The global community of Atlantic Fellows exists to tackle the persistent inequities across the globe through collective action and leadership to achieve systems change. The Fellows are courageous, compassionate, and collaborative thinkers and doers, who collectively seek to bring lasting improvements to their communities and the world. As exceptional leaders in their field of work, they each carry a deep resolve for a more equal and just world.
Atlantic Fellows are tackling global, systemic inequities. United in their pursuit of equity, they are courageous, compassionate, collaborative thinkers and doers who collectively seek to bring lasting improvements to their communities and the world. Fellows come from all walks of life and each carries a deep resolve for a more equal and just world.
Their lifelong journey begins with a bespoke program experience to enhance each Fellow’s capacity to counter systemic issues impeding equity. As they connect and collaborate through the global network, they think and learn together, incubating and implementing strategies for greater impact. Accelerated by the Atlantic Institute and community support they become collective agents of change.
Narratives have the ability to change how we see the world and how we move toward change. We work with our community to use narrative to create fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. We do this by dissolving boundaries and dogmatic beliefs that articulate the inevitability of inequity and work to develop and support those who imagine new alternatives and liberatory futures.
COVID-19 has profoundly changed the way we think and further exposed already glaring inequities. Our ‘normal’ has changed and our imagination draws us to what our (k)new futures might look like. (K)new solutions draw on our longer histories, knowledge, and ways of being, and are made possible by leaps in innovation. We seek to catalyse our community to this (k)new thinking and action.
To foster change, the appropriate policies must be in place at organizational, institutional, local, national and international levels. Our community accelerates this change through its activism; through the arts, organizing, advocacy, legal action, research or from within institutions. To help realize this, Fellows are exposed to cutting edge theory, and practical examples of change from across the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic compelled this young, growing community of Fellows to pivot from their daily work to help alleviate its devastating impact on the already most endangered people in their communities.
More than 50 wide-ranging projects around the world have been funded by the Atlantic Institute to support the Fellows in their work, including the provision of food products, the dissemination of health and educational informational material and research looking at the impacts of COVID-19.
The collective leadership of the global community provides a pathway to addressing inequities, something which requires a new and transformative response.
The community does this by harnessing local knowledge, experience and innovation; by contextualizing specific needs and approaches; by hearing and recognizing diverse voices equally, and by connecting across geographies, cultures, and areas of expertise around a shared vision and values.
Through this, the community challenges and changes narratives and policies to create fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. Fellows accelerate impact by taking many small elegant steps together, which culminate in the disruption of the inequities of the status quo – a revolution for equity.
The Atlantic Institute recognizes that this work of the global community is vital and lifelong, and invests intentionally in building a community of resonance and inclusion, resulting in forms of collaboration that, but for this community, might not have occurred.
Once Fellows graduate from one of the seven global programs, the Atlantic Institute, based in Oxford, UK provides them with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn and act to address the underlying systemic causes of inequity – locally and globally. This helps them to connect with each other, beyond individual programs, so that they might collaborate across disciplines and distances to tackle inequities.
The Atlantic Institute supports collaboration across the seven Atlantic Fellows programs leading to outcomes greater than any single individual, or program, could achieve alone. In particular we work with Atlantic Fellows Program staff and recently graduated Fellows who are joining the global Atlantic community.
The Institute invests intentionally in building a community of resonance and inclusion, resulting in a form of collaboration that, but for this community, might not have occurred.
Meet our Fellows
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Founder
Memory Dog Inc
Researching how animal-assisted 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.
United States
Neurology Specialist
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Unraveling the neural mechanisms that underlie the emergence of visual artistic creativity in frontotemporal dementia.
United States
Argentina
Assistant Professor
University of Groningen
Enhancing our understanding of brain behavior relations and applying this knowledge to improve assessment and treatment protocols for neurological conditions leading to aphasia.
Netherlands
Director
Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience
Empowering Latin American networks and researchers to fight dementia collaboratively.
Argentina
Neurologist
Conducting epidemiological research to understand better the situation of dementia patients and their caregivers in Bogota. Studying cognitive impairment in different vulnerable populations.
Colombia
Photographer
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.
Peru
Medical Anthropologist
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.
United States
Neuro-Psychologist
Introducing technology-based cognitive assessments and support to the Cuban population.
Cuba
Neuropsychologist
Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center
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.
Spain
Assistant Dean for Wellbeing, School of Medicine
The University of Washington
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.
United States
Biostatistician and Head of Research Projects
National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology (Cuba)
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.
Ireland
Academic Health Services Researcher
Investigating how older people with complex needs access health care and the implications for designing an integrated health care system.
Ireland
Lecturer of Neurology
Ain Shams University
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.
Egypt
Geriatric Medicine Specialist, Geriatric Department
Air Force Central Hospital (Lima)
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.
Peru
Brazil
Associate Specialist
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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.
United States
Geriatric Medicine Specialist
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.
Mexico
Assistant Professor of Speech and Language Pathology
Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre
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.
Brazil 2nd
Brazil
Experimental Psychologist
Pursuing the relationship between musical expertise and the development of dementia, and exploring the mechanisms underpinning this association, and music as therapy.
Ireland
Music Therapist and Owner
Wishing Well Music LLC
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.
United States
Nurse and Psychosocial Researcher
Exploring the role that community services such as Alzheimer cafés play in supporting social citizenship and developing a psychosocial evaluation strategy to mobilize and enhance psychosocial interventions.
Ireland
Vice Provost
California Institute of Technology
Writing a book based on the personal experiences of her father who had Alzheimer's disease.
United States
Nutritional Epidemiologist and Dietitian
Investigating the role of diet in brain aging and dementia by analyzing population data and testing scalable dietary interventions for brain health.
United Kingdom
Director, Scientific Programs and Outreach
Alzheimer's Association
Leading research programs and initiatives to accelerate the Alzheimer's Association's scientific agenda.
United States
Neurologist
Servicio Galego de Saˇde
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.
Spain
Psychiatrist - PhD Student, Neuroscience Group of Antioquia
Working to determine factors related to onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
Colombia
Head of Business Change
Ecompass Northern Ireland (Health & Social Care Board)
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.
United Kingdom
Writer, Artist, Anthropologist
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.
United States
Research Psychologist
Researching the relationship between hearing loss and the development of dementia through neurocognitive assessment of older adults with hearing loss.
Ireland
United Kingdom
Neuroscientist
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.
Turkey
Associate Neurologist
Dokuz Eylul University
Developing an electroencephalography model to monitor the electrical activity of the brain for diagnosis and differentiation of dementia, and investigating clinicopathological correlation.
Turkey
Co-founder
Creative Aging International
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.
Ireland
Assistant Professor
California State University
Developing community-based approaches to research design, problem solving, and creative teaching and learning around aging and brain health in rural and immigrant communities in California.
