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President, Color of Change New York, New York, USA

Executive Director, Equality Labs Weehawken, New Jersey, USA

Youth Pastor, Grace Family Church Durban, South Africa

Co-Creator, Coloured Mentality Cape Town, South Africa

Founder, Southern Soul Wellness Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Founder and Executive Director, Equity And Transformation (EAT) Chicago, Illinois, USA

STHANDIWE ‘STHA’ YENI PhD Candidate, University of Western Cape Cape Town, South Africa

Researching meanings of land and agrarian livelihoods of Black people who were dispossessed of their land and stripped off their property rights by colonial and apartheid regimes, and exploring the implications for agrarian change today.

As a formerly incarcerated Chicago native, Richard Wallace returned to his community to empower Black workers.

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2019 FELLOWS

CEDRIC BROWN

JITU BROWN

ZAKIYA CARR JOHNSON

BUSISIWE DLAMINI

Creating and supporting equitable growth opportunities for people of color (with a special interest in the African diaspora) through philanthropy, arts and culture, community initiatives, racial justice, and civic participation.

Building power in Black communities for over 25 years. Using community organizing to win equity in public education.

Leveraging over 20 years of public policy experience to create economic empowerment and investment opportunities for historically marginalized communities.

Creating sustainable models for social justice work and cross-sectoral collaboration, and facilitating dialogues focused on race, social justice and transformation.

BETSY HODGES

REGINA HOLLOWAY

BONGIWE LUSIZI

MITCHELL LITTLE

Building a framework based on compassion through which white people effectively work with one another on whiteness and racism, then scale up to have systemic impact.

Driving the strategic and dayto-day operational leadership related to racial equity and inclusion internally as well as in Axon’s products, services and community engagement.

Promoting African bow music, as well as arts, crafts, dance, poetry, creative writing and other creative activities to build a progressive heritage movement.

Spearheading initiatives to support low-income people and communities.

Community Investor and Advisor Oakland, California, USA

Advisor, Betsy Hodges, LLC Washington, DC, USA

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National Director, Journey for Justice Alliance Chicago, Illinois, USA

Vice President of Community Relations at Axon Chicago, Illinois, USA

Founder, Odara Solutions and Black Women Disrupt Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Founding Director, Creative Academy Cape Town, South Africa

Dialogue Practitioner, Democracy Works Foundation Johannesburg, South Africa

Executive Director, Mayor’s Office of the City of Philadelphia Community Empowerment & Opportunity Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

DORAH MAREMA

NHLANHLA MNISI

KOKETSO MOETI

CONSTANCE MOGALE

Working at the forefront for gender equality, women’s rights and global climate justice and economic transformation.

Working on how water monitoring tools can be indigenized to incorporate practical linguistic tools and local cultures.

Harnessing the power of low-income Black women for collective action through amandla.mobi, a mobile phone civic engagement tool.

Leading organizational campaigns for land rights, mining-affected communities and livelihoods in South Africa.

ELANA NEEDLE

WILNEIDA NEGRON

LOVELYN NWADEYI

TESS NOLIZWE PEACOCK

Leading groundbreaking collaborations with national civil rights and racial justice organizations to foster increased civic participation by people of color in elections and the Census 2020 count.

Working on the frontlines of fostering new multiissue and cross-disciplinary approaches and solutions to our increasingly complex, socio-technical world.

Working to see social justice embedded and normalized in business, academic and religious spaces.

Innovating to advance access to justice and building the capacity and infrastructure for collective participation in rural areas. Working for quality and equality in education and early childhood development services.

Director, GenderCC Southern Africa-Women for Climate Justice Johannesburg, South Africa

Director, Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative, UnidosUS New York, NY, USA

Water Resources Manager and Aquatic Ecologist Johannesburg, South Africa

Strategic Advisor, Ford Foundation New York, NY, USA

Executive Director, amandla.mobi Johannesburg, South Africa

Founder & Director, LN Advisors Eastern Cape, South Africa

National Coordinator, Rural Democracy Trust Johannesburg, South Africa

Executive Director, Equality Collective Johannesburg, South Africa

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KELVIN SAULS

DEVON SIMMONS

Deconstructing and dismantling schemes, systems and structures that violate the humanity and dignity of Black people to achieve a more just and equitable world.

