The Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health

Working within communities and civil society movements to address inequality and strive for social justice for all; mobilizing community and building community voice through capacity building.

Using innovative learning tools to bridge the gap between the law, people and the state around matters relating to environmental ecology.

Supporting vulnerable individuals through community development and advocacy, and volunteering at a refugee center; this social worker is aiming to complete a master’s degree in migration and displacement.

Fostering a movement for the development of youth in communities; mobilizing community and youth to address policy around land and land occupation.

Advocating for the use of drama therapy as a key component of the public health system; trying to tackle the issue of mental health in South Africa.

Improving access to sexual reproductive health rights, with a passion for sanitary dignity, maternal care and preventing gynecological ills; exploring sustainable social entrepreneurial models that provide solutions in Africa.

Strengthening literacy, youth leadership and the well-being of young women and girls in communities through engagement programs.

Developing the agency of young women and children, and the LGBTIQPA+ community; developing literacy and working toward the inclusion of youth in the provincial economy of the Eastern Cape.

Organizing to eradicate gender-based violence in communities and supporting LGBTQI+ communities; Nonzaliseko is a health promoter and support group facilitator for communities in the Eastern Cape province.

Ensuring the provision of public health services in rural communities and hospitals; providing physiotherapy services to Limpopo Acadamy of Sport.

Advocating for gender equality and sexual reproductive health rights, as a change driver targeting rural areas in particular.

Addressing mental health for social change, with a decolonial approach that is holistic and communitybased, situating the lived experiences of the people of South Africa and Africa.

Promoting communitydriven and school-focused health education programs in marginalized communities, with a particular interest in providing a decolonized education system and alternative education models.

Working with community health workers on the issue of health care access for marginalized communities.

Advocating for the inclusion of queer women and people living with HIV; providing women and girls space to learn about their bodies and exercise their rights to sexual health.

Working with civil society to address inequality and striving for social justice for all. Mobilizing community and building community voice through capacity building. Building civil society voice from below for health system strengthening.

Developing and supporting equitable TB and HIV protection programs.

Contributing to educational approaches that are empowering and for liberation purposes by understanding the intersectionality of education and health within aspects of adolescent girls and young women.

Building social collective power through equipping rural communities with skills and knowledge of realizing their potential toward the advancement of social change and enhancing their agency to advocate for improved and effective access of health care services.

Implementing sustainable hospital green initiatives aimed at reducing the carbon footprint, use of harmful chemicals (especially pesticides) and waste minimization strategies in the health sector.

Health advocate for the advancement of health equity with a particular interest in policy, public interest Law, health research, Public Resource Management and Social Accountability Monitoring.

Contributing toward medicine access expansion using pharmacy innovation and technology.

Advocating for the rights of women, social justice and sexual reproductive health, rooted in intersectional PanAfrican feminism.

Mentoring youth leaders across South Africa.

Using media and communications as a tool for social change.

Teaching leadership, gender equity and enviromental sustainability.

Advocating for social justice for young women and girls and their rights in accessing sexual reproductive health services in a youth-friendly environment underpinned by intersectional feminism.

Facilitating the inclusion of patients as a prominent stakeholder group in the development and implementation of health services and strategic health policies.

Working toward improving health care in the public sector.

Creating and executing health communications campaigns and strategies that are engaging by employing a fusion of pop culture and politics.

Advocating within civil society organizations for improved health of marginalized communities.

Promoting the need for accessible, comprehensive and holistic health education with community participation.

Advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa.

Bridging the health information divide through journalism that helps individuals make informed health choices and advances health equity.

Humanitarian worker with more than 10 years of experience in program management, community development and human rights activism.

Intersectional feminist (also known as the Scientivist) focusing on climate change and health.

Building an inclusive society where people living at the far margins of society can equally participate and benefit from the social and economic pipeline.

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.

Training, mentoring and inspiring women and girls from underprivileged communities to succeed in industry.

Advancing rural development through job placement opportunities for young people in the sugar cane value chain; bursaries to rural communities studying agriculture, science and engineering; and supporting enterprise initiatives for women and the youth.

Using theater and drama therapy with patients to help them overcome emotional trauma and addiction, as well as working with young men to help them deal with their emotions to become better fathers.