United States
Intellectual Disability Researcher
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.
Ireland
Founder
Dementia Focus
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.
Ireland
Assistant Professor
Sorbonne UniversitÚ
Designing, testing and validating new prototypes monitoring cognitive disorders; studying patterns of disability, clinical evolution, and unmet care needs; analyzing socioeconomics datasets.
France
Neurologist
Studying the effects of late-life literacy acquisition as a dementia prevention tool through improving memory and increasing connections between brain areas.
Brazil
Behavioural and Sleep Neurologist, Sleep and Memory Center
Neurological Institute of Athens
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.
Greece
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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.
United States
President and Founder
Ibasho
Creating socially integrated communities that value elders through Ibasho (a not-for-profit organization) and consulting in the design of communities and cities.
United States
Global Health Policy Lecturer
University of Edinburgh
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.
United Kingdom
Academic Geriatrician
Advancing perioperative research and care. Contributing to the global literature on cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
United Kingdom
India
Writer and Demetia Advocate
Vovž Nilva
Exploring positive ways to communicate dementia with empathy and compassion in different settings, from books to social networks, to connect different generations.
Brazil
Principal Architect
DDS Architects Ltd
Designing inclusive environments to support the health and wellbeing of people with dementia.
United Kingdom
Multimedia Editor
Atlantic Institute
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.
Ireland
Ireland
Nigeria
Associate Professor of Professional Practice & Director of Movement Lab, Barnard College
Colombia University
Facilitating art initiatives focused on understanding one another's humanity. Curating dance, education and film events aimed at removing stigmas around age and race.
United States
Senior Researcher, Dept of Geriatric Medicine
Radboud University Medical Center
Understanding and improving strategies to promote physical and cognitive functioning and prevent functional decline, falls, fear of falling and dementia.
Netherlands
Managing Director
DDS Architects Ltd
Translating research and inclusive building design principles into everyday use to ensure they are accessible to people living with cognitive and/or sensory impairments.
United Kingdom
Ireland
Jordan
Geriatric Medicine Consultant and Senior Lecturer
Ain Shams University Hospital
Working to use modern technology and software platforms for early detection and diagnosis of dementia. Co Founder of Ain Shams Cognitive Training Lab.
Egypt
Music Educator and Performer
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.
United States
Arts Director
Socialinai meno projektai
Implementing local and international arts projects that aim for social change.
Lithuania
Neurologist
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Researching and leading a multidisciplinary clinic to improve the diagnosis and clinical care of people living with frontotemporal dementia and their families.
Spain
Israel
Neuroscientist
Developing computational biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and developing a responsible strategy to implement this technology and utilize machine intelligence for disease prevention.
United States
Senior Research Fellow
University of Technology Sydney
Applying a broad range of health economic methods towards ensuring more efficiency, cost-effectiveness and supportive care needs for priority populations.
Ireland
Assistant Professor, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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.
United States
Science Writer
Developing and implementing an online monthly lecture series and a US support group for patients with posterior cortical atrophy and their caregivers.
United States
Music Specialist
Developing engagement in accessible participative music as a resource for social inclusion, building communicative partnerships, and community integration across the lifespan.
United Kingdom
Chair, Applied Intercultural Arts Research, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
University of Arizona
Promoting models of dementia education through music, filmmaking and service-learning. Building bridges between ethnomusicology and the health sciences.
United States
Neurologist
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Investigating non-motor manifestations of synucleinopathies, including cognitive, sleep and autonomic disturbances to be used as biomarkers for this specific group of diseases.
United States
Emergency Medicine Specialist
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.
Mexico
Spain
Social Health Scientist & Social Worker, Global Brain Health Institute
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Working primarily on research of palliative care in older people, specifically regarding communication about the end of life.
Belgium
Cognitive Neurologist
National Institute of Neurology (Cuba)
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.
United States
Neuro-psychiatrist
Hospital Clinica Biblica
Developing mental health strategies for successful aging and leading efforts to understand and optimize treatments for people living with dementia
Costa Rica
Monologuist, Filmmaker and Video Host
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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.
United States
Ireland
Co-founder and Artistic Director
Re-Live
Exploring the health and wellbeing benefits of participating in arts in health practice for people living with dementia and their families.
United Kingdom
Public Health Physician and Epidemiologist
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.
South Africa
Neurologist
Making brain health practical and relevant. Promoting an understanding of traditional and cultural practices which promote brain health.
South Africa
Clinical Psychologist
Evaluating whether cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is an effective treatment intervention in patients with mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers.
Greece
Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics & Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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.
United States
Founder and Director
Your Brain Health Matters
Developing innovative brain health and memory programs and services. Implementing population health approaches for individuals and carers, aimed at dementia risk prevention.
United States
Ecuador
Researcher, Laboratory of Environmental Air Pollution
University of Sao Paulo
Investigating urban and environmental health to understand the effects of air pollution on neurodegenerative diseases.
Brazil
Research Associate
Newcastle University
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.
United Kingdom
Assistant Professor, San Francisco School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Evaluating existing and developing new models of hospice and palliative care for older adults with dementia and their caregivers.
United States
Neurologist
Analyzing large, populationbased cohort studies to generate a global perspective on dementia risk factors in the general population in two different continents.
France
Associate Professor, Department of Health and Communication
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
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.
Brazil
Psychologist and Epidemiologist
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.
Colombia
Colombia
Assistant Professor, Neuropsychologist
University of Botswana
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.
Botswana
Brazil
Geriatric and Internal Medicine Specialist
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.
Mexico
United States
Neuropsychologist
Hospital Santa Marcelina
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.
Brazil
Ecuador
Psychiatrist and Professor at Medicine School
West Hill Institute
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.
Mexico
Neurologist
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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.
Peru
Lithuania
Cognitive Neurologist
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.
Spain
Epidemiologist
French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development
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.
France
02
President and CEO
Community Coalition
Building a multi-racial organizing model that increases the ability of Black and Brown residents to win policy change, resource redistribution and neighborhood improvements.
United States
South Africa
Principal
Black Futures Lab
Building the movement for Black lives by engaging in narrative change efforts and direct action organizing.
United States
United States
United States
Lecturer
University of Cape Town
Lecturing in sociology at the University of the Cape Town where her thesis was on the construction of gendered identities of women who work in the mines.
South Africa
South Africa
Advisor
Betsy Hodges LLC
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.
United States
Founding Director
Creative Academy
Promoting African bow music, as well as arts, crafts, dance, poetry, creative writing and other creative activities to build a progressive heritage movement.
South Africa
Independent Researcher
Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
Contributing to local and international debates on social justice issues. Co-founded the Alternative Energy Popular Education Programme.
South Africa
Dialogue Practitioner
Democracy Works Foundation
Creating sustainable models for social justice work and cross-sectoral collaboration, and facilitating dialogues focused on race, social justice and transformation.
