GLOBAL COHORT 2016 – 2018
Our mission is to empower catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. The Atlantic Institute is delighted to present the first global cohort book bringing together all 365 Atlantic Fellows who joined the community between 2016 and 2018. It is a snapshot of fellows across all seven programs, capturing where they were and what they were working on at that time.
The Atlantic Institute recently welcomed two senior fellows to our staff, Evie O’Brien of the Social Equity program and Fionnuala Sweeney of the Equity in Brain Health program. Each brings their deep personal understanding and experience of the fellowship to their work here.
This book is a testament to the fellows’ rich diversity and shared commitment to forging a world that is fairer, healthier and more inclusive. The transformational power of the Atlantic Fellows community comes from combining that diversity, with the curiosity, empathy and courage to learn from and collaborate with each other.
We’re committed to creating platforms and opportunities to build connections and collaboration for the positive change the community collectively seeks. The Institute is here to help you sustain that connection and collaboration, both face-to-face and through the Hub at af-hub.org. We hope this book will pique curiosity, spark imagination and expand horizons.
A better world begins with you.
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 1
EQUITY IN BRAIN HEALTH . . .................................................................................... 4 - 13
HEALTH EQUITY ........................................................................................................ 14 - 19
HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA .............................................................. 20 - 29
HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTH AFRICA ................................................................... 30 - 35
RACIAL EQUITY .. ......................................................................................................... 36 - 41
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY......................................................................... 42 - 49
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Over the next two decades, the network of Atlantic Fellows will grow to thousands. As of mid-2019, there are nearly 400 fellows from 61 countries.
1 Canada 87
US 2
Mexico 5
Cuba 1 Jamaica
Costa Rica 1
1 CuraÇao
Colombia 4 Ecuador 1
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Peru 2
Brazil
1 Chile
3 Argentina
Great Britain The Netherlands Northern Ireland 5 Germany 10 Ireland 9 1 1 11 Romania 2 Belgium Lao PDR 1 Armenia 1 Nepal Spain 3 4 Turkey France 1 1 10 1 Iraq Greece 1 Thailand 2 Jordan Japan 1 China Myanmar 3 Israel Pakistan 4 1 Egypt 1 6 Taiwan 4 4 14 India 14 15 1 Nigeria Philippines Senegal 7 Vietnam Ghana 1 5 1 1 1 Sierra Leone 5Cambodia Bangladesh Uganda 4 Kenya Malaysia 8 Cote D'Ivoire Zambia Indonesia 1 3 1 1 Malawi East Timor Singapore Zimbabwe 82 1 27 Botswana South Africa
Australia 4 New Zealand
Active fellows by country as of June 2019
Improving brain health and reducing the impact of dementia worldwide. BASED AT THE GLOBAL BRAIN HEALTH INSTITUTE
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JALAYNE ARIAS
Assistant Professor, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco San Francisco, California, USA
MIRCEA BALASA
Cognitive Neurologist Barcelona, Spain
NICOLE BATSCH
Gerontologist and Global Consultant Chicago, Illinois, USA
ELÉONORE BAYEN
(Neuro-rehabilitation), Researcher (PhD Health Economics) Paris, France
LAURENT CLERET DE LANGAVANT
BÁRBARA COSTA BEBER
CHRISTINE FITZGERALD
ELAINE HOWARD
Neurologist Paris, France
Assistant Professor of Speech and Language Pathology at Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil
Nurse and Psychosocial Researcher Galway, Ireland
Programme Manager in Dementia at Genio Social Investments Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
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, particularly in diverse populations.
Developing a community directed implementation project that not only improves dementia diagnostics, but also accelerates awareness and decreases the stigma of aging and dementia in Spain.
Understanding how people with dementia can lead more meaningful lives under human rights’ objectives; cultural differences between countries in how people with dementia receive support and care; and the support of dementia professionals in communitybased, long term care and health settings.
Designing, testing, and validating new prototypes that will monitor caregivers and patients suffering from cognitive disorders in various care settings including home, providing a better understanding of individuals’ patterns of disability, clinical evolution, and unmet care needs.
Analysing large populationbased cohort studies to generate a global perspective on dementia risk factors in the general population in two different continents.
Raising awareness of dementia in 40,000 speech and language therapists in Brazil by examining their current knowledge and awareness of dementia and communication disorders in dementia.
Exploring the role community services—such as Alzheimer cafés—play in supporting social citizenship and developing a psychosocial evaluation strategy to mobilize and enhance psychosocial interventions at a national and international level.
Testing and delivering a method that supports organizational change in healthcare systems and can make personalized care for people with dementia a reality.
ALISSA BERNSTEIN
DOMINIC CAMPBELL
MARÍA CARMONA-IRAGUI
HEIDI CLARE
HANY IBRAHIM
ELISSAIOS KARAGEORGIOU
SILVIA KOCHEN
JOSH KORNBLUTH
Elucidating brain rhythm patterns of dementia syndromes across the sleepwake cycle, with the goal of improving diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response, and promoting dementia health on a national and international level.
Primary care dementia training and education packages for GPs for improving the early diagnosis of dementia and developing treatment and prevention strategies.
Developing his own monologue about dementia, and helping people with dementia—and their caregivers—tell their own life stories. Also developing a video series called Citizen Brain.
Medical Anthropologist 2017 Cohort also San Francisco, California, USA
Creating effective interventions tailored to the sociocultural and socioeconomic contexts of patients and their caregivers, with attention to the social determinants that cause and perpetuate ill health and disease.
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Co-founder of Creative Aging International 2017 Cohort also Dublin, Ireland
Developing new project prototypes, infused with art and creativity, backed by solid evidence and responding to need and local circumstance, to help to reduce the fear of age and its related illnesses among elders.
Cognitive Neurologist Barcelona, Spain
Researching cognitive impairment and biomarkers in the continuum of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease and in Down syndrome to provide essential insights into the biological and epidemiological contributors to Alzheimer’s disease.
Music Educator and Performer 2017 Cohort also Cotopaxi, Colorado, USA
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, assisted living, and other settings.
Geriatric Medicine Consultant at Ain Shams University Hospital Cairo, Egypt
Working to use modern technology and software tools for early detection and diagnosis of dementia. Also developing a palliative care service for dementia patients.
Behavioral and Sleep Neurologist San Francisco, CA, USA and Athens, Greece
Neurologist, Director Neurosciences and Complex Systems Unit Hospital El Cruce, Buenos Aires Florencio Varela, Province Buenos Aires, Argentina
Theatrical Monologuist Berkeley, California, USA
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JORGE LLIBRE GUERRA
Cognitive Neurologist, National Institute of Neurology Havana, Cuba
CLAIRE MCEVOY
Nutritional Epidemiologist and Dietitian Belfast, Northern Ireland
ROGERIO PANIZZUTTI
Psychiatrist and Neuroscience Researcher Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ELISA DE PAULA FRANÇA RESENDE
IOANNIS TARNANAS
LINA VELILLA
ADAM WASKOW
STELIOS ZYGOURIS
Developing computational biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and developing a responsible strategy to implement this technology and utilize machine intelligence for disease prevention.
