The Global Community Book 2016-2021 by Atlantic Institute

GLOBAL COMMUNITY 2016 – 2021

CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01 Equity in Brain Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04 Health Equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Health Equity in Southeast Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Health Equity in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Racial Equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Social and Economic Equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Social Equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Directory of Global Atlantic Fellows Program Staff . . . . . . . 104

“Atlantic Fellows celebrate and pursue possibilities for social change collaboratively, through developing strong connections with values-based organizations and other Fellows in the global Atlantic community. They recognize the power and duty of privilege to respond intelligently, with empathy and a sense of urgency in this time of myriad human needs. Change for the better is not only possible, it is our shared human imperative.”

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

Image taken in Kenya by Johnny Miller, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity. His photography focuses on scenes of inequality around the world (unequalscenes.com).

Welcome to the Atlantic Fellows community Our mission is to empower catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. Our world is complex, uncertain and full of ambiguities. Although there has been progress, social and economic inequalities persist across the world, with already endangered groups of people suffering disproportionately. In the context of demographic and social change, rapid urbanization, climate change and shifts in economic power and technology, there is an urgent need for collective action. Atlantic Fellows are exceptional leaders in their field of work with a deep resolve for a more equal and just world. United in their pursuit of equity, Fellows come from all walks of life and a variety of professions. They include advocates, artists, journalists, lawyers, business professionals, health practitioners, government officials, academics and researchers. Working across diverse settings and contexts, and from within the communities they serve, Atlantic Fellows are courageous, compassionate, and collaborative thinkers and doers, who collectively seek to bring lasting improvements, locally and globally. After completing one of seven Atlantic Fellows programs, which share a purpose of advancing fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies, Fellows join a lifelong local community and a global community, supported by the Atlantic Institute. They are provided with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn, and act to address the underlying systemic causes of inequity. The Fellows represented in this book are from a wide range of disciplines, geographies and perspectives. However diverse in experience and approach, they have a common goal: to achieve transformational power for the communities they serve. COVID-19 has exposed existing inequities across the world, giving Fellows a renewed sense of purpose and commitment to combat the worst impacts of the virus on the most vulnerable communities. The COVID-19 crisis continues to be a catalyst for deep connection and solidarity among Atlantic Fellows. Alongside the shared mission of tackling the long-term underlying structural systems that drive inequities, they are also seeking responsive solutions to the immediate challenges of the pandemic. The book also contains the details of the program staff who are working for the seven Atlantic Fellows programs worldwide and the Atlantic Institute. Their ongoing knowledge exchange, shared learning and an alignment of activities strategically benefits the whole Atlantic community. Together, we seek to accelerate the eradication of global inequities. A better world begins with you.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 16–2021

There are now 588 Atlantic Fellows, who are active in 68 countries. Over the next two decades, the network is expected to grow to 2,500.

The Nethe United Kingdom Ireland 14

1 Canada

1 Bermuda

1 Cuba 1 Haiti 1 Jamaica Trinidad 2 and Colombia 6 Tobago Ecuador 2

Mexico 7 Nicaragua 1 Costa Rica 1

Peru

Brazil 5 Chile

7 Argentina

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1 44

Ger 1 4 Belgium 10 Italy 2 Spain France Portugal 1

129

Active Fellows by country as of June 2021

Senegal 1

7 Nigeria

Sierra 1 3 Ghana Leone 1 Liberia Congo DR

South

erlands

1 Sweden mark 2 Lithuania

rmany Austria Lao PDR 1 Serbia 1 Armenia 2 Nepal 3 Turkey 2 11 1 Iraq Greece 2 Thailand 3 Jordan 1 China Myanmar 4 Israel Pakistan 9 Egypt Viet Nam 7 6 18 India 19 16 1 Sudan Philippines 6 Cambodia 1 Ethiopia 8 a 7 Uganda 2 11 Brunei RC 1 Kenya Malaysia 1 10 1 Zambia Indonesia 2 2 1 Malawi Timor-Leste Singapore Zimbabwe 104 2 39 Botswana

h Africa

Australia 9 New Zealand

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Improving brain health and reducing the impact of dementia worldwide. BASED AT THE GLOBAL BRAIN HEALTH INSTITUTE

2016 FELLOWS

JALAYNE ARIAS

MIRCEA BALASA

NICOLE BATSCH

ELEONORE BAYEN

Assistant professor, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

Neurologist, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

Gerontologist and global consultant Chicago, U.S.

Assistant professor, Sorbonne Université; Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital Paris, France

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

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

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

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

ALISSA BERNSTEIN

DOMINIC CAMPBELL

MARÍA CARMONA-IRAGUI

Assistant professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

Director, Creative Aging International Dublin, Ireland

Faculty neurologist, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Barcelona, Spain

LAURENT CLERET DE LANGAVANT

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

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

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

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Assistant professor in neurology, Paris-Est University; behavioral neurologist, Henri Mondor Hospital Paris, France

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

BÁRBARA COSTA BEBER

CHRISTINE FITZGERALD

ELAINE HOWARD

HANY IBRAHIM

Assistant professor of speech and language pathology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre Porto Alegre, Brazil

Postdoctoral researcher, National University of Ireland Galway Galway, Ireland

Independent consultant, Dementia Focus Myshall, Ireland

Geriatric medicine consultant, assistant professor of geriatric medicine, Ain Shams University Hospital Cairo, Egypt

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

Exploring the role of community services such as Alzheimer cafés in supporting social citizenship, and developing a psychosocial evaluation strategy to mobilize and enhance psychosocial interventions.

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

Working to use modern technology and software platforms for early detection and diagnosis of dementia. Co-founder of Ain Shams Cognitive Training Lab.

ELISSAIOS KARAGEORGIOU

SILVIA KOCHEN

JOSH KORNBLUTH

HEIDI CLARE LAMBERT

Behavioral and sleep neurologist, Sleep and Memory Center, Neurological Institute of Athens Athens, Greece

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

Monologuist, filmmaker and video host, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Berkeley, U.S.

Music educator and performer Cotopaxi, U.S.

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

Providing primary care dementia training and education packages for general practitioners to improve the early diagnosis of dementia, and developing treatment and prevention strategies.

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

Producing a radio program about aging and the creative process, showing how brains benefit from musical engagement. Also developing a musical curriculum for adult day health.

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2016 FELLOWS

JORGE LLIBRE GUERRA

CLAIRE MCEVOY

ROGERIO PANIZZUTTI

GEESKE PEETERS

Research fellow, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network; cognitive neurologist, National Institute of Neurology (Cuba) St. Louis, U.S.

Lecturer, assistant professor in nutrition and aging research, Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, United Kingdom

Associate professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Senior researcher and research coordinator, Radboud University Medical Centre, Dept. of Geriatric Medicine and Radboud umc Alzheimer Centre Utrecht, Netherlands

Researching admixture, ethnicity and health-social disparities in dementia. Developing a program in Cuba to train health care providers and educate the community about aging, mental health and dementia.

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

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

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

ELISA DE PAULA FRANÇA RESENDE

ADRIÀ ROFES

FIONNUALA SWEENEY

JAMIE TALAN

Assistant professor, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands

Journalist; multimedia editor, Atlantic Institute Dublin, Ireland

Science writer, Neurology Today Boise, U.S.

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

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

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

Neurologist, Hospital das Clínicas UFMG-EBSERH; assistant professor, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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

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IOANNIS TARNANAS

LINA VELILLA

ADAM WASKOW

STELIOS ZYGOURIS

Chief scientific officer, Altoida Inc. Houston, U.S.

Psychologist and epidemiologist Medellin, Colombia

Founder, Memory Dog Inc. Marin, U.S.

Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas/ Information & Technologies Institute (CERTH/ ITI) Thessaloniki, Greece

Improving 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 stress and burden-related stigma among caregivers of patients with early onset dementia, caused by the e280a mutation in Antioquia.

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

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

Above: Shamiel McFarlane, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, is a general. practitioner with a particular focus on the socially isolated, homebound, older adult population. Credit: Flatbush Films.

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2017 FELLOWS

TALA AL-ROUSAN

PHAEDRA BELL

KRYSTAL L. CULLER

EMMA CUNNINGHAM

Assistant professor, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) San Diego, U.S.

Education leader and social intervention designer San Francisco, U.S.

Founder and creative director, Virtual Brain Health Center Poland, U.S.

Clinical lecturer in aging in the Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, United Kingdom

Investigating how the stress of war and displacement affects dementia rates in refugees in the Middle East. Co-designed the Atlantic Fellows Thematic Forum in Jordan for learning about migration and health.

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

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

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

ELIZABETH DZENG

DERYA DURUSU EMEK-SAVAS

CORRINA GRIMES

ALEJANDRA GUERRERO BARRAGÁN

Assistant professor of medicine and sociology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

Examining the influence of structural racism, cultures and ethics of neoliberalism on the provision of goaldiscordant end-of-life care in older adults with and without dementia in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Associate professor, Departments of Psychology and Neurosciences, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey

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.

Advance care planning lead, Department of Health, Northern Ireland; head of Business Change, Encompass Northern Ireland (Health and Social Care Board) Belfast, Northern Ireland

Engaging in health and social care policy development and implementation; and currently developing an advance care planning policy for Northern Ireland.

Neurologist, Subred de Salud Sur Occidente Bogota, Colombia

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

KRISTA HARRISON

SANDRA HIGUET

CATHERINE JORDAN

YUE LENG

Assistant professor, Division of Geriatrics and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

Head of the Geriatric Department, Centre Hospitalier Nivelles-Tubize Nivelles, Belgium

Experimental psychologist Dublin, Ireland

Assistant professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

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

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

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

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

MARIANA LONGORIA IBARROLA

DAVID LOUGHREY

JERÓNIMO MARTIN

Postdoctoral fellow, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Clinical fellow in stroke and emergency care, NHS Scotland Mexico City, Mexico

LUIS ARNOLDO MUÑOZ NEVÁREZ

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

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

Faculty, National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery Mexico City, Mexico

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

Geriatric and internal medicine specialist Guadalajara, Mexico

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

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2017 FELLOWS

BRENDA PÉREZ CERPA

CLAUDIA PATRICIA RAMOS-PEREZ

ANA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ SALGADO

Psychiatrist and Ph.D. student, University of Antioquia Havana, Cuba

Neuropsychologist Havana, Cuba

Neurology Resident, University of Louisville Louisville, U.S.

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

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

Introducing technologybased cognitive assessments and support to the Cuban population.

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

CLAIRE SEXTON

KONSTANTINA SYKARA

BOON LEAD TEE

JENNY ZITSER

Director, Scientific Programs and Outreach, Alzheimer’s Association Chicago, U.S.

Clinical psychologist, Neurological Institute of Athens/ Athens Medical Center Athens, Greece

Associate specialist and neurologist, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

World Sleep Society’s International Sleep Research Training Program Fellow, Stanford University San Francisco, U.S.

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

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

Developing an anatomicalspecific and linguistically adapted Chinese Language Assessment in PPA battery for the Chinese-speaking population. Studying impacts of cultural characteristics on social cognitive functions.

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

Geriatric medicine specialist Guadalajara, Mexico

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TALITA ROSA

Above: Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health Phaedra Bell and Rowena Richie hired a master teacher of qigong to co-design a Creative Movement module for an intergenerational program to help reduce the risk of cognitive decline in older people. Credit: Johnny Miller, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2018 FELLOWS

RUFUS AKINYEMI

JANE BENTLEY

KIRSTY BOBROW

LAURA BOOI

Senior research fellow, University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria

Music specialist Glasgow, United Kingdom

Public health physician and epidemiologist Cape Town, South Africa

Research associate, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Nurturing leaders in Africa for collaborative work to improve brain health. Clinical, research and advocacy work focusing on vascular and degenerative brain disorders.

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

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

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

LENISA BRANDAO

SIOBHAN CASEY

GABRI CHRISTA

WALTER DAWSON

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

Director of marketing and business development, Age NI (Northern Ireland) Holywood, United Kingdom

Associate professor of professional practice; director of Movement Lab, Barnard College, Columbia University New York, U.S.

Assistant professor, Oregon Health and Science University Portland, Oregon, U.S.

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

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

Facilitating art initiatives focused on understanding one another’s humanity. Curating dance, education and film events aimed at removing stigmas around age and race.

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

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MYRIAM DE LA CRUZ PUEBLA

LAIS FAJERSZTJAN

MIRIAM GALVIN

SANA-E-ZEHRA HAIDRY

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

Associate professor in research methodology, Academic Unit of Neurology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Scientific researcher and research consultant, University of Groningen; research consultant, Hashmanis Hospital Groningen, Netherlands

Researching headaches to develop clinical, neurophysiological and genetical studies.

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

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

Employing a model to destigmatize, prevent and manage dementia. Addressing the lack of awareness about dementia in low- and middleincome countries.

AGUSTIN IBANEZ

STEFANIA ILINCA

OPHIR KERET

EMI KIYOTA

Director, Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat); director, Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC) Buenos Aires, Argentina Santiago, Chile

Researcher, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research Vienna, Austria

Senior neurologist (hospital), Clalit Health Services, Rabin Medical Center Petah Tikva, Israel

President and founder, Ibasho Silver Spring, U.S.

Empowering Latin American networks and researchers to fight dementia collaboratively.

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

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

Creating socially integrated communities that value elders through Ibasho (a not-forprofit organization) and consulting in the design of communities and cities.

Neurologist and researcher, The Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute; Ph.D. student, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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2018 FELLOWS

ALEX KORNHUBER Photographer Lima, Peru

LINGANI MBAKILE MAHLANZA Assistant professor and neuropsychologist, University of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana

SHAMIEL McFARLANE

EIMEAR McGLINCHEY

General practitioner Little London, Jamaica

Assistant professor in intellectual disability, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

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

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

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

Including people with Down syndrome in all aspects of dementia research.

MAIRA OKADA DE OLIVEIRA

STEFANIE PIÑA-ESCUDERO

MARITZA PINTADO-CAIPA

KIRTI RANCHOD

Neuropsychologist, Hospital Santa Marcelina - Neurology Alta Diagnóstico ReDLat Project São Paulo, Brazil

Associate specialist, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

Attending physician, Research Unit of the Department of Neurology, Peruvian Institute of Neurosciences Lince, Peru

Neurologist Johannesburg, South Africa

Developing strategies to evaluate cognition in populations with low levels of education. Working on developing screening tools to identify cognitive decline in individuals with low levels of schooling.