South Africa
Community Investor and Advisor
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.
United States
Social Responsibility and Funding Officer
AFDA, The School of Creative Economies
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.
South Africa
Associate Director for Advocacy, Center for Antiracist Research
Boston University
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.
United States
National Coordinator
Rural Democracy Trust
Leading organizational campaigns for land rights, mining-affected communities and livelihoods in South Africa.
South Africa
South Africa
Founder
Axl Impact Studios
Advancing efforts to diversify funding pipelines, realign workplace cultures, drive impactful innovation and create inclusive economies.
United States
Associate Vice Chancellor & Professor of Law
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Working to advance an intersectional approach to racial justice. Also creating and sustaining inclusive, equitable learning environments.
United States
Global Ambassador for Education Programs and Research Assistant
Incarceration Nations Network
Creating new narratives of those formerly incarcerated while using education as the integral tool to help empower marginalized communities worldwide.
United States
Director
GenderCC Southern Africa-Women for Climate Justice
Working at the forefront for gender equality, women's rights and global climate justice and economic transformation.
South Africa
Filmmaker & Educator
University of the Witwatersrand
Creating visual stories that imagine a world free of discrimination.
South Africa
United States
Director, Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative
UnidosUS
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.
United States
Founder
Southern Soul Wellness
Facilitating mediation for group conflicts, convening healers to support the wellness of frontline organizers and those most impacted by trauma and oppression.
United States
United States
United States
National Director
Journey for Justice Alliance
Building power in Black communities for over 25 years. Using community organizing to win equity in public education.
United States
Lecturer
University of Pretoria
Teaching critical race theory to deliver graduates who are historically and politically literate and engaged with inequality and injustice.
South Africa
Director & Co-Creator
Coloured Mentality
Driving social transformation through Coloured Mentality, a community media platform that has become a unique interactive storytelling space for the colored community.
South Africa
Director for Interfaith Communities
Community Health Councils, Los Angeles
Developing & deploying strategies in sacred resistance and reimagination to deconstruct and dismantle schemes, systems and structures that violate the humanity and dignity of BIPOC to achieve a more just and equitable world.
United States
United States
South Africa
South Africa
United States
Executive Director
amandla.mobi
Harnessing the power of low-income Black women for collective action through amandla.mobi, a mobile phone civic engagement tool.
South Africa
Founder & Director
LN Advisors
Working to see social justice embedded and normalized in business, academic and religious spaces.
South Africa
President
The Precendential Group
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.
United States
Co-Director
Southerners On New Ground
Building the leadership capacity of the LGBTQ community in the South through direct action efforts and dynamic campaigns.
United States
Executive Director, My Brother's Keeper Alliance
Obama Foundation
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.
United States
South Africa
Executive Director, Commhnity Empowerment & Opportunity
Mayor's Office of the City of Philadelphia
Spearheading initiatives to support low-income people and communities.
United States
Composer-in-residence
Johannesburg International Mozart Festival
Using storytelling and music to transcend the barriers erected by apartheid between diverse communities.
South Africa
Water Resources Manager and Aquatic Ecologist
Working on how water monitoring tools can be indigenized to incorporate practical linguistic tools and local cultures.
South Africa
President & CEO
Sastela
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.
South Africa
United States
Coach, Facilitator, Storyteller
Obenewa Amponsah & Associates
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.
South Africa
South Africa
President
Color of Change
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.
United States
Managing Attorney
Community Legal Services of Philadelphia
Addressing racial inequity in community redevelopment, preservation of affordable housing and disinvestment from neighborhoods.
United States
Vice President of Community Relations
Axon
Driving the strategic and day- to-day operational leadership related to racial equity and inclusion internally as well as in Axon's products, services and community engagement.
United States
Founder and Executive Director
Equity And Transformation (EAT)
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.
United States
Executive Director
People's Advocacy Institute
Incubating initiatives that transform our response to violence, challenge the need for prisons, and centers community-led governance.
United States
Co-Creator
Coloured Mentality
Co-creating Coloured Mentality, an online platform with 20,000 followers who engage in conversations around Coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa.
South Africa
South Africa
Youth Pastor
Grace Family Church, Durban
Mentoring, pastoring and hosting restorative conversations to empower and educate people in the lowest levels of society to have equal opportunities and combat racism.
South Africa
United States
PhD Candidate
University of Western Cape
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.
South Africa
South Africa
Community Lawyer and Organizer
Developing a framework to situate ableism as central to every form of systemic oppression while leading efforts to dismantle all carceral institutions.
United States
South Africa
Executive Director
Equality Collective
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.
South Africa
Executive Director
Equality Labs
Building the power of Black and Dalit movements to overcome white supremacy and caste apartheid.
United States
Strategic Advisor
Ford Foundation
Working on the frontlines of fostering new multi- issue and cross-disciplinary approaches and solutions to our increasingly complex, socio-technical world.
United States
Founder
Black Women Disrupt
Leveraging over 20 years of public policy experience to create economic empowerment and investment opportunities for historically marginalized communities.
United States
United States
03
Australia
Independent Consultant
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.
Australia
Senior Advisor
National Indigenous Australians Agency
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.
Australia
Australia
Executive Director
Pollination Foundation
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.
Australia
New Zealand
Director Aboriginal Culture and Healing
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet VIC
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.
Australia
Assistant Secretary of the Soft Power, Partnerships and Research Branch
Australian Department of Foreign Affiars and Trade (DFAT)
Developing a hub for best practice policy to improve socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous peoples, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.
United States
Professor & Director, Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Research at Jumbunna Institute
University of Technology Sydney
Focusing on developments in Indigenous nation building and governance following colonization.
Australia
Australia
Director
From the Heart
Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organizations and communities to craft their own narratives and lead their own change and development.
Australia
Writer and Restaurateur
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.
Australia
Australia
Director of Djirruwang Program
Charles Sturt University
Developing a mental health app that creates a community of support, based on people identified within an individual's mobile phone contact list.
Australia
Australia
Manager, Community Development
Fortescue Metals Group
Building Indigenous business capability through the implementation of Indigenous procurement targets and strategies. Opening the doors of opportunities to Indigenous entrepreneurs.
Australia
Australia
Interim Chief Executive Officer
The Lowitia Institute
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.
Australia
Coordinator
Aboriginal Disability Training
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.
Australia
Director, Policy & Research
Indigenous Business Australia
Establishing better links, mechanisms and incentives to mobilize private capital to flow to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service providers, enterprises, projects and ventures.
Australia
Founder & Strategist
Full & Frank
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.
Australia
Executive Director
Jureda
Developing an innovative locally driven health promotion program to strengthen and develop Indigenous community- led approaches to health improvement, and increase community engagement and ownership of wellness.
New Zealand
Director
Original Power
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.
