Appendix B
Speaker Biographical Sketches
Amal Muhammad Rashid Abu-Awad, Ph.D., R.N., M.S.N., is currently the dean of Ibn Sina College; in addition, she was assigned in September 2012 as the acting general director of continuing and higher health education at the Palestinian Ministry of Health. She has been a registered nurse since 1987. In 1992 she received a master’s degree from the United States in Neonatal and Pediatric Nursing. Abu-Awad worked 2.5 years in the neonatal unit at Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem and had also worked for 3.5 years in the Continuing Education Department at Makassed Hospital. In 1994 she completed a postgraduate diploma as instructor in Continuing Education from Bethlehem University. While at Bethlehem University for 3 years she was a coordinator and instructor for three neonatal programs. In 1998 she updated her clinical experience in the Neonatal Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. In 1999, Abu-Awad joined Ibn Sina College as a director for the nursing baccalaureate program and stayed in the position for 5 years. In 2004, she became the vice dean for academic affairs; she was then promoted to be the dean of the college in 2006. In 2008, she received the Fulbright scholarship, and joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a major in nursing and a minor in education leadership and policy analysis, completing the Ph.D. program in December 2011. Her research interests focus on linking education and practice to improve the health outcomes of mothers and infants.
Currently, she works on multiple projects. The first is transforming nursing curriculum to integrate the essential competencies, palliative and advanced geriatrics. Second is establishing online resource centers at all Ministry of Health (MOH) hospitals with online courses using the Moodle
system. Third is establishing a systematic primary trauma care course for health providers within MOH. Fourth is having a systematic orientation program for new MOH employees including nurses, midwives, and physicians.
Deborah Bae, M.P.A., M.B.A., joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2005 and is interested in discovering and exploring innovative ideas, novel approaches, and new ways of thinking and then sharing the learnings both within the foundation and beyond. Her areas of interest include finding innovative health solutions from around the world to improve health care in the United States and the role of design in improving health outcomes. Previously, Bae worked in the New York City Department of Health Bureau of Informatics and Data Services, helping to implement an electronic disease reporting system for all New York City hospitals and laboratories. She also was a microbiology laboratory research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania. Bae received her M.P.A. and M.B.A. from New York University and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
Beth Bafford, M.B.A., is a senior officer of Strategic Initiatives at the Calvert Foundation, where she focuses on enterprise strategy, partnership development, fundraising, and capital deployment for current and future investment initiatives. Her main areas of investment focus are health care—both global and domestic—and place-based community development.
Prior to joining the Calvert Foundation, Bafford was a manager in McKinsey & Company’s Washington, DC, office where she focused mostly on U.S. health reform strategy for large health insurers, academic medical centers, and hospital systems. She has also worked as a special assistant at the White House Office of Management and Budget during the drafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act, as a regional field director for the 2008 Obama for America campaign, and as a senior associate at UBS Financial Services.
Bafford received both her B.A. in public policy and M.B.A. in social entrepreneurship from Duke University. At Duke’s Fuqua School of Business she helped launch the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Initiative on Impact Investing (CASE i3), the first comprehensive program on impact investing at a top business school. In 2012, Bafford started a professional women’s network called The Square Pegs to create an open dialogue around women’s issues and challenges for young females in the workplace.
Mary Barger, Ph.D., M.P.H., CNM, FACNM, experiences of growing up in the Middle East shaped her intense interest in maternal and child health as well as sparked her interest in midwifery. She combined these passions
by receiving a master’s of public health and her nurse-midwifery training from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health after receiving her nursing degree from Stanford University and spending time as a nurse in Saudi Arabia and a refugee camp in Jordan. She furthered her interest in perinatal epidemiology through obtaining a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Boston University. Clinically, Barger has practiced nurse-midwifery for an interdisciplinary comprehensive pregnancy program for low-income women in San Diego, provided care to Navy dependents through the Balboa Naval Medical System, and worked at a multispecialty practice in Boston, Massachusetts. She has held faculty positions at the University of California, San Diego, Department of Community and Family Medicine; Boston University School of Public Health Department of Maternal and Child Health; and the University of California, San Francisco, Family Health Care Nursing. She served as a nurse-midwifery codirector for the University of California, San Francisco/University California, San Diego, Intercampus Program and director of the Boston University Nurse-Midwifery Program. In the areas of education and certification, Barger is a recognized leader. She currently serves on the board of the American Midwifery Certification Board and is chair of the Continuing Competency Program; she has been responsible for major changes in competency requirements for midwives. She was a leader in adding primary care to the midwifery core competencies for the American College of Nurse-Midwives. She has served on the examination committees for the National Certification Corporation and the Board of Public Health Examiners. Barger has participated in a Fulbright Interprofessional Health project with health faculty in Malawi. Currently, she is a co-chair of the Education Standing Committee for the International Confederation of Midwives. Barger is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
Molly Joel Coye, M.D., M.P.H., is the chief innovation officer of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health and heads the Institute for Innovation in Health and the Global Lab for Innovation at UCLA, where she leads the health system in identifying new strategies, technologies, products, and services to support the large-scale transformation of health care. The Global Lab for Innovation advances the international exchange of health delivery innovations that enable dramatic improvements in access to and affordability of health services. Coye also advises technology developers, investors, national health systems and policy makers about disruptive technologies and business models that accelerate transformation and constrain health expenditures.