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

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

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

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ROWENA RICHIE

LORNA ROE

MOHAMED SALAMA

JORGE MARIO LEON SALAS

Dance theater artist and movement educator San Francisco, U.S.

Research assistant professor, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Associate professor, The American University in Cairo New Cairo, Egypt

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

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

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

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

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

DANA WALRATH

FIONA WALSH

GREG WALSH

CINDY WEINSTEIN

Writer, artist and anthropologist South Burlington, U.S.

Principal architect, D.D.S. Architects Ltd. Great Shefford, United Kingdom

Managing director, D.D.S. Architects Ltd. Great Shefford, United Kingdom

Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of English, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, U.S.

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

Designing inclusive environments to support the health and well-being of people with dementia.

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

Recently published “Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain,” written with Dr. Bruce Miller, based on her experience of coming to terms with her father’s diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2018 FELLOWS

2019 FELLOWS

WILBY WILLIAMSON

MERON ABEY

OLAKUNLE ADEWALE

EMILY ADRION

Physician and clinical academic in cardiovascular prevention and brain health Nottingham, United Kingdom

Theater artist, owner of theater production company Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Founder and executive director, Arts in Medicine Projects Lagos, Nigeria

Lecturer (assistant professor) of global health policy, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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

Exploring how arts-based intervention could strengthen health care, social equity and brain health; and establishing the arts in a brain health center for research and training in Ethiopia.

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

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

FERNANDO AGUZZOLI-PERES

ARIANNA ALMIRALL SÁNCHEZ

AYA ASHOUR

Writer and dementia advocate, Vovó Nilva Porto Alegre, Brazil

Sphere Scholar, School of Public Health, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

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

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

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Lecturer and consultant of neurology, Ain Shams University Fifth Settlement, Egypt

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

ANNE BROWNING

ANNA BRUGULAT-SERRAT

SHEILA CASTRO-SUAREZ

YAOHUA CHEN

Assistant dean for well-being, University of Washington Seattle, U.S.

Neuropsychologist and postdoctoral researcher, BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center Barcelona, Spain

Neurologist, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas Lima, Peru

Senior physician; associate professor, CHU Lille University of Lille Lille, France

Promoting resilience, brain health and well-being for health care teams. Developing support for people engaging in equity work, expanding practices and competencies for distress tolerance.

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

Leading the running of a behavioral neurology clinic in Peru. Creating a network in frontotemporal dementia and exploring difficulties relating to diagnosis. Researching cognitive screening tests and the genetics of dementia.

Developing collaborations between pre-clinical and clinical work, and neurology and geriatrics. Leading a translational work of a murine model and a cohort of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

SARAH D’ALESSIO

NAIARA DEMNITZ

KARIN DIAMOND

CLARA DOMINGUEZ VIVERO

Policy analyst, Ministry of Health, Government of Bermuda Bermuda

Postdoctoral researcher, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance Copenhagen, Denmark

Artistic director, Re-Live Cardiff, United Kingdom

Neurologist, Servicio Galego de Saúde Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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

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

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

Working as a clinician with an interest in dementia and behavioral neurology. Aiming to improve communication between clinicians and patients, and increase patient access to non-pharmacological care and support.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2019 FELLOWS

NEUS FALGÀS MARTINEZ

ADIT FRIEDBERG

JONI GILISSEN

JENNIE GUBNER

Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Barcelona, Spain

Research fellow, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

Postdoctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Mechelen, Belgium

Assistant professor of ethnomusicology; chair, Applied Intercultural Arts Research, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, University of Arizona Tucson, U.S.

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

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

Engaging in mixed-methods research and development of interventions to address care needs and improve the quality of life throughout the care trajectory of older adults.

Promoting models of healthy aging and dementia education through music, filmmaking and service-learning. Building bridges between ethnomusicology and the health sciences.

MAËLENN GUERCHET

LAUREN HUNT

IGNACIO ILLÁN GALA

WAMBUI KARANJA

Researcher, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) Limoges, France

Assistant professor of nursing, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, U.S.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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IRINA KINCHIN Health economist, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

BEATRIZ MARCELA MAR MEZA University professor, Peruvian Institute of Neuroscience; geriatric medicine specialist, Air Force Central Hospital Lima, Peru

CHEYENNE MIZE

SEBASTIAN MOGUILNER

Music therapist and owner, Wishing Well Music LLC Louisville, U.S.

Neuroscientist, FUESMEN - Fundación Escuela Medicina Nuclear Mendoza, Argentina

Measuring outcomes and evaluating interventions for people with complex needs and their families.

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

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

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

DIDEM ÖZ

IEVA PETKUTĖ

SILVIA RODRIGO-HERRERO

NICOLE ROGERS CASTILLO

Associate neurologist, Dokuz Eylül University Izmir, Turkey

Creative director, Socialiniai meno projektai; lead, Association “Dementia Lithuania” Vilnius, Lithuania

Neurologist, Hospital Juan Ramon Jimenez Huelva, Spain

Neurologist, Universidad de Chile Santiago, Chile

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

Developing cross-disciplinary partnerships, striving to be a part of purpose-driven arts projects that vocalize and educate about inclusion, health and well-being.

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

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

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2019 FELLOWS

2020 FELLOWS

SANJIB SAHA

JONATHAN ADRIÁN ZEGARRA VALDIVIA

Assistant researcher, Health Economics, Lund University Lund, Sweden

Ph.D. student, Cajal Institute C.S.I.C. Madrid, Spain

FUNMI AKINDEJOYE

FAHEEM ARSHAD

Program manager, Gabi Williams Alzheimer’s Foundation Eti Osa, Nigeria

Cognitive neurologist Bengaluru, India

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

Working to identify biomarkers for early detection of mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

Promoting Alzheimer’s disease awareness, supporting existing dementia care, and researching the epidemiology and environmental risk factors of brain health.

Working to understand the pathophysiological and structural underpinnings of frontotemporal dementia.

DVERA SAXTON

PETRONILLA BATTISTA

CARLOS CHECHETTI

MARIUS ČIURLIONIS

Assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Fresno; affiliated researcher, California Institute of Rural Studies Fresno, U.S.

Neuropsychologist, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri I.R.C.C.S. Santeramo in Colle, Italy

Researcher and project developer, São Paulo University São Paulo, Brazil

Head of Nursing, Social Care and Palliative Medicine Clinic, “Centro poliklinika” Outpatient Clinic Vilnius, Lithuania

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

Researching and treating cognitive, language and communication disorders in patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA).

Developing a social program that uses passion — such as sport, music, movie, poetry, and art — as cognitive stimulation to increase socialization to improve the quality of life for older adults and people with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment.

Advising long-term care coordination and implementation at the Ministry of Health of The Republic of Lithuania.

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FRANCESCA FARINA

SARAH FOX

ADOLFO GARCIA

GRÁINNE HOPE

Postdoctoral research fellow, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Patient and public involvement and engagement officer, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Bury, United Kingdom

Adjunct researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina Mar del Plata, Argentina

Artistic director and founder, Kids’ Classics CLG Dunboyne, Ireland

Researching risk factors and early biomarkers of dementia and developing creative engagement initiatives to promote brain health and lifelong well-being.

Working with people living with dementia and their friends and families to empower them to play an active role in shaping research and policy.

Combining neuroscience and language science to capture early markers of neurodegenerative disorders.

Working to improve the experience and quality of life for those living with dementia through music.

MAGDA KACZMARSKA

DEARBHLA KELLY

HANAN KHALIL

TOMÁS LEÓN

Dance artist and educator New York City, U.S.

Clinical research fellow and Ph.D. candidate, Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom

Associate professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences Irbid, Jordan

Psychiatrist Santiago, Chile

Building creative communities for people living with cognitive impairment through the transformative power of dance.

Researching the overlap between renal and neurological diseases.

Working to increase awareness, improve patient care, and improve understanding of mental health through epidemiological and intervention research.

Researching dementia care, implementation of memory units, dementia teaching, and psychopharmacology in the elderly.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2020 FELLOWS

MILTON LOPEZ

NAHUEL MAGRATH GUIMET

LUCIANO MARIANO

INBAL MAYAN

Associate professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua Managua, Nicaragua

Managing director, clinical neuropsychiatrist, Memory and Aging Center, Neurological Research Institute Raúl Carrea (FLENI) Buenos Aires, Argentina

Neuropsychologist and researcher, Federal University of Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Geriatric Resident, Clalit Medical Services, Meir Medical Center Kefar Sava, Israel

Working with prevention, diagnosis, non-pharmacological therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease (Memory Unit) and providing training to caregivers and families.

Researching frontotemporal dementia diagnosis and education.

Using research to improve diagnosis and to make cognitive-behavioral evaluation simpler and more accurate.

Practicing and building different models of care, trying to find a balance between giving the patients the best care, reducing hospitalization, and tailoring personal treatment options.

KAREN MEENAN

PRIMROSE NYAMAYARO

OBIORA OKOYE

MIGUEL RENTERIA

Social entrepreneur, radio broadcaster and founder of Making Hay Reminiscence Theatre Company Dublin, Ireland

Program manager, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Harare, Zimbabwe

Clinical consultant, San Francisco Department of Public Health Albany, U.S.

Human geneticist, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Calamvale, Australia

Working with people living with dementia and their carers, developing theater and radio broadcasts. In particular, working with people affected with Lewy body disorders and their caregivers to raise awareness of the disease and build community on the island of Ireland.

Researching interventions for dementia that are culturally acceptable for use in her home country, Zimbabwe, and establishing how technology can be utilized to carry out these interventions.

Working to create a collaboration across subSaharan Africa to ensure the prioritization of brain health in public health.

Using genetics and brain imaging methods to understand brain diseases, with a focus on Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, depression and self-harm.

ATL ANTI C F E L LOWS

SUSANNE ROEHR

MOLLIE ROSE

NICKY TAYLOR

KURIPACHA TITUAÑA VEGA

Postdoctoral fellow, head of research group, University of Leipzig Leipzig, Germany

Owner and teacher, Pilates in Common San Francisco, U.S.

Theater and dementia specialist; research fellow, Leeds Beckett University and Leeds Playhouse Leeds, United Kingdom

Geriatric Resident, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador

Using cohort studies and epidemiological methods to identify modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia as well as their social determinants. Conducting lifestyle interventions to mitigate dementia risk.

Working to increase equity in the health care system by exposing a wider population to preventative movement practices.

Working toward a more hopeful narrative of dementia by creating opportunities for people living with dementia to be at the heart of the stories we tell.

Developing programs that serve older people living with dementia, especially in Indigenous people living in poverty.

MARIA MARTHA UNAUCHO PILALUMBO

BERENICE WERLE

LINA ZAPATA

Geriatrician and director, Moriguchi Institute Porto Alegre, Brazil

Psychiatrist Cali, Colombia

Building and spreading the idea of dementia-friendly initiatives, where the care is person-centered and based on the needs of the individual, to promote greater understanding and public awareness.

Working to improve brain health care, focusing on dementia prevention, dementia diagnosis, individualized treatments, and genetics research of neurodegenerative diseases in diverse populations.

Neurologist, Hospital Isidro Ayora Loja, Ecuador

Improving the lives of people living with dementia through neurological diagnosis and management.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

Combating health disparities and promoting equity. BASED AT THE FITZHUGH MULLAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH WORKFORCE EQUITY

2017 FELLOWS

MARY AJWANG

CARLA A. ARENA VENTURA

SARAH BATTISTICH

Program officer, UNAIDS Kampala, Uganda

Full professor, University of São Paulo Riberão Preto, Brazil

Associate professor of emergency medicine, Bellevue New York University Medical Center New York City, U.S.

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

Teaching and researching interdisciplinary and international global themes on global health and human rights, the right to health and mental health, and the social determinants of health.

Supporting survivors of torture and refugees, advocating and researching the medical and mental health effects of immigration, and looking for new collaborations and vistas.

Leading in family medicine and rural health to promote health equity for underrepresented communities and champion well-being globally via partnership, engagement, primary care, research and education.

BRIGIT M. CARTER

KENNETH T. JONES

THOMAS MERRILL

SCOTT NASS

Associate dean for diversity and inclusion, School of Nursing, Duke University Hillsborough, U.S.

Supervisory program analyst; data lead, Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Heath Equity Washington, D.C., U.S.

Data architect, Derick Dermatology Portland, U.S.

Complex care physician, MedZed; program director, Eisenhower Family Medicine, Eisenhower Health Santa Rosa, U.S.

Leading efforts that increase understanding and dismantle the historical and current system structures that are barriers to higher education and inclusive practices within those institutions.

Advising on quantitative data and other measures to better understand and address health equity issues for veterans.

Developing data and information flows for operational improvement and the measuring and monitoring for health system quality improvement.

Partnering through telehealth with individuals living medically and socially complex lives to help them navigate the challenges of their health and the health care system.

ATL ANTI C F E L LOWS

JOEDRECKA S. BROWN SPEIGHTS Associate professor and chair of family medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University Tallahasse, U.S.

TOYESE OYEYEMI

MARIA PORTELA MARTINEZ

CAROLINE MAE RAMIREZ

NEHA RAYKAR

Executive director, Beyond Flexner Alliance; Faculty, University of New Mexico Bethesda, U.S.

Chief of the Family Medicine Section, George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates; medical director, George Washington Immediate Primary Care Clinics Washington, D.C., U.S.

Candidate, MMSc Global Health Delivery; student, Harvard Medical School Taguig City, Philippines

Associate director, IDinsight New Delhi, India

Leading strategies and community to advance social mission across the training programs and institutions educating and deploying the U.S. health workforce.

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.

Enhancing mental health service delivery by providing equitable policies grounded in human rights.

Leading research and monitoring and evaluation of maternal and child health interventions in India to assess whether rural public health interventions are delivered effectively and equitably.

ZULAYKA SANTIAGO

SARA SELIG

YVONNE YIU

Founder and creative director, Libélula Consulting Durham, U.S.

Associate physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; associate physician, instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.

Health systems specialist, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Irvine, U.S.

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

Supporting Indigenous communities and city, county and state COVID-19 responses with Partners In Health to implement equitable pandemic responses as well as stronger public health systems.

Providing subject matter expertise to support clinical growth among Veteran Affairs hospitals in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2018 FELLOWS

AMANDA BROSNAN

LESFORD H. DUNCAN

ANGELA T. ECHIVERRI

SARAH M. HOOPER

Physician assistant, Tarrant County Public Health Euless, U.S.

Senior director of programs, Outdoor Outreach San Diego, U.S.