Australia
New Zealand
New Zealand
Executive Director
Koorie Women Mean Business
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.
Australia
Australia
Independent Consultant
Working with Aboriginal people from remote desert communities to establish a leadership and governance knowledge center in Alice Springs.
Australia
Australia
Director
Tukaha Global Consultancy Ltd
Leading an Indigenous Youth Leadership Development Programme for 25-35 year old rangatahi Mā'ori to further advance the space rangatahi M'ori play as active agents in all spheres of development in New Zealand and beyond.
New Zealand
Australia
Director
Australian Department of Health
Assisting women on their exit from prison, with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and helping increase their self- esteem.
Australia
General Manager Partnerships
Jawun
Developing a neuroscience- anchored multidisciplinary measurement and evaluation framework of Human Flourishing to inform self- determined social equity from personal, organizational and policy objectives.
Australia
Centre Manager
The Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre
Helping establish a skillset that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people bring to the workforce that has not been acquired through formal education/training.
Australia
Co-Founder and Director
Goompi Projects Ptd Ltd
Exploring models of story- telling 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.
Australia
Assistant Secretary
Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment
Providing strategic advice on education, skills and employment policy and programs across Australia through a senior executive role in government.
Australia
Executive Director and Professor, Carumba Institute
Queensland University of Technology
Developing dynamic approaches to embedding First Nation perspectives into western educational systems through professional development capacity building, using digital pedagogies and curriculum frameworks.
Australia
New Zealand
Australia
Associate Professor
University of Oklahoma
Engaging in treaty-making debates in Australia, considering how testimonials about treaties and self- determination from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples from the US and NZ would positively affect treaty discussions in Australia.
United States
Director
Center for Indigenous Health Equity Research
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.
Australia
New Zealand
Managing Director
Gidgee Group
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.
Australia
Regional Director
Jawun
Supporting First Nations to become digitally empowered, enabling them to prosper from the new digital economy.
Australia
Social Intrapreneur, The Southern Initiative
Auckland Council
Disrupting dominant economic discourse by demonstrating how entrepreneurial public servants can enable just, inclusive, circular and regenerative economic development for the M'ori and Pasifika urban diaspora.
New Zealand
New Zealand
Australia
Australia
Executive Director
Atlantic Institute
Leading the Atlantic Institute to support Fellows across the world to accelerate the eradication of inequities for fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies.
United Kingdom
04
Program Director, Rights Claiming and Accountability
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
Working with human rights activists on ways to translate international legal norms into concrete, analytical tools that can support collective action to tackle inequalities.
South Africa
National Co-Director
Standing Together
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.
Israel
Indigenous Advocate
Creating opportunities to allow Indigenous peoples to flourish and escape poverty, with a particular focus on Indigenomics; previously CEO of First Nations Foundation.
Australia
Chile
Executive Director
Miles
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.
Chile
Skoll Scholar and MBA candidate, Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
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.
United Kingdom
Founder
Pixstory
Creating the space to build people's narratives which are alternative, non-singular, personal and political.
India
Dalit Rights Activist and Founder
DalitWomenFight.org
Leading a grassroots campaign addressing structural violence against the most marginalized women.
India
Italy
Malaysia
United Kingdom
Adolescent Mental Health Advocate
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.
Netherlands
Director
Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective
Working to influence macrolevel economic policies from a pan-African feminist analysis, across regional and global spaces.
Kenya
Serbia
Renegade Economist/Host of the Upstream Podcast/Right Livelihood Caoch/Alternative Economics Consultant and Teacher
Inviting paradigm and worldview shifts to contribute to the just transition to more equitable and sustainable economies through storytelling, coaching, consulting and teaching.
United States
Founder and Chairman
LEGS-Africa (Leadership, Ethics, Governance, Strategies for Africa)
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.
Senegal
Founding President
Digital Grassroots
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.
Zambia
Co-founder
Center for Women's Rights Advocacy (CWRA)
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.
Kenya
Social Policy Officer
UNICEF Nigeria
Working for poverty reduction and social inclusion, using innovative social protection interventions, and promoting equity and access to services for girls and women.
United States
Program Officer, Disability Rights Program
Open Society Initiative for Eastern 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.
Kenya
Legal consultant
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.
South Africa
Brazil
PhD Student in Economic History Department, London School of Economics and Political Science
University of London
Researching why improvements to technological efficiency have been primarily into increased consumption, rather than leisure, focusing on climate change and inequality implications.
United Kingdom
Principal Researcher
Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia)
Working on the transitional justice process in Colombia as a way to put an end to nearly 60 years of an internal armed conflict.
Colombia
United Kingdom
Kenya
Director
The Tinderbox Collective
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.
United Kingdom
Founder and CEO
Institute of Public Finance Kenya
Focusing as a public finance practitioner on how public finance management can address inequalities at both national and subnational government level.
Kenya
Senior Director, Women's Empowerment
The Asia Foundation
Working to advance gender equality globally. Currently writing a book on activism at home and in the world to address inequalities.
United States
Founder and President
National LGBTQ Workers Center
Cultivating a voice for working people in the Pacific Northwest. Leading an LGBTQ movement for economic justice and workers’ rights.
United States
Founder
africanDRONE
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'.
South Africa
Activist Training Manager
100 Million Campaign
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.
United Kingdom
Portugal
Freelance Consulant, Gender, equality and social inclusion expert
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.
Nepal
Organizing Consultant
Labor Network for Sustainability
Directing the network education and action program at the Labor Network for Sustainability; organizing and supporting trade union engagement for climate action.
United States
Adviser
FRIDA: Young Feminist Fund
Leading a grassroots campaign addressing structural violence against the most marginalized women.
Director, Tax Justice and Human Rights
Tax Justice Network
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.
United Kingdom
Consultant (South Sudan Project)
Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law
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.
Germany
Senior Programs and Policy Manager
OpenOwnership
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.
United Kingdom
Sustainability Strategist
Forum for the Future
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.
Singapore
Chile
Crisis Response Fund and MENA Advocacy Lead
CIVICUS
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.
South Africa
Social Justice and Labor Activist, Consultant
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.
Zimbabwe
Argentina
Mexico
Senior Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Engaging the public, governments and philanthropic community in the Foundation's advocacy strategies in global health and development, education and mobility from poverty.
United States
Youth Development Worker
Springboard Opportunities
Working on the transitional justice process in Colombia as a way to put an end to nearly 60 years of an internal armed conflict.
United Kingdom
Feminist Justice and Peace Activist
Supporting local and international organizations with capacity building, facilitation and research on feminist peace and gender justice.
Armenia
Ghana
Ghana
Project Co-ordinator
Act Now - People Powered Campaigning for Northern Ireland
Working with an independent, people-powered campaigning community to take coordinated action for progressive change across Northern Ireland; supporting communities in their campaigning for socio- economic rights.