Developing strategies to address the caregiver-stress and burden related stigma among caregivers of patients with early onset dementia caused by the e280a mutation in Antioquia.
Researching how 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.
Testing new computerized memory tests including the first serious game that older adults can use on their own to screen for signs of subtle cognitive decline.
Neurologist Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Researching admixture, ethnicity and health-social disparities in dementia and developing a dementia training program in Cuba to train healthcare providers and educate the community about aging, mental health, and dementia.
Investigating the role of diet in brain aging and dementia by analyzing population data and testing scalable dietary interventions for brain health.
Understanding how computerized tools can be integrated into scalable, multidisciplinary interventions for the longterm care of brain health.
Studying the effects of latelife literacy acquisition as a dementia prevention tool through improving memory and increasing connections between brain areas. The idea is that it is never too late to engage in intellectual stimulation activities to promote brain health in vulnerable populations.
GEESKE PEETERS
ADRIÀ ROFES
Epidemiologist and Occupational Therapist Also 2017 Cohort Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Examining the interrelationship between falls, fear of falling and cognitive decline and to identify midlife risk factors of falls and cognitive decline.
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FIONNUALA SWEENEY Journalist Dublin, Ireland
JAMIE TALAN
Clinical Linguist and Cognitive Neuroscientist Baltimore, MD, USA
Enhancing our understanding of brain-behavior relations and applying this knowledge to improve assessment and treatment protocols for neurological conditions leading to aphasia.
Creating an innovative multi digital, multi lingual science-based platform to raise global brain health awareness, promote preventative strategies, and change attitudes and policies.
Developing and implementing an online monthly lecture series and a US Support Group for patients with posterior cortical atrophy and their caregivers.
Neuroscientist Greece
Psychologist and Epidemiologist 2017 Cohort also Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
Founder of Memory Dog Inc., a nonprofit exploring the use of highly trained dogs for people with neurodegenerative diseases. Marin County, California, USA
Neuropsychologist Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Science Writer Boise, Idaho, USA
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TALA AL-ROUSAN
PHAEDRA BELL
KRYSTAL L. CULLER
EMMA CUNNINGHAM
KRISTA HARRISON
SANDRA HIGUET
CATHERINE JORDAN
YUE LENG
Investigating how the stress resulting from war and displacement affects rates of dementia in a group of refugees in the Middle East. Creating a network of experts in brain health to reduce disease burden and use a public health lens to assess aging in the Middle East and North African region.
Developing a program for young adults to partner with older adults to mitigate risk factors for dementia and other health challenges through regular, meaningful interactions across generations and other differences.
Encouraging ongoing program development of the Center 4 Brain Health to best serve the robust brain health needs of program participants and the community-at-large and engaging the Cleveland Brain Health Initiative.
Advancing perioperative research and care—and thus the brain health—of older patients, as well as contributing to the global literature on cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Developing mixed-methods evidence and interventions for palliative care for dementia, specifically prion disease and people who live at home with severe dementia.
Working to create an integrated care facility for the management of patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. Also very involved in the area of screening and follow-up of delirium in acute care.
Pursuing the relationship between musical expertise and the development of dementia, and the mechanisms underpinning this association. Also hopes to shed light on the use of music therapy as a potential treatment for dementia.
Developing interventional studies targeting improved sleep and cognition, which have the potential to help prevent the onset and progression of dementia in high-risk populations.
ELIZABETH DZENG
DERYA DURUSU EMEK-SAVAS
CORRINA GRIMES
ALEJANDRA GUERRERO BARRAGÁN
MARIANA LONGORIA IBARROLA
DAVID LOUGHREY
JERONIMO MARTIN
LUIS ARNOLDO MUÑOZ NEVAREZ
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.
Determining the elements that improve quality of life for people with dementia using a palliative care approach, which can be adopted by health and social care systems.
Conducting epidemiological research to understand better the situation of dementia patients and their caregivers in Bogotá as well as studying cognitive impairment in different vulnerable populations.
Part of 10/66 Dementia Research Group, carrying out population-based research into dementia in low and middle income countries, focusing on frontotemporal dementias research and neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia.
Researching the relationship between hearing loss and the development of dementia through neurocognitive assessment of older adults with hearing loss. Also assessing how treatment may influence cognitive decline with age.
Physician and Public Health Practitioner Amman, Jordan and Zaatari refugee camp in Northern Jordan
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, California USA
Researching the systemic factors that contribute to burdensome, overly aggressive treatments in older adults with advanced dementia near the end of life and developing effective, targeted systems-level interventions to mitigate burdensome end-of-life care. 10
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Education Leader and Social Intervention Designer San Francisco, California, USA
Neuroscientist Izmir, Turkey
Gerontologist/Psychologist and Inaugural Director of Menorah Park Center 4 Brain Health Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Allied Health Professions Consultant in Public Health Belfast, Northern Ireland
Academic Geriatrician Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Neurologist Bogota city, Colombia
Health Services and Policy Researcher Assistant Professor in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics San Francisco, California, USA
Psychiatrist and Professor at Medicine School West Hill Institute Mexico City, Mexico
Head of the Geriatric Department at the University Hospital of Charleroi (CHU), Belgium Nivelles, Belgium
Research Psychologist Dublin, Ireland
Experimental Psychologist Dublin, Ireland
Emergency Medicine Specialist Mexico City, Mexico
Improving the treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of stroke; developing multi-center studies and programs to diminish stroke risk factors; identifying populations at high-risk for stroke; and reducing the time that patients with stroke seek medical attention.
Epidemiologist specializing in the research of sleep and aging San Francisco, California, USA
Geriatric and Internal Medicine Specialist Guadalajara, Mexico
Improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for older adults living with HIV and HIVassociated neurocognitive disorder, as well as promoting dementia awareness and early diagnosis in Mexico.
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BRENDA PÉREZ CERPA
CLAUDIA PATRICIA RAMOS-PEREZ
ANA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ SALGADO
TALITA ROSA
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.
Determining non-genetic factors which interfere in the natural history of Alzheimer Disease, and designing possible intervention measures to diminish their impact in dementia prognosis.
Introducing technologybased cognitive assessments and support to the Cuban population.
Studying the economic and psychological burden of informal caregiving for dementia in Brazil and whether different models of reimbursement can stimulate healthcare professionals to provide a comprehensive, preventive management of care for older adults suffering from dementia.
CLAIRE SEXTON
KONSTANTINA SYKARA
BOON LEAD TEE
JENNIFER ZITSER
Investigating nonpharmacological factors to promote healthy aging, including physical activity and sleep, delivered through multi-disciplinary, scalable interventions.
Evaluating whether cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is an effective treatment intervention in patients with mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers.
Establishing a language standard of Sino-Tibetan speaking individuals with frontotemporal dementia and develop tools to help diagnose frontotemporal dementia in clinical settings.