Creating new narratives of those formerly incarcerated while using education as the integral tool to help empower marginalized communities worldwide.

DYLAN VALLEY

DELORIS “D� WILSON

Creating visual stories that imagine a world free of discrimination.

Advancing efforts to diversify funding pipelines, realign workplace cultures, drive impactful innovation and create inclusive economies.

Community Organizer and Former Senior Pastor of Holman United Methodist Church Los Angeles, California, USA

Filmmaker & Educator, University of the Witwatersrand Cape Town, South Africa

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Global Ambassador for Education Programs and Research Assistant, Incarceration Nations Network New York, New York, USA

Founder, Axl Impact Studios Los Angeles, California, USA

Rashad Robinson, President of Color of Change and Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, with Atlantic Fellows from the health equity program Christina Rosenthal and Kai Kennedy.

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Working toward real-world solutions to global inequalities. BASED AT THE INTERNATIONAL INEQUALITIES INSTITUTE, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY

2017 FELLOWS

OLUFOLAHAN (FOLA) ADELEKE

SAIDA ALI

FREDRICK OUKO ALUCHELI

SEBASTIAN BOCK

Working on transparency and corporate accountability; current focus is on the monetization of our personal data and its impact on the right to privacy and access to information.

Working to centralize the voice and influence of a younger generation of feminists in challenging the inequalities experienced by diverse groups of women and girls. Providing advocacy strategy development in Africa.

Leading grantmaking in seven Eastern African countries to promote the rights of persons with disabilities by providing resources and amplifying voices of often marginalized parts of society.

Building and strengthening grassroots movements fighting the coal, oil and gas industry; working to stop financial flows into fossil fuel companies and infrastructure.

MELANIE R. BROWN

PATRICIO (PATO) ESPINOZA

JOSEPH HASSON

TRACY JOOSTE

Laying plans for further research into the role of elites in reproducing inequalities in Chile.

Training youth activists on every continent to mobilize an end to violence against children, eradicate child labour and deliver the right to education for all.

Supporting grassroots organizations to advocate for improved basic services in informal settlements across South Africa. Calling for greater accountability in how cities spend their budgets.

Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Senior Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Washington, DC, USA

Engaging the public, governments and philanthropic community in the Foundation’s advocacy strategies in global health and development, education and mobility from poverty.

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Strategy and Organizational Development Advisor, Young Women’s Leadership Institute and the Young Feminist Convening Nairobi, Kenya

Research Analyst, Chambers and Partners London, United Kingdom

Program Officer, Disability Rights Program, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa Nairobi, Kenya

Activist Training Manager, 100 Million Campaign London, United Kingdom

Team Leader for Germany, 350.org Berlin, Germany

Senior Advocacy Officer, International Budget Partnership South Africa Cape Town, South Africa

PRIYANKA KOTAMRAJU

ROSE LONGHURST

JOHNNY MILLER

MASANA NDINGA-KANGA

Co-creating alternative media futures, women’s media collectives, spaces and platforms for equal opportunity. Broadly working on intersections of caste and gender inequalities in the Indian subcontinent.

Supporting democratic innovation across Europe.

Championing participatory decision-making as an approach to equity.

Working to creatively communicate systems and processes relating to economic, environmental and social justice issues.

Managing an NPO dedicated to creating a drone community “for good”.

Managing a fund focused on supporting civil society in crisis around their rights to free assembly and association. Leading on Middle East/North Africa and Women Human Rights Defender advocacy.

JACK NISSAN

LOUIS OLANYA OYARO

GABRIELLA RAZZANO

LOUISE RUSSELL-PRYWATA

Researcher at Pixstory; Editor at Chitrakoot Women’s Collective New Delhi, India

Director, The Tinderbox Collective Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Building a collective of young people, musicians, artists and youth workers. Finding creative and collaborative ways of bringing people together, building community and opening up opportunities for children and young people.

Program Officer, Open Society Foundation Berlin, Germany

Consultant (South Sudan Project) Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law Heidelberg, Germany

Focusing on research, training and policy intervention to support the realization of the rule of law and access to justice in South Sudan, working directly with the government of South Sudan.