United Kingdom
Botswana
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
University of the Witwatersrand
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.
South Africa
Research Analyst
Chambers and Partners
Laying plans for further research into the role of elites in reproducing inequalities in Chile.
United Kingdom
Chief of Staff for Bancada Ativista (Activist Caucus)
Legislative Assembly of Sao Paulo
Working as chief of staff at an innovative State Deputy mandate focusing on human rights, equity and environmental protection policies.
Brazil
Researcher at Pixstory
Chitrakoot Women's Collective
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.
India
Programme and Strategy Advisor
Arab Renaissance for Democracy & Development (ARDD)
Doing research and assessments, and developing projects and policies for reducing inequalities and addressing the concerns of refugees and disadvantaged groups.
Jordan
Program Officer
Open Society Initiative for Europe
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.
Spain
Program Officer
Open Society Initiative for Europe
Supporting democratic innovation across Europe. Championing participatory decision-making as an approach to equity.
Germany
CEO and Development Director
Rona Foundation
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.
Kenya
Strategy and Organizational Development Advisor
Young Women's Leadership Institute
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.
Kenya
Team Leader for Germany
350.org
Building and strengthening grassroots movements fighting the coal, oil and gas industry; working to stop financial flows into fossil fuel companies and infrastructure.
Germany
Coordinator
Social Action for Community and Development (SACD)
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.
Cambodia
Senior Fellow Engagement Lead
Atlantic Institute
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.
United Kingdom
CEO
Open Function Group
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.
United Kingdom
Senior Advocacy Officer
International Budget Partnership South Africa
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.
South Africa
Trinidad and Tobago
Colombia
05
South Africa
Assistant Programme Manager
TB and HIV Care
Leading efforts to end TB through advocacy where people affected by TB contribute to improving health outcomes and quality of care.
South Africa
Senior writer
Health-e News Service
Reporting on non-communicable diseases and food security and how the two intersect.
South Africa
Project Manager
Plus 94 Research
Assisting the South African National Aids Council as Trustees Member, also appointed as a student representative in the Ministerial Technical Task Team for Sexual & Gender-Based Violence in Institutions of Higher Learning (2017).
South Africa
Pharmacist, Coordinator
Kheth'Impilo
Developing strategies to ensure that people living with HIV and other chronic conditions have access to treatment and are able to adhere to it.
South Africa
Lecturer
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
Working to improve access to health care for all sexual minority, gender and sexually diverse groups.
South Africa
South Africa
Curriculum Developer
Equal Education
Striving for quality and equality in South African education through analysis and activism.
South Africa
Nutritionist, Public Health Researcher and Activist
Advocating for a South Africa where primary health care takes centre stage and all South Africans have access to affordable, quality health care.
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
Public Sector Dentist
Building an activist oral health workforce with a focus on grassroots community and peer-to-peer engagement to realize, preserve and protect society's right to quality oral health services.
South Africa
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Sol Plaatje University
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.
South Africa
Program Officer
Women on Farms Project
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.
South Africa
Medical Doctor
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.
South Africa
Human Rights Defender, Advocacy and Law Reform Programme Team
Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force
Fighting for the decriminalization of sex work.
South Africa
Country Director
REPSSI
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.
South Africa
Impact & Learning Manager
Shonaquip Social Enterprise
Leading efforts to build ecosystems for inclusion for people with disabilities, their families and service providers.
South Africa
Founder
Healthy Rural Societies (HRS)
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.
South Africa
Public Health Medicine Specialist, School of Public Health
University of the Witwatersrand
Advancing health equity as a public health medicine specialist.
South Africa
Public Health Project Consultant
Active Citizens Movement
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.
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
Project Manager, Systems Innovation
Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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.
South Africa
Mother Mentor programme
Enable
Providing support, counselling and basic health education to pregnant women, with a focus on chronic treatment adherence, mostly related to HIV and AIDS.
South Africa
Director
Women and Girls Leadership Foundation
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.
South Africa
South Africa
PhD Candidate, Researcher, Educator, Health Policy and Systems Research Division
University of Cape Town
Advocating for health systems' responsiveness and championing sexual and reproductive justice for sex workers and queer persons through influencing policy and implementation.
South Africa
South Africa
Environmental Health Manager
City of Cape Town
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.
South Africa
Senior Budget Analyst, Public Finance
National Treasury (Department of Finance), South Africa
Developing social assistance models, budgets and policy advancements for improved health and education outcomes for the poor.
South Africa
Master's Student
Nelson Mandela University
Contributing to the development of educational approaches that are empowering and for liberation purposes by understanding gendered dimensions of alternative forms of work.
South Africa
Africa Coordinator, Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Initiative
Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)
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.
Canada
Project Specialist
Panagora Group
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.
South Africa
South Africa
Advocate
Rhodes University
Specializing as an advocate in international human rights, health rights, and health care systems. Currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy.
South Africa
South Africa
Health Equity & Community Development Consultant
Reimagining the ways in which corporate and NGO spaces can be connected and developed to enhance access to resources and opportunities for social change.
South Africa
Researcher
Health Systems Trust
Conducting evidence-based research that contributes to policy strengthening health systems in South Africa, using predominantly quantitative data to address health equity.
South Africa
Operations Manager
Kozi Foundation
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.
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
Curriculum and Education Coordinator
Social Justice Coalition
Building a South Africa that addresses the injustices of the past while seeking alternatives for a just and equal society.
South Africa
Principal Environmental Health Practitioner
City of Cape Town
Pursuing a health activism agenda to change people's quality of life for the better.
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
Researcher
SECTION27
Working to address inequality and social justice. Mobilizing community by building the voice and capacity of civil society from below for health system strengthening.
South Africa
Program Manager
Western Cape Health Department
Developing and supporting equitable TB and HIV protection programs.
South Africa
RTCQI/CLI Provincial Project Coordinator
SEAD (Strategic Evaluation, Advisory & Development) Consulting Ltd
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.
South Africa
Senior Field Officer
The Endangered Wildlife Trust
Mobilizing communities in rural South Africa to engage with conservation projects that provide environmentally friendly alternative livelihoods.
South Africa
Master's Student (Global Mental Health), London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine and King's College London
University of London
Exploring the field of global mental health, with a special interest in learning about the integration of mental health into primary care.
United Kingdom
Research Project Manager for the Sheiham/Wits Family Programme on Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity
University of the Witwatersrand
Advocating for affordable and accessible health for all by engaging in research and social mobilization to reform health systems and policy.
South Africa
Director
Women's Leadership and Training Programme
Strengthening girls' and women's leadership skills, so they use their agency to dismantle the patriarchal and structural norms and systems that oppress them.
South Africa
Drama Therapist
Drama for Life
Using theatre and drama therapy with patients to help them overcome emotional trauma and addiction.