Family physician and Family Medicine Residency Faculty, Contra Costa Health Services/ Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program San Francisco, U.S.

Adjunct professor of law, UC Hastings; policy director, MedicalLegal Partnership for Seniors, UC Hastings San Francisco, U.S.

Practicing health care in a local public health department, working primarily in infectious disease management. Serving patients and the community, advocating for health equity for all.

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

Bringing a radical love, tender heart and strident values to reimagine and cultivate spaces of belonging where we can collectively heal, dismantle racism and oppression, and manifest equity and justice.

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

JAMES HUANG

V. KAI KENNEDY

JONATAN KONFINO

DEBORRAH G. LIAO

Medical director of family medicine, Unity Health Care Washington, D.C., U.S.

Vice chair of Equity, and associate professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of California, San Francisco Oakland, U.S.

Secretary of Health, Municipality of Quilmes; professor of public health,Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ); professional lecturer, George Washington University Buenos Aires, Argentina

Municipal health officer, Rural Health Unit, Gamay Gamay, Philippines

Providing patient-centered primary care to multicultural, urban underserved patients, including Deaf adults and children. Implementing “food as medicine” programs.

Challenging the status quo of health care, developing curricula for equity-focused health professions, and pursuing healthier societies.

Living to pursue health equity and social justice in Argentina. Working every day to contribute toward guaranteeing health as a human right.

Leading the primary health care program that will ensure provision of quality, accessible, affordable and equitable health care to rural communities in the Philippines.

ATL ANTI C F E L LOWS

JORDI EQUITABLE

EMILY MACDONALD

CHRISTINA T. ROSENTHAL

ZEINA SALIBA

Multidisciplinary artist Baltimore, U.S.

Director, Business Operations, Erie Family Health Centers Chicago, U.S.

Founder, The 516 Foundation; owner and chief executive officer, Paradigm Dental Center Collierville, U.S.

Psychiatrist and family physician, inpatient medical director for Psychiatric and Behavioural Health Services, George Washington University Hospital Washington, D.C., U.S.

Curating fashion art to expand society’s understanding on gender diversity, and leading health equity initiatives in government programs.

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

Practicing general dentistry, directing a youth non-profit organization to develop a generation of health care leaders to care for underresourced communities, and writing children’s books to inspire.

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

STEPHEN SEVALIE

ANJALI SINGH KULKARNI

TYLER SPENCER

Commanding officer, Joint Medical Unit, Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces Freetown, Sierra Leone

Public health specialist and adjunct associate professor, Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India New Delhi, India

Founder and executive director, Athletes United for Social Justice/ The Grassroot Project Mexico City, Mexico

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

Working with keen interest in reproductive and child health, adolescent health, health communications, health equity and advocacy/policy.

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

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2019 FELLOWS

ADEKEMI KIKELOMO ADENIYAN

ALAQ AL-MUWALI

ADRIAN N. BILLINGS

M.Sc. student, King’s College London; resident doctor, Al-Kadhimiya Teaching Hospital, Baghdad London, United Kingdom

Chief medical officer, Preventative Care Health Services; associate professor, Preventative Care Health Services Alpine, U.S.

Leading oral health advocacy and breaking down barriers to oral health for underserved communities to ensure equitable access for all in Nigeria.

Working toward health systems strengthening and inclusivity in Iraq and the MENA region. Currently a student of global health with global surgery with a focus on quality improvement projects, at King’s College London.

Researching health workforce programs to enable more health career students to choose a career caring for patients who otherwise might not receive health care.

Partnering across community and health to develop a network and infrastructure to share data, collaborate on care management, and build a proactive and equitable care system that meets people’s needs.

ESNATT GONDWE-MATEKESA

RAZEL NIKKA M. HAO

ARTANESHA L. JACKSON

ANNE LAUX

Director for Policy and Planning, Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines Quezon City, Philippines

FINDconnect program manager, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Oakland, U.S.

Peace officer training compliance officer, Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission, Office of the Ohio Attorney General Brecksville, U.S.

Leading policy and planning for COVID-19 and vaccination program policies, and health systems integration standards for disease prevention and control for universal health care.

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

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

Founder and executive director, Dentalcare Foundation Ado Ekiti, Nigeria

Malawi program manager, Give Directly Zomba, Malawi

Leading in the field of social cash transfer to combat social inequities as the Malawi program manager for Give Directly, an organization that focuses on social cash transfers.

ATL ANTI C F E L LOWS

ESPERANZA FELICIDAD CANTÚ Director of Health Initiatives, United Way for Southeastern Michigan Detroit, U.S.

JESSICA MILBERG-HAYDU

SHUBHA NAGESH

Director of National Office Emergency Preparedness, Planned Parenthood Federation of Americas Los Angeles, U.S.

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

Planning and relationshipbuilding at the intersection of public health and emergency management to nurture more equitable, prepared and resilient organizations and communities.

IFEANYI McWILLIAMS NSOFOR

MONALISA PADHEE

Chief executive officer, EpiAFRIC Abuja, Nigeria

Program head, Women Wellness Initiative, Barefoot College Harmara, India

Leading community followup and research programs in Dehradun, India; and bringing intervention services into the community for families whose children are born with disabilities.

Developing policies and strategies, researching, writing opinion pieces, advocating for universal health care, decolonizing global health, mentoring and connecting social issues to health care.

Enabling grassroots leaders to disseminate health information and services by creating inclusive and interactive tools, alongside implementing community co-designed and co-led health initiatives.

BRANDI M. PAYTON

LINDSEY POLLACZEK

HOPE ELIZABETH RHODES

ELIZA SQUIBB

Clinic administrator, Cherokee Nation Cooweescoowee Health Center Owasso, U.S.

Vice president of Programs, Fistula Foundation El Cerrito, U.S.

Interim medical director, Children’s Health Center-THEARC, Children’s National Hospital; associate professor, George Washington University Laurel, U.S.

Lecturer, Masachussetts Institute of Technology; co-founder and art director, Ztwist Design LLC Providence, U.S.

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

Leading comprehensive programming and teams to improve capacity for obstetric fistula treatment and eradication, in collaboration with partners in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia.

Developing pediatric community-based initiatives in concert with community partners. Fundraising and grant writing. Leveraging voices of teens and young adults to inform health care.

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

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2019 FELLOWS

2020 FELLOWS

ELLIOT KORANTENG TANNOR

BILAL ASIM

MONIQUE E. BROWN

SHUBHAM CHOUDHARY

Assistant director, Planning and Business Development, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore Lahore, Pakistan

Program manager, Healthy Neighborhoods Project, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine New Orleans, U.S.

Founder and chief executive officer, Safe Access Project, Qequal Foundation New Delhi, India

Promoting kidney health in Ghana and beyond, leading Kidney Health International, researching into kidney disease and championing health equity in the management of kidney diseases globally.

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

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

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

DANIELLE WOODHOUSE JOHNSON

ABRAHAM L. B. FREEMAN

PETER GAN KIM SOON

HYELADZIRA D. GARNVWA

Environmental officer, Liberia Electricity Corporation; founder, Environmental Rescue Initiative Monrovia, Liberia

Epidemiology and Medical Officer of Health, Ministry of Health Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Senior health financing officer, National Primary Health Care Development Agency Abuja, Nigeria

Engaging underserved communities to recognize environmental determinants of health and health equity. Adopting innovations that lead to improvements in plastic waste management in Liberia.

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.

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

Senior lecturer; consultant nephrologist, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana

Founder, The Oasis Alliance Lakeridge, U.S.

Improving the lives of trauma survivors by co-creating personal spaces that promote mental health and well-being.

ATL ANTI C F E L LOWS

KEVIN HECKMAN

LIAM C. HEIN

GABRIELLE JACKSON

GILBERTO LOPEZ

Director, Product Development, American Medical Association Geneva, U.S.

Associate professor, College of Nursing, University of South Carolina Columbia, U.S.

Co-director, UndocuBlack Network National Harbor, U.S.

Assistant professor, Arizona State University Phoenix, U.S.

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.

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

Increasing accessibility to mental health support through the creation of community spaces and recruitment, training, and development of Black immigrants to be community wellness facilitators.

Researching and developing interventions to reduce health inequities.

MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF

MAUREEN MILANGA

BERTRAND MOSES

SYED MUSTAFA H. NADIR

Assistant professor of law, Penn State Dickinson Law; director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, Penn State University Carlisle, U.S.

Director, International Policy and Advocacy, Health Global Access Project (GAP) Nairobi, Kenya

National coordinator of Child Affairs, Office of the Prime Minister of Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; founder, Balance 365 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Founder and chief executive officer, Creative Frontiers; founder and director, Frontiers Animation Nairobi, Kenya

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.

Developing national child/ youth-related policies, programs, strategies, and communication campaigns to promote protection, well-being, and holistic development. Promoting mental health/gender equity.

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

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2020 FELLOWS

ROSE MARY NAKAME

MILDRED OMINO

NKEMAKOLEM OSIAN

ELENA RIVERA

Executive director, REMI East Africa Kampala, Uganda

Administrator, University of Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya

Public health analyst, Health Resources and Services Administration (U.S.); board member, The White Dress Project Rockville, U.S.

Senior health policy and program adviser, Children’s Institute Portland, U.S.

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

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

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

Advocating to improve child health by testing innovative community and state solutions, centering equity and anti-racism, and co-creating policy and systems change.

MEGAN L. SRINIVAS

LINDSLEY JEREMIAH VILLARANTE

BRAM P. WISPELWEY

Infectious disease physician, clinical instructor, and translational health policy research fellow, University of North Carolina School of Medicine Fort Dodge, U.S.

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.

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Division chief, Department of Health - Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau Muntinlupa, Philippines

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.

Associate physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; instructor in medicine, Medical School, Harvard University; chief strategist, Health for Palestine Boston, U.S.

Developing solutions to institutional racism in hospital access. Leading a community health program in Palestinian refugee camps. Refining public health approaches to COVID-19.

Above: Jonatan Konfino, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity US + Global, implemented an equitable community approach to tackle the pandemic in Quilmes, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, in 2021. Credit: Hernán Caride Frigerio.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2021 FELLOWS

ZAHRAA AL-SARRAF

SARA LAVINIA BRAIR

Pharmacist; regional manager, IPSF-EMRO (International Federation of Pharmaceutical Students Associations) Baghdad, Iraq

Public health physician, Ministry of Health Khartoum, Sudan

Working to design projects that promote health and well-being, as well as raising awareness of harmful practices against women’s and girl’s health.

Strengthening primary health care, through addressing social inequalities affecting access to health care in rural areas and refugee camps.

Developing communityengaged approaches to promote chronic disease self-management among urban and racial and ethnic minoritized communities.

Combining key tools from transitional justice and conflict resolution with trauma-informed practices to help communities reconnect and heal from violence.

PEDRO DELGADO

PRATIKSHA DHUNGANA

REGINA DUPERVAL

QUSAI HAMMOURI

Vice president, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Belfast, United Kingdom

Dental surgeon, Naya Health Nepal Lalitpur, Nepal

Medical director, Kay Mackenson Clinic Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Director of Pediatric Orthopedics Northwell Health New York, U.S.

Leading key senior relationships and design and implementation of large-scale health system improvement efforts and networks globally.

Promoting oral health and nutrition, and supporting programs that work with needy and marginalized populations.

Targeting individual needs so all patients can reach their best health whatever their socioeconomic status.

Improving access to care for minorities and developing systems to build surgical programs.

ATL ANTI C F E L LOWS

MARLENE CAMACHO-RIVERA Assistant professor of community health sciences, School of Public Health, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Richmond Hill, U.S.

KATE DAUGHERTY Community impact director Hopeworks Camden Philadelphia, U.S.

SCOTT HOWELL

BRENDA HUGHES

SHANNON JORDAN

PAIGE KNOWLSON

Director of Public Health Dentistry and Teledentistry, A.T. Still University Phoenix, U.S.

Regional community health coordinator, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Waterboro, U.S.

Program analyst, Veterans Health Administration Accokeek, U.S.

Executive director, Pattison’s Academy Charleston, U.S.

Developing and implementing non-traditional health care delivery models to decrease and eliminate barriers to care.

Developing community coalitions, building sustainable communities, and addressing root causes of health inequities.

Improving workforce diversity, cultural competency, and minority staff pipelines at the Veterans Health Administration.

Building collaborative, interdisciplinary teams, programs and communities to promote childhood health and development.

NAGLAA FATHY LITHY

MARX ITABELO LWABANYA

ANA ORTEGA

OSCAR RAMIREZ

Senior programs specialist, Center for Development Services Giza, Egypt

Medical director, Nundu Deaconess Hospital Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Community psychologist, Compañeros en Salud, Partners in Health Angel Albino Corzo, Mexico

Project coordinator, Partners In Health Perú (Socios En Salud) Lima, Peru

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

Improving neonatal, maternal and newborn health in settings with limited resources and poor communities.

Co-creating “women’s circles” with community health workers and training them to facilitate groups that will provide mental health care with a gender lens.

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

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2021 FELLOWS

HAYDEÉ RUMALDO Project coordinator, Socios En Salud Sucursal Perú, Partners in Health Lima, Peru

MUHAMMAD AHMAD SADDIQ Chief executive officer, Rural Health Mission Nigeria, Gombe, Nigeria

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

Focusing on eliminating barriers to quality health care access in hard-to-reach and underserved communities in Nigeria.

AKSHITA SIDDULA

CLAIRE THOMAS

Community organizing director Right to Health Action Baltimore, U.S.

Economic development coordinator, East Side Neighborhood Development Company Minneapolis, U.S.

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

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

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Above: 2019 Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity US + Global visiting Gihembe Refugee Camp in Rwanda. Credit: Selam Bedada.

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Creating a community for health equity in Southeast Asia. BASED AT THE EQUITY INITIATIVE AT CMB FOUNDATION

2016 FELLOWS

TIM AYE-HARDY

CHHORVANN CHHEA

HOANG VAN MINH

Co-founder and executive director, myME: Myanmar Mobile Education Project Yangon, Myanmar

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

Vice-rector amd director of Center for Population, Hanoi University of Public Health Hanoi, Viet Nam

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.

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

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

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.

