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Nils Daulaire, MD, MPH
President and CEO
Global Health Council

Areas of expertise include: Maternal and child health and child survival programs, field research, global health policy.

Nils Daulaire is president and CEO of the Global Health Council, the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to advancing policies and programs that improve health throughout the world. Before assuming leadership of the Council in 1998, Dr. Daulaire served as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program Coordination at the United States Agency for International Development, and was the U.S. government's Senior International Health Policy Advisor. Dr. Daulaire's two decades of fieldwork in maternal and child health included five years' residence in Nepal, where he served as the senior advisor to the Ministry of Health. He has also served in Mali as a technical advisor on primary health, and has worked extensively in Haiti, Bangladesh and other low-income countries. Dr. Daulaire has provided technical assistance to more than 20 countries in all the regions of the world, and speaks seven languages.

A Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Daulaire received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Master's in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine.

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Raymond S. Martin, MPH
Executive Director
Christian Connections for International Health

Areas of expertise include: Promotion and facilitation of public-private partnerships involving the faith-based community and international child health programs.

Raymond S. Martin is an international public health consultant with 40 years experience managing the design, implementation, and evaluation of large health and population programs. During a 25-year career with US Agency for International Development (USAID), Mr. Martin was chief of the Health, Population, and Nutrition offices in Zaire, Pakistan, and Cameroon. He also served in Ghana and Morocco with USAID and as a Mennonite volunteer in Somalia and Tanzania. In 1992, Mr. Martin began work on African programs as a public health specialist at the World Bank before becoming an independent consultant. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Christian Connections for International Health, an organization promoting international health from a Christian perspective. He has also served as Chair of the 1500-member International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

Mr. Martin is a leading advocate for improved collaboration between global developmental institutions and civil society, including the faith community. He has a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and completed the course work for a master's degree in economics from Vanderbilt University.

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David Oot, MPH
Director, Office of Health
Save the Children

Areas of expertise include: Design and management of maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, and family planning programs.

David Oot's career in international health spans nearly three decades, including 18 years of overseas experience in Asia and Africa. Mr. Oot currently serves as the Director of the Office of Health at Save the Children, and oversees program activities in reproductive, newborn, and child health in over 40 countries worldwide. Prior to Save the Children in 1997, Mr. Oot served as the Chief of US Agency for International Development (USAID) health offices in the Asia Bureau, Nepal, Kenya, and Thailand and as the Director of USAID's Global Bureau Office of Health and Nutrition. His earlier international experience also included USAID assignments in Pakistan and Vietnam as well as a Peace Corps Volunteer assignment in India.

Mr. Oot also currently serves as the chair of the Steering Committee for the US Coalition for Child Survival, a U.S.-based coalition that seeks to educate and advocate for programs that support the health needs of mothers and children in developing countries, and he is also a member of International Health Section Council of the American Public Health Association. Mr. Oot has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan.

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Henry B. Perry III, MD, PhD, MPH
Carl Taylor Professor for Equity and Empowerment
Future Generations

Areas of expertise include: Strengthening of the quality and effectiveness of health care programs in developing countries; integration of child survival with reproductive health and family planning activities at the community level; promotion of equity and empowerment for impoverished people.

Henry Perry is a physician with advanced training in public health, the social sciences, and general surgery. For over 15 years, he worked in Bolivia and the U.S. with Curamericas on the design, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation of maternal and child health and family planning programs. From 1995 until 1999, he worked in Bangladesh with the United States Agency for International Development, the Government of Bangladesh, and the NGO sector to strengthen maternal and child health services nationwide. Afterwards, Dr. Perry served as the Director General and CEO of the Hospital Albert Schweitzer, where he emphasized a stronger commitment to equity, community empowerment, and outcomes-based performance. Currently, Dr. Perry teaches at Future Generations' new master's degree program and provides technical support to its field sites worldwide.

Dr. Perry is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of International Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and Associate in the Department of International Health at the School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University. He has an MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, a PhD from the Department of Sociology of the Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

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Mary Beth Powers, MPH
Senior Reproductive Health Advisor
Save the Children

Areas of expertise include: Child health and survival, family planning, safe pregnancy, child birth.

Mary Beth Powers has dedicated her career to developing new programs to address women's health needs, especially to promote family planning, safe pregnancy and childbirth, with an emphasis on the special needs of adolescents. Currently at Save the Children, Ms. Powers oversees a team of clinicians and public health professionals who provide technical advice to reproductive health programs for women and adolescents in over twenty-five countries. She also helps to develop health policy for women and children.