Coye was the founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (HealthTech), a nonprofit education and research organization established in 2000 that became the premier forecasting organization for emerging technologies in health care. Coye has also served as commissioner of health
for the State of New Jersey, director of the California State Department of Health Services, and head of the Division of Public Health Practice at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Coye is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and a member of the Board of Directors of Aetna Inc.; Prosetta Biosciences, Inc.; Big White Wall; and the American Telemedicine Association. She has previously served as chair of the Board of Directors of PATH, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in global health, and on the boards of the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, Cholestech, Inc., The California Endowment, and the China Medical Board, as well as the advisory boards of venture and private equity firms investing in health care information technology and services. Coye holds M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. in Chinese History from Stanford University, and is the author of two books on China.
Monique Dolfing-Vogelenzang, LLM, is managing director of the Medical Credit Fund (MCF). She joined PharmAccess Foundation, a Dutch not-for-profit organization dedicated to the strengthening of health systems in sub-Saharan Africa in early 2008. At PharmAccess, Dolfing-Vogelenzang was responsible for the development and the launch of the MCF. She secured its start-up capital and realized its financing round of $30 million with large international public and private investors, including OPIC, Soros Economic Development Fund, the Calvert Foundation, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The MCF is the first fund to provide small and medium-size enterprise (SME) loans to private primary health care facilities in Africa, linked to measurement of quality improvement using the SafeCare methodology. It won the G-20 SME Finance Challenge award in 2010 as well as an OPIC Impact Award for Access to Finance in 2014. Medical Credit Fund is currently expanding significantly in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Prior to her work on the MCF, Dolfing-Vogelenzang held a variety of senior management positions in the private sector, predominantly related to complex information technology projects for large financial institutions. She holds a master’s in law from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
Julie A. Fairman, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, is a nurse historian whose work on the history of 20th-century health care represents a track record of consistent funding, including fellowships from the National Library of Medicine, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Her work on the history of critical care earned her awards from the American Association of the History of Nursing and her first book Critical Nursing: A History received favorable reviews in the national and regional popular press and from reviewers in professional journals. Her most recent book is Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and
the Evolution of Modern Health Care is in its second printing and recently out in paperback. She is currently the director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, and is working on a history of the intersection of health policy and nurse practitioners in the United States from 1980 to the present.
Fairman’s research focuses on the history of 20th-century health care issues pervading contemporary nursing practice. Much of her recent work addresses the relationship between gender, nursing and technology (critical care), and the history of the social construction of professional boundaries (the history of the nurse practitioner movement). This research has been used by members of Congress and by other policy making bodies such as the Ministry of Health of New Zealand. She is currently investigating the influence of the nursing profession on health policy and looking at the role of the patient as health policy advocate. Other work examines the post-World War II history of nursing scholarship and disciplinary development. Fairman serves as the 2009 IOM/American Academy of Nursing/ American Nurses Foundation Scholar in Residence and will work with the RWJF/ IOM Commission on Investing in the Future of Nursing.
Fairman does not currently hold a clinical appointment but has worked with groups of practicing nurse practitioners through invitations to dialogue in journal clubs or think tanks, and collaborative work with clinician educator colleagues. As a former chair of a University of Pennsylvania institutional review board, she necessarily kept current with clinical topics, and was responsible for maintaining strict standards of public protection during clinical research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emilia Iwu, R.N., M.S.N., APNC, FWACN, completed her basic nursing and midwifery education in Nigeria. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in school health services from Rowan University of New Jersey, and another undergraduate and graduate degree in Nursing from Rutgers University of New Jersey. Before joining University of Maryland’s Institute of Human Virology and School of Nursing as technical advisor for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) grant in Nigeria, she worked as a family nurse practitioner in the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Cooper Hospital University Medical Center and Healthcare for the Homeless Program, both in Camden, New Jersey. Her key interests have been capacity development of nurses through education and practice.