JEREMY LIM

LIU CHENHUI

THU HA NGUYEN

OANH PHAM KIEU

Partner, Oliver Wyman; co-founder and chief executive officer of AMiLi Singapore

Chief executive officer, FamilyDoc Medical Mechnology Co. Ltd. Beijing, China

Executive director and Morning News producer, Vietnam National Television Hanoi, Viet Nam

Founder and chief executive officer, Center for Social Initiatives Promotion Hanoi, Viet Nam

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

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

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

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

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

NATALIE PHAHOLYOTHIN

THI THUY TRAM PHAN

SOULIVANH PHOLSENA

NICOLA POCOCK

Chief executive officer, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Thailand Bangkok, Thailand

Deputy director general, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam Hanoi, Viet Nam

Chief physician, Lao Medical Care Center, Ban Phonxay, Xaysetha District Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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

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.

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

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

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

SI ZHANJIE

JIRUTH SRIRATANABAN

NILA TANZIL

Director, Aizhen Yunnan, China

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

Founder and chief executive officer, Travel Sparks; founder and chief executice officer of Taman Bacaan Pelangi Jakarta, Indonesia

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

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.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2017 FELLOWS

BENJAMIN LAWRENCE PATRICK E. ARITAO

LYNNA CHANDRA

DENG RUI (RITA)

DO THUY DUONG

Asjok Fellow; founder and trustee of Rachel House children’s hospice Singapore

Associate professor, School of Public Health, Kunming Medical University Kunming, China

Chief executive officer and founder, TalentPool Hanoi, Viet Nam

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

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

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

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

WAI WAI HAN

ARIEL CARINGAL HERNANDEZ

BEVERLY LORRAINE HO

SANTI LAPBENJAKUL

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

Director, Lamsonthi Hospital Lopburi, Thailand

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.

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

Director of Prosecution Development, International Justice Mission Manila, Philippines

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

Enhancing social justice in health through research of vulnerable populations. Initiating efforts to improve the practice of evidence-based policy-making by mentoring and facilitating data to the policy program in Myanmar.

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School director, Global Mindanaw Polytechnic Northern Mindanao, Philippines

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

THARANI LOGANATHAN

LUONG THE HUY

PAN MYAT MON

NGUYEN THI LAN ANH

Medical lecturer, Social and Preventive Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Director, iSEE Institute Hanoi, Viet Nam

Country program manager, Australian Volunteers (Myanmar) Yangon, Myanmar

Founder and director, Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) Viet Nam

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

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

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, is actively monitoring the implementation.

SOMPORN (NUI) PENGKAM

ALAY PHONVISAY

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

Lecturer, Faculty of Economic and Business Management, National University of Laos Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

KANAPON (TUM) PHUMRATPRAPIN

SATIRIANTINAH (SATI) BUR RASUANTO

Chief executive officer and founder, Health at Home Bangkok, Thailand

Co-founder and chief commercial officer, VIDA Digital Identity Jakarta, Indonesia

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 trade and poverty reduction.

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

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.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

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2018 FELLOWS

SHI NAN

BUI THI THUY

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

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

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

CHANNÉ SUY LAN Regional lead, InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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

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ABELARDO APOLLO DAVID JUNIOR

ABDEL JAMAL DISANGCOPAN

Founder, Independent Living Learning Centre (I.L.L.C.) Manila, Philippines

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

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.

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.

CARMENEZA DOS SANTOS MONTEIRO

NUR KHAULAH FADZIL

SOPHIA BENEDICTA HAGE

Health field officer, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Clinic manager and founding member, Medifit Clinic Jakarta, Indonesia

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

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

Strategic policy adviser, Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion, Timor-Leste Dili, Timor-Leste

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

HOANG TU ANH

HAN WIN HTAT

JIANG FAN

Founding member/vice director, Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population Hanoi, Viet Nam

Deputy country director, Population Services International Yangon, Myanmar

Vice chancellor, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, 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.

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

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

BORWORNSOM (ACK) LEERAPAN

BAWI MANG LIAN

ELISABETH LISTYANI

KOUNG LO

Medical officer, National Health Plan Implementation Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

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

Director, Preah Vihear Provincial Health Department Preah Vihear, Cambodia

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

Supporting hospitals to improve services in collaboration with local government to strengthen Indonesia’s health system. Researching the inequitable distributions of hospitals and health services of remote areas in Indonesia.

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

Health systems researcher and Faculty member, Ramathibodi Medical School, Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand

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.

NORAIDA ABDULLAH KARIM Director for Mindanao Program, Community and Family Services International Cotabato City, Philippines

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2018 FELLOWS

SHARON LOW

TIARA MARTHIAS

NGUYEN TRAN NGUYEN

NGUYEN THI THAI LAN

Research manager, REACH Initiative Syria Singapore

Lecturer, Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University Gadjah Mada West Java, Indonesia

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

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

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

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

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.

ANA P. SANTOS

PAIROJ SAONUAM

MAY SRIPATANASKUL

Journalist Manila, Philippines

Assistant chief executive officer, Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) Bangkok, Thailand

Founder and chief executive officer, LUKKID/Asian Leadership Academy Bangkok, Thailand

KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM

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.

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

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

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Founder and chief executive officer, Porous City Network Bangkok, Thailand

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

XU JIN Lecturer, Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University Beijing, China

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

Above, L-R: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia: Carmeneza Dos Santos Monteiro, Kotchakorn Voraakhom and Bawi Mang Lian at the Senior Fellows Global Convening in Oxford in 2019. Credit: Lee Atherton.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2019 FELLOWS

BLANDINA ROSALINA BAIT

GIDEON CAUTON

RENNTA CHRISDIANA

ALFREDO MATUGAS CORO II

Nutrition officer, UNICEF Indonesia Kupang, Indonesia

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

Commissioner, Yogyakarta Hospital Supervisory Board Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Municipal vice mayor and former mayor, Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, Philippines Del Carmen Municipality, Philippines

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

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

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

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

LETCHIMI DEVI DORAISAMY

PAUL GIDEON LASCO

LE THI NHAT

Grants officer, DAI Global LLC Kajang, Malaysia

Senior lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman Manila, Philippines

Country project manager, ICRC MoveAbility Foundation Hanoi, Viet Nam

PHETDAVANH LEUANGVILAY

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

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.

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

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Technical officer, Health Emergency Program, World Health Organization Vientiane, Lao PDR

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.

XIAO LONG

GORIS MUSTAQIM

NGUYEN QUÓC THANH

RATAWIT OUAPRACHANON

Professor and deputy director, Peking Union Medical College Hospital Beijing, China

Founder and chief executive officer, Semur Nusantara Consulting Jakarta, Indonesia

Artist, curator and founding director, Queer Forever! Hanoi, Viet Nam

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

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

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

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

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

PHAN THI NGOC LINH

PANUSART (MIDNIGHT) POONKASETWATTANA

NATARAJAN RAJARAMAN

SAM OUEN SAM

Head of Medical Services, HealthServe Ltd. Singapore

Managing director, Buddhism for Health Takeo Province, Cambodia

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

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.

Chief executive officer, Center for Healthcare Improvement Research Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

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

Executive director, APCOM Foundation Bangkok, Thailand

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.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2019 FELLOWS

VANNAPHONE SITTHIRATH

SEAN SOK PHAY

KRITAYA SREESUNPAGIT

Media consultant, film producer, journalist and co-founder, Lao New Wave Cinema Production Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Executive director, Child Helpline Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Consultant, Vajira Hospital Bangkok, Thailand

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

Advocating for child protection law and cybercrime law to criminalize online child sexual exploitation in Cambodia. Developing an online helpline platform to give children increased protection.

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

RAUDAH MOHD YUNUS

ZHANG KUN

ZHANG YUNTING (EDWINA)

Researcher and public health specialist, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

President, Evercare Health Group Beijing, China

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

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.

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

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

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RAPEEPONG SUPHANCHAIMAT Senior researcher, International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand Nonthaburi, Thailand

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

Above, on far right: Rennta Christdiana, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, and her team with an elderly woman in Jogjakarta. Credit: Ade Ansori.

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Building a healthier, more equal South Africa. BASED AT TEKANO

2017 FELLOWS

DUDUZILE (DUDU) DLAMINI

MICHELLE BROTHERTON

Advocacy manager for Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force; founder of Mothers for the Future Pretoria, South Africa

Advocate, Rhodes University Makana, South Africa

Fighting for the decriminalization of sex work.

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

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

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

AMY GREEN

NIKKI GREEN (NEE VERMEULEN)

THAMSANQA HAMILTON HUKWE

KHULULWA JAMPO

Coordinator for communitycentered programs, Centre for Social Development, Rhodes University Cape Town, South Africa

Chairperson, Abahlali Base Freedom Park Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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

Editor, Health-e News Johannesburg, South Africa

Supplying content to mainstream media so that it reflects marginalized voices usually inaccessible to traditional media houses, unlike Health-e News.

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NTOMBIZANELE (ZANELE) FIGLAN Principal environmental health practitioner, City of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

THANIA GOPAL Communications officer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Mother Mentor Programme, Enable Ngqeleni, South Africa

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

LANCE LOUSKIETER

TRACEY MALAWANA

Ph.D. candidate; researcher and educator, Health Policy and Systems Research Division, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Deputy general secretary, Equal Education Tembisa, South Africa

NOMATHAMSANQA (THAMI) MNGXEKEZA

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

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

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

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

KODWA MPEPHO

SIBONGILE MTUNGWA

SHEHNAZ MUNSHI

BERNARD MUTSAGO

Director, Women and Girls Leadership Foundation Pretoria, South Africa

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

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

Nutritionist, public health researcher and activist, South African Medical Association Johannesburg, South Africa

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.

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

Advocating for affordable and accessible health for all by engaging in research; intersectional feminist and decolonial praxis; and, social mobilization to reform health systems and policy.

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

Operations manager, Kozi Foundation Cape Town, South Africa

SHANNON MORGAN Master’s graduate in global mental health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King’s College London London, United Kingdom

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2017 FELLOWS

LINDI MZANKOMO

NOLUTHANDO NDLOVU

TINASHE T. NJANJI

MAFOKO PHOMANE

Senior budget analyst, Public Finance, National Treasury (Department of Finance) Pretoria, South Africa

Researcher, Health Systems Trust Durban, South Africa

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

Project specialist, Panagora Group Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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

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

Providing novel and integrated solutions in health for communities in remote places, in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning and technical support services for USAID/ South Africa’s Health Office.

KENTSE RADEBE

WENDY SOMLAVI

LENA STOFILE

CARINA TRUYTS

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

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

Environmental health manager, City of Cape Town Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

Lecturer in social anthropology, Sol Plaatje University Kimberley, South Africa

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

Promoting recycling in townships.

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.

Developing new anthropology courses and program, based on her nourishment MA research drawing on public health, developmental origins of health and disease, and epigenetic findings.

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BULELA VAVA Interim national president, Public Oral Health Forum (POHF) South Africa

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

LUQMAN YESUFU Africa coordinator, Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Initiative, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Edmonton, Canada

Developing strategies to address the health sector’s climate footprint through research, training and the implementation of sustainable health care practices in Africa. Building relationships and developing policies to address environmental health issues. Above: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity team-building session in August 2020. Credit: Bongani Maseko.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2019 FELLOWS

CHALEEN ARENDSE

CYAN BROWN

LUNGILE QUINY DUBE

SIBUSISO FIHLANI

Student, Hugenote College Cape Town, South Africa

Founder, TuksRes Women in Leadership Academy Johannesburg, South Africa

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

Drama therapist, Drama for Life Johannesburg, South Afria

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

Leading efforts to build a healthier, more sustainable society through combing innovation and technology with social justice causes, toward the uplift and empowerment of young women in South Africa.

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

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

AMANDA PHAPHAMA FONONDA

ATHOLL KLEINHANS

HASEENA MAJID

PATRICK MDELETSHE

Lecturer, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Pretoria, South Africa

Public health project consultant, Usawa Projects for Equity in Health and Education Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Field researcher, SECTION27 Khayelitsha, South Africa

Advocating for equality in health and education for sexual and gender minority groups.

Developing strategies to address the backlog of patients requiring essential health services in the public sector in uMgungundlovu, KwaZulu-Natal, focusing specifically on cataract surgery services and universal eye health.

Working with civil society to address inequalities and striving for social justice for all. Mobilizing communities and building their voice through capacity building. Building civil society for health system strengthening.

Assistant program manager, TB and HIV Care Durban, South Africa

Addressing health inequities by ensuring the representation of marginalized and vulnerable communities in health reform.

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NTEBALENG MORAKE

ERIC MOTAU

SIPAMANDLA MPIKELELI

ANDILE MTHOMBENI

Curriculum and education coordinator, Social Justice Coalition Cape Town, South Africa

Country director, REPSSI Johannesburg, South Africa

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

Project manager, Plus 94 Research Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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

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

Assisting the South African National Aids Council as trustees member; also appointed as a student representative in the Ministerial Technical Task Team for Sexual & GenderBased Violence in Institutions of Higher Learning.

BAYANDA NDUMISO

SAMSON PHAKATHI

VINKEY SIBUYI

ANELE SIGCAU

Curriculum developer, Equal Education Cape Town, South Africa

Senior field officer, The Endangered Wildlife Trust Mpophomeni, South Africa

Social worker, Epilepsy South Africa Acornhoek, South Africa

Pharmacist, Department of Health East London, South Africa

Driving forward responses to socio-economic, health and educational inequalities within South Africa and the continent at large.

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

Advocating for the right to education for children with learning impairments. Collaborating with other stakeholders to develop learning tools that could be used to accommodate their learning needs.

Ensuring the availability of medicines and medical devices, and that the dispensing of medicine and patient care is carried out properly.

GLOBAL COMMUN IT Y 2 0 1 6–2021

2019 FELLOWS

2021 FELLOWS

SYLVIA SIYO

HARSHA SOMAROO

RENÉ SPARKS

KANYISA BOOI

Business case development manager, Transnet Port Terminals Durban, South Africa

Public health specialist lecturer, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

RTCQI/CLI provincial project coordinator, SEAD (Strategic Evaluation, Advisory & Development Consulting Ltd.) Cape Town, South Africa

Founder and campaign manager, Matriarch & Sons Johannesburg, South Africa

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

Advancing health equity as a public health medicine specialist.

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

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

RAZIA VALLIE

ERNA VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

GANZAMUNGU ZIHINDULA

BERTHA CHIGUVARE

Independent consultant in global public health epidemiology; founder, Healthy Rural Societies (HRS) Mtubatuba, South Africa

Independant consultant, Freedom House; founding director, Vumbanani Peacebuilding Makhado, South Africa

Developing a comprehensive, home-based care model for older people based in rural areas to prevent noncommunicable diseases and other degenerative diseases.

Advancing humanitarian work, with more than ten years of experience in program management, community development and human rights activism.