Investigating sleep disturbances in dementias with cost minimizing devices to improve diagnosis and treatment of patients with sleep disorders. This should reduce nursing home placement, improve patient’s and their family’s quality of life and result in cost reductions for the country.
Geriatric Medicine Specialist Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Neuroscientist Oxford, United Kingdom
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Psychiatrist Medellin, Colombia
Clinical Psychologist Athens, Greece
Neuro-Psychologist Havana, Cuba
Neurologist Malaysia/Taiwan
Family Physician and Global Health Scientist Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Neurologist Herzeilya, Israel
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Combatting health disparities and promoting equity. BASED AT THE FITZHUGH MULLAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH WORKFORCE EQUITY
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MARY AJWANG
Technical Specialist/ District Coordinator, Nurse Kampala, Uganda
SARAH BATTISTICH
Former Director of the Bellevue/ NYU Survivors of Torture Program New York, New York, USA
JOEDRECKA S. BROWN SPEIGHTS
BRIGIT M. CARTER
Associate Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at Florida State University College of Medicine Tallahasse, Florida, USA
Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the Duke University School of Nursing Durham, North Carolina, USA
TOYESE OYEYEMI
Health Extension Regional Officer Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
MARIA PORTELA MARTINEZ
CAROLINE MAE RAMIREZ
NEHA RAYKAR
Leading independent monitoring and evaluation of health programs across India.
Family Physician Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Consultant for Health System Management, Provincial Government of Northern Samar Northern Samar, Philippines
Engaging in advocacy, technical assistance, and program coordination to improve public health in Uganda.
Overseeing the delivery of comprehensive medical and mental health care, as well as social and legal services to survivors of torture and war trauma.
Devoted to the elimination of health disparities and the promotion of health equity especially in maternal and child health and black infant mortality.
Working to ensure the Duke University School of Nursing celebrates diversity and enhances inclusive practices for all members of the community.
Addressing healthcare workforce development, primary care practice transformation, and population health delivery models.
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.
Strengthening human resources for health (HRH) interventions in rural, underresourced and marginalized areas towards local health systems development.
YVONNE CHOW
KENNETH T. JONES
THOMAS MERRILL
SCOTT NASS
ZULAYKA SANTIAGO
SARA SELIG
CARLA A. ARENA VENTURA
Overseeing and managing a national quality program to help critical access hospitals improve the quality of care for patients.
Data enthusiast advising on quantitative data and other measures to better understand and address health equity issues for Veterans.
Working in population health, risk adjustment, and designing integrative data analytic systems for the measuring and monitoring of healthcare quality improvement in different policy environments.
Working as a physician, educator, and advocate in the LGBT health equity movement, ensuring transgender and genderexpansive youth in the community have access to the resources they need.
Providing inspiration, instigation, and support for projects focused on equity, social justice, and authentic community engagement. Invests in the emergence of new organizational models within the nonprofit sector.
Passionately working to eliminate health disparities and improve the well-being of American Indian/Alaska Native communities.
Teaching human rights, right to health, and the social determinants of health to nursing students, and coordinates interdisciplinary and international research on nursing, global health, law and development.
Program Coordinator at the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy in the Health Resources and Services Administration Washington, DC, USA
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Program Analyst with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Health Equity Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
Data Scientist, Supervisor, Health System Data Management and Analytics at Martin’s Point Health Care Portland, Maine, USA
Director of Inpatient Education, Family Medicine Residency Program at Citrus Valley Health Partners West Covina, California, USA
Independent Consultant Durham, North Carolina, USA
Associate Director for the Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) Program Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Economist at Oxford Policy Management New Delhi, India
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatric Nursing & Human Sciences, University of São Paulo; Director of PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Riberão Preto, Brazil
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AMANDA BROSNAN
LESFORD DUNCAN
ANGELA ECHIVERRI
SARAH HOOPER
DEBORRAH GESITE LIAO
JORDAN LUKE
EMILY MACDONALD
CHRISTINA T. ROSENTHAL
Passionately working with the underserved, and providing honest, valuable health care to patients.
Developing partnerships, coalitions, and systems that improve the health, mental health, and well-being of children and communities throughout Southern California and beyond.
Providing family-oriented primary care to multicultural, urban underserved patients, and applying her passion for community health and social justice to the training and development of the healthcare workforce.
Developing programs in education, research, and clinical advocacy that advance health and health policy through medical-legal collaboration.
Serving geographicallyisolated and disadvantaged areas in one of the poorest provinces in the Philippines providing primary health care.
Building partnerships across Medicare and Medicaid programs, policies, models, and initiatives to ensure that the needs of racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities, people with disabilities, and rural populations are met.
Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to provide access to high quality, affordable primary care to diverse patients speaking more than 51 languages at a Federally Qualified Health Center.
Practicing dentistry and connecting under-represented and/or under-resourced youth to mentors and resources needed to become health care professionals.
JAMES HUANG
KAI KENNEDY
JONATAN KONFINO
ANJALI SINGH KULKARNI Public Health Practitioner New Delhi, India
ZEINA SALIBA
STEPHEN SEVALIE
Psychiatrist and Family Physician, Inpatient Medical Director for Psychiatric and Behavioral Health Services at the George Washington University Hospital Washington, DC, USA
Psychiatrist and Public Health Officer. Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
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Physician, Public Health Faculty & Researcher, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Informing national initiatives, educational policies, and curricula on diversity, equity, and inclusion in physical therapy, and leading the development of communitycentered educational programs in the areas of interprofessional practice, community and global health.
Improving the health and health care of underserved populations in Argentina through community participation, education and research focusing on social medicine, public health and non-communicable diseases.
Applying models of behavior change communications at the community level for improved health.
Improving health care access and quality across multiple domains by overseeing consultation and inpatient psychiatric services, working to decrease stigma in mental health and provide care for marginalized populations.
Working to establish a broad collaboration, local and international, to support mental health, substance abuse, and epilepsy services and reduce treatment gap in Sierra Leone.
Physician Assistant Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Family Physician and Family Medicine Residency Faculty Washington, DC, USA
Working with nutritionists, community, and advocacy organizations to reduce families’ barriers to accessing resources and services; and providing direct patient care at Unity Health Care, including comprehensive medical care for deaf adults and children.
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Cultural Competency Officer San Bernardino, California, USA
Physical Therapist & Faculty in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Duke University Durham, North Carolina, USA
Family Physician & Family Medicine Residency Faculty, Contra Costa Health Services San Francisco, California, USA
Executive Director of the UCSF/ UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy San Francisco, California, USA
Physician Gamay, Northern Samar, Philippines
Director of the Program Alignment and Partner Engagement Group (PAPEG) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health. Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Director of Health Center Operations, Erie Family Health Center, Foster Avenue Clinic Chicago, Illinois, USA
Owner/CEO of Paradigm Dental Center, Founder of The 516 Foundation Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Founder and President of The Grassroot Project Washington, DC, USA
Training NCAA studentathletes to provide health education and health services for teenagers in Washington, DC.
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Creating a community for health equity in Southeast Asia. BASED AT THE EQUITY INITIATIVE AT CMB FOUNDATION
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TIM AYE-HARDY
Co-Founder/Executive Director myMe: Myanmar Mobile Education Project Yangon, Myanmar
CHHORVANN CHHEA
Director, National Institute of Public Health, Ministry of Health Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HOANG VAN MINH
Vice-rector/Director of Center for Population, Hanoi University of Public Health and Editor-inChief of the Journal of Health and Development Studies Hanoi, Viet Nam
CHALERMSAK KITTITRAKUL
PHAM KIEU OANH
PHAN THI THUY TRAM
SOULIVANH PHOLSENA
NICOLA POCOCK
Working on migration, forced labor, and health, especially the health needs of trafficked fisherman.
Coordinator for Access to Medicines Campaign, AIDS Access Foundation Bangkok, Thailand
Founder/CEO, Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion Hanoi, Viet Nam
Deputy Director General, Ministry of Planning and Investment Hanoi, Viet Nam
Director of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Health Vientiane, Lao PDR
Providing education via mobile classrooms to children in Myanmar who’ve been compelled into indentured servitude at teashop restaurants. Also working to develop policies and strategies to address inclusivity and equity in education.
Leading research related to maternal and child health and the health system in Cambodia and a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Working on an initiative to develop a national health management and leadershiptraining curriculum for health professionals.
Publishing widely in national and international scientific journals and undertaking research studies on health and health care in Viet Nam on a range of topics including the social determinants of health, non-communicable diseases, and universal health coverage.
Working to ensure that policies on the promotion of access to HIV and HCV treatment are developed and implemented effectively and systematically.
Helping build a new sector for social entrepreneurship in Viet Nam and the region.
Leveraging broad community networks to spread awareness about social injustice, social-economic problems, and actions towards improving life for disadvantaged groups, especially domestic violence victims and children with autism.
Working to create an efficient and affordable health care service model as an alternative to the current public hospital system.
JEREMY LIM
LIU CHENHUI
NGUYEN THU HA
NATALIE PHAHOLYOTHIN
Associate Director, Rockefeller Foundation’s Asia Regional Office Bangkok, Thailand
SI ZHANJIE
Executive Director/Morning News Producer, Viet Nam National Television Hanoi, Viet Nam
JIRUTH SRIRATANABAN
NILA TANZIL
Working on increasing the use of technology to improve health equity and access to care.
Advancing use of mobile technology for helping doctors deliver health care in China.
Overseeing content development for national television on social issues, including gender and domestic violence, women’s health, and HIV/AIDS.
Working to create momentum for universal health coverage across Southeast Asia and also focusing on leveraging digital health technologies and data to improve health outcomes at the community level.
Focusing on health service systems in Thailand, including universal coverage, quality management, health sector financing, and health security schemes. Also works to promote equity and quality in education.
Focusing on building libraries and promoting literacy for children who live in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia. Has established over 100 libraries in primary schools in Indonesia’s remote islands.
Partner, Oliver Wyman Singapore
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Co-Founder/Chief Operating Officer, Apricot Forest, Inc. Beijing, China
Director, Aizhen Yunnan, China
Addressing the psychological, physical, social and economic problems of people affected by leprosy in China.
Director, Thailand Research Center for Health Service Systems, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand
Postdoctoral Fellow, United Nations University International Institute of Global Health Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Founder, Taman Bacaan Pelangi (Rainbow Reading Garden) Jakarta, Indonesia
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BENJAMIN LAWRENCE PATRICK E. ARITAO
LYNNA CHANDRA
DENG RUI (RITA)
DO THUY DUONG
SANTI LAPBENJAKUL
THARANI LOGANATHAN
LUONG THE HUY
NGUYEN THI LAN ANH
Rescuing victims of trafficking from places of exploitation and using casework lessons to derive systemic remedies.
Helping make excellent and compassionate health care available for all, especially those from marginalized communities.
Teaching students and conducting research contributing to the improvement of health for ethnic minorities, especially women and young girls.
Designing and implementing leadership development programs to enhance the quality of women’s lives.
Working with the government to train caregivers and redirect health care resources toward home care.
Focusing on achieving universal health coverage, and providing financial risk protection to households.
Focusing on same-sex union rights and recognition for transsexuals in Viet Nam.
Helping strengthen the social movement of people with disabilities and empowering them, especially youth, women, to address their reproductive and sexual health.
WAI WAI HAN
ARIEL CARINGAL HERNANDEZ
BEVERLY LORRAINE C. HO
CHANNÉ SUY LAN
PAN MYAT MON
SOMPORN (NUI) PENGKAM
ALAY PHONVISAY
KANAPON (TUM) PHUMRATPRAPIN
Combating rural poverty and promoting equity-based development and sustainable peace.
Working on providing the Department of Health with evidence needed to support health system reforms, including the strategic allocation and monitoring of health systems research funds to improve the health of Filipinos equitably and efficiently.
Designing solutions to help people elevate their dignity and living conditions through improvements in health, education, and economic development.
Working with rights litigators and academics to facilitate community health impact assessment learning in Thailand and Myanmar.
Focusing on trade and poverty reduction.
National Director of Prosecution Development, International Justice Mission Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Research Officer Ministry of Health and Sports Yangon, Myanmar
Researching communicable disease, maternal and child health, and reproductive health and access to health care and utilization of health services among vulnerable populations.
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Founder, Rachel House Indonesia Singapore
Managing Director/School Director, Bangko sa Balay Foundation/Global Mindanaw Polytechnic Northern Mindanao, Philippines
Associate Professor, Kunming Medical University Yunnan, China
Health Research Division Chief, Philippines Department of Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau Manila, Philippines
CEO/Founder TalentPool Hanoi, Viet Nam
Regional Lead, InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Director, Lamsonthi Hospital Lopburi, Thailand
Country Program Manager, Australian Volunteers (Myanmar) Yangon, Myanmar
Helping bring a sustainable social and development change in Myanmar.
Medical Lecturer, Social and Preventive Medicine Department at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Community Health Impact Assessment Practitioner Udon Thani, Thailand
LGBT Rights Program Manager, Institute for Studies of Society, Economy and Environment Hanoi, Viet Nam
Lecturer, Faculty of Economic and Business Management, National University of Laos Vientiane, Lao PDR
Founder/Director, Action at the Community Development Center Hanoi, Viet Nam
CEO/Co-founder Health at Home Nonthaburi, Thailand
Combining his expertise in geriatric medicine with his passion for home health care technology, to serve Thailand’s growing elderly population.
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SATIRIANTINAH (SATI) BUR RASUANTO
ABELARDO APOLLO (ARCHIE) ILAGAN DAVID, JR.
BUI THI THUY
Leading the High-Impact Entrepreneurship movement in Indonesia by building an ecosystem that supports scale-up entrepreneurs, helping them accelerate their growth and providing them with a platform for paying it forward to other younger entrepreneurs.
Promoting the education, health and empowerment of youth with disabilities in the Philippines.
SHI NAN
NUR KHAULAH FADZIL
Managing Director, Endeavor Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia
Lecturer, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University Beijing, China
Focusing on health, food, and drug safety across China.
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Founder/Executive Director Independent Living Learning Centre (ILLC)/Academia Progresiva de Manila (APDM)/REACH Foundation Tarlac City, Philippines
Livelihoods Field Officer, Malaysian Humanitarian Aid and Relief Selangor, Malaysia
Leading communitybased projects to improve livelihoods, access to health care and prevention and response towards sexual and gender-based violence.
ABDEL JAMAL DISANGCOPAN
HAN WIN HTAT
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 international human rights law to national legislation and policies to ensure that the human rights of all, specifically the marginalized and underrepresented, are upheld and defended.
Strengthening health systems to tackle health and social inequity issues particularly for vulnerable people living across Myanmar, including strategic purchasing in primary health care to improve quality and efficiency in the non-public sector.
SOPHIA BENEDICTA HAGE
HOANG TU ANH
Head of the Nursing Department, Viet Nam National Children’s Hospital Hanoi, Viet Nam
Clinic Manager/Founding Member Medifit Clinic Jakarta, Indonesia
Focusing on issues of sexual and gender-based violence and on promoting healthy lifestyles.
Attorney/Law Reform Specialist Iligan City, Philippines
Founding Member/Vice Director, Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population Hanoi, Viet Nam
Empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged communities and enhancing state accountability.
NORAIDA ABDULLAH KARIM
KOUNG LO
Researching social and environmental change and child health and taking part in a national level large-scale early child development intervention program in Shanghai and rural western China.
Working to improve reproductive health programs and services to alleviate issues associated with teenage pregnancies, especially in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Working to improve access to health information and health services, especially for remote patient populations, and has spearheaded an initiative to support high-risk pregnant women.
BORWORNSOM (ACK) LEERAPAN
BAWI MANG LIAN
ELISABETH LISTYANI
SHARON LOW
Applying systems thinking in solving complex issues such as regional governance of Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage, communitybased health interventions for vulnerable populations, patient safety in primary care settings, and dynamics of health workforce planning.
Focusing on monitoring Myanmar’s National Health Plan and towards improving the allocation of health resources in Myanmar, especially the distribution of health facilities.
Working to strengthen Indonesia’s health system by supporting hospitals to improve their services in collaboration with local government.
Working for social inclusiveness of those who are invisible in society and to understand how they are tied into national health and social policies and systems.
National Director of the Sun Quality Health Network, Population Services International, Myanmar Yangon, Myanmar
Assistant Professor, Community Medicine Department, Ramathibodi Medical School, Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand
JIANG FAN
Vice Chancellor, Shanghai Jiaotong University school of Medicine Shanghai, China
Medical Officer, National Health Plan Implementation Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Health and Sport Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
Director of Mindanao Program, Community and Family Services International Cotabato City, Philippines
Researcher, Center for Health and Policy Management, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Director, Preah Vihear Provincial Health Department Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Managing Director, Asia Conflict and Security (ACAS) Singapore
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TIARA MARTHIAS
NGUYEN THI THAI LAN
NGUYEN TRAN NGUYEN
ANA P. SANTOS
XU JIN
Assessing geographical equity in reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health.
Creating change through supporting access to health and social services for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, such as children in special circumstances, persons with disabilities, HIV/AIDs patients and marginalized groups.
Working to expand health insurance coverage and health service provision, with a focus on the growing elderly population.
Reporting about sexual health rights, HIV and various gender issues and advocating for access to comprehensive sex education and reproductive health services for Filipino youth.
Working to bring greater recognition to the importance and feasibility of reducing health inequities and facilitating China’s contribution to global health equity.
CARMENEZA DOS SANTOS MONTEIRO
PAIROJ SAONUAM
MAY SRIPATANASKUL
KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM
Working towards a just and equal society through fair, inclusive public policy formulation and implementation.
Seeking to empower individuals and organizations for a healthy society and environment.
Lecturer/PhD Student, Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University Gadjah Mada/ Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne West Java, Indonesia
Director for Policy and Institutional Strengthening, Asia Foundation, Timor-Leste Dili, Timor-Leste
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Lecturer, Social Work, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Viet Nam National University Hanoi, Viet Nam
Director of Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Section Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) Bangkok, Thailand
Official Office of People’s Committee of Dong Thap Province Dong Thap, Viet Nam
Founder/CEO, LUKKID/Asian Leadership Academy Bangkok, Thailand
Developing humancentered work processes that allow people to tackle social challenges through collaboration.
Journalist Brgy Bel-Air Makati City, Philippines
Lecturer, Peking University’s Center for Health Development Studies Beijing, China
Founder/CEO, Porous City Network/Landprocess Bangkok, Thailand
Working to tackle climate change and increase urban resilience in Thailand and Southeast Asian cities through landscape architecture.
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Building a healthier, more equal South Africa. BASED AT TEKANO
HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTH AFRICA
2018 FELLOWS
DUDU DLAMINI
Human rights defender, Advocacy and Law Reform Programme (ALRP) Team Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT) Pretoria, South Africa
MICHELLE DUTOIT
Legal Researcher Eastern Cape, South Africa
SIPHOKAZI DYANI
Senior Trainer, Sonke Gender Justice Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
ZANELE (NTOMBIZANELE) FIGLAN
KHULULWA JAMPO
Environmental Health Practitioner, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Nyanga, Cape Town, South Africa
Enable Mentor Mother programme Ngqeleni, Eastern Cape, South Africa
LANCE LOUSKIETER
Lecturer, researcher at University of Cape Town (UCT) Cape Town, South Africa
TRACEY MALAWANA
Coordinator, Healthy Living Alliance Rosebank, Gauteng, South Africa
NOMATHAMSANQA MNGXEKEZA
Member of Sexual Reproductive Justice Coalition Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Fighting for the decriminalization of sex work.
Advocating for health rights and universal health coverage internationally, continentally and in South Africa.
Empowering adolescent boys and girls on health, social, educational and economic assets, and shifting gender norms and attitudes among adolescents.
Pursuing a health activism agenda to change people’s quality of life for the better.
Providing support, counselling and basic health education to pregnant women, with a focus on chronic treatment adherence, mostly related to HIV & AIDS.
Deepening social justice through engaged scholarship and teaching.
Engaging different audiences about the proposed sugar tax, obesity, diabetes, danger of sugary drinks and other necessary policy changes.
Advocating for sexual and reproductive rights to overcome inequalities and oppressions, including silencing, stigma, and other barriers to accessing information, resources and services.
VUYOKAZI GONYELA
THANIA GOPAL
AMY GREEN
THAMSANQA HAMILTON HUKWE
SHANNON MORGAN
KODWA MPEPHO
THOKOZILE MTSOLONGO
SIBONGILE MTUNGWA
Organizing and mobilizing communities in Southern region of Johannesburg around land, housing and other socioeconomic issues.
Contributing towards the development of a community-based inclusive development programme for persons with disabilities.