As assistant professor at the School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Iwu helped design a postmasters global health certificate program that involves clinical and research rotations for U.S.-based nursing students in Nigeria and other resource-constrained countries. Her research interests include nurses’ work and safety, nurses’ roles in changing health care delivery in resource-constrained countries, patient access and retention in care, as
well as the impact of mentored training for health care workers on quality of care provision. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. in Nursing program at Rutgers. Building on her global health work in Nigeria, Iwu’s Ph.D. project interest is to study “the impact of task shifting on nurses, quality of care, and professional regulatory policies.”
Lakshmi Karan, Ph.D., M.S., brings multisector, global expertise in strategy, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and impact assessment. Most recently she was the global strategy director at Riders for Health, an award-winning social enterprise that delivers transportation solutions to millions in Africa. Prior to this she was the Skoll Foundation’s director of impact assessment and learning, where she guided program strategy, development, and evaluation of investments totaling more than $100 million. Karan has also served as adviser to global nonprofits and corporations. In the private sector, she was a technologist and business consultant to Fortune 500 companies. Karan holds a master’s in computer science from the National Institute of Information Technology (India) and a master’s and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is on the Boards of Potential Energy (formerly Darfur Stoves) and Maitri (South Asian domestic violence shelter). Karan serves as a judge on several social entrepreneurship competitions (Echoing Green, Global Social Venture Competition, and Canadian Government’s Grand Challenges in Health).
Susan Kosman, R.N., M.S., is the chief nursing officer for Aetna Inc. She is responsible for Aetna’s nursing strategy, which includes developing and promoting a culture of high performance and engagement, workforce planning, and leadership development. Kosman is also responsible for the following functional and service areas within National Care Management: clinical training; quality review and auditing; medical management systems; program design for utilization management, case management, disease management, behavioral health, wellness and eHealth; and National Account custom care unit operations.
Kosman began her career with Aetna in 1995 as manager of government programs for the Northeast Region. In 1998, Kosman joined core health delivery operations hospital and provider contracting as manager for quality and audit. She returned to the Northeast region from 1999 to 2002 as director of patient management. Prior to joining Aetna, Kosman spent 10 years in the home health industry in various roles.
Kosman is a Board Member of the Aetna Foundation, Chair of the American Heart Association, Greater Hartford chapter, and the Connecticut League for Nursing. She is on the advisory boards of the Hartford Health Sciences Academy and the Goodwin College B.S.N. and Higher Degree board. Kosman also represents Aetna at the Center to Champion
Nursing Coalition. She holds a B.S. in nursing from SUNY Downstate, an M.S. in organizational leadership from Quinnipiac University, and is a D.N.P. candidate at Sacred Heart University.
Carleigh Krubiner, Ph.D.(c), is a doctoral candidate in bioethics and health policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Her research interests include the ethics of health incentive programs, international health, health systems strengthening in low- and middle-income countries, resource allocation, and HIV/AIDS policy. Her dissertation research focuses on the ethical design of conditional cash transfer programs targeting health behaviors in developing countries.
Prior to coming to Hopkins, Krubiner was a research associate at the Results for Development Institute in Washington, DC, where she worked on the aids2031 Costs and Financing Project as well as other HIV/AIDS-related research in association with the Global Fund. Krubiner previously worked as a research associate at the Advisory Board Company, providing customized research reports on best practices for hospitals surrounding clinical quality and operational efficiency. Krubiner received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, majoring in the history and sociology of science.