Founder of africanDRONE; Photographer; Code for Africa News Fellow Cape Town, South Africa

Research Fellow at Research ICT Africa; Legal consultant; Founder of OpenUp South Africa Cape Town, South Africa

Working on issues of digital inequalities in Africa, as well as advancing human rights (particularly access to information and privacy) in digital and innovation contexts.

Crisis Response Fund and MENA Advocacy Lead, CIVICUS Johannesburg, South Africa

Senior Programs and Policy Manager, OpenOwnership Gillingham, United Kingdom

Working on public policy reform at the intersection of anti-corruption and tax justice, making information about who owns and controls companies more open and accountable.

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JANE SLOANE

APPU ESTHOSE SURESH

MILENA ABRAHAMYAN

KRIPA BASNYAT

Working to advance gender equality globally. Currently writing a book on activism at home and in the world to address inequalities.

Creating the space to build people’s narratives which are alternative, non-singular, personal and political.

Supporting local and international organizations with capacity building, facilitation and research on feminist peace and gender justice.

Supporting Hamro Chahana Nepal (HCN), a feminist human rights organization, on issues of bodily integrity, economic justice, learning and knowledge production, rapid response and feminist movement building.

RANIA M. TARAZI

HILLARY VIPOND

NICOLA BROWNE

LAUREN BURKE

Doing research and assessments, and developing projects and policies for reducing inequalities and addressing the concerns of refugees and disadvantaged groups.

Researching why improvements to technological efficiency have been primarily into increased consumption, rather than leisure, focusing on climate change and inequality implications.

Working with an independent, people-powered campaigning community to take coordinated action for progressive change across Northern Ireland; supporting communities in their campaigning for socioeconomic rights.

Directing the network education and action program at the Labor Network for Sustainability; organizing and supporting trade union engagement for climate action.

Senior Director, Women’s Empowerment, The Asia Foundation San Francisco, California, USA

Programme and Strategy Advisor at Arab Renaissance for Democracy & Development (ARDD) Amman, Jordan

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Founder, Pixstory New Delhi, India

PhD Student in Economic History Department, London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom

Feminist Justice and Peace Activist Yerevan, Armenia

Project Co-ordinator, Act Now - People-Powered Campaigning for Northern Ireland Belfast, United Kingdom

Freelance Consultant; Gender, equality and social inclusion expert Kathmandu, Nepal

Organizing Consultant, Labor Network for Sustainability Washington, DC, USA

TANYA CHARLES

ALLISON CORKERY

Senior Fellow Engagement Lead, The Atlantic Institute Oxford, United Kingdom

Program Director, Rights Claiming and Accountability, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) Johannesburg, South Africa

Working with Senior Fellows and program staff from across the seven Atlantic Fellows programs to facilitate collective actions that address global inequities through co-created thematic gatherings and workshops.

RENATA CUK

TAYLOR ERSKINE DOWNS

Working with human rights activists on ways to translate international legal norms into concrete, analytical tools that can support collective action to tackle inequalities.

Focusing on issues of economic exclusion in Europe, supporting collective actions at the community level that can be scaled up to produce systemic policy change.

Working on interoperability and data integration in non-profit/government spaces. Giving social justice interventions what they need to streamline, automate and make sense of data-heavy processes.

CRAIG TINASHE DUBE

ELIMANE HABY KANE

EVERLYN MILANOI KOIYIET

JAMES MURAGURI

Previously working to provide psychosocial support program for adolescents living with HIV across south and east Africa, before taking up an organization effectiveness traineeship with Oxfam UK.

Nurturing leadership against inequality through democratic and economic governance policies and systems monitoring, research into public-private power relations in extractive industries, and promoting of young entrepreneurs.

Working toward gender equality and an end to violence against women and girls, including those with disabilities; mentoring of young women and girls in pastoral communities; advancing the rights of the marginalized.

Focusing as a public finance practitioner on how public finance management can address inequalities at both national and subnational government level.