South Africa
Development and CSI Manager
South African Sugar Association
Advancing rural development by supporting young people to participate in placements throughout the sugar cane value chain.
South Africa
Business Case Development Manager
Transnet National Ports Authority
Training, mentoring and inspiring women and girls from under-privileged communities to succeed in industry.
South Africa
Chairperson
Abahlali Base Freedom Park
Organizing and mobilizing communities in the southern region of Johannesburg around land, housing and other socioeconomic issues.
South Africa
Communications Officer, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town
Exploring the role of the media in influencing and developing more equitable and socially just health systems.
South Africa
South Africa
Coordinator
People's Health Movement South Africa
Promoting socioeconomic justice for all, including addressing social determinants for health.
South Africa
South Africa
Deputy General Secretary
Equal Education
Advocating for social justice and human rights through education and policy change/ introduction, grassroot organizing and mobilization, building alliances and community resilience.
South Africa
South Africa
Social Worker
Epilepsy South Africa
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.
South Africa
Founder
Wheely in a Wheelie
Promoting recycling in townships.
South Africa
South Africa
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Attorney/Law Reform Specialist IV, Law Center
University of the Philippines
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.
Philippines
Executive Director
Academia Progresiva de Manila (APDM)
Advancing access to quality and inclusive health and education resources that equip children of all abilities and needs.
Philippines
Lecturer, Faculty of Economic and Business Management
National University of Laos
Focusing on trade and poverty reduction.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Municipal Vice Mayor and Former Mayor
Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, 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.
Philippines
Journalist
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.
Philippines
Managing Director
Bangko sa Balay Foundation
Combating rural poverty and promoting equity-based development and sustainable peace.
Philippines
Medical Officer, National Health Plan Implementation Monitoring Unit
Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar
Focusing on monitoring Myanmar's National Health Plan, toward improving the allocation of health resources in Myanmar, especially the distribution of health facilities.
Myanmar
Director of Prosecution Department
International Justice Mission
Rescuing victims of trafficking from places of exploitation and using casework lessons to derive systemic remedies.
Philippines
Director of Health Promotion and Communications Service, Health Promotion Bureau
Department of Health, Philippines
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.
Philippines
Nutrition Officer
UNICEF Indonesia
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.
Indonesia
Health Systems Researcher/Faculty Member, Ramathibodi Medical School
Mahidol University
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.
Thailand
Head of the Nursing Department
Viet Nam National Children's Hospital
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.
Vietnam
Strategic Policy Adviser
Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion, Timor Leste
Working toward a just and equal society through fair, inclusive public policy formulation and implementation.
Timor-Leste
Coordinator for Access to Medicines Campaign
AIDS Access Foundation
Working to ensure that policies on the promotion of access to HIV and HCV treatment are developed and implemented effectively and systematically.
Thailand
Regional Lead
InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia
Designing solutions to help people elevate their dignity and living conditions through improvements in health, education and economic development.
Cambodia
Director, National Institute of Public Health
Ministry of Health, Cambodia
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.
Cambodia
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Kunming Medical University
Teaching students and conducting research contributing to the improvement of health for ethnic minorities, especially women and young girls.
China
CEO and Founder
TalentPool
Designing and implementing leadership development programs to enhance the quality of women's lives.
Vietnam
Researcher, Center for Health and Policy Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing
University Gadjah Mada
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.
Indonesia
Director, National Law Enforcement Development
International Justice Mission
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.
Philippines
Founder
Asgar Muda Foundation (Saving Next Gen Institute)
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.
Indonesia
Deputy Country Director
Population Services International
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.
Myanmar
Founding Member/Vice Director
Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population
Empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged communities and enhancing state accountability.
Vietnam
Vice-Rector/Director of Center for Population
Hanoi University of Public Health
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, non-communicable diseases, and universal health coverage.
Vietnam
Co-founder & CEO
AMiLi
Working on increasing the use of technology to improve health equity and access to care.
Singapore
Consultant
National Health and Family Planning Commission, China
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.
China
Director, Thailand Research Center for Health Service Systems
Chulalongkorn University
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.
Thailand
CEO/Co-Founder
Health at Home
Combining expertise in geriatric medicine with a passion for home health care technology to serve Thailand's growing elderly population.
Thailand
Founder/CEO
Porous City Network
Working to tackle climate change and increase urban resilience in Thailand and Southeast Asian cities through landscape architecture.
Thailand
Director
Preah Vihear Provincial Health Department
Working to improve access to health information and health services, especially for remote patient populations. Spearheaded an initiative to support high-risk pregnant women.
Cambodia
Founder and Board Member
Why I Why Group
Creating networks of support for health care professionals to remove obstacles that prevent them from reaching their full potential.
Thailand
Country Project Manager
ICRC MoveAbility Foundation
Aiming to ensure access to quality and affordable physical rehabilitation services for people with disabilities in Viet Nam.
Vietnam
Grants Officer
DAI Global LLC
Supporting Malaysia's reform toward a more democratic, inclusive and accepting home for all its people.
Malaysia
CEO
FamilyDoc Medical Mechnology Co Ltd
Advancing use of mobile technology to help 1.5 million doctors deliver high quality primary care for everyone, anytime, anywhere, across China.
China
Director
iSEE Institute
Advocating for LGBTI in Viet Nam, focusing on raising public awareness, legal advocacy for law makers, media, youth, public and private sectors.
Vietnam
Board Member
Assisi Hospice
Bringing humanity to medicine with compassionate and excellent care for all. Founded first pediatric palliative care service in Indonesia.
Singapore
Founder/CEO
LUKKID/Asian Leadership Academy
Developing human-centered work processes that allow people to tackle social challenges through collaboration.
Thailand
CEO
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Thailand
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.
Thailand
Head of Medical Services
HealthServe Ltd
Providing low cost primary care to migrant workers in Singapore; and strengthening the health systems in Timor-Leste.
Singapore
Artist, Curator, Founding Director
Queer Forever!
Exploring issues of queer aesthetics and activism, working through art and film projects, and exhibitions that are usually collaborative, and participatory.
Vietnam
Founder and Director
Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC)
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.
Vietnam
Lecturer, Social Work, University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Viet Nam National University
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
Vietnam
Official
Office of People's Committee of Dong Thap Province
Working to expand health insurance coverage and health service provision, with a focus on the growing elderly population.
Vietnam
Postdoctoral Fellows, Institute of Global Health
United Nations University
Working on migration, forced labor, and health, especially the health needs of trafficked fishermen.
Malaysia
Founder and CEO
Taman Bacaan Pelangi (Rainbow Reading Gardens)
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.
Indonesia
Director for Mindanao Programme
Community and Family Services International
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.
Philippines
Health Field Officer
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Focusing on health care in detention and health policy for refugees.