Promoting leadership skills and access to quality healthcare for girls and young women.
Supporting youth educational development, health and wellness.
Exploring partnerships and sustainable ways of advancing girls’ health, education and identity as part of their human rights.
National Strategic Plan Review Advocacy Officer, SECTION27 Johannesburg, South Africa
Creating wider strategic awareness about the National Strategic Plan on HIV, TB and STIs.
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Freelance journalist/Post-graduate student Cape Town, South Africa
Advocating for access to equitable health services for all South Africans.
Senior writer, Health-e News Service Johannesburg, South Africa
Reporting on noncommunicable diseases and food security and how the two intersect.
Chairperson of Abahlali base Freedom Park - a shackdweller movement Johannesburg, South Africa
Project Coordinator, Jabulani Rural Health Foundation Zithulele, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Founding Director of Women and Girls Leadership (WGL) Foundation Pretoria, South Africa
Founder, The Youth Profile Project Johannesburg, South Africa
Director, Women’s Leadership and Training Programme KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
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SHEHNAZ MUNSHI
BERNARD MUTSAGO
LINDI MZANKOMO
NOLUTHANDO NDLOVU
LENA STOFILE
CARINA TRUYTS
BULELA VAVA
NIKKI VERMEULEN
Working with the People’s Health Movement (SA) to ensure the implementation of the National Health Insurance program brings great equity in access to quality health care and services.
Advocating for a South Africa where primary health care takes centre stage and all South Africans have access to affordable, quality health care regardless of class, employment, gender, origin, or ability to pay.
Developing social assistance models, budgets and policy advancements for improved health and education outcomes for the poor.
Conducting and disseminating research to strengthen health systems, with a focus on addressing food systems and environments in relation to non-communicable diseases.
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 for people living in informal settlements.
Developing new anthropology courses, programme, and writing based on her nourishment MA research that steps off from public health, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease and epigenetic findings that frame the ‘first 1,000 days’ as a crucial intervention time.
Building an activist oral health workforce with a focus on grass roots community and peer to peer engagement to realise, preserve and protect society’s right to quality oral health services.
Focusing on changing the ways in which we engage with communities (through the use of community development) to reduce community experiences of disempowerment, apathy and helplessness.
TINASHE T NJANJI
MAFOKO PHOMANE
KENTSE RADEBE
WENDY SOMLAVI
LUQMAN YESUFU
Promoting socio-economic justice for all, including addressing social determinants for health.
Advocating for access to quality health services for rural communities across South Africa.
Developing an affordable model for the delivery of basic mental health services at the community level.
Promoting recycling in townships.
Training environmental health practitioners, building their capacity to be aware of factors in the environment that affect health.
Researcher for ‘Sonke CHANGE Trial’ project, based at the Wits School of Public Health and Steering Committee member of People’s Health Movement (PHM) Johannesburg, South Africa
Coordinator, People’s Health Movement South Africa Cape Town, South Africa
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Health Policy Researcher, South African Medical Association Pretoria, South Africa
Projects Coordinator, Rural Health Advocacy Project Johannesburg, South Africa
Senior Budget Analyst: Public Finance: National Treasury (Department of Finance) Pretoria, South Africa
Head of Social Impact, South African College of Applied Psychology Cape Town, South Africa
Researcher, Health Systems Trust KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Founder, Wheely in a Wheelie Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
Environmental Health Manager for the City of Cape Town Khayelitsha, South Africa
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley Kimberley, South Africa
Public Sector Dentist Eastern Cape, South Africa
Lecturer, Occupational Therapy Department, University of the Western Cape Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa
Environmental Health Campaigner, GroundWork KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
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Connecting Changemakers. Advancing Equity. BASED AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION
RACIAL EQUITY
2018 FELLOWS
OBENEWA AMPONSAH
ASANDA BENYA
DEVON CARBADO
DARA COOPER
CHRISTOPHER JOHN
BRIAN KAMANZI
KELLY-EVE KOOPMAN
TALILA LEWIS
Developing tools and resources that equip educators to build anti-racist school cultures and empower their students to be agents of change.
Documenting the experiences of Black mineworkers, especially women, with the goal of provoking serious debate about their working conditions.
Working to create and sustain inclusive, equitable learning environments, and completing a book on the role the Fourth Amendment plays in exposing African Americans to police violence.
Working towards cultivating and advancing Black leadership, building Black self-determination, Black institution building and organizing for food sovereignty, land and justice.
Establishing, through collaborative research with students, institutional change strategies to transform curriculum, organizational culture and practices that continue to cast a shadow over the current generation of South African learners.
Investigating the potential of renewable energy systems in developing alternatives toward a more democratic society.
Driving social transformation through Coloured Mentality, a community media platform and web series that engages in critical storytelling, debate and dialogue around coloured identity.
Engaging in anti-violence, decarceration and prison abolition work that addresses the nexus between race, class, disability and structural inequity. Focuses on deaf wrongful conviction cases and creator of the only national deaf prisoner database.
MARISA FRANCO
ALICIA GARZA
DALLAS GOLDTOOTH
MARY HOOKS
RUKIA LUMUMBA
NTOMBIKANINA MALINGA
JOEL MODIRI
NEO MUYANGA
Empowering and supporting Latinx and Chicanx communities. Exploring how to better advocate for and build unity between marginalized and exploited communities.
Building the movement for Black lives by engaging in narrative change efforts and direct action organizing.
Empowering communities to stand for climate justice and resist settler colonialism. Also deepening the conversation of dismantling racism at the intersection of Black and indigenous thought.
Building the leadership capacity of the LGBTQ community in the South through direct action efforts and dynamic campaigns.
Working with communities by leading campaigns for social change including the development of alternative responses to crime and preventing the incarceration of young people of color.
Creating new narratives to invoke soul consciousness as a tool in shaping private and public sector leadership in Africa to unlock the individual/personal shift necessary to imagining new political economic paradigms critical to ending racial injustice globally.
Teaching critical race theory to deliver graduates who are historically and politically literate and engaged with inequality and injustice. Completing a book on Black Consciousness.
Using storytelling and music to transcend the barriers erected between diverse communities by apartheid.
Executive Director, Africa Office, Harvard University Center for African Studies Johannesburg, South Africa
Director, Mijente Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa
Strategy & Partnerships Director, National Domestic Workers’ Alliance and Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter Oakland, California, USA
Associate Vice Chancellor & Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Los Angeles, California, USA
Campaign Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network Brookfield, Illinois, USA
National Organizer, National Black Food and Justice Alliance Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Co-Director, Southerners On New Ground Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Chief Institutional Administrator, AFDA (The School of Creative Economies) Durban, South Africa
Founder, People’s Advocacy Institute Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Candidate, Master of Science in Engineering, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa
CEO, Sastela Johannesburg, South Africa
Director & Co-Creator, Coloured Mentality Cape Town, South Africa
Lecturer, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa
Co-Founder & Volunteer Director, Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities (HEARD) Washington, DC, USA
Composer-in-Residence, Johannesburg International Mozart Festival & the National Arts Festival of South Africa Cape Town, South Africa
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MARLON PETERSON
Founder, The Precedential Group Brooklyn, New York, USA
CHRISTOPHER PETRELLA
Director of Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships, Antiracist Research & Policy Center American University Bethesda, Maryland, USA
RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS
Managing Attorney, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
ALBERTO RETANA
President & CEO, Community Coalition Los Angeles, California, USA
MICHAEL SMITH
Executive Director, MBK Alliance & Director, Youth Opportunity Programs Obama Foundation Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Improving the services and leadership capacity of organizations working toward criminal justice reform. Highlighting the journeys of resilience, redemption and success of formerly incarcerated people as host of the podcast, Decarcerated.