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

Strengthening, monitoring and promoting quality HIV and laboratory services in South Africa. Passionate about sexual reproductive health rights, primary health care access and health systems strengthening.

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

Advocating for environmental justice, working with the health sector and communities.

Developing services and a model of care for mental health care users, supporting recovery and community integration.

Advocating for environmental health as a determinant of health to be at the center of human health.

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

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

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

Advancing the rights and improving the lives of young people and women living on farms, through experiential knowledge after living on a farm herself. Addressing social injustices and inequalities through a human rights context.

A highly driven individual who is passionate about socioeconomic, health and educational inequalities within South Africa and the continent at large.

Advocating for equal access to health care for LGBTIQ+ communities.

Addressing inequity when it comes to access to medication in a rural community by ensuring availability and devising ways to ensure adherence to treatment as a way of eradicating disease burden.

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).

Working with communities in realizing and advocating for their health rights through approaches that seek to promote health based on a knowledge of its range of social determinants.

Promoting recycling in townships.

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

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

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

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

Strengthening girls' and women's leadership skills, so they use their agency to dismantle patriarchal structures and systems, advance climate change adaptation strategies, and restore ecosystems in communities.

Advocating and mobilizing for policy reform to ensure affordable and accessible health for all. Using an intersectional feminist, decolonial research and praxis lens to advance health systems thinking, eradicate genderbased violence and address intergenerational trauma.

Training future public health medicine specialists and working to improve health care and health equity. Advocating for improved clinical and corporate governance, and overall health systems strengthening. Acting to address the social determinants of health.

Consultant at WHO on research and policy to monitor tobacco industries in Africa. Head of Research and professor of public health at Rural Health University in Eastern DRC.

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

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

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.

Working at the intersection of health, sustainablity and innovation to catalyze change in South Africa.

Public private partnership facilitator for equitable access to primary health services. Affiliated to the uMgungundlovu District Municipality for civil society responses to HIV/AIDS and GBVF.

Assisting in the identification, planning, implementation and evaluation of environmental public health activities.

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

Advancing policies and programs to reduce chemical and other environmental exposures in air, water, soil and food, to protect people and provide communities with healthier environments.

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

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.

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

Identifying the processes and levers that reduce social stratification and lead to social innovation and transformation.

Fighting for the decriminalization of sex work. As well as advocating for sex workers, she is an international ambassador of Coalition of Children Affected by AIDS.

Developing new anthropology courses and program, based on her Master's research that drew on public health, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, and epigenetic findings.

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

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

Through socially just media practices and through content in mainstream media that reflects marginalized voices usually inaccessible to traditional media houses, unlike Health-e News.

Teaching and researching adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and the relationship between health literacy and health-seeking behaviors in adolescents.

Enabling others to see wonder in the arts and to experience their transformative power, especially through music. Working to promote empathy and social and cultural understanding through the power of music.

Providing interactive coaching and capacity building for civil society groups on various land rights, natural resources, and land governance topics.

Researching social injustice and examining the effects of social capital on the wellness of Rohingya refugees. Also trying to understand the health literacy of refugees and build non-communicable disease profiles of refugees.

Conducting research into the impacts of climate change. Supporting the poor and marginalized people in East Nusa Tenggara province to enable them to gain better access to education and health services.

Combating climate change and transforming society toward sustainability. Striving to find innovative ways to promote more sustainable and equitable opportunities for the elderly.

Supporting the Government of Timor-Leste to achieve sustainable economic and human development goals, and promoting sustainable and equitable opportunities for vulnerable populations in Timor-Leste.

Supporting community participation to address social development challenges. Also working to apply social and political economy analysis to promote a more equitable society.

Preserving and restoring sight and reducing avoidable blindness among underprivileged schoolchildren. Also working to promote and solve a diverse range of health equity challenges.

Working to implement the United Nations’ system-wide Youth Strategy (Youth2030) and building a network of emerging young leaders in Indonesia focused on equity and justice.

Addressing cross-border health challenges and enhancing the effectiveness of infectious disease prevention.

Integrating genomics into routine health care for reducing burden of chronic diseases and health care costs.

Advocating for Ibadahfriendly health facilities and reforming health education through inclusion of Islamic teachings, mobilizing community leadership, bridging social and economic divides to improve health equity.

