Neal Emery, Co-Director of GlobalhealthU (neal@globemed.org) Neal is a senior at Northwestern University studying Biology and International Studies.  After two years of playing ultimate frisbee full time, he is excited to bring his talents to GlobeMed.  When not reading, taking classes, killing trypanosomes, or rushing between practice and meetings, Neal enjoys cooking and playing percussion.

 Rachel Markon, Co-Director of GlobalhealthU (rachelm@globemed.org) Originally hailing from the icy Minnesota tundra, Rachel is a sophomore at Northwestern. She is currently majoring in Political Science, and hopes to minor in International Relations or Religious Studies. Rachel is very excited to be a part of GlobeMed and help contribute to the globalhealthU curriculum. She loves mangos, alliterations, and talking about her cute little shrub named Teacup.

Our Board of Directors

The Board of Directors are deeply engaged in advancing GlobeMed's mission as stewards for the organization. They are long-time supporters of GlobeMed and are passionate about health, social justice, and building the next generation of leaders.

• Marjorie Craig Benton - Marjorie Benton has dedicated her life to advocacy for women and children, peace activities, government service, and community development.  As the co-founder of the Chicago Foundation for Women, her work has impacted women in Chicago and far beyond. In addition to her local philanthropic work at the Chicago Foundation for Women, Mrs. Benton has been actively involved in international peace work as the Public Delegate to the Special Session on Disarmament, a Co-Chair of the Americas for the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), and Special Advisor for the United Nations Disarmament Commission.  She was also the co-founder of the Peace Museum in Chicago. Additionally, Mrs. Benton has generously devoted countless hours to improving the lives of children around the world.  She served as a U.S. Commissioner, International Year of the Child, U.S. Ambassador to UNICEF, Board Chair of Save the Children Federation, and the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago.  She also served for eight years as Chair of the White House Fellows Commission and a past Chair of the Board of the Council on Foundations. Three years ago, Marjorie joined the board of Partners in Health, located in Boston.  Their mission is to provide free medical care in nine countries around the world.  She has chosen to work in Haiti.  In that time, working with others, she has been responsible for the building of a women’s clinic in Lascahobas, a small hospital in LaColline, and now the building of a major new teaching hospital in Mirebalais.   

• Paurvi Bhatt -  Paurvi Bhatt, Senior Director, Strategic Health Initiatives at Levi Strauss and Company, leads the company’s global Employee HIV/AIDS Program and advises on HIV/AIDS activities for the company.  She has more than 15 years of experience in both the public and private sector. Specifically, she has worked on designing, managing and advising initiatives on HIV/AIDS, corporate social responsibility, and international health. She has led strategic public-private partnerships and HIV/AIDS planning initiatives, and has implemented successful start-up HIV/AIDS programs around the world for organizations including USAID, US GAO, CARE, and Abbott Laboratories.  She serves as a technical advisor on several international health and HIV/AIDS working groups and committees, and serves on the Global Health Benefits Institute Board. She holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MPH from Yale University, and carried out post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University.

• Jobi Petersen Cates - Jobi is the Director of the Chicago and Midwest Regional Office of Human Rights Watch (HRW), where she supports the HRW Chicago Committee's development, outreach and advocacy efforts.   Before joining HRW, Jobi was a consultant for clients ranging from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to the Chicago Community Trust, to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.  As the Illinois Advocacy Representative for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, she helped lay the foundation for long term efforts for Foundation investment in Illinois education advocacy work.   Previously she served as Executive Director of the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, where she led a successful restructuring and organizational development process; and, she was the Executive Director of the Mayor & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation.  Jobi started her career in city government, working for Mayor Richard M. Daley and schools chief Arne Duncan. 

• David W. Cromer, MD - Dr. Cromer retired as Chairman of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in 2000. Although retired from medical practice, Dr. Cromer serves on several boards, including Illiniois State Medical Insurance Exchange, Ministry Mentors, and Friends of Battered Women & Their Children. He was a team leader for the Health Ministry of the Lutheran Church of the Ascension, a Rotary Club of Evanston Lighthouse member, and a volunteer for the Community Health Clinic of Chicago. Dr. Cromer has made several international trips to provide medical care in resource-limited settings. He graduated from Northwestern University Medical School. Currently, he lives in Wisconsin and spends much of his winter in Florida.

• Anne Cohn Donnelly - Anne Cohn Donnelly is a Senior Lecturer in Social Enterprise at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She also serves as the Academic Director of the school’s Board Fellows Program and she works with a number of nonprofits on issues of child abuse and child well being. Dr. Donnelly was the Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse America (formerly the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse) from the fall of 1980 though the summer of 1997. During this time she launched the Healthy Families America Initiative. Prior to this, she served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. At the time of her selection she was a Congressional Science Fellow in the office of the Honorable Albert Gore, Jr. sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As Associate and member of the Board of Directors at Berkeley Planning Associates, Dr. Donnelly designed and directed the first national evaluation study of child abuse and neglect treatment programs. She has received numerous distinctions from her peers for her work including the Vincent de Francis Award, the Brandt Steele Award, the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Distinguished Service Award, the Outstanding Professional Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and award bearing her name from Prevent Child Abuse America. 
  