Adolescent Mental Health Advocate Harare, Zimbabwe

Founder and Chairman of LEGS-Africa (Leadership, Ethics, Governance, Strategies, for Africa) Dakar, Senegal

Program Officer, Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE) Barcelona, Spain

Human Rights Lawyer; Co-founder of the Center for Women’s Rights Advocacy (CWRA) Nairobi, Kenya

CEO, Open Function Group London, United Kingdom

Founder and CEO, Institute of Public Finance Kenya Nairobi, Kenya

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ROSELINE ORWA

ANITA PEÑA SAAVEDRA Executive Director, Miles Santiago, Chile

ANJALI SARKER

CEO and Development Director, Rona Foundation Nairobi, Kenya

Lobbying for policy change in the areas of widows’ rights and the education, care and support of orphans; supporting gender equality, social justice and grassroots development initiatives.

Building the free exercise of sexual and reproductive rights across Latin America and the Caribbean. Fighting for the recognition of sexual and reproductive rights in the Chilean constitution.

Focusing on strategy and social impact as a Skoll Scholar; previously at BRAC in Bangladesh, leading a financial inclusion project providing one million women with access to digital financial services.

MAUREEN SIGAUKE

PEDRO RIBEIRO TELLES

Social Justice and Labor Activist; Consultant Kwekwe, Zimbabwe

Chief of Staff for Bancada Ativista (Activist Caucus) in the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo, Brazil São Paulo, Brazil

Participating in initiatives aimed at ensuring equal access to wealth, opportunities and privileges within society.

Focusing on climate change and the just transition; informality and the future of work; youth inclusion and leadership.

Working as chief of staff at an innovative State Deputy mandate focusing on human rights, equity and environmental protection policies.

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Skoll Scholar and MBA candidate, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Photographer Johnny Miller was in the group of Atlantic Fellows who went to Jordan to see firsthand the effects of displacement on refugees.

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2019 FELLOWS

MADHUMITHA ARDHANARI

FOLUKE ADETOLA OJELABI

SOPHEA CHREK

DELLA DUNCAN

Working towards climate justice and resource equity, and pursuing an MSc in Inequalities and Social Science (LSE) to understand how climate injustice intersects with other dimensions such as race, poverty and gender.

Working for poverty reduction and social inclusion, using innovative social protection interventions, and promoting equity and access to services for girls and women.

Working as part of the people’s movement in Cambodia, directly and indirectly supporting women’s organizations and groups, farmers, young people and communities to achieve gender and economic justice and people’s democracy.

Inviting paradigm and worldview shifts to contribute to the just transition to more equitable and sustainable economies through storytelling, coaching, consulting and teaching.

ALON-LEE GREEN

JOAN JONES

ASHA KOWTAL

HOBETH MARTÍNEZ CARRILLO

Sustainability Strategist (on sabbatical), Forum for the Future London, United Kingdom

National Co-Director, Standing Together, Israel’s Jewish-Arab Grassroots Movement Tel Aviv - Jaffa, Israel

Organizing people with the aim of building a political alternative of social justice, equality and peace. Coordinating struggles against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and injustices and inequalities.

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Social Policy Officer, UNICEF Lagos, Nigeria

Executive Director of the SEIU Washington State Labor Council; Founder and President of the National LGBTQ Workers Center Seattle, Washington, USA

Cultivating a voice for working people in the Pacific Northwest. Leading an LGBTQ movement for economic justice and workers’ rights.

Coordinator, Social Action for Community and Development (SACD) Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Dalit Rights Activist and Founder, DalitWomenFight.org New Delhi, India

Leading a grassroots campaign addressing structural violence against the most marginalized women.

Renegade Economist|Host of the Upstream Podcast|Right Livelihood Coach|Alternative Economics Consultant and Teacher San Francisco, California, USA

Principal Researcher, Centre for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) London, United Kingdom

Working on the transitional justice process in Colombia as a way to put an end to nearly 60 years of an internal armed conflict.

ESTHER MWEMA

LIZ NELSON

MICHAELA RAFFERTY

LEANNE SAJOR

Creating tools for underrepresented youth to participate in solutions to issues such as putting dignity in safety processes, safety education, internet governance, research, governance, digital literacy and capacity building.

Drawing on research and practitioner knowledge to forge new alliances to deepen awareness and strengthen the narrative of how tax injustice creates and exacerbates inequalities.

