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Board on Global Health Biographies Ann E. Kurth, Ph.D., CNM, M.P.H., FAAN, (Chair), is Dean, and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor, Yale University School of Nursing. Dr. Kurth is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine) and a member of the 2014-2018 US Preventive Services Task Force, which sets screening and primary care prevention guidelines for the United States. Dr. Kurth is 2018-2020 chair of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. An epidemiologist and clinically-trained nurse-midwife, Dr. Kurth’s research focuses on HIV/reproductive health and global health system strengthening. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIAID, NIDA, NIMH, NICHD), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNAIDS, CDC, HRSA, and others, for studies conducted in the United States and internationally. Dr. Kurth has consulted for the NIH, Gates Foundation, WHO, USAID and CDC, among others. Dr. Kurth has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and scholarly monographs and presented at hundreds of scientific conferences and invited talks. Dr. Kurth has received awards for her science and leadership including the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Ada Sue Hinshaw Research Award and the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame award from Sigma Theta Tau International. Cheryl A. Anderson, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S., is a Professor and Dean of the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. Dr. Anderson's research focuses on nutrition and chronic disease prevention in underserved populations using observational epidemiologic study designs, randomized clinical trials, and implementation science. Her research projects include the California Teachers Study; studies of stable carbon isotopes as novel dietary biomarkers for sweetened foods; clinical trials addressing lifestyle and behavioral factors for obesity reduction; and the RESOLVE to save Lives initiative. Her body of work addresses the effects of dietary patterns, sodium, and potassium intake on blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases; behavioral interventions for adherence to dietary recommendations; and identification of nutritional risk factors and for progression of kidney disease and development of cardiovascular events in individuals with chronic kidney disease. Dr. Anderson is the Director of the UC San Diego Center of Excellence in Health Promotion and Equity. She was a member of the 2015 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and served on the National Academy of Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board. She is the current Chair of the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention Council and immediate past chair of the Nutrition Committee. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016. Ravi Anupindi, M.E., M.S., Ph.D., is Colonel William G. and Ann C. Svetlich Professor of Operations Research and Management at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. His main research areas include technology and business innovation, global supply chain management, health care delivery in low and middle- income countries, economic development, and environmental & social sustainability. In his work global healthcare delivery he brings multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspectives, working collaboratively with academics from the public health and medicine, as well as practitioners in India and Africa. Specifically, in communicable diseases his work has focused on malaria and tuberculosis on issues like better costing models, models of effective resource allocations, and patient-centric service delivery models. For NCDs, his ongoing work has focused on cardiovascular disease interventions and 1 operational analysis of emergency response systems in India. He also has an interest and ongoing projects on drug shortages in the US, effectiveness of generic drugs, and challenges of scaling COVID-19 testing. He serves as a faculty expert on a task force to look into health care supply chain and national security issues. Dr. Anupindi is also co- Chair of the annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) that brings together academics, country planners, NGOs, practitioners, private sector, and representatives of various multi- lateral and donor agencies to discuss the issues, progress, (new) developments in global health supply chains and delivery. Dr. Anupindi teaches classes in Global Supply Chain Management; Innovations in Global Health Delivery; and Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management. He is the co-author of a textbook, Managing Business Process Flows (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2011. He has also authored several case studies in sustainability, healthcare delivery in low & middle income countries, and supply chain risk management. Under a USAID grant, he has assisted University of Johannesburg, South Africa develop a graduate degree program in Supply Chain Management. Dr. Anupindi is chair of (UM) President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights, was the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Value Chain Innovation (2017-2020) and the Ross Master of Supply Chain Management program (2008-2015). He is a Research Fellow at the William Davidson Institute and faculty associate with the Institute of Health Policy and Innovation, Michigan GlobalREACH, Erb Institute, Donia Center for Human Rights, Sustainable Food Systems Initiative and the Center for South Asian Studies. Dr. Anupindi is recipient the Ross School of Business Neary Teaching Excellence Award (2019), Victor L. Bernard Teaching Leadership Award (2019), and the CORE (Contribution to Research Environment) Award (2015). He was a founding board member of the People that Deliver Initiative and now serves on the board of the William Davidson Institute, the Fair Labor Association, and ProjectStanley; and as a technical advisor to Vital Ocean. Lukoye Atwoli, MBChB, MMed Psych, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Dean of the Aga Khan University Medical College, East Africa. He also holds a Visiting Scientist position at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and is an Honorary faculty at the University of Cape Town. He trained in medicine (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, MBChB) at Moi University in western Kenya, before undertaking specialist training in psychiatry (Master of Medicine in Psychiatry, MMed Psych) at the University of Nairobi. He later earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, focusing on the epidemiology of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in South Africa. Dr Atwoli’s current research interests are centered on trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder and the genetics of mental disorders, although he also participates in research on children’s and youth mental health, and on HIV and Mental Health. He is working with Dr Karestan Koenen and other colleagues on the largest study on the genetics of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Africa, the Neuropsychiatric genetics of African populations (NeuroGAP- Psychosis) study. He is a member of the World Health Organsiation’s World Mental Health Surveys Initiative led by Ron Kessler, the largest and most prolific psychiatric epidemiology consortium in the world. Dr Atwoli chairs the Board of Directors of the Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital, which is the only specialised mental health facility in Kenya that serves the wider eastern africa region as well. He is also a social and health rights advocate, and has influenced policy and programmes in the health sector as well as in the political sphere in Kenya and on the African Continent. He writes a weekly column in the Sunday Nation (the largest circulation newspaper in Eastern Africa) through which he dissects social issues from a global perspective. He is the President-Elect of the African College of Neuropsychopharmacology (AfCNP), and the immediate past Vice-President of the Kenya Medical Association (KMA). He is also currently the Secretary-General of the African Association of Psychiatrists (AAP), and is an Offical Advisor to the World Medical Association’s Medical Ethics Committee Kelly Baker, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Occupational and Environmental Health, and Epidemiology at the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health, and is a faculty member of the 2 interdisciplinary Sustainable Water Development Program in the College of Engineering. Her research focuses on understanding how unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions affect maternal and child health outcomes in low and middle income countries. Her Social Microbes program uses an microbial ecology systems approach to understand the complex behavioral, environmental, and spatial- temporal mechanisms that result in young children being exposed to and infected by dozens of types of common enteric pathogens in unsanitary settings. A fundamental theory underlying this research is that in highly unsanitary settings where multiple types of enteric pathogens are dynamically transmitted between humans and animal populations over space and time, the distribution of transmission risks are characterized at the simplest level by presence and concentration of a specific pathogen and at the most complex level by simultaneous exposure to multiple types of pathogens. Dr. Baker’s group uses microbial exposure assessment and epidemiology approaches to identify and rank priority transmission pathways, as well as to evaluate the impact of WASH intervention trials.