  Born in Evanston, Illinois, Dr. Donnelly received a B.A. degree in sociology from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Medical Sociology from Tufts University and both the M.P.H. and D.P.H. degrees in health administration and planning from the University of California (Berkeley) School of Public Health. She has been a member of numerous national and international boards and is currently serving on the boards of: CIVITAS, the Topfer Family Foundation and the Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• Lee Greenhouse (Treasurer)- Lee Greenhouse is President of Greenhouse Associates, Inc., a strategy consulting firm that advises publishers as well as information, service, and software companies.  Since 1992, the firm has helped clients grapple with issues involving their products and services, marketing strategies, competitive positioning, business development activities, and production processes.  The firm's work spans a variety of consumer, business, professional, academic, industrial, scientific, medical, and non-profit sectors. Lee has over 25 years of experience building, managing, and consulting to information and service businesses.  Prior to founding Greenhouse Associates, Lee developed and managed businesses for several major corporations, including E.F.Hutton & Company, IMNET (a joint venture of IBM and Merrill Lynch), and Citicorp.  Previously, Lee served as Director of New Electronic Media for Link Resources, where he led a worldwide consulting program covering business and consumer applications of new information technologies. He also served for four years as a venture partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm investing in Internet companies. He has served on the boards of several companies as well as on advisory boards for non-profit organizations, including the Chicago Mentoring Institute and ACCION Chicago.  Lee holds a B.A. from Harvard University. 

• Brian T. Hanson (Chair) - Brian Hanson is the Associate Director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University.  Prior to his work at Northwestern, Hanson served as the foreign policy advisor to a US Senator, a government affair representative for John Deere & Company, and a research analyst for the US Information Agency.  He teaches courses on international political economy, globalization, and international trade. He is part of MIT research efforts on globalization, specifically interested in the politics of trade liberalization. Outside of academia, Hanson is a Director and Vice Chair for Programming of the Stanley Foundation, a consultant to the Holthues Trust, a Director of the TNH foundation, and Program Chair for the Chicago Global Donors Network. He graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and did his doctoral work in political science at MIT.

• Ken Lehman - Kenneth Lehman is the Managing Partner of KKP Group LLC, a family office for the Lehman Family Group, and Chairman of Winning Workplaces, a not-for-profit which is helping organizations become great places to work.  Both the KKP Group and Winning Workplaces are located in Evanston, Illinois. Ken served in the U.S. Peace Corps from 1966-1968 as a volunteer in Guatemala. From 1968-1971, he served as a staff member in the Latin America Bureau in Washington, D.C. He currently serves on several corporate boards as a director and/or advisor. His civic board involvements include CARE U.S.A. and CARE International, Public Radio International, Chicago Public Radio, and GlobeMed.

• Peter Luckow -  Peter Luckow currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Tiyatien Health, a Liberian social justice organization partnering with rural communities to advance health care and the rights of the poor. Peter co-founded and serves on the Board of Directors of GlobeMed, a national network of university students advancing the movement for global health equity now with 46 chapters across the country. He has also worked with Partners In Health and the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Peter graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Anthropology. In 2011, Peter was selected as an Echoing Green Fellow along with Dr. Rajesh Panjabi for their work with Tiyatien Health. He is also a member of the Deru Senior Honorary Leadership Society at Northwestern University. 

• Jenny Merdinger - With more than 20 years of leadership, fundraising and consulting work in the nonprofit arena, Jenny Merdinger sees nothing but opportunity for GlobeMed.  She has directed development programs for The National Easter Seal Society and Young Chicago Authors.  Jenny was a founding member of The Dawn R. Schuman Institute for Jewish Learning, creating innovative approaches to lifelong learning and spiritual growth. In her current role as Vice President for The Cradle Foundation, Jenny works to support the women, children and families receiving adoption and human services through The Cradle in Evanston IL.  She lives in Evanston with her husband, who shares her pride in their son, serving in The Marines, and daughter, a freshman at Illinois State University.

• Victor Roy - First confronted with injustice in the villages of India alongside his grandfather, a rural physician for the poor, Victor's experiences throughout his youth and college years affirmed a central belief: young people could become a collective force for social justice by partnering with those living in poverty around the world. Working with a dynamic team of peers, Victor has helped develop GlobeMed to advance this shared vision. As a founding member, Victor served as GlobeMed's first full-time Executive Director from 2006 to 2009. During this time, GlobeMed grew to 19 university chapters and  400 students and attracted seed funding for a National Office with full-time staff. Victor graduated from Northwestern University in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, after which he worked for GlobeMed full-time. He earned an MPhil in Sociology at Cambridge University on a Gates Cambridge scholarship, where he studied social movement theory and global mobilization around tuberculosis. Currently, he is studying medicine at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine and remains deeply committed to furthering GlobeMed's work. In the future, Victor hopes to combine the skills of a clinician with those of a social scientist to help shape and advocate for policies aimed at global health equity.
  