Capacity building with marginalized young people through informal education, particularly supporting those impacted by homelessness, destitution, addiction and lack of opportunities; advocating for refugees and asylum seekers.

Strengthening solidarities among grassroots movements and NGOs globally to address inequalities from the bottom up.

CRYSTAL SIMEONI

AMANDA YOUNG

Working to influence macrolevel economic policies from a pan-African feminist analysis, across regional and global spaces.

Creating opportunities to allow Indigenous peoples to flourish and escape poverty, with a particular focus on Indigenomics; previously CEO of First Nations Foundation.

Founder, SAFIGI, and Founding President, Digital Grassroots London, United Kingdom

Director, Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective Nairobi, Kenya

Director, Tax Justice and Human Rights, Tax Justice Network Oxford, United Kingdom

Youth Development Worker (on sabbatical), Springboard Opportunities London, United Kingdom

Human Rights and Socioeconomic Justice Advocate; Organizer; Adviser for FRIDA: Young Feminist Fund London, United Kingdom

Indigenous Advocate Melbourne, Australia

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Harnessing Indigenous knowledge and ingenuity for social impact.

BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

SOCIAL EQUITY

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MARCUS AKUHATA-BROWN

DURKHANAI AYUBI

ROXANNE BAINBRIDGE

JODY BARNEY

Leading an Indigenous Youth Leadership Development Programme for 25-35 year old rangatahi MÄ ori to further advance the space rangatahi MÄ ori play as active agents in all spheres of development in New Zealand and beyond.

Working to decode what power could look like based on a reconstructed sense of identity, and communicating this through speaking and writing. Making/sharing traditional Afghan food to shift boundaries.

Developing and evaluating the social and emotional learning strategies implemented in Queensland boarding schools, to help remote Indigenous students better engage in life and learning.

Examining how Deaf and Hard of Hearing Indigenous women can increase their own personal, community, educational and employment growth, and be key women in their communities, nurturing future leaders.

MICHELLE CRAIGIE

NICHOLAS EAKIN

SEAN GORDON

ARIADNE GORRING

Assisting women on their exit from prison, with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and helping increase their selfesteem.

Developing a neuroscienceanchored multidisciplinary measurement and evaluation framework of Human Flourishing to inform selfdetermined social equity from personal, organizational and policy objectives.

Working on the social and economic disparity of Indigenous Australians, ensuring that legislation, policy and programs have a positive impact, leading to opportunities for Indigenous economic empowerment and independence.

Establishing a Global Knowledge Network to connect leaders and organizations working on nature-based solutions to climate change, with a focus on Indigenous leadership and place-based economies.

Director, Tukaha Global Consultancy Ltd Aoteroa, New Zealand

Director, Australian Department of Health Canberra, Australia

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Writer and Restaurateur Adelaide, Australia

General Manager Partnerships Jawun Central Coast, Australia

Director of the Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research Cairns, Australia

Managing Director, Gidgee Group Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia

Aboriginal Disability Training Consultant Shepparton, Australia

Executive Director, Pollination Foundation Melbourne, Australia

NICOLE JENKINS

MAGGIE KAVANAGH

FAYE McMILLAN

DAMIEN MILLER

Helping establish a skillset that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people bring to the workforce that has not been acquired through formal education/training.

Working with Aboriginal people from remote desert communities to establish a leadership and governance knowledge center in Alice Springs.

Developing a mental health app that creates a community of support, based on people identified within an individual’s mobile phone contact list.

Developing a hub for best practice policy to improve socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous peoples, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.

LEANNE MILLER

YVONNE O’BRIEN

DEAN PARKIN

Building an Aboriginal-led national peak body to lead and inform approaches to ethical research, protection of traditional knowledge, and sustainable, ethical business with Aboriginal landholders for Aboriginal products.

Leading the Atlantic Institute to support Fellows across the world to accelerate the eradication of inequities for fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies.

Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organizations and communities to craft their own narratives and lead their own change and development.