Collaborating with young people to architect a more just, gentle and humane world. Scholarly work explores the histories of racialization and resistance and historicizes the ways that race is constructed and contested through citizenship education, carcerality, and migration.
Addressing racial inequity in community redevelopment, preservation of affordable housing, and disinvestment from neighborhoods.
Building a Los Angeles Center for Community Organizing, planned as a state-of-the-art center capable of involving thousands of people in racial justice campaigns, incubating and increasing the capacity of organizations to defeat anti-Black racism.
Galvanizing leaders from across sectors to reform policy, eliminate barriers and invest in impactful interventions that create pathways to opportunity for boys and young men of color from cradle to college, career and beyond.
RASHAD ROBINSON
FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ
SIYABONGA SHANGE
HOLIDAY SIMMONS
STHANDIWE ‘STHA’ YENI
Leading the largest online racial justice organization in the United States, focused on delivering a strategic, powerful Black response to the needs and injustices of the Black community.
Building a national network of artists of color and migrant artists who create artwork that speaks to the similarities between Black and Latinx people.
Mentoring, pastoring and hosting restorative conversations to empower and educate people from the lowest levels in society to have equal opportunities and to combat racism.
Working on transgender rights and Black and Indigenous intersectionality.
Strengthening the capacity of activists through political and popular education on social mobilization, advocacy and alternatives to the dominant, inequitable models of land use and economic development.
Executive Director, Color of Change New York, New York, USA
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Executive Director, CultureStrike Oakland, California, USA
Youth Pastor, Grace Family Church Durban, South Africa
Organizer & Transgender Rights Activist Atlanta, Georgia, USA
THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJAN
SARAH SUMMERS
RICHARD WALLACE
Building the power of Black and Dalit movements to overcome white supremacy and caste apartheid.
Unpacking coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa through the Coloured Mentality web series and online platform. The goal is to heal communities, challenge structural racism and begin to co-create a reimagined world that is not formed by white supremacy.
Organizing Black workers to confront the impact of economic disparities in housing, education and employment.
Executive Director, Equality Labs Weehawken, New Jersey, USA
Co-Creator, Coloured Mentality Cape Town, South Africa
Founder and Executive Director, Equity And Transformation (EAT) Chicago, Illinois, USA
National Coordinator, Tshintsha Amakhaya Cape Town, South Africa
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Working toward real-world solutions to global inequalities. BASED AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS’ INTERNATIONAL INEQUALITIES INSTITUTE
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY
2017 FELLOWS
OLUFOLAHAN (FOLA) ADELEKE
SAIDA ALI
FREDRICK ALUCHELI
SEBASTIAN BOCK
PRIYANKA KOTAMRAJU
ROSE LONGHURST
JOHNNY MILLER
MASANA NDINGA-KANGA
Assessing Zimbabwe’s existing regulatory regime related to corporate transparency to inform the advocacy of various campaigns for greater public funds to be made available for social spending to curb the stark inequality in subSaharan Africa.
Focusing on the intersection of care work and migration.
Investigating the effects of unequal access to educational opportunities on employment of persons with disabilities in Kenya.
Exploring how, when and why the narratives that frame how we think about systemic issues have changed in the past and what we can learn from that for the future.
Exploring the cost/burden of social mobility among Dalit (scheduled caste) women in India.
Exploring whether participatory grantmaking (where the potential recipient of a grant is involved in the decision-making process) offers an alternative to traditional philanthropic foundations that are often criticised for being undemocratic.
Conducting photographic explorations of inequality in South Africa using drones.
Focusing on urban violence, social contracting and transitional justice in Africa.
MELANIE R BROWN
PATRICIO ESPINOZA
JOSEPH HASSON
TRACY JOOSTE
JACK NISSAN
LOUIS OLANYA OYARO
LOUISE RUSSELL-PRYWATA
JANE SLOANE
Focusing on elevating the voice of teachers in federal education policy.
Exploring to what extent the educational reforms in Chile during the period 1990-2016 have contributed to the reproduction of the structure of inequality in Chilean society.
Working with grassroots movements and political campaigns that challenge systemic inequalities.
Promoting evidence-based public policy that addresses inequality.
Working with children and young people through a range of creative workshops, music hubs, alternative orchestras and apprenticeship.
Exploring Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach to assess its utility to help realize equality of people with disabilities in Uganda.
Exploring the connections between large scale philanthropy, politics and business, and what this means for challenging inequality.
Building a community of feminist filmmakers, connecting them to financial resources, to key policy forums and to each other to shape narratives to expose and confront inequalities in the region.
Visiting Senior Researcher, Mandela Institute, Wits University Johannesburg, South Africa
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Washington, DC
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International Consultant Nairobi, Kenya
Legislative Chief, Ministry of Education Santiago, Chile
Disability Inclusion Advisor, Light for the World Nairobi, Kenya
Campaign Coordinator and Co-Founder, Equal Education London, UK
Senior Strategist, Greenpeace International Berlin, Germany
Freelance policy researcher Cape Town, South Africa
Independent Journalist Hyderabad, India
Director, The Tinderbox Collective Edinburgh, UK
Facilitation Group Member at FundAction Manchester, UK
Lawyer Heidelberg, Germany
Photographer, Unequal Scenes; Fellow, Code For Africa; Founder, africanDRONE Cape Town, South Africa
Head of Development, Transparency International UK, 2018 Cohort also Gillingham, UK
Research Manager, The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Johannesburg, South Africa
Director of the Women’s Empowerment Program, The Asia Foundation San Francisco, California, USA
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2017 FELLOWS
2018 FELLOWS
RANIA M. TARAZI
APPU ESTHOSE SURESH
MILENA ABRAHAMYAN
KRIPA BASNYAT
TANYA CHARLES
ALLISON CORKERY
RENATA CUK
TAYLOR ERSKINE DOWNS
Exploring the implications for coping strategies of lowincome men and women due to removal of the bread subsidy in Jordan.
Examining the role of monetary policy in accelerating income and wealth inequality using India as a case study.
Focusing on violence against women, queer and LGBTI resistance, racial justice, right to education and the struggle against war and militarisation.
Researching best practices for adopting policies and programs to ensure equality and inclusion of the most marginalised communities in Nepal.