Program manager, Western Cape Health Department Cape Town, South Africa

Developing and supporting equitable TB and HIV protection programs.

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Impact and learning manager Wynberg, South Africa

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

NWABISA DLOVA Social worker, Masimanyane Women’s Rights International East London, South Africa

THATO HELMUT MATHABATHE Operations manager, Pharmacy Dispensing Units (PDU), Right-ePharmacy (ReP) Germiston, South Africa

ZIMBINI MADIKIZA

NONKULULEKO (NKULI) MBULI

Project assistant, Rural Health Advocacy Project Mthatha, South Africa

Communications practitioner, independent consultant Johannesburg, South Africa

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

Contributing toward greater access to medicines using pharmacy innovation and technology.

Equipping the youth with skills and knowledge of realizing their potential toward enhancing their agency to advocate for improved and effective access of health care services.

Using media and communications as a tool to mentor and train women and children.

IVANA MERCKEL

INNOCENTIA MGIJIMA

NOMFUNDO MKHABA

MPHO MOGAPI

Coordinator Johannesburg, South Africa

Human rights lawyer Pretoria, South Africa

Project developer, Waste for Change Durban, South Africa

Cluster manager, Soul City Institute for Social Justice Krugersdorp, South Africa

Aiming to provide comprehensive and holistic health education that is accessible and promotes community participation.

Advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa.

Teaching leadership, gender equity and enviromental sustainability.

Advocating for the rights of young women and girls.

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2021 FELLOWS

TSHEPO MOKHADI

LEBO MOLETE

TLAMELO MOTHUDI

Environmental health practitioner, Bongani Regional Hospital Odendaalsrus, South Africa

Founding member, PHELA Foundation Johannesburg, South Africa

Health researcher, Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) Grahamstown, South Africa

Implementing sustainable green initiatives in hospitals, aimed at reducing the carbon footprint and the use of harmful chemicals; and promoting strategies that reduce waste throughout the health sector.

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

Advancing health equity, with a particular interest in public interest law, health research, public resource management and social accountability monitoring.

Mentoring youth leaders across South Africa.

ALDRIDGE MUNYORO

JUDIAC RANAPE

AZEEZA RANGUNWALA

KUVASHNA SINGH

Ph.D. candidate, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Comprehensive health nurse, Department of Health Cape Town, South Africa

Medical scientist, Gauteng Department of Health Pretoria, South Africa

Pharmacist KwaZulu, South Africa

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

Advocating within civil society organizations for improvements in the health of marginalized communities.

Building societies that are free from the shackles of sexism, racism, homophobia, islamophobia, agism and fatphobia.

Working toward improving health care in the public sector.

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NTOMBOHLANGA MQUSHULU Advocacy manager, Soul City Institute for Social Justice Roodepoort, South Africa

BIBI-AISHA WADVALLA Freelance journalist Johannesburg, South Africa

Advocating for health equity, addressing the social and structural determinants of health, and endorsing the media as an essential pillar of public health.

Above: Sibusiso Fihlani, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa, takes the microphone at the PHASA (Public Health Association of South Africa) Conference in 2019. Credit: Roger Sedres.

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

2018 FELLOWS

OBENEWA AMPONSAH

ASANDA BENYA

DEVON CARBADO

ALICIA GARZA

Coach, facilitator and storyteller, Obenewa Amponsah & Associates Johannesburg, South Africa

Senior lecturer of sociology, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Associate vice chancellor and professor of law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, U.S.

Principal, Black Futures Lab Oakland, U.S.

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

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

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

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

MARY HOOKS

CHRISTOPHER JOHN

BRIAN KAMANZI

KELLY-EVE KOOPMAN

Co-director, Southerners On New Ground Atlanta, U.S.

Social responsibility and funding officer, AFDA, The School of Creative Economies Durban, South Africa

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

Director and co-creator, Coloured Mentality Cape Town, South Africa

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

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

Contributing to local and international debates on social justice issues. Co-founded the Alternative Energy Popular Education Programme.

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

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TALILA LEWIS

RUKIA LUMUMBA

NTOMBIKANINA MALINGA

JOEL MODIRI

Community lawyer and organizer Washington, D.C., U.S.

Executive director, People’s Advocacy Institute Jackson, U.S.

President and chief executive officer, Sastela Johannesburg, South Africa

Professor of law and head of Department of Jurisprudence, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa

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

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

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

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

NEO MUYANGA

MARLON PETERSON

CHRISTOPHER PETRELLA

RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS

Composer-in-residence, National Arts Festival, South Africa; composer-in-residence, Johannesburg International Mozart Festival Cape Town, South Africa

President, The Precedential Group Brooklyn, U.S.

Associate director for advocacy, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research Boston, U.S.

Managing attorney, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia Philadelphia, U.S.

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

Improving the services and leadership capacity of organizations working toward criminal justice reform. Hosting the “Decarcerated” podcast series, which highlights the resilience, redemption and successes of formerly incarcerated people.

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

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

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2018 FELLOWS

ALBERTO RETANA

RASHAD ROBINSON

SIYABONGA SHANGE

HOLIDAY SIMMONS

President and chief executive officer, Community Coalition Los Angeles, U.S.

President, Color of Change New York, U.S.

Youth pastor, Grace Family Church Durban, South Africa

Founder, Southern Soul Wellness Atlanta, U.S.

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

Developing an infrastructure of a strategic Black response to the needs and injustices of the Black community; and campaigning for changes in employment, the economy, voting, criminal justice, news and entertainment.

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

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

MICHAEL SMITH

THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJAN

SARAH SUMMERS

RICHARD WALLACE

Co-creator, Coloured Mentality Cape Town, South Africa

Founder and executive director, Equity And Transformation (E.A.T.) Chicago, U.S.

Contributing to national discourses on race, class and gender through various media and artistic interventions, as a playful activist, serious artist and media maverick.

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

Director, Youth Opportunity Programs, Obama Foundation; executive director, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, Obama Foundation Alexandria, U.S.

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

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Executive director, Equality Labs Weehawken, U.S.

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

STHANDIWE (STHA) YENI Ph.D. candidate, University of Western Cape Cape Town, South Africa

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

Above: Dorah Marema, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, led a community effort to develop food gardens in Johannesburg, South Africa, to reduce hunger during the pandemic. Credit: Sydelle Willow Smith, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity.

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2019 FELLOWS

CEDRIC BROWN

JITU BROWN

ZAKIYA CARR JOHNSON

BUSISIWE DLAMINI

Community investor and adviser Oakland, U.S.

National director, Journey for Justice Alliance Chicago, U.S.

Founder, Odara Solutions; founder, Black Women Disrupt Atlanta, U.S.

Dialogue practitioner, Democracy Works Foundation Johannesburg, South Africa

Exploring transnational leadership development and initiatives in social impact and cultural spaces as an award-winning social impact leader with years of deep, varied experience in philanthropy and NGOs.

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

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

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

BETSY HODGES

REGINA HOLLOWAY

MITCHELL LITTLE

BONGIWE LUSIZI

Adviser, Betsy Hodges LLC Washington, D.C., U.S.

Vice president of community impact, Axon Chicago, U.S.

Executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment & Opportunity Philadelphia, U.S.

Founding director, Creative Academy Cape Town, South Africa

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

Leading community engagement efforts to transform relationships between safety officials and the communities they are meant to serve.

Spearheading initiatives to support low-income people and communities.

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

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DORAH MAREMA

NHLANHLA MNISI

KOKETSO MOETI

CONSTANCE MOGALE

Head of Municipal Sustainability, South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Johannesburg, South Africa

Water resources manager and aquatic ecologist Johannesburg, South Africa

Executive director, amandla.mobi Johannesburg, South Africa

National coordinator, Rural Democracy Trust Johannesburg, South Africa

Leading sustainability efforts with a range of stakeholders in sectors including small-scale agriculture, environment, climate change, renewable energy, gender and land rights, at local, national and international levels.

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

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

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

ELANA NEEDLE

WILNEIDA NEGRON

LOVELYN NWADEYI

TESS NOLIZWE PEACOCK

Director, Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative, UnidosUS New York, U.S.

Strategic adviser, Ford Foundation New York, U.S.

Founder and director, L&N Advisors Eastern Cape, South Africa

Executive director, Equality Collective Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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

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

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

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2020 FELLOWS

KELVIN SAULS

DEVON SIMMONS

KEVIN BECKFORD

TEMBINKOSI BONAKELE

Community organizer; senior pastor, Holman United Methodist Church Los Angeles, U.S.

Global ambassador for education programs and research assistant, Incarceration Nations Network New York, U.S.

Co-founder, The Hustlers Guild Brooklyn, U.S.

Commissioner, South African Competition Commission Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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

Supporting policy and outreach for the public school network; also the co-founder of The Hustlers Guild, a nonprofit that uses hip hop to expand access and opportunity to Black and Latinx youth in the innovation space.

Positioned the Commission as a world-class regulatory agency and one of South Africa’s best performing public institutions. Serving also as an adjunct professor at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law and the Nelson Mandela University Business School.

DYLAN VALLEY

DELA WILSON

AMBROSE CARROLL

STACEYANN CHIN

Filmmaker and educator, University of the Witwatersrand Cape Town, South Africa

Founder, Axl Impact Studio Los Angeles, U.S.

Pastor, The Church by the Side of the Road Berkeley, U.S.

Writer, activist and performance artist Brooklyn, U.S.

Creating visual stories that imagine a world free of discrimination.

Leading strategies to decolonize development efforts through the redirection of capital, cultural influence and opportunity.

Leading The Church By The Side of The Road as moderator of the Home & Foreign Mission District Association and vice president at large of the California State Baptist Convention.

Telling powerful stories as a poet, activist and entertainer, attempting to bridge the divide between African Americans and the Caribbean, and between Africa and its fragile connection to its diaspora.

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Above: Constance Mogale, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, pivoted during COVID-19 to lead a honey-making project in Goedgevonden Village, South Africa. Credit: Sydelle Willow Smith, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity.

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2020 FELLOWS

JESSICA FEIERMAN

ALEXANDRA FITZGERALD

NYLE FORT

ARISSA HALL

Senior managing director, Juvenile Law Center Philadelphia, U.S.

Legal policy adviser, Independent Schools of Southern Africa Johannesburg, South Africa

Minister, activist and scholar; codirector of the Maroon Project Newark, U.S.

Abolitionist, movement leader and storyteller, Blackseed New York City, U.S.

Co-leading a national effort to end the harmful and discriminatory practice of imposing fines and fees in the juvenile justice system.

Serving as a legal policy adviser at the Independent Schools of Southern Africa.

Working with students, organizers and local residents to impact issues of social justice through political education, civic engagement and leadership development.

Utilizing experiences as a leader and organizer in the movement for liberation to grow BlackSeed, a cannabis equity consultant company that supports equity and justice through a reparative framework.

MINHAJ JEENAH

KIRAN KAUR BAINS

KHWEZI MABASA

PINKY MASHIANE

National coordinator, Fight Inequality Alliance Cape Town, South Africa

Director of community impact, SA2020 San Antonio, U.S.

Senior researcher, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) Pretoria, South Africa

Work rights advocate Pretoria, South Africa

Coordinating a democratic process to build a broadbased and sustainable alliance that represents communitybased organizations, social movements, NGOs and trade unions across South Africa’s nine provinces.

Directing SA2020’s community impact program, supporting the organization’s mission to drive progress toward a shared community vision in San Antonio.

Serving as a senior researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria.

Leading the United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA), representing the interests of hundreds of domestic workers across South Africa.

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SIBONELO MCHUNU

JESSICA MOFIELD

DANAI MUPOTSA

AXOLILE NOTYWALA

Public interest lawyer, Western Cape Department of Economic Development Cape Town, South Africa

Executive director, New York City Mayor’s Office to Prevent Gun Violence New York, U.S.

Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Former general secretary, Social Justice Coalition Cape Town, South Africa

Serving as a South African public interest lawyer with the Department of Economic Development in the Western Cape, focusing on public policy and regulatory reform.

Leading the city’s efforts to synchronize its anti-gun violence initiatives that respond to the individual, familial and communitybased needs of historically disinvested and marginalized communities of color.

Serving as a senior lecturer in African literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Also, a feminist teacher, researcher and recently published poet.

Serving as an activist and former general secretary of the Social Justice Coalition, a grassroots social movement campaigning for safe, healthy and dignified communities in some of South Africa’s most underdeveloped townships.

ZAKIYAH SHAAKIR-ANSARI

KHAYELIHLE SITHOLE

EDGAR VILLANUEVA

SYDELLE WILLOW SMITH

Advocacy director, New York State Alliance for Quality Education Brooklyn, U.S.

Accountant, academic, activist and independent analyst Johannesburg, South Africa

Principal, Decolonizing Wealth Project New York City, U.S.

Co-founder, Sunshine Cinema Cape Town, South Africa

Serving as the advocacy director of the New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), the leading statewide organization that has been fighting for educational justice in New York State.

Working with civil society and advocacy organizations on matters relating to youth development, education, land reform and economic justice, as a chartered accountant, writer and academician.

Leading Decolonizing Wealth Project, which aims to collectively promote a world vision in which everyone can live their best lives, thrive in their cultures and bring about healing from generations of colonial trauma.

Co-leading Sunshine Cinemas as a documentarian and media advocacy strategist working across Africa and based in Cape Town.

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

2017 FELLOWS

OLUFOLAHAN (FOLA) ADELEKE

SAIDA ALI

SEBASTIAN BOCK

MELANIE R. BROWN

Gender lead, support to Africa-led movement to end female genital mutilation or cutting, Action Aid UK; Global Women’s, CARE International Nairobi, Kenya

Team leader for Germany, 350.org Berlin, Germany

Senior program officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Adjunct professor, American University Washington, DC, USA

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

Integrating deep understanding of girls’ and women’s rights and how social norms perpetuate gendered inequalities and unequal power. Providing strategic guidance and management to the program hub, and practical tools, strategies and capacity building.

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

Leading the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation engagement with influential constituencies across North America, focusing on public education, economic mobility and public policy. Speaker/ writer on race, gender, inequality and philanthropy.

PATRICIO ESPINOZA

JOSEPH HASSON

TRACY JOOSTE

PRIYANKA K.

Senior research analyst, Chambers and Partners London, United Kingdom

Senior program officer for Human Rights, Sigrid Rausing Trust London, United Kingdom

Lead adviser, International Budget Partnership (IBP) South Africa; member of the board of directors, Isandla Institute Cape Town, South Africa

Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge; co-founder, Chitrakoot Collective Cambridge, United Kingdom; New Delhi, India

Working on research projects related to inequalities, elites and education in Chile.