Gina Lagomarsino, M.B.A., is a principal, chief operating officer, and managing director at Results for Development Institute (R4D) with a focus on health system design and financing. She leads work aimed at expanding health coverage in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular interest in how to create vibrant health markets that include high-quality, innovative private care providers that are accessible to people regardless of income. Lagomarsino leads the Center for Health Market Innovations, which has discovered more than 1,000 innovative programs with potential to improve quality and affordability of care for the poor in 110 countries, and she is now working to facilitate the scale-up of successful programs. Lagomarsino is also the Secretariat lead and a cofounder of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, a network of policy makers in low- and middle-income countries working to accelerate the successful adoption of national health insurance reforms. Prior to joining R4D, Lagomarsino was senior health policy advisor to Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams, where she worked to reform the health system of the District of Columbia. She designed and implemented a managed care reform of a public health insurance program serving low-income DC residents. She also spearheaded the District’s effort to implement the medical homes initiative to expand and improve the quality of private community health centers. Prior to her work in government, Lagomarsino was an en-
gagement manager in the Healthcare Practice of McKinsey & Company, where she advised senior executives of health insurance and hospital organizations on strategy and operations. She also worked for Kaiser Permanente, a private integrated financing and delivery system, based in the state of California, where she implemented a new model of primary care at a large multispecialty medical center and served as a market research consultant for Kaiser insurance products. Lagomarsino received a master’s in business administration from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University.
Akiko Maeda, Ph.D., M.A., currently holds the position of lead health specialist at the Health, Nutrition and Population Department of The World Bank. She is currently leading The World Bank’s strategy on Human Resources for Health for Universal Health Coverage. Maeda has more than 20 years of development experience in health and social programs, and has provided policy advice to senior government officials and assisted in the design of health policy reform and health projects in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and Europe. Her areas of expertise include health insurance and health financing reforms, health services reorganization, and human resources for health. Before joining The World Bank, Maeda held various positions with the Asian Development Bank (in the Philippines), UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund, in Cambodia and Yemen), and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme, in Yemen). She has a Ph.D. in health economics from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; an M.A. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University; an M.A. in Middle Eastern studies also from Harvard University; and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Princeton University.
Barbara Parfitt, CBE, Ph.D., RGN, RM, FNP, carried out her initial nurse training at the Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing in Birmingham, UK. She gained experience on a general medical ward and then continued into midwifery working as a nurse midwife in Worcester and Leicestershire. After studying theology for 3 years in London, she worked overseas for 10 years in international health development in Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Turkey. Her main role at this time was as a nurse practitioner and midwife. Following the completion of a nurse practitioner program in Indianapolis, Indiana, she returned to the United Kingdom and studied for a master’s in international community health in 1979 at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool University. She then went on to undertake an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in nursing at Manchester University. Her Ph.D. studies explored international primary health care focusing on the impact of the Western values of nurses on primary health care development in developing countries.
She then continued to focus her research on international health with completed projects in Turkey and Jordan. She was appointed as professor and dean of the School of Nursing Midwifery and Community Health at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) in 1995 until February 2007 when she stepped aside to undertake a new role as director of the Caledonian Centre for Global Health. She is also the director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Education, Research and Practice in GCU. She was appointed as the secretary general of the WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing & Midwifery Development Global Network Secretariat in July 2004. In this position, she supports the work of 38 collaborating centers worldwide. These centers seek to achieve the goal of strengthening nursing and midwifery.
In addition to international development, she has a keen interest in the importance of spirituality within the healing process and the values that underpin the caring role. She continues with a research focus in international health and her current research and practice development activities include the evaluation of the family health nursing in Tajikistan and Scotland. She is also currently working on international nursing and midwifery development projects in the Central Asian region. Parfitt was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s new honors list in January 2007 for services rendered to international health development.
Oscar F. Picazo has worked in more than 23 countries on health economics, financing and policy, and human resources for health as staff of The World Bank (10 years) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (7 years), and as an independent consultant. He has written about 60 technical reports on global health problems and issues, 30 of which have been published. He is senior research consultant, Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Legazpi Village, Makati City, Philippines. He currently serves as an Executive Board Member, Health Research Hub, Department of Health, and is also a member of the Study Group on Hospital Systems in Asia, Asia-Pacific Observatory (APO) on Health Systems and Policy. Picazo was a consultant to the Chairman of the Board, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Pasig City, Philippines; Chair, Philippine NGO Support, Inc., Quezon City, Philippines; lecturer, Health Economics for Managers, Ateneo de Manila Graduate School of Business, Rockwell, and Makati City, Philippines; and is president, Rotary Club of Makati, Rockwell, District 3830.