Centre Manager, The Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre The Shannon, Australia

Executive Director of Koorie Women Mean Business Melbourne, Australia

Independent Consultant Alice Springs, Australia

Interim Executive Director, Atlantic Institute Oxford, United Kingdom

Director of Djirruwang Program, Charles Sturt University Coolamon, Australia

Assistant Secretary of the Soft Power, Partnerships and Research Branch, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Canberra, Australia

Director, From the Heart Melbourne, Australia

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PETER ANDERSON

ALISON BENTICK

PENELOPE JONES

JONATHAN KNEEBONE

Developing dynamic approaches to embedding First Nation perspectives into western educational systems through professional development capacity building, using digital pedagogies and curriculum frameworks.

Co-designing strategies with Indigenous regional governance bodies to achieve equity. Seeking to close the gap in disadvantage through policies aimed at decision-making rights and empowerment.

Providing strategic advice on education, skills and employment policy and programs across Australia through a senior executive role in government.

Establishing better links, mechanisms and incentives to mobilize private capital to flow to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service providers, enterprises, projects and ventures.

JANINE MOHAMED

HEATH NELSON

KARRINA NOLAN

Manager, Community Development, Fortescue Metals Group Fremantle, Australia

Director, Original Power Melbourne, Australia

CHARLES O’LEARY

Developing The International Alliance of First Nations Nurses, connecting and fostering their sense of resilience and mutual commitment to increase recognition, value and voice of First Nations nurses at an international level.

Building Indigenous business capability through the implementation of Indigenous procurement targets and strategies.

Opening the doors of opportunities to Indigenous entrepreneurs.

Building the power of Indigenous peoples through organizing and campaigning.

Working in partnership with existing campaigns, allies, networks and initiatives to power people, campaigns, and solutions.

Executive Director and Professor, Carumba Institute, Queensland University Technology Brisbane, Australia

Interim Chief Executive Officer, The Lowitja Institute Melbourne, Australia

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Senior Advisor, National Indigenous Australians Agency Dubbo, Australia

Assistant Secretary, Delivery and Accountability, Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment Canberra, Australia

Director, Policy and Research, Indigenous Business Australia Melbourne, Australia

Director Aboriginal Culture and Healing, Department of Prime Minister and Cabient VIC Melbourne, Australia

Delivering evidenced-based Indigenous Australian strategy and outcomes, supported by the ability to develop trusting and ethical relationships with the Indigenous community and colleagues from across the sector.

RAYMOND ORR

TANIA POUWHARE

DARYLE RIGNEY

PEKERI RUSKA

Engaging in treaty-making debates in Australia, considering how testimonials about treaties and selfdetermination from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples from the US and NZ would positively affect treaty discussions in Australia.

Disrupting dominant economic discourse by demonstrating how entrepreneurial public servants can enable just, inclusive, circular and regenerative economic development for the Māori and Pasifika urban diaspora.

Focusing on developments in Indigenous nation building and governance following colonization.

Exploring models of storytelling of First Nations’ resilience to reclaim the telling of our own stories whilst empowering today’s generation of young people to reflect, transform and be proud of their identity, culture and existence.

ALEX SPLITT

JUDITH (HUTI) WATSON

SHANE WEBSTER

JUANITA WHEELER

Advancing social and economic outcomes of First Peoples, specializing in the co-design, development and implementation of strategic policy frameworks which seek to facilitate social and economic equity for First Peoples.

Developing an innovative locally driven health promotion program to strengthen and develop Indigenous communityled approaches to health improvement, and increase community engagement and ownership of wellness.

Supporting First Nations to become digitally empowered, enabling them to prosper from the new digital economy.

Developing and implementing innovative, impact-focused strategies to help social enterprises, charities, purpose-driven organizations and the broader for-purpose sector to achieve their missions sooner.

Associate Professor, The University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma, USA

Independent Consultant, Self Employed West Footscray, Victoria, Australia

Social Intrapreneur, The Southern Initiative, Auckland Council Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, New Zealand

Executive Director, Jureda Tairawhiti, New Zealand

Professor & Director, Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Research at Jumbunna Institute at UTS Adelaide, Australia

Regional Director, Jawun Adelaide, Australia

Co-Founder and Director, Goompi Projects Pty Ltd North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia

Founder & Strategist, Full & Frank Brisbane, Australia

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