Identifying, assessing, and supporting grantee organizations, at local and national levels, to advance universal human rights and justice.

Advising IBP South Africa and its grassroot partner organizations. Supporting research and advocacy for improved basic services to informal settlements across South African cities. Calling for greater accountability in how cities spend their budgets.

Studying as a doctoral candidate in sociology, and a Gates Scholar, at the University of Cambridge. Co-founded Chitrakoot Collective, a grassroots feminist organisation working on all things gender.

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

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ROSE LONGHURST

JOHNNY MILLER

MASANA NDINGA-KANGA

JACK NISSAN

Program officer, Open Society Initiative for Europe Berlin, Germany

Photographer, Unequal Scenes; News Fellow, Code for Africa; founder, africanDRONE Cape Town, South Africa

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

Director, Tinderbox Collective; board member, Music Education Partnership Group/We Make Music Scotland Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Supporting democratic innovation across Europe. Championing participatory decision-making as an approach to equity.

Working to creatively communicate systems and processes relating to economic, environmental and social justice issues. Managing an NPO dedicated to creating a drone community “for good”.

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

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

FREDRICK OUKO ALUCHELI

LOUIS OLANYA OYARO

JANE SLOANE

APPU ESTHOSE SURESH

Program officer, Disability Rights Program, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa; founder, Riziki Source Nairobi, Kenya

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

Senior director, Women’s Empowerment, The Asia Foundation San Francisco, U.S.

Founder, Pixstory New Delhi, India

Supporting organizations for persons with disabilities in seven Eastern African countries through grantmaking and advocacy to promote disability rights and amplifying the voices of often marginalized parts of society.

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

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

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

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2018 FELLOWS

RANIA M. TARAZI

MILENA ABRAHAMYAN

KRIPA BASNYAT

NICOLA BROWNE

Gender specialist, International Organization; program and policy adviser, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development; program manager, Oxfam Amman, Jordan

Feminist justice and peace activist Yerevan, Armenia

Co-founder, Reclaiming Narratives Kathmandu, Nepal

Founding coordinator, Act Now People Powered Campaigning for Northern Ireland; fellow for Peace and Leadership, Social Change Initiative Belfast, United Kingdom

Currently working on gender equality in the Arab region, current and previous interest and experience in research and projects for policy and legal reform, care and informal work and social protection focusing on disadvantaged communities.

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

Co-created Reclaiming Narratives, a feminist intersectional collective, to work through feminist research and advocacy, knowledge production, feminist pedagogy and feminist cross-movement building.

Building a people-powered campaigning community to take coordinated action for progressive change across Northern Ireland; supporting communities in their campaigning for socioeconomic rights.

HILLARY VIPOND

LAUREN BURKE

TANYA CHARLES

ALLISON CORKERY

Ph.D. student in Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science; founding member, Universal Basic Services Taskforce London, United Kingdom

Organizing director, Labor Network for Sustainability Washington, D.C., U.S.

Program and impact lead: senior fellow engagement, The Atlantic Institute Oxford, United Kingdom

Director of Strategy and Learning, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) Johannesburg, South Africa

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

Leading a team to be a relentless force for urgent, science-based climate action by building a powerful laborclimate movement to secure an ecologically sustainable and economically just future where everyone can make a living on a living planet.

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

Working with activists around the world to translate human rights norms into tools for collective analysis and action on inequalities.

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RENATA CUK

TAYLOR ERSKINE DOWNS

CRAIG TINASHE DUBE

ELIMANE HABY KANE

Program officer, Open Society Initiative for Europe Barcelona, Spain

Founder and head of Product, Open Function Group; co-lead, Information Mediation Group, GovStack initiative (The ITU) London, United Kingdom

Training assistant, No Means No Worldwide Leiden, Netherlands

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

Focusing on economic justice in gig work and care work, challenges to unregulated ‘big tech’, and supporting building workers’ power through organizing, greater visibility and collective bargaining.

Supporting governments and NGOs as they scale health, humanitarian, and childprotection interventions via secure, responsible dataintegration, automation, and interoperability initiatives.

Working with a sexual violence prevention organization that supports and trains organizations in highrisk environments to deliver a rape prevention curriculum to boys (intervention and positive masculinity) and girls (empowerment and self-defence).

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

EVERLYN MILANOI KOIYIET

JAMES MURAGURI

ROSELINE ORWA

ANITA PEÑA SAAVEDRA

Human rights lawyer; co-founder, Center for Women’s Rights Advocacy (CWRA) Nairobi, Kenya

Founder and chief executive officer, Institute of Public Finance Kenya Nairobi, Kenya

Chief executive officer and development director, Rona Foundation Nairobi, Kenya

Research associate, Laboratorio de Transformaciones Sociales; Ph.D. student, Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile

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

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

Building change as a grassroots gender, policy and development champion, with a focus onsocial, economic andleadership training for widows and schoolgirls, and workingwith male champions to change harmful traditional practices around widowhood.

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

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2018 FELLOWS

LOUISE RUSSELL-PRYWATA

GABRIELLA RAZZANO

ANJALI SARKER

Director of Policy & Programmes, Open Ownership Gillingham, United Kingdom

Research fellow, Research ICT Africa; founder of OpenUp South Africa; legal consultant Cape Town, South Africa

Program manager, The Oxford Character Project, University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom

Working on public policy reform at the intersection of anti-corruption and tax justice to increase the accountability of elite individuals and corporations to citizens and societies.

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

Focusing on systems change and responsible leadership at The Oxford Character Project; previously at BRAC in Bangladesh, leading a project providing one million women with access to digital financial services.

MAUREEN SIGAUKE

PEDRO TELLES

Social Justice, labor and community activist; consultant Kwekwe, Zimbabwe

Co-founder and director, Quid; co-founder and board member, Advocacy Hub São Paulo, Brazil

Leading and facilitating community-based initiatives aimed at strengthening community cohesion and participation in interrelated socioeconomic issues, with a special focus on children and youth education. Advocating inclusion and leadership for vulnerable community groups.

Advocacy, civic engagement and public policy expert with extensive experience of working with civil society organizations, movements, funders and in the public sector.

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Above: Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity Fellows Days, June 2019, London, United Kingdom. Credit: Catarina Heeckt.

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2019 FELLOWS

MADHUMITHA ARDHANARI

SOPHEA CHREK

DELLA Z. DUNCAN

ALON-LEE GREEN

Senior sustainability strategist, Forum for the Future Singapore

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

Renegade economist; host of “Upstream” podcast; Right Livelihood coach and facilitator San Francisco, U.S.

National co-director, Standing Together; co-owner, The Brothers Green Bookshop, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Israel

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

Working toward a just economy, social justice, gender justice, people participatory democracy and systemic change.

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

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

JOAN JONES

ASHA KOWTAL Dalit rights activist and founder, DalitWomenFight.org New Delhi, India

HOBETH MARTÍNEZ CARRILLO

ESTHER MWEMA

Executive director, SEIU Washington State Labor Council; founder and president, National LGBTQ Workers Center Seattle, U.S.

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

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

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Senior research officer, School of Law, University of Essex Bogotá, Colombia

Working on the transitional justice process in Colombia and researching how to link redress for human rights violations to the fulfilment of economic, social and cultural rights and the reduction of structural inequalities.

Founder and curator, Safety First for Girls (SAFIGI); founder and chief strategist, Digital Grassroots; inter-agency coordination analyst, UN Women Lusaka, Zambia

Using art to build tools toward girls’ safety (via Safety First for Girls) and increase digital citizenship in local communities (via Digital Grassroots). An expert in internet governance, inequality and innovation.

LIZ NELSON

FOLUKE ADETOLA OJELABI

MICHAELA RAFFERTY

LEANNE SAJOR

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

Advocacy/planning officer, UNICEF New York City, U.S.

Young persons development officer (school exclusions), Just for Kids Law London, United Kingdom

Senior strategic adviser, Tides Advocacy; adviser, FRIDA: Young Feminist Fund New York City, U.S.

Drawing on research and practice to forge alliances to strengthen the narrative of how tax justice underpins equality, militates against discrimination and supports the realization of human rights.

Advocating for children’s rights, promoting access, demand and equity for public services needed by children and women, especially the most marginalized.

Coordinating campaigns led by young people with lived experience of school exclusions to highlight the underlying inequalities and injustices in school exclusions.

Strengthening solidarities and deepening impact among social justice and human rights movements and organizations globally, to address inequalities from the bottom up.

CRYSTAL SIMEONI

AMANDA YOUNG

Director, Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective Nairobi, Kenya

Indigenous advocate, University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

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

Working as an Indigenous equity practitioner across political, social, economic and environmental spheres.

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2020 FELLOWS

KITTI BARACSI

MARIA CARRASCO

Learning coordinator, TuTela Learning Network; learning and research consultant Lisbon, Portugal

Director, Entramada Social Consultancy Company; lecturer in social policy, Talca University Santiago, Chile

Creating spaces of collective learning and creative action to fight urban inequalities, with children, young people and women. Connecting experiences of grassroots activism to spread existing but marginalized models of change.

Tackling social inequalities by integrating multidimensional perspectives into social policies; co-founder of Entramada, a cooperative that strengthens local communities via the good living concept.

Researching the everyday reproduction of poverty, inequality and exclusion, with a focus on the political economies of Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

Tackling housing and other social inequalities among the most vulnerable communities in Serbia, and bringing economic and social rights back to the agendas of decision-makers.

ANDREA ENCALADA GARCÍA

MAURO FERNANDEZ

CLAIRE GODFREY

Consultant, Heinrich Böll Stiftung & FARN (Argentina); columnist, elDiarioAR and Revista Anfibia Buenos Aires, Argentina

Consultant Oxford, United Kingdom

GEORGIA HADDAD NICOLAU

Building and communicating ecological and social transitions toward fairer, inclusive and sustainable livelihoods for all.

Working for policy change in economic inequality and development finance, and strengthening civil society influence.

Economist and higher education policy specialist Santiago, Chile

Working toward non-elitist and non-segregated access to higher education and countering the effects of neo-liberal policies on higher education.

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CHRISTOPHER CHOONG WENG WAI Deputy director of research, Khazanah Research Institute Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

DANILO CURCIC Program coordinator, A 11 - Initiative for Economic and Social Rights Belgrade, Serbia

Director and co-founder, Instituto Procomum; strategic and dialogue facilitator working for civil society organizations, Faraímará, São Paulo, Brazil

Working for the commons; facilitator in collective construction processes; founder/project director of the Procomum Institute, an organization focused on culture, technology, politics and citizenship.

MAXIMO ERNESTO JARAMILLO-MOLINA Founder, INDESIG (Institute of Studies on Inequality); associate professor, University of Guadalajara Guadalajara, Mexico

VIVIANA OSORIO PÉREZ Lawyer, activist and scholar Medellín, Colombia

IMOGEN RICHMOND-BISHOP

MOHAMMED-ANWAR SADAT ADAM

Right to Food program coordinator, Sustain: The Alliance For Better Food and Farming London, United Kingdom

Head of programs and campaigns at Oxfam in Ghana; programs coordinator, Institute for Policy Alternatives, Ghana Accra Metropolitan District, Ghana

Working on deconstruction of myths of meritocracy and other narratives that justify inequality, with academic research, activism and dissemination though social networks.

Advancing women’s economic, social and cultural rights via litigation, evidencebased advocacy, crossmovement solidarity and campaigning.

Working on socioeconomic rights in the United Kingdom, with a particular focus on how better legal protection of these rights would reduce inequalities, especially for marginalized groups.

Working for social and economic justice via research, policy, and the strengthening of civil society’s safe and vibrant spaces in order to hold the powerful to account and uphold human rights.

TYEHIMBA SALANDY

OABONA SEPORA

MIRIAM TAY

BARBARA VAN PAASSEN

Sociologist, Institute of Indigenous Knowledge, Empowerment and Research Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago

Lecturer, Institute of Development Management (IDM); executive director, Friends of Diversity Gaborone, Botswana

Finance and administration officer/ gender focal person, German Development Cooperation (GIZ, Ghana); management consultant; co-founder,WODIF Ghana Accra, Ghana

Consultant and advocate for social and environmental justice, Independent; founder, For the Love of Changemaking Milan, Italy

Working on decolonizing global and local spaces and self through dialogue, alternative media and Indigenous knowledge.

Advancing the rights of key populations in Botswana within the areas of legal and policy reform, mental health and civic action.

Promoting digital and financial literacy as a sustainable tool for addressing inequalities and alleviating poverty, and supporting development partners with gender mainstreaming initiatives in Ghana.

Supporting changemakers in social and environmental justice and women’s rights by strengthening analysis, strategy and outreach; and developing initiatives to change the world of changemaking itself.

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2020 FELLOWS

IRENE WAKARINDI Activist and Black feminist and policy analyst, Food for Education Nairobi, Kenya

Working to make refugee policy and governance structures more transparent, accountable and inclusive, with the aim of providing an opportunity for economic integration in host countries/ countries of asylum.

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Above: Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, Crystal Simeoni and James Muraguri, at Fellows Day, in June 2019 in London. Credit: Caterina Heeckt.

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Harnessing Indigenous knowledge and ingenuity for social impact. BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

2018 FELLOWS

MARCUS AKUHATA-BROWN

DURKHANAI AYUBI

ROXANNE BAINBRIDGE

JODY BARNEY

Writer and restaurateur Adelaide, Australia

Director, Center for Indigenous Health Equity Research Cairns, Australia

Aboriginal disability training consultant Shepparton, Australia

Leading an Indigenous youth leadership development program for 25-35 year old rangatahi Māori to further advance the space rangatahi Māori play as active agents in all spheres of development in New Zealand and beyond.

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

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

Working with many complex Indigenous communications styles, especially for Deaf and Hard of Hearing peoples, as a proud Birri-Gubba, Woppaburra Deaf woman and qualified disability cultural consultant.

MICHELLE CRAIGIE

NICHOLAS EAKIN

SEAN GORDON

ARIADNE GORRING

Assistant Secretary, Australian Department of Health Canberra, Australia

General Manager Partnerships, Jawun Central Coast, Australia

Managing director, Gidgee Group Hamilton, Australia

Chief executive officer, Pollination Foundation Melbourne, Australia

Leading the COVID-19 primary care response for Indigenous and remote communities, in partnership with the Indigenous health sector; and continuing work to empower women, especially those exiting prison.