Malaysia
Founder/CEO
Center for Social Initiatives Promotion
Helping build a new sector for social entrepreneurship in Viet Nam and the region.
Vietnam
Assistant CEO
Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth)
Seeking to empower individuals and organizations for a healthy society and environment.
Thailand
Country Program Manager
Australian Volunteers (Myanmar)
Helping bring a sustainable social and development change in Myanmar.
Vietnam
Executive Director
APCOM Foundation
Developing a broad range of projects to advance the health, rights and wellbeing of people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.
Thailand
Research Fellow, Development Studies Program
Ateneo de Manila University
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.
Philippines
CEO
Center for Healthcare Improvement Research
Bringing together all available resources, domestically and internationally, to support the improvement of health care services in Viet Nam.
Vietnam
Technical Officer, WHO Health Emergency Programme
World Health Organization, Lao PDR country office
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.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Senior Researcher, International Health Policy Program
Ministry of Public Health, 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.
Thailand
Educator, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies
Mahidol University
Educating and conducting research to promote peace, human rights, reconciliation and conflict transformation in Thailand and neighboring countries.
Thailand
Researcher and Public Health Specialist, Faculty of Medicine
Universiti Teknologi MARA
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.
Malaysia
Commissioner
Yogyakarta Hospital Supervisory Board
Improving quality health care and empowering patients through collaborative works with providers, health practitioners, government, and society.
Indonesia
Managing Director
Buddhism for Health
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.
Cambodia
Director
Lamsonthi Hospital
Working with the government to train caregivers and redirect health care resources toward home care.
Thailand
Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer
VIDA Digital Identity
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.
Indonesia
Executive Director
Child Helpline 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.
Cambodia
Research Manager
REACH Initiative Syria
Supporting assessment, evaluation, and research projects in fragile and conflict-affected states.
Singapore
Lecturer, Peking University First Hospital
Peking University
Focusing on health, food, and drug safety across China.
China
Director
Aizhen
Addressing the psychological, physical, social and economic problems of people affected by leprosy in China.
China
Founder and Director
Community Health Impact Assessment Platform in Southeast Asia
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 coal-fired power plants.
Thailand
Clinic Manager/Founding Member
Medifit Clinic
Focusing on issues of sexual and gender-based violence and on promoting healthy lifestyles.
Indonesia
Chief Physician
Lao Medical Care Center
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.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Medical Lecturer, Social and Preventative Medicine Department at the Faculty of Medicine
University of Malaysia
Focusing on achieving universal health coverage, and providing financial risk protection to households.
Malaysia
Deputy Director General
Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam
Practicing social justice through ideas and implementation of the Community Development Program and the White Cane Initiative for the Blind in Viet Nam.
Vietnam
Executive Director and Morning News Producer
Vietnam National Television
Overseeing content development for national television on social issues, including gender and domestic violence, women's health and HIV/AIDS.
Vietnam
PhD Student, Nossal Institute for Global Health
University of Melbourne
Assessing geographical equity in reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health.
Indonesia
Co-Founder/Executive Director
myME: Myanmar Mobile Education Project
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.
Myanmar
Media Consultant, Film Producer, Journalist and Co-Founder
Lao New Wave Cinema Production
Producing socially responsible documentaries of life in Laos and Southeast Asia, with a focus on social, health and environmental issues.
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Research Scientist, Department of Medical Research
Ministry of Health and Sports, 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.
Myanmar
Board Member
Peking Union Medical Foundation
Professor and Deputy Director of Plastic Surgery Department, Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Board member of a non- profit foundation, Peking Union Medical Foundation.
China
Lecturer, Center for Health Development Studies
Peking University
Working to bring greater recognition to the importance and feasibility of reducing health inequities and facilitating China's contribution to global health equity.
China
Presid
Evercare Health Group
Developing the group strategy and strong relationships with local communities. Leading, inspiring and managing the top leadership teams. Ensuring the company's profitable growth.
China
Associate Professor, Child Health Advocacy Institute
Shanghai Children's Medical Center
Establishing an early child development monitoring system, identifying a target population with equity analysis and carrying out interventions to improve child health and development.
China
07
Founder
Environmental Rescue Initiative
Recycling plastic waste into construction materials and creating awareness of plastic pollution. Sampling and testing environmental monitoring points to ensure compliance.
Liberia
Founder and Executive Director
Dentalcare Foundation
Promoting, optimizing, and fostering oral health equity in the Nigerian health care system and exploring oral health-related issues and culture of underserved communities.
Nigeria
Chief Medical Officer
Preventative Care Health Services
Advocating for less disparate health care resources for rural patients and providers. Building more capacity for health care infrastructure along the United States-Mexico border.
United States
Resident Doctor
Al-Kadhimiya Teaching Hospital, Baghdad
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.
United Kingdom
Physician Assistant
Tarrant County Public Health
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.
United States
Family Physician & Family Medicine Residency Faculty
Contra Costa Health Services
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.
United States
Public Health Specialist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi
Public Health Foundation of 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 low-literate populations.
India
Field training Compliance Officer, Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission
Office of the Ohio Attorney General
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.
United States
FINDconnect Program Manager
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Improving access to resources addressing social determinants of health to eliminate health disparities among adolescents with complex trauma in Oakland, California.
United States
Founder
Balance 365
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.
Trinidad and Tobago
Assistant Director Planning & Business Development
Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore
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.
Pakistan
Associate Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Researching and implementing strategies to eliminate racial inequities in hospital triage. Designing and building a community health program alongside Palestinian refugees living in camps.
United States
Clinic Administrator
Cherokee Nation Cooweescoowee Health Center
Leading efforts to re-envision primary care training that focuses on the integration of behavioral health into primary care.
United States
Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, School of Nursing
Duke University
Working to ensure the Duke University School of Nursing celebrates diversity and enhances inclusive practices for all members of the community.
United States
Full Professor, College of Nursing
University of Sao Paulo
Advocating for human rights education among vulnerable groups and building capacity for participatory research on health equity.
Brazil
Medical Officer IV, Health Facility Development Bureau
Department of Health, Philippines
Developing policies as well as future leaders who champion health equity in the Philippines.
Philippines
Owner/CEO
Paradigm Dental Center
Practicing dentistry and connecting under-represented or under-resourced youth to mentors and the resources needed to become health care professionals.
United States
Founder
The Oasis Alliance
Improving the lives of trauma survivors by co-creating personal spaces that promote mental health and wellbeing.
United States
Municipal Health Officer
Rural Health Unit-Gamay
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.
Philippines
Senior Health Policy and Program Advisor
Children's Institute
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.
United States
Co-Founder and Art Director
Ztwist Design LLC
Collaborating with artists and artisans worldwide to create culturally contextualized patient education tools to improve information equity and health literacy among low-resource populations.
United States
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Advocating reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases, especially kidney disease, and health disparities in the diagnosis.
