Mr. Brooks has been a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting and Oliver Wyman. He also worked with the intelligence community team at Booze Allen Hamilton and has traveled extensively throughout South America. He is a graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Engineering Science.

Prior to PHC, Mr. Dodson was CEO or Chairman of six privately held companies and has served on the boards of 16 middle market companies in which he was also a private investor. Mr. Dodson has also worked for McKinsey & Company. He holds a BA in economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford University.

From a Rwandan family, Mr. Gakuba was born and raised in Burundi. His family returned to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. Mr. Gakuba completed his university education in Tanzania and has worked in Rwanda since that time. He has worked as a translator (English, French, Kinyarwanda) and as a project administrator in several non-profit organizations. His most recent positions have been with a Fulbright researcher, and with Hunt Alternatives Fund.

Mr. Gakuba founded and hosted a charitable call-in radio show to raise money for medical care for children. He is very active in his local church, in addition to volunteering with Every Child.

Prior to joining PHC, Ms. Haley has held various positions in the education field, including two years spent in Southern Africa where she volunteered as a teacher trainer with the U.S. Peace Corps. She has travelled at length throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and parts of the Middle East. Ms. Haley holds a degree in Elementary Education from Framingham State College.

Before joining PHC, Ms. Lockwood was the Director of Global Pediatrics at the Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative where she lead a program with operations in 33 countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to her work at the Clinton Foundation, Ms. Lockwood worked in various divisions of Mercer Management Consulting. She graduated with a BS and MS from Northwestern University and also has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Over the past 25 years, Ms. Milla has worked with health ministries, hospitals, and primary care physicians to decrease maternal child morbid-mortality in the U.S. and abroad. She has also been the principal investigator in four research-based studies that lead to Honduran health norm requiring folic acid supplementation for all reproductive age women. Ms. Milla is a graduate of Memorial Hospital, Worcester, MA and Smith College, North Hampton, MA.

Ms. Rowe was formerly with the Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health where she served as Program Manager for the Ethiopia Hospital Management Initiative and the Liberia Healthcare Management Delivery Program. She worked with Tufts School of Medicine, UNICEF, International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, Iron Deficiency Project Advisory Service, and National Institute of Health. She has a BA in Ethnobotany from Connecticut College, