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.
Nancy R. Reynolds, PhD, RN, ANP, FAAN
ChairDr. Reynolds is the associate dean of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
Olakunle Alonge, PhD
Vice ChairDr. Alonge is the director of the University of Alabama Sparkman Center for Global Health.
Peter Berman, MSc, PhD
TreasurerDr. Peter Berman (M.Sc, Ph.D) is a health economist with more than forty years of experience in research, policy analysis and development, and training and education in global health.
Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD
Dr. Bottazzi is the Associate Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Hannah Stewart, MPH (TAC Co-Chair)
Hannah Stewart is a doctoral candidate at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and is the Chief Research Officer at Generation Mental Health. Hannah currently serves as a co-chair of CUGH’s Trainee Advisory Committee.
Ayesha Ali (TAC Co-Chair)
Ayesha Ali is a medical student from Pakistan and the Co-Chair of the CUGH Trainee Advisory Committee. She is the Founder and President of Medical Students for Climate Action Pakistan, an organization dedicated to integrating climate literacy into medical education. Ayesha has worked with global health institutions, including the Commonwealth Secretariat, World Medical Association, the G4 Alliance, and the Global Health Security Agenda Secretariat of Pakistan – with a strong focus on health policy & global health governance. She is passionate about planetary health, health equity, and strengthening healthcare systems in low-resource settings.
Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH
Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH is the Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and professor of Health Policy and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He holds the Endowed Directorship in Global Health.
Patricia J. García, MD, MPH, PhD
Dr. Patty J. García, is a Professor at the School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH) in Lima-Peru.
Rebecca Martin, PhD
Dr. Martin is the Vice President for Global Health and the Director of the Emory Global Health Institute at Emory University.
Malabika Sarker, PhD, MPH
Dr. Malabika Sarker is the Professor of the practice of behavioral and social science at Brown School of Public Health, Brown University.
Gary Darmstadt, MD, MS
Dr. Darmstadt is Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health, and Professor of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He recently led the Steering Committee for The Lancet Series on Gender Equality, Norms and Health.
Ximena Garzón Villalba, MD, PhD, CPH
Dr. Garzon-Villalba is an experienced professional in Public Health, appointed as Minister of Health of Ecuador from May 2021 to July 2022. Currently, she is Dean of Public Health at USFQ and member of The World Bank Pandemic Fund Technical Advisory Panel.
Mike Reid, MD, MPH, MA
Dr. Reid is Chief Medical Officer for the UCSF Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Inclusion (UPIEA), an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, and an infectious disease physician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
Adil H. Haider, MD, MBBS
Dr. Adil Hussain Haider is the Dean of the Medical College at Aga Khan University, Pakistan, and a distinguished Trauma and Acute Care surgeon with extensive training from Johns Hopkins and New York Medical College. He has held prominent positions, including Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Anne Walsh Rimoin, MD
Dr. Rimoin is a Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health. Dr. Rimoin is the director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health and is an internationally recognized expert on emerging infections, global health, surveillance systems, and vaccination.
Elsie Kigule-Malwadde, MD
Elsie Kiguli Malwadde is a distinguished academic and researcher affiliated with Makerere University in Uganda, where she has made significant contributions to the fields of radiography and medical education. Her work primarily focuses on enhancing educational methodologies and improving health outcomes through informed practices in radiography.
Susan Michaels -Strasser Phd, RN
Dr. Susan Michaels-Strasser, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology is a member of ICAP’s core leadership team as well as Senior Director for Human Resources for Health Development providing leadership, guidance, and direction for the development, implementation, and assessment of programs to develop the capacity of health care providers across ICAP’s portfolio of programs.
Ex-Officio’s
Vikas Kapil, DO, MPH, FACOEM
Advisor
Keith Martin, MD, PC
Dr. Martin is the Executive Director of CUGH and serves as a non-voting member of the Board.
Judith Wasserheit, MD, MPH
Dr. Wasserheit is Chair of Global Health at the University of Washington.
Peter Kilmarx, MD
Dr. Kilmarx is Acting Director of the Fogarty International Center and Acting Associate Director for International Research at the National Institutes of Health.