Ghana
Director, Health Center Clinical Operations
Erie Family Health Centers
Strengthening clinical operations to optimize health outcomes and workforce development at a federally qualified health center that provides care in underresourced communities in Chicago.
United States
Gender Specialist
Emmanuel International
Engaging communities to develop authentic efforts that strengthen the health care system and promote equitable access for all.
Malawi
Director of Community Engagement and Inclusion
United Way for Southeastern Michigan
Mobilizing resident involvement in decisionmaking to ensure efforts are driven by community needs and assets. Developing strategies to support public health infrastructure.
United States
Co-Founder and Co-Director
UndocuBlack Network
Training and ensuring the development of community mental health facilitators to support undocumented immigrant communities nationwide.
United States
Research Assistant Professor, Medical Center
University of Rochester
Focusing on the relationships between socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and disease in Latinx populations.
United States
Associate Medical Director, Children's Health Center
George Washington University
Advocating for improved access to teen-friendly and culturally sensitive reproductive health services for high-risk teens in under-resourced communities.
United States
Health Specialist, Nigeria State Health Investment Project
National Primary Health Care Development Agency
Working in the national government to facilitate access to quality primary health care for women and children in underserved communities.
Nigeria
Chief Executive Officer
EpiAFRIC
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.
Nigeria
Medical Director of Family Medicine
Unity Health Care
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.
United States
Director of National Office Emergency Preparedness
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Supporting organizations with training, technical assistance, organizational management, program management, and strategic planning expertise. Addressing social determinants of health.
United States
Associate Professor and Chair of Family Medicine, College of Medicine
Florida State University
Working to eliminate health disparities and promote health equity, especially in maternal and child health and address black infant mortality.
United States
Professional Lecturer
George Washington University
Building a local health system with both a social justice and equity perspective and a political perspective for health discussions and decisions.
Argentina
Director, Program Alignment and Partner Engagement Group, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Office of Minority Health (US)
Working across Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to embed equity into the agency's programs, policies, models, and demonstrations.
United States
Supervisory Program Analyst
VHA Office of Health Equity
Advancing health equity for military veterans and ensuring the availability of data and tools to understand health, social, and economic needs.
United States
Director, Product Development
America Medical Association
Improving the diversity of medical students by gathering and sharing examples and evidence of equitable admissions processes and tools.
United States
Senior Director of Programs
Outdoor Outreach
Introducing at-risk, underrepresented, and systeminvolved youth to the transformative and healing power of the outdoors.
United States
Associate Professor, College of Nursing
University of South Carolina
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.
United States
Vice President of Programs
Fistula Foundation
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.
United States
Team Leader for Sectoral Planning and Budget Allocation, Department Legislative Liaison Specialist
Department of Health, Manila City
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.
Philippines
Medical Director
George Washing Immediate Primary Care Clinics
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.
United States
Consultant
Global Health Corps
Engaging in advocacy, technical assistance, and program coordination to improve public health in Uganda.
Uganda
Associate Director International Policy and Advocacy
Health Global Access Project (GAP)
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.
Kenya
Assistant Professor of Law, Penn State's Dickinson Law
Penn State University
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.
United States
Infectious Disease Clinical Instructor and Research Fellow, School of Medicine
University of North Carolina
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.
United States
Founder, Advocacy & Partnerships Officer
Women and Realities of Disability Society
Advocating for the sexual and reproductive health rights of girls and women with disabilities in Kenya.
Kenya
Program Head, Women Wellness Initiative
Barefoot College
Designing and implementing health initiatives to disrupt the cycle of poor health in girls and women in rural India through a community-driven model.
India
Program Manager, Healthy Neighbourhoods Project, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Tulane University
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.
United States
Senior Consultant (Health, WASH and Nutrition)
Oxford Policy Management
Leading evaluations of public health and nutrition programs on maternal and child health in rural India.
India
Board Member
The White Dress Project
Increasing national awareness through education and advocacy about the uterine fibroid epidemic that plagues women and disproportionately affects women of color.
United States
Ex-Officio
MERCY Malaysia
Improving public health through health literacy for individuals, their local community, and colleagues within the health sector by prioritizing social determinants of health.
Malaysia
Medical Specialist II, Health Facilities and Infrastructure Development Team, Office of the Undersecretary
Department of Health, Philippines
Developing strategic policy interventions and linkages to ensure equitable distribution and efficient management of health facilities in the Philippines.
Philippines
Executive Director/Founder
REMI East Africa
Implementing a multifaceted approach for tackling teenage pregnancy in Uganda.
Uganda
Associate Physician, Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Working to eliminate health disparities and improve the wellbeing of American Indian/Alaska Native communities.
United States
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical Center
New York University
Overseeing the delivery of comprehensive medical and mental health care, as well as social and legal services to survivors of torture and war trauma.
United States
Executive Director
UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law Science & Health Policy
Developing medical-legal collaborations in education, research, and clinical service that advance equity in the care of older adults.
United States
Program Director, Eisenhower Family Medicine
Eisenhower Health
Advocating for equitable health policies and access to care for LGBTQ patients. Providing primary care and HIV services to the Southern California desert community
United States
Director, Community Follow Up and Research Programs
Latika Roy Foundation
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.
India
Founder/CEO, Safe Access Project
Qequal Foundation
Building an ecosystem to advance equitable health care for the LGBTQ community in India through education, advocacy, and community organizing.
India
Psychiatrist and Public Health Officer
Working to establish collaboration, local and international, to support mental health, substance abuse and epilepsy services, and reduce treatment gaps in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone
Founder and CEO
Creative Frontiers LLC
Leading an awardwinning startup focused on storytelling and conflict communication. Working on media content aimed at fostering health equity, tolerance, and countering destructive narratives.
Kenya
Senior Data Analyst, Muskie School of Public Service
University of Southern Maine
Designing, developing, and managing projects within the Muskie School of Public Service. Assisting with publications and dissemination, collecting and analyzing data, and mentoring graduate assistants.
United States
Faculty
University of New Mexico
Leading an organization that provides grant writing and program evaluation for community-based, equity-driven nonprofits.
United States
Founder and President
The Grassroot Project
Advancing health equity by recruiting and training NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) athletes to bring health education and physical activity back into American schools.
Mexico
Vice Chair of Equity and Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
University of California
Teaching principles of equity, professionalism, and leadership to physical therapy trainees and multidisciplinary health equity champions.
United States
Program Manager
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Empowering leadership to utilize data to drive quality improvement initiatives throughout the health care system.
United States
Psychiatrist and Family Physician, Inpatient Medical Director for Psychiatric and Behavioural Health Services
George Washington University Hospital
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.
United States
Founder & Creative Director
LibÚlula Consulting
Providing inspiration, instigation, and support for projects, organizations, and foundations focused on equity, social justice, and authentic community engagement.
United States
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