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

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

Elevating community-based climate solutions, unlocking incentives to sustain nature, and weaving local and global communities of practice to accelerate a just transition to a climate-resilient future.

Director, Tukaha Global Consultancy Ltd. Aoteroa, New Zealand

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NICOLE JENKINS

MAGGIE KAVANAGH

FAYE McMILLAN

DAMIEN MILLER

Center manager, The Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre Lismore, Australia

Independent consultant Alice Springs, Australia

Director of Djirruwang Program, Charles Sturt University Coolamon, Australia

Minister Counsellor for Strategic Communications, Australian Embassy Washington, D.C., U.S.

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

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

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

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

LEANNE MILLER

YVONNE (EVIE) O’BRIEN

DEAN PARKIN

Executive director, Koorie Women Mean Business Melbourne, Australia

Executive director, The Atlantic Institute Oxford, United Kingdom

Director, From the Heart Melbourne, Australia

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

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

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

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2019 FELLOWS

PETER ANDERSON

ALISON BENTICK

PENELOPE JONES

JONATHAN KNEEBONE

Executive director and professor, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia

Senior adviser, National Indigenous Australians Agency Dubbo, Australia

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

Acting executive director, Strategy and Innovation, Indigenous Business Australia Melbourne, Australia

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

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

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

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

JANINE MOHAMED

HEATH NELSON

KARRINA NOLAN

CHARLES O’LEARY

Interim chief executive officer, The Lowitja Institute Melbourne, Australia

Manager, Community Development, Fortescue Metals Group Fremantle, Australia

Director, Original Power Melbourne, Australia

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

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

Building Indigenous business capability through the implementation of Indigenous procurement targets and strategies. Opening the doors of opportunities to Indigenous entrepreneurs.

Building the power of Indigenous peoples through organizing and campaigning. Working in partnership with existing campaigns, allies, networks and initiatives to power people, campaigns, and solutions.

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

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RAYMOND ORR

TANIA POUWHARE

DARYLE RIGNEY

PEKERI RUSKA

Associate professor, The University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.

Manager, Community and Social Innovation, Auckland Council Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, New Zealand

Professor and director, Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Research, Jumbunna Institute, UTS Adelaide, Australia

Co-founder and director, Goompi Projects & Goompi Give and Grow North Stradbroke Island, Australia

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

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

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

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

ALEX SPLITT

JUDITH (HUTI) WATSON

SHANE WEBSTER

JUANITA WHEELER

Independent consultant Melbourne, Australia

Executive director, Jureda Tairawhiti, New Zealand

General manager, Regions, Jawun Adelaide, Australia

Founder and strategist, Full & Frank Brisbane, Australia

A Kabi Kabi man advancing social and economic outcomes of First Peoples, specializing in the codesign, development and implementation of strategic policy frameworks to facilitate social and economic equity for First Peoples.

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

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

Working as an organizational and campaign strategist, presenting, pitching and coaching in public speaking. Founder of Full & Frank, adjunct university lecturer, and executive director of TEDxBrisbane.

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2021 FELLOWS

INDU BALACHANDRAN

MARC BENNIE

BOYD BROUGHTON

RAYMOND BRUNKER

Director, Strategic Support, Aboriginal Housing Office Sydney, Australia

General manager, Indigenous Programs and Community Investment, AccorHotels Sydney, Australia

General manager, Te Hā Oranga Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua (Te Hā) Auckland, New Zealand

Director of Human Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service Brisbane Brisbane, Australia

Reimagining ways of migrant cultural and economic engagement with First Australians.

Working to create better engagement between First Nations people and the tourism industry. Aiming to build a more culturally competent industry and a more authentic tourism story for Australia.

Exploring the implementation of Indigenous knowledge, customs, practices, spiritual beliefs, and frameworks as Māori advocate for autonomy in the delivery of greater health and social service outcomes for Māori.

Exploring how to redesign family services to work alongside families in building their restoration.

TEGAN BURNS

KAYE-MAREE DUNN

ADAM FLETCHER

RACHAEL GALWAY

Co-founder and director, Goompi Give and Grow & Goompi Projects North Stradbroke Island, Australia

Intrapreneur, Social Enterprise Developments Wainuiomata, New Zealand

Associate director of Indigenous Finance, National Australia Bank Melbourne, Australia

Whānau justice advocate Dunsandel, New Zealand

Developing a strengthbased approach to identify opportunities and ways to empower the Quandamooka community that ensure members are spiritually and mentally strong, immersed and proud of their culture, and create positive outcomes.

Exploring the development of a system and approach to integrate Kaupapa Māori and Indigenous principles into digital banking.

Exploring alternatives to Western debt/equity markets as the basis for an international Indigenous financial capital market.

Exploring the experience of whānau involved in statutory child protection processes in order to develop resources and supports to improve their participation and equity.

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ELLA HAVELKA

DEAN HETA

SAMUEL HUGHES

HAROLD LUDWICK

Alumna, Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre Sydney, Australia

Principal adviser, Aboriginal Engagement, Melbourne Water Melbourne, Australia

Chief adviser, Curriculum Futures, Ministry of Education; chair, Nōna Te Ao Charitable Trust Te Tairāwhiti, New Zealand

Cultural awareness and cultural heritage protection facilitator Hopevale, Australia

Elevating the importance of dance for First Nations communities and exploring how to make Australia’s dance industry more culturally diverse and accessible.

Strengthening youth cultural and spiritual connections to Wiradjuri country while promoting their positive selfidentity.

Empowering future Māori leaders by motivating rangatahi Māori into vocational training and educational pathways.

Designing a project to reveal Indigenous narratives of historical events in Australia through writing a book to be accepted for the Australian curriculum.

LISA McMURRAY

TE TAIAWATEA MOKO-MEAD

MERIKI ONUS

ANGELA RUTTER

Founder, Yarnda Consulting Melbourne, Australia

Strategic projects manager, Leadership Victoria; co-founder and director, Common Cause Australia Melbourne, Australia

Using experience in media and storytelling to share my matriarchial story and the lesson within.

Building collaborations between Indigenous and nonIndigenous people in Victoria.

Learning and program development manager, Aboriginal Carbon Foundation Sydney, Australia

Building an assetsbased, community-driven development (ABCD) planning process for remote Indigenous communities to dismantle the “problem narrative” perpetuated by non-Indigenous decisionmakers.

Senior policy analyst, Te Ohu Kaimoana (the Māori Fisheries Trust) Wellington, New Zealand

Empowering Māori innovation in ocean management practices, with the goal of creating a new norm where decisions about the ocean are developed with Māori, by Māori and for Māori.

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KATRINA SMIT Senior adviser in service design, Ministry of Social Development, NZ Maungaraki, New Zealand

Investigating how whanaungatanga — being relationally connected — could improve social outcomes for Māori by focusing on what is inherent in our culture.

TRACY WILLIAMS Journalist and consultant Australia

Working in philanthropy, social investment and Indigenous affairs to develop approaches for improving collaboration, engagement and knowledge in the sector.

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Above, L-R: Some of the 2021 cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity: Boyd Broughton, Te Taiawatea Moko-Mead, Kaye-Maree Dunn, Samuel Hughes, Rachael Galway and Katrina Smit. Credit: James Henry.

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GLORIA AGUIRRE

RONAN BREATHNACH

CIARAN CONNEELY

EOIN COTTER

Community outreach gloria.aguirre@ucsf.edu

Learning experience ronan.breathnach@gbhi.org

Administration and operations ciaran.conneely@gbhi.org

Learning experience eoin.cotter@gbhi.org

Gloria works with underserved and underrepresented populations while coordinating the community outreach program at the Memory and Aging Center of the University of California, San Francisco.

Ronan acts as a support for the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health and the Global Brain Health Institute’s learning experience.

Ciaran leads the operations team at the Institute of Neuroscience and provides high-level management support to help develop strategic initiatives. He managed the Global Brain Health Institute program at Trinity College Dublin during the startup phase, developing the infrastructure and curriculum.

Eoin primarily works with the learning experience team to lead coordination and oversight of the design, development and delivery of the learning experience.

AMANDA DELANEY

AURA DEMARE

ROSALIE GEARHART

ANNE-MARIE GLYNN

Administration and operations amanda.delaney@gbhi.org

Administration and operations aura.demare@gbhi.org

Administration and operations rosalie.gearhart@gbhi.org

Administration and operations anne-marie.glynn@gbhi.org

Amanda’s role includes supporting the deputy executive director and deputy chief operations officer of the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin. She coordinates local meetings and events, serving as a liaison with finance teams and supporting program operations.

Aura is responsible for supporting pilot and project award programs, as well as regional impact efforts, with a particular focus on subawards, contracts and vendor payments.

Rosalie serves as a senior adviser for the Global Brain Health Institute’s executive committee and senior management team.

Working in collaboration with the chief operating officer, Anne-Marie leads on the implementation of the Global Brain Health Institute’s strategy.

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CARMEN HART

BARBARA HEWITT

SHIREEN JAVANDEL

NIALL KAVANAGH

Administration and operations carmen.hart@gbhi.org

Administration and operations barbara.hewitt@gbhi.org

Research coordination shireen.javandel@gbhi.org

Communications niall.kavanagh@gbhi.org

Carmen works closely with the executive director and staff to coordinate, manage, and plan key aspects and activities of the Global Brain Health Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health program.

Barbara is responsible for the financial planning at the Global Brain Health Institute.

Shireen works with Atlantic Fellows to facilitate research studies and supports researchers in preparing funding proposals, building collaborations, creating research protocols and managing data.

Niall is responsible for developing and sharing messaging, media and news for the Global Brain Health Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health community.

CAMELLIA LATTA

BRIAN LAWLOR

KAILEY MATEO

MELINDA MATICE

Alumni relations camellia.latta@gbhi.org

Deputy executive director brian.lawlor@gbhi.org

Monitoring and evaluation kailey.mateo@gbhi.org

Learning experience mindy.matice@gbhi.org

Camellia co-leads alumni relations work, advancing a vibrant network of Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health and building a community for collaboration, learning, and engagement across the Global Brain Health Institute and with the other Atlantic Fellows programs.

Brian Lawlor is a professor of old age psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, and deputy executive director of the Global Brain Health Institute. The overarching aim of his work is to develop effective strategies and policies that can improve the well-being and quality of life of people with dementia and their care partners.

Kailey works with the Global Brain Health Institute’s monitoring and evaluation team to provide ongoing support for the monitoring and learning activities of the Atlantic Fellows program, which includes looking at indicators of impact.

Bringing her expertise and experience in teacher training and instruction, Mindy helps design a better classroom and online learning experience for faculty and Fellows.

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HELEN MURRAY

ELAINE OLIVEIRA

ANDREW PHILIPOFF

CIARA POWER

Communications helen.murray@gbhi.org

Administration and operations elaine.oliveira@gbhi.org

Technology andrew.philipoff@gbhi.org

Alumni relations ciara.power@gbhi.org

Helen is responsible for leading communications activities that promote the mission and work of the Global Brain Health Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health.

Elaine supports administration and operations.

Andrew is responsible for the upkeep, configuration and operation of the program’s systems.

Ciara is responsible for leading relationship and community building to develop a community both across the Global Brain Health Institute and with the wider Atlantic Fellow programs, one that will be meaningful, lasting and addresses the needs of Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health.

CAROLINE PRIOLEAU

KYLE PUSATERI Administration and operations kyle.pusateri@gbhi.org

MARIE-EDOUARD THEODORE

WINNIE TSOU

Communications caroline.prioleau@gbhi.org

Caroline helps communicate the mission and work of the Global Brain Health Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health program through stories and images.

Working closely with colleagues at Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco, Kyle oversees all aspects of operations of the Global Brain Health Institute.

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Fellows support, UCSF marie.theodore@gbhi.org

Marie Edouard provides guidance and support to both incoming and current Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health based at the University of California, San Francisco.

Technology winnie.tsou@gbhi.org

Winnie brings extensive experience in project management, software development and web technologies to the program.

VICTOR VALCOUR

BETH WHITNEY

STACEY YAMAMOTO

Executive director victor.valcour@gbhi.org

Fellow support, Trinity beth.whitney@gbhi.org

Monitoring and evaluation stacey.yamamoto@gbhi.org

Victor works to position the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) as a leader in this field. He works with the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health as they return to their home communities to leverage GBHI and the Atlantic Fellows programs for collective success.

Beth is the first point of contact for incoming and current Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health based at the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin. She assists Fellows with their relocation and any administrative challenges.

Stacey is responsible for collecting and analyzing program data to inform continuous improvement efforts while also tracking progress toward organizational goals.

Above: Barbara Costa Beber, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, is exploring a system of remote cognitive assessment in Brazil. Credit: Johnny Miller, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.

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SELAM BEDADA

JANICE BLANCHARD

GUENEVERE BURKE

LEIGH ANNE BUTLER

Assistant program director s.chale@atlanticfellows.org

Program faculty/monitoring and evaluation jblanchard@gwu.edu

Program director; assistant professor of emergency medicine, The George Washington University g.burke@atlanticfellows.org

Managing director l.butler@atlanticfellows.org

Selam manages the overall design and implementation of the fellowship program. She has over ten years of experience in public health research and health systems strengthening.

Janice is a professor of emergency medicine at The George Washington University and is a member of the fellowship’s monitoring and evaluation team.

Guenevere leads the Atlantic Fellows program and is also involved in other interdisciplinary graduate programs in health policy, health equity and health care technology.

Leigh Anne is responsible for the management of administration, finance and reporting functions for the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program at The George Washington University.

CANDICE CHEN

DEVIN COSTA

RANDL DENT

SEBLE FREHYWOT

Program faculty cpchen@gwu.edu

Program assistant afhe@atlanticfellows.org

Equity scholar r.dent@atlanticfellows.org

Online learning director s.frehywot@atlanticfellows.org

Candice is associate professor of health policy and management in the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity and responsible for the program’s monitoring and evaluation.

Devin looks after the daily logistics and coordination of the program team’s activities.

Randl is a member of the program’s monitoring and evaluation team and, as a scholar, she is dedicated to translating research into policy and finding ways to improve Black Americans’ experiences within the mental health care system.

Seble is an associate professor in the Department of Global Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management at The George Washington University, and co-director of online learning for the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program.

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KATE HILTON

JAMAR SLOCUM

TAMARA TUR

SURJIT UPPAL

Online learning director k.hilton@atlanticfellows.org

Program faculty jslocum@gwu.edu

Research associate tamara.tur@atlanticfellows.org

Digital strategist surjituppal@gmail.com

In her role as co-director of online learning, Kate coaches Fellows in the use of leadership, organizing and change-management methods to advance and sustain health equity.