Achieving health equity and improving the overall health of all Akeanons, especially the underprivileged and the vulnerable. Working to develop and maintain a people-centered health system.

Pioneering the practices of “Theatre of the Oppressed” in Thailand and developing the capacity of social changemakers and seekers to stand up for social justice.

Developing high-capacity medical education and improving quality of care at public hospitals. Integrating transformative medical education into medical education reform and building innovative ideas into curriculum development.

Empowering women and girls to make informed decisions and advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Improving education and health services delivered to the communities and addressing issues related to HIV, mental health and depression, and LGBTQ concerns.

Promoting innovative and participatory approaches to improve health access and health equity in hard-toreach communities, with a special focus on women and children.

Organizing river communities to slow down dam projects that threaten the local ecosystem and the livelihoods of those who depend on the river and its resources.

Working to improve access to information about genderbased violence, health care and the prevention of injustices relating to sexual and gender-based violence.

Developing the group strategy and strong relationships with local communities. Leading, inspiring and managing the top leadership teams. Ensuring the company's profitable growth.

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

Professor and deputy director of Plastic Surgery Department, Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Board member of a nonprofit foundation, Peking Union Medical Foundation.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Working to improve access to health information and health services, especially for remote patient populations. Spearheaded an initiative to support high-risk pregnant women.

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

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.

Empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged communities and enhancing state accountability.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Focusing on health, food and drug safety across China.

Enabling Digital Trust and catalyzing financial inclusion through VIDA, a technology company providing a frictionless and secure digital identity system. Supporting entrepreneurs, investing and health equity issues.

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

Helping bring a sustainable social and development change in Myanmar.

Empowering communities of people with disabilities. Having advocated the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, she is actively monitoring its implementation.

Bringing humanity to medicine with compassionate and excellent care for all. Founded first pediatric palliative care service in Indonesia.

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

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

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

Focusing on trade and poverty reduction.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Publishing widely in 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Building the capacity of public law enforcement to rescue and protect children in vulnerable communities against violent offenders, with current project focused on the online sexual exploitation of children.

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

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

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

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

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

Working with community members to design and implement innovative solutions for more inclusive economic systems in community development.

Recruiting and training health care activists and organizers to push for policies that create a just health care system.

Developing and implementing nontraditional health care delivery models to decrease and eliminate barriers to care.

Creating comprehensive responses to tuberculosis, with a focus on human rights, gender rights, and vulnerable populations.

Developing strategies with a comprehensive approach to ensure health care for caregivers and children, promoting early childhood development in Peru.

Building capacity for young health care stakeholders to be “champions of change” for health awareness and equity using “gamification”.

Leading a behavior changefocused creative company that reaches underserved communities with effective health messaging that is entertaining, culturally relevant and informative.

Developing a strategy for reforming school-based health and physical activity in American schools.

Leading medical services for the Sierra Leone army and clinical services for COVID-19.

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

Utilizing diverse tailored approaches ranging from research, innovation, grant advising, advocacy and policy toward attainment of health equity, gender equality and sustainable development.

Bridging health care, research, and policy with public health by disrupting the system responsibly for a sustainable and equitable future. Providing essential primary care to vulnerable populations.

Leading efforts to strengthen care coordination strategies to improve access, delivery, and quality of treatment and care in rural communities.

Creating healthy places and supporting equitable community development that ensure the health and wellbeing of all.

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

Utilizing politics and policy to improve health care access in rural U.S., including COVID policy. Researching social innovation for sexual and reproductive health in resource-limited settings globally.

Researching legal and policy issues at the intersection of U.S. health law and immigration law. Advocating for equitable access to health care. Preparing law students to work for health justice.

Advocating for increased access to high-quality HIV treatment, policies and science in collaboration with communities of people living with HIV and key populations.

Improving the Philippine health system through the development and advocacy of legislation that enables a productive, resilient, equitable and peoplecentered health system for universal health care.

Working toward social justice and health equity for LGBTQ individuals and the community through education, research and health policy.

Identifying and disseminating innovative approaches to U.S. medical schools, including new approaches to recruitment, admissions and retention to build a more representative physician workforce.

Promoting quality and equitable access, and delivery of primary health care through developing strategic actions and using evidence to shape national policy.