Exploring how as a feminist activist she can influence economic and development policies necessary for achieving gender justice.
Using international human rights law as a tool to challenge unjust economic policies that fuel inequalities.
Working on supporting initiatives that create systems that citizens can use to reshape institutional democracy, making it more responsive, transparent, inclusive, and accountable.
Exploring the influences of technology, specifically automation and artificial intelligence, on inequality. For example, how privatelyowned IP is already reducing the demand for certain types of labor at an alarming rate.
HILLARY VIPOND
NICOLA BROWNE
LAUREN BURKE
CRAIG DUBE
ELIMANE KANE
MILANOI KOIYIET
JAMES MURAGURI
Developing a dataset on relative wages for skilled and unskilled labour following technological changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution and using that data to explore parallels to modern times.
Focusing on making public decision-making more participatory through a unique, human-rights based, participatory research methodology.
Engaging workers in the food, transport, and energy industries in campaigns to transition to a carbon-neutral economy.
Exploring how emerging technologies can be harnessed to bring equity in different settings.
Undertaking scientific analyses of inequalities to identify pathways to potential solutions both in Senegal and globally.
Focusing on challenging inequalities and demanding a life free from violence for all vulnerable children and women.
Focusing on using public finance management to address inequalities in newly formed counties struggling with planning and management of devolved resources.
International Development Programme Specialist Amman, Jordan
Journalist and editor New Delhi, India
Campaigner for Oxfam and Fight Inequality Alliance London, UK
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Feminist justice and peace activist Yerevan, Armenia
Director and Co-Founder of Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) in Belfast County Antrim, UK
Programme Manager, The Asia Foundation Kathmandu, Nepal
Organizing Consultant, Labor Network for Sustainability Washington, DC, USA
Gender and Women’s Rights Consultant Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Regional Field Officer, Champions For Life Harare, Zimbabwe
Program Director, Rights Claiming and Accountability, Center for Economic and Social Rights New York, NY, USA
Governance expert, Oxfam International in Senegal Dakar, Senegal
Senior Program Specialist at the Open Society Initiative for Europe Barcelona, Spain
Human Rights Lawyer, Centre for Women’s Rights Advocacy Nairobi, Kenya
Founder, Open Function Abdijan, Côte d’Ivoire
Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Public Finance Kenya Nairobi, Kenya
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2018 FELLOWS
ROSELINE ORWA
ANITA PEĂ‘A SAAVEDRA
GABRIELLA RAZZANO
LOUISE RUSSELL-PRYWATA
Championing social justice and empowerment for rural widows in Kenya, and exploring creative ways to overcome harmful cultural practices. Her goal is to enable women to be partners in progress, improve their livelihoods, and become change makers with laws protecting them.
Focusing on combatting gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights and LGBT issues.
Focusing on access to information and freedom of expression issues.
Focusing on how economic systems can become more equitable, and specifically in how greater public participation in economic debates can facilitate greater economic equity.
ANJALI SARKER
MAUREEN SIGAUKE
PEDRO RIBEIRO TELLES
Leading a project to bring digital financial services to the doorsteps of one million rural women in Bangladesh.
Focusing on environmental concerns, equality within labor law, and youth development.
Focusing on addressing severe inequalities in political systems.
Founder, Rona Foundation and a correspondent writer with Modern Widows Club’s online magazine, and a TV Talk show host Nairobi, Kenya
Senior Manager, BRAC Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Feminist activist, academic, consultant and former advisor to the Chilean Vice Minister of Women Santiago, Chile
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Green Active Citizens Trust (GACT) Kwekwe, Zimbabwe
Acting Director and Head of Legal Research, Open Democracy Advice Centre. 2017 Cohort also. Cape Town, South Africa
Head of Development at Transparency International UK 2017 Cohort also. Gillingham, UK
Representative in Brazil for Governance and Citizen Engagement, Omidyar Network Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Harnessing Indigenous knowledge and ingenuity for social impact. BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
SOCIAL EQUITY
2018 FELLOWS
MARCUS AKUHATABROWN
DURKHANAI AYUBI
ROXANNE BAINBRIDGE
JODY BARNEY
NICOLE JENKINS
MAGGIE KAVANAGH
FAYE MCMILLAN
DAMIEN MILLER
Leading an Indigenous Youth Leadership Development Programme for 25 – 35 year old rangatahi Maori to further advance the space rangatahi Maori play as active agents in all spheres of development in New Zealand society and beyond.
Using the transformative power of shared experiences through food, to help people unlearn discrimination and empower them to be advocates for social change.
Developing and evaluating the social and emotional learning strategies being implemented in Queensland boarding schools, to help remote Indigenous students better engage in life and learning.
Examining how deaf and hard of hearing Indigenous women can increase their own personal, community, educational and employment growth, and be key women in their communities, nurturing future leaders.
Helping establish a skill set that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people bring to the work force, and that has not been acquired through formal education/ training.
Working with Aboriginal people from remote desert communities to establish a leadership and governance knowledge centre in Alice Springs.
Developing a mental health app that creates a community of support based on people identified within an individual’s mobile phone contact list.
Developing a hub for best practice policy to improve socio-economic outcomes for Indigenous peoples, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.
MICHELLE CRAIGIE
NICHOLAS EAKIN
SEAN GORDON
ARIADNE GORRING
LEANNE MILLER
Executive Director of Koorie Women Mean Business Melbourne, Australia
YVONNE O’BRIEN
DEAN PARKIN
Business Development Manager, Kimberley Land Council Broome, Australia
Creating a service hub within the Kimberley Land Council to enable Aboriginal ranger groups and native title corporations to scale up cultural and conservation enterprises, and effectively drive a new economy in remote Kimberley communities.
Establishing a national alliance of Aboriginal women leading social and environmental responsible land based enterprises.
Working to achieve positive change within educational institutions and improve outcomes for Maori students.
Empowering Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities to craft their own narratives and lead their own change and development.
Director, Tukaha Global Consultancy Ltd Aoteroa / New Zealand
Senior Adviser at Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Canberra, Australia
Assisting women on their exit from prison, with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and helping increase their selfesteem.
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Restaurateur and freelance journalist Adelaide, Australia
General Manager, Regions at Jawun Central Coast, Australia
Exploring what gains could be made in social equity if self-determination potential was boosted by addressing trauma from a neuropsychological and neurophysiological perspective.
Associate Professor of Indigenous Health at Central Queensland University, and Director at the Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research Cairns, Australia
CEO of the Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council Charlestown, Australia
Working to close the gap on the social and economic disparity of Indigenous Australians, and ensure that legislation, policy and programs have a positive impact and convert to genuine opportunities for Indigenous economic empowerment and independence.
Aboriginal Disability Community Consultant Shepparton, Australia
Director Social Heuristics The Channon, Australia
Consultant at Kavanagh Consulting Alice Springs, Australia
Deputy CEO, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi Whakatane, New Zealand
Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University Coolamon, Australia
Assistant Secretary, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Canberra, Australia
Indigenous Community Consultant Sydney, Australia
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