Prior to working at Save the Children, Ms. Powers worked at other non-governmental organizations including, CARE and Catholic Relief Services. She also organized the NGO Forum at the UN's International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994. Ms. Powers has a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan.

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Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH
President and Chief Executive Officer
Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Areas of expertise include: Essential medicines for child health, developing interventions to improve child health, global inequities in child health.

Jonathan Quick has over 20 years of experience in international health. In his current capacity as the President and Chief Executive Officer at MSH, he oversees project teams in in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. MSH's programs help public and private healthcare organizations improve their management of people, medicines, money, and systems to save lives. From 1998 to 2004, Dr. Quick was Director, Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM) for the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva. Dr. Quick also serves as the senior editor of Managing Drug Supply (1997), the standard reference on essential medicines and public health and he has written numerous other books, articles, and chapters. He has carried out assignments in over 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Dr. Quick serves as the Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health; a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice; and former Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK) and American College of Preventive Medicine. He earned an A.B. degree magna cum laude from Harvard University and an M.D. degree with distinction in research and an M.P.H. from the University of Rochester.

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Robert Steinglass, MPH
Technical Director, IMMUNIZATIONBasics Project
John Snow, Inc.

Areas of expertise include: All elements of support to routine immunization programs in developing countries including: advocacy, vaccine logistics and cold chain, monitoring, supervision, disease surveillance, health policy formulation, training of health workers and evaluation.

Robert Steinglass's career in international public health began during the early 1970s, when he became involved in efforts to eradicate smallpox. Since then, he has been an advisor to Ministries of Health and international organizations in the field of child immunization in over 50 countries. Prior to assuming his current position as Technical Director for the IMMUNIZATIONBasics Project, he was in charge of immunization programs for both USAID's BASICS and BASICS II Projects (1993-04), and served as Acting Technical Director of BASICS (1998-99), Technical Director of USAID's REACH II Project (1990-93), and Senior Technical Officer for immunization of REACH (1987-90). For 10 years, he was the WHO resident advisor for child immunization programs in North Yemen, Oman and Nepal (1978-87).

Mr. Steinglass's research interests and publications include neonatal and maternal tetanus, polio, measles, hepatitis B, cold chain, missed opportunities for immunization, and syringe field trials. He served for three years on the Independent Review Committee of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). Mr. Steinglass holds a Masters in Public Health from The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

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Lynette Walker, MPH
Deputy Director
Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group (The CORE Group)

Areas of expertise include: PVO community development programs in child and maternal health, facilitating collaboration among multiple organizations to improve programs.

Lynette Walker has twelve years of experience developing and managing community health development and outreach programs. As the Deputy Director of the Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group (The CORE Group), she facilitates the growth and development of a 38-member association of NGOs to increase health program learning and collaborative efforts to improve maternal and child health status worldwide. Ms. Walker supports network working groups and manages multiple collaborative projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America to improve NGO collaborative action and increase knowledge and skills for community-based approaches for child health.

Prior to joining CORE, Ms. Walker worked with the Task Force for Child Survival and Development in Atlanta, Georgia analyzing organizations to inform partnership development, and with the Texas Department of Health developing and managing community development and community outreach programs and facilitating local, regional and state community health planning efforts. Ms. Walker holds an MPH with a focus on international health from Tulane University.

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Keith P. West, DrPH, MPH
George G. Graham Professor of Infant and Child Nutrition
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Areas of expertise include: Nutritional problems in developing countries, including micronutrient deficiencies and protein energy malnutrition and their impact on maternal and child health and survival.

Keith P. West has been a leading researcher on the epidemiology and prevention of malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies for the past 25 years. His research has focused on identifying the extent, severity, and health consequences of vitamin A and other micronutrient deficiencies, particularly in Southern Asia and Africa. Dr. West has published over 130 scientific articles and reviews, including a book on "Vitamin A Deficiency: Health, Survival, and Vision," which he coauthored with Dr. Alfred Sommer.

Currently, Dr. West is directing a large, collaborative research project on maternal and child micronutrient deficiency prevention in Northern Bangladesh. He is also the primary instructor for two courses on international nutrition and food and nutrition policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. West holds a number of positions in professional societies, including the International Vitamin A Consultative Group (IVACG) Steering Committee.

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