CUGH Board of Directors are elected by its institutional membership for three-year terms. There are 16 voting members on the Board, including the Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) chair, who serves as the student representative on the Board.
Ex-Officio’s also serve on CUGH’s Board as non-voting members. They are invited to the Board because they have a particular skill set the organization needs or represent an institution important to CUGH. Their term is for one year and is renewable.
Michele Barry, MD, FACP
ChairDr. Barry is Senior Associate Dean of Global Health at Stanford University. Dr. Barry began her two-year term as Chair of the Board in April 2020.
Joseph Kolars, MD
Vice ChairDr. Kolars is Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Kolars will begin his term as Chair of the Board in April 2024.
Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, FAAN
Chair EmeritusDr. Kurth is Dean of Yale University School of Nursing. She served as Chair of the Board from March 2018 to April 2020.
Phil Landrigan, MD, MSc
TreasurerDr. Landrigan is Director of the Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory at Boston College.
Priscilla Auguste, MHS
TAC ChairPriscilla is a fourth-year medical student who began her one-year term as TAC chair in April 2020.
Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PhD
Dr. Binagwaho is Vice Chancellor of the University of Health Equity in Rwanda.
Núria Casamitjana, PhD
Dr. Casamitjana is Education & Training Director at ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health.
Quentin Eichbaum, MD, PhD, MPH, MFA, MMHC, FCAP, FASCP
Dr. Eichbaum is Director of the Vanderbilt Pathology Program in Global Health. He previously served as Chair of CUGH’s Education Committee and is co-chair of the AFREhealth-CUGH Working Group.
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA
Dr. El-Sadr is Director of ICAP at Columbia University and Director of the Global Health Initiative at Mailman School of Public Health.
Hester Klopper, M Cur, PhD, MBA, HonsDNurs, FANSA, FAAN, ASSAF
Dr. Klopper is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Strategy & Internationalization at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
Charles Larson, MD
Dr. Larson is Senior Advisor of McGill University Global Health Programs and National Coordinator of the Canadian Coalition of for Global Health Research.
Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH
Dr. Lichtveld is Professor and Chair of Environmental Policy at Tulane University.
Jonathan Patz, MD, PhD
Dr. Patz is Director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Virginia Rowthorn, JD, LLM
Virginia Rowthorn is Executive Director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Center for Global Education Initiatives.
Shadi Saleh, PhD, MPH
Dr. Saleh is Founding Director of the Global Health Institute at the American University of Beirut.
Gavin Yamey MD, MPH, MA
Dr. Yamey is Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health based in the Duke Global Health Institute.
Ex-Officio’s
Vikas Kapil, DO, MPH, FACOEM
Dr. Kapil is Acting Principal Deputy Director at the CDC Center for Global Health Leadership.
Keith Martin, MD, PC
Dr. Martin is the Executive Director of CUGH and serves as a non-voting member of the Board.
Thomas Quinn, MD, MSC
Dr. Quinn is Chief of the International HIV/STD Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
Judith Wasserheit, MD, MPH
Dr. Wasserheit is Chair of Global Health at the University of Washington.