A clinical assistant professor of medicine at The George Washington University, Jamar practices hospital medicine and serves as faculty lead for the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity and Beyond Flexner Alliance.

Tamara is working to develop a strongly connected lifelong community of Senior Fellows. She is the primary point of contact for Altantic Fellows and coordinates the activities for Senior Fellows.

Surjit has 25 years of experience in redesigning and configuring the architecture of technology platforms for pedagogy, operational and business functionality in education.

Above: 2019 Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity US + Global and program staff on a community site visit to Rwanda. Credit: Selam Bedada.

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KIM CRUZ

DUONG HOANG QUYEN

PIYA HANVORAVONGCHAI

Communications manager k.cruz@atlanticfellows.org

Program executive q.duong@atlanticfellows.org

Program director p.hanvoravongchai@ atlanticfellows.org

Kim is responsible for implementing the communications strategy to promote the work of the program and its Fellows for its internal and external audiences.

Quyen coordinates the fellowship learning events and the fellowship recruitment and selection process.

Piya directs program operations with a specific focus on curriculum development, monitoring and evaluation, communications and partnering.

LE NHAN PHUONG

MAYTIWA (MAY) THAVORNPINITTHAM

KANOKRAT (NOK) THOMTHONG

Fellows relations manager m.thavornpinittham@ atlanticfellows.org

Office manager k.thomthong@atlanticfellows.org

May is in charge of the Fellows community, equity communities beyond Fellows, and public communications and networking.

Kanokrat (Nok) oversees daily operations and logistics for the program.

Executive director p.le@atlanticfellows.org

Phuong leads the strategic direction and provides executive oversight for operations.

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PETLADA (PUPAE) OURATANAKAWEE Program assistant pouratanakawee@cmbfound.org

Petlada (Pupae) supports the Fellows’ online learning and overall operations.

Above, L-R: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia: Borwornsom Leerapan Abelardo Apollo David Junior and Abdel Jamal Disangcopan at the Senior Fellows Global Convening, in Oxford in 2019. Credit: Lee Atherton.

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NAA-ADJORKOR ADJEI

ADAM ANDANI

CRYSTAL DICKS

PHINDIWE DLULANE

Finance manager naa.adjorkoradjei@atlanticfellows.org

Monitoring, evaluation and learning manager adam.andani@atlanticfellows.org

Program director c.dicks@atlanticfellows.org

Program adminstrator p.dlulane@atlanticfellows.org

Naa-Adjorkor oversees the finances of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa program.

Adam designs, implements and manages monitoring, evaluation and learning systems and resources for generating strategic insights for the program, to foster learning and measure and articulate its social impact.

Crystal has overall responsibility for the yearlong and lifelong fellowship programs.

Phindiwe focuses on program administration.

SAVERA KALIDEEN

NOZIPHO KAMANA

SIPHOKAZI KONDILE

THEMBISA LUGALO

Program manager of lifelong Fellows savera@tekano.org.za

Financial officer nozipho@tekano.org.za

Finance and operations administrator siphokazi@tekano.org.za

Office assistant thembisa.lugalo@atlanticfellows.org

Savera is responsible for the management of the Senior Fellows program at Tekano.

Nozipho is responsible for payments and bookkeeping. She keeps a record of financial transactions and sources documents pertaining to all transactions.

Siphokazi is the finance and operations administrator, responsible for the procurement of goods and services for the program.

Thembisa assists with housekeeping duties at the program’s offices.

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BONGANI MASEKO

MANDISA QONGQO

LEBOGANG RAMAFOKO

THANDOKAZI TABATA

Communications manager bongani@tekano.org.za

Program manager of yearlong fellowship mandisa.qongqo@atlanticfellows.org

Chief executive officer l.ramafoko@atlanticfellows.org

Fellows coordinator t.tabata@atlanticfellows.org

Bongani’s responsibilities include internal and external communications around the program and its Fellows, and the outreach and communications strategy and delivery.

Mandisa holds responsibility for the execution of the yearlong fellowship program.

Lebogang provides institutional and strategic oversight and leadership of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa to achieve its vision, mission and goals.

Thandokazi is the main contact for Fellows and coordinates Fellows’ activities.

ZINTLE TYUKU

GUGU ZONDI

Executive assistant zintle.tyuku@atlanticfellows.org

Human resources manager g.zondi@atlanticfellows.org

Zintle is executive assistant to the chief executive, Lebogang Ramafoko.

Gugu manages human resources and came to the program with over 20 years of experience.

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SYLVIA GRAHAM

TERRY-ANN GRAY

DARYL HANNAH

SEBABATSO MANOELI

Program coordinator s.graham@atlanticfellows.org

Business manager t.gray@atlanticfellows.org

Senior director (Narrative Strategy) d.hannah@atlanticfellows.org

Senior director (Strategic Programs) s.manoeli@atlanticfellows.org

Sylvia coordinates Fellow selection and supports the development and implementation of Senior Fellow community-building and funding opportunities.

Terry manages the budget and financial operations, including fellowship scholarship payments and reimbursements. She also is responsible for managing organizational operations for the overall program and the Columbia Universitybased office.

Daryl oversees strategic communications for narrative change, including media training and media relations support to amplify Fellows’ voices and bring greater attention to their work.

Sebabatso oversees the design, development and implementation of the fellowship experience, the program’s IDEA Labs and scholarship to further support new thinking and collective action.

LAETITIA MBULI

KAVITHA MEDIRATTA

PATRONELLA NQABA

DUPE OYEBOLU

Program coordinator LaetitiaM@nelsonmandela.org

Executive director k.mediratta@atlanticfellows.org

Associate director PatronellaN@nelsonmandela.org

Communications manager m.oyebolu@atlanticfellows.org

Laetitia coordinates all aspects of the fellowship to support a successful experience for Fellows, including implementation of the virtual and immersive retreats and the administration of scholarship payments. She also supports the development of AFRE’s IDEA Labs, such as the Senior Fellows Institute.

Kavitha provides institutional oversight of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity to achieve its vision, mission and goals and supports the team to build a powerful and effective program.

Patronella leads on strategic outreach to identify and recruit applicants to the program from diverse networks and communities. She develops and leads Fellow selection, contributes to network development and program planning, and supports analysis on governance and social activism.

Modupeola (Dupe) Oyebolu manages internal and external communications, including content creation, social media and newsletters. She also supports narrative change projects across the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity. Her responsibilities include editing the program’s literary journal “Moya”.

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NIGEL RICHARD

YASMEEN RUBIDGE

MEREDITH SHIN

Associate director and facilitator n.richard@atlanticfellows.org

Facilitator yasmeen@leadership-pathways.co.za

Financial assistant m.shin@atlanticfellows.org

Nigel leads on leadership development support for Fellows, including coaching and project development, and he co-facilitates fellowship sessions, including both the virtual and immersive retreats.

Yasmeen co-facilitates fellowship sessions, including both the virtual and immersive retreats. She is a founding director of Leadership Pathways, which focuses on the intersections of leadership development, systems transformation and the advancement of diversity,

Meredith supports financial operations in the U.S., including financial reconciliation and tracking of payments, and provides dayto-day administrative support to programs, operations, activities, initiatives, special projects and events.

Above: 2020 Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity on a walking tour in Harlem, New York. Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity.

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MELIZ AHMET

ASMAA AKHTAR

SARA CAMACHO FELIX

MICHELLE COATES

Executive assistant to the executive director m.ahmet@lse.ac.uk

Program manager (Global Engagement and Impact) a.akhtar@atlanticfellows.org

Assistant professorial lecturer s.camacho-felix@atlanticfellows.org

Program assistant m.coates@atlanticfellows.org

Meliz provides senior administrative support to the director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity as well as the rest of the team.

Asmaa oversees the lifelong fellowship strategy and programming. Her overarching aim is to ensure that Senior Fellows are strongly connected to each other, the program and the wider Atlantic community, and that they have access to continuous learning as a part of their senior fellowship journey.

Sara, a practitionerresearcher whose praxis focuses on equitable and reflexive pedagogies in higher education, is responsible for delivering the academic programming and pedagogy of the active fellowship program.

Michelle supports the program manager (fellowship experience) in serving the fellowship program, from the recruitment, selection and applications process through to the end of the active fellowship, as well as providing events support and support for the team as a whole.

ARMINE ISHKANIAN

GEORGE KUNNATH

FABRICIO MENDES FIALHO

TAHNEE OOMS

Executive director a.ishkanian@atlanticfellows.org

Research Fellow G.Kunnath@lse.ac.uk

Research officer (III) F.Mendes-Fialho@lse.ac.uk

AFSEE/III Liaison t.c.ooms@lse.ac.uk

Armine provides institutional and strategic oversight of the fellowship to achieve its vision, mission and goals, and supports the team to build a powerful and effective program at the heart of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.

George works at the intersection of research and practice; he offers teaching support for the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity modules and mentorship for the Fellows.

Fabrício provides academic support to Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and Senior Fellows who have graduated from the program.

Tahnee supports links between Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and the International Inequalities Institute (III), including linking Fellows with III researchers.

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Above: Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity Fellows Days, June 2019, London, United Kingdom. Credit: Catarina Heeckt.

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NATHAN FIORITTI

SARAH FORTUNA

NONI HAWKINS

SANGITA IYER

Communication officer nfioritti@unimelb.edu.au

Operations manager sarah.fortuna@unimelb.edu.au

Research assistant noni.hawkins@unimelb.edu.au

Project officer sangita.iyer@unimelb.edu.au

Nathan is responsible for internal and external communications, publicity, social media and the website.

Sarah manages the team’s operations, including strategy development, work planning and work flow, governance arrangements, resource management, and legal and risk.

Noni reviews scholarly literature and supports the program team. She has experience researching and facilitating better access to and retention in higher education for Indigenous peoples.

Sangita supports a range of strategic projects for the team, including the AFSE building project and Fellow selection process. She also coordinates engagement with the program’s “Pou” – Indigenous intellectual leaders and knowledge holders, who work alongside Fellows and bring guidance, sustenance and cultural safety.

ELIZABETH MCKINLEY

NIKKI MOODIE

DAVID POLLOCK

AMANDA YOUNG

Executive director elizabeth.mckinley@unimelb.edu.au

Program director and deputy director nikki.moodie@unimelb.edu.au

Research assistant david.pollock@unimelb.edu.au

Partnerships and engagement manager amanda.young@unimelb.edu.au

Elizabeth provides strategic direction, leadership and management of the program, and leads on stakeholder relations.

Nikki is responsible for academic programming and program team leadership.

David assists with academic programming, curriculum content, and provides scholarly support.

Amanda leads on building partnerships, community and industry engagement, and mutually beneficial relationships.

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Above: Nicole Jenkins, Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, at the Senior Fellows Global Convening at Rhodes House, Oxford, in 2019. Credit: Lee Atherton.

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KATHERINE BOND

TANYA CHARLES

ABI DIAMOND

NATASHA FORREST

Development lead (Foundations and Partnerships) katherine.bond@atlanticfellows.org

Program and impact lead (Senior Fellow engagement) t.charles@atlanticfellows.org

Learning and evaluation lead abi.diamond@atlanticfellows.org

Associate executive director (Operations and Organizational Development) n.forrest@atlanticfellows.org

Katherine is responsible for driving the implementation of the strategic partnership and fundraising strategy for the Institute and the community of Senior Fellows it supports.

Tanya is responsible for the development and support of programming for both Atlantic program staff focused on Senior Fellow engagement and Senior Fellows who are working to challenge various inequities.

Abi is responsible for supporting a learning culture at the Institute and the implementation of the learning and evaluation strategy.

Natasha is responsible for leading end-to-end operational support for the Institute and a learning culture for impact, with a focus on organizational development, communications and learning.

KHALIL GOGA

MARIA JEFFERY

DAVID MALLINSON

EVIE O’BRIEN

Associate executive director (Community Engagement, Program and Impact) k.goga@atlanticfellows.org

Communications lead m.jeffery@atlanticfellows.org

Events and team administrator d.mallinson@atlanticfellows.org

Executive director e.obrien@atlanticfellows.org

Khalil has lead responsibility for the design and implementation of programs in support of the work of Senior Fellows and program staff, and the development of a strongly connected lifelong community of action.

Maria is responsible for communications activities in support of the Institute’s strategy, including the development and implementation of the Institute’s global internal and external communications initiatives.

David provides high quality operational support to the Atlantic Institute team to ensure the smooth running of the Institute’s activities.

Evie provides overarching strategic and operational leadership to the Institute and promotes the Institute’s mission.

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AMANDA ODUKA

DESIREE PEARCE

SUKH SANGHERA

SHANJITHA RAJASINGAM

Impact Fund lead amanda.oduka@atlanticfellows.org

Executive assistant desiree.pearce@atlanticfellows.org

Technology platforms lead s.sanghera@atlanticfellows.org

Team Coordinator shanjitha.rajasingam@ atlanticfellows.org

Amanda’s role is to design and deliver an exceptional, non-precedent setting fund for Atlantic Fellows’ collaborative projects, with responsibilities including the design of the fund’s objectives, and application and review processes.

Desiree coordinates the executive director’s diary, and manages communications on her behalf. She is also secretary to the Atlantic Institute Governing Board (AIGB).

Sukh is responsible for maintaintaining and developing the Institute’s online platforms and services. This includes system upgrades as well as providing technical support and training to Fellows and program staff.

Shanjitha provides support for convenings and programs in support of the work of Senior Fellows and program staff.

JEMMA STRINGER

FIONNUALA SWEENEY

JACK WILKIN

ALICE WROE

Program and impact lead (innovation and special projects) jemma.stringer@atlanticfellows.org

Multimedia editor f.sweeney@atlanticfellows.org

Data insight lead jack.wilkin@atlanticfellows.org

Augmented and virtual realities lead alice.wroe@atlanticfellows.org

Jemma designs and facilitates programs in support of the work of Senior Fellows and program staff, underpinned by critical and inclusive pedagogy.

Fionnuala is responsible for producing multimedia presentations and tools to amplify the Institute’s and Senior Fellows’ work. She also provides content editorial support to the Institute team.

Jack manages the design, implementation and development of the Institute’s data strategy, transforming data into readable, goal-driven reports and ensures that the Institute’s data-management processes exceed regulatory compliance.

Alice researches, evaluates, implements and tests new, innovative ways of using emerging technologies for building the Atlantic global community.

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