• Keith Sarpolis, MD - Dr. Sarpolis has been a practicing physician of general internal medicine since 1987 and maintains his office in Evanston, Illinois, where he is on the staff of Evanston Hospital and holds a faculty appointment at Northwestern Medical School.  His interests lie in the areas of chemical dependence treatment and public health policy. Dr. Sarpolis attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Michigan, and came to Chicago, where he did his residency training at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.  He resides in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and two children.

Our Global Advisory Council

The Global Advisory Council consists of remarkable leaders from a diverse set of backgrounds and expertise who are invested in guiding and supporting the future of GlobeMed.

• Pamela Angwech Judith is a co-founder and executive director for Gulu Women’s Economic Development and Globalization (GWED-G), a health and women’s empowerment organization based in Northern Uganda. Pamela has over 15 years of experience in community-based human rights policy and mobilization, gender-based violence, reproductive rights, peace building, and post-conflict development. In 2004, responding to the human rights atrocities she had witnessed during the conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan government, Pamela founded GWED-G, the region’s first grassroots human rights organization focused on women, to strengthen the capacity of communities in Northern Uganda to become self-reliant agents for peace and development. Today, GWED-G serves over 150,000 individuals through 5 main program areas: health, human rights (with a focus on women and girls), psychosocial support and counseling, research and advocacy, and economic empowerment. Their partners include organizations such as Amnesty International, the Open Society Foundation, CARE International, UN Women, The American Refugee Council, and an array of other local and international NGO and governmental partners. In Fall 2009, GWED-G launched a partnership with GlobeMed at Columbia University. Since then, the partnership has raised over $35,000 for a range of economic empowerment and HIV/AIDS projects that have improved the health of over 5,000 people. Pamela was born and raised in Northern Uganda and speaks fluent English, Luo, Swahili, and Acholi, She has several degrees from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda including Management and Finance, Gender and Development, and Human Resource Management.

• Pamela W. Barnes, President and Chief Executive Officer of EngenderHealth, has more than 30 years of organizational leadership and global health experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Most recently, she served as President and CEO of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, overseeing successful programs across 18 countries in Africa and Asia with more than 1,000 employees. During her five-year tenure, Ms. Barnes led a significant expansion of the foundation’s program portfolio and budget, from $45 million to $150 million. She developed global health policies with partners, including the World Health Organization, created strategic partnerships with leading public health organizations, and led fundraising efforts with government agencies and corporate and private donors, including Johnson & Johnson and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

• Henry S. Bienen is the President Emeritus of Northwestern University. He was elected the 15th president of Northwestern University on June 13, 1994, took office on January 1, 1995 and retired as president on August 31, 2009. A nationally recognized leader in higher education, Mr. Bienen, 70, led Northwestern to increased academic prominence, financial strength and athletic success. During his tenure, Northwestern faculty and students received numerous academic awards, the endowment quintupled, applications for admission skyrocketed and the University's reputation grew both nationally and internationally. Mr. Bienen received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Northwestern University in 2009. He received the University of Chicago Professional Achievement Alumni Award in 2000 and the 2008 Niagara Peace & Dialogue Award from the Niagara Foundation in 2008. Mr. Bienen received a bachelor's degree with honors from Cornell University in 1960 and a master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1961. He was awarded a PhD from Chicago in 1966. In 2008 Northwestern's Board of Trustees honored Mr. Bienen and his wife, Leigh, a senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, by naming the University's School of Music the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music.

• Dr. Paul Farmer is a medical anthropologist and physician; the Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer’s work focuses on community-based treatment strategies for infectious diseases in resource-poor settings, health and human rights, and the role of social inequalities in determining disease distribution and outcomes. He is Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, and served for ten years as medical director of a charity hospital, L’Hôpital Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues in the U.S. and abroad have pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. Dr. Farmer is also the UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton.

• Reeta Roy is the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation. She joined The MasterCard Foundation in 2008. Previously, she was Divisional Vice President of Global Citizenship and Policy at Abbott, a broad-based global health care company, and Vice President of the Abbott Fund, its corporate foundation. She also worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb for 11 years in a number of positions of increasing responsibility related to public policy, public affairs and strategic planning. Before joining the private sector, Reeta worked at the United Nations. Reeta grew up in Malaysia, has lived in China and worked in Africa, Asia and other developing countries to build philanthropic programs related to global health, education and other issues. Reeta received a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Arts from St. Andrews Presbyterian College.