Marla Salmon, Sc.D., R.N., FAAN, is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Evans School of Public Affairs, and Professor of Nursing and Public Health at the University of Washington (UW). She has served as dean of nursing at both UW and Emory University, and as a faculty member in nursing and/ or public health at the University of Pennsylvania, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Minnesota. Focusing on global and domestic health policy and workforce development, Salmon’s career has included a number of governmental and policy leadership roles, including: director of the Division of Nursing with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; chair of the National Advisory Committee for Nursing Education and Practice; member of the Clinton administration’s White House Taskforce on Healthcare Reform; member of the U.S. Delegation to the World Health Organization; and member of the National Institute for Nursing Research National Advisory Committee. She was recently appointed to the Special Medical Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Salmon’s international service roles have focused on health workforce capacity building and include chair of the Global Advisory Group for Nursing and Midwifery, World Health Organization; head of the Secretariat for the Global Government Chief Nursing Officers Network; and founding director of the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, Emory University. She has been a consultant/advisor to individual governments and global health bodies, including the World Health Organization; the Pan American Health Organization; the Caribbean Community Secretariat; the Commonwealth Health Ministries Steering Committee for Nursing and Midwifery, the Regional Nursing Body of the Caribbean; and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently serving on the board of directors for the Institute for Education of Students Abroad (IES) and the Gretta Foundation, Salmon is a trustee emeritus for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is a member of the IOM, where she has served on a number of committees, including the IOM’s Committee on Envisioning a Strategy to Prepare for the Long-term Burden of HIV/AIDS: African Needs and the U.S. Interests.
Salmon’s publications include the award-winning book NURSE: A World of Care, which documents the role and impact of nursing around the world. She has been recognized with numerous national awards, including a 2008 Book of the Year award from the American Journal of Nursing. She is also the recipient of numerous other national and international awards and recognitions. Salmon received her doctorate in health policy and administration from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, where she continues to serve on the Deans Advisory Committee. She also holds degrees in nursing and political science, and studied national health insurance in Germany and Kuwait as a Fulbright Scholar.
Petra ten Hoope-Bender, R.N., M.B.A., is the Instituto de Cooperación Social Integrare (ICS Integrare) Director and formerly the Institute’s Director for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH). She is a midwife and executive manager with a health professional and busi-
ness administration background and 20 years of experience in independent midwifery and the management and development of organizations and public–private partnerships in the international health arena. She is the former interim director of the Partnership for MNCH (PMNCH), and the secretary general of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM). She also served as the co-chair of the Inter-Agency Group on Safe Motherhood, the predecessor to the PMNCH, and was one of the key managers of the transition from Safe Motherhood to Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.
Krishna Udayakumar, M.D., M.B.A., leads multiple initiatives at Duke Medicine in the rapidly evolving fields of health innovation and globalization of health care. As head of Global Innovation for Duke Medicine, he is responsible for the development and implementation of global strategy as well as global business development for Duke Medicine, across health care delivery, biomedical sciences research, and health professions education and training. Udayakumar has also led the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD), a nonprofit co-founded by Duke Medicine, McKinsey & Company, and the World Economic Forum, since its inception in 2011. As executive director, he leads all aspects of IPIHD’s work to support the scale and replication of transformative health solutions globally.
He also serves as co–principal investigator for the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a Duke-wide partnership with USAID that seeks to create an integrated global health social entrepreneurship hub for diverse stakeholders across the globe. In addition, he continues to be a key driver of broader health innovation efforts at Duke, serving as director of the Center for Health Delivery Science within the Duke Institute for Health Innovation. At Duke University, Udayakumar holds the rank of associate professor of global health and medicine, and also holds a faculty appointment at Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School Singapore. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and Academic Medicine.
Born in Bangalore, India, Udayakumar spent his childhood in Virginia, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia, with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies with distinction. He received both an M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine and an M.B.A. (with a concentration in health sector management) from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar. Udayakumar completed his residency training in internal medicine at Duke and served as assistant chief resident at the Durham VA Medical Center before joining the faculty of Duke University.
Diệp N. Vương, Ph.D., co-founded Pacific Links Foundation (PALS) and currently serves as president. Since the early 1990s, she has focused her effort on poverty alleviation and community participation for multilateral agencies such as The World Bank, UNDP, and international nongovernmental organizations. Under Vương’s leadership, PALS has articulated its focus on women empowerment through innovative and grassroots programs, from community leadership to antihuman trafficking. Since 2005, Vương designed and spearheaded ADAPT (An giang/Dong thap Alliance for the Prevention of Trafficking). Stateside, Vương has consulted for the County of Santa Clara to build capacity for its nonprofit contractors. She also accumulated experience in the private sector through positions with Silicon Valley high-tech companies, urban planning firms, and financial firms including Morgan Stanley. Vương is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, San Jose State University, and pursued her Ph.D. coursework at the University of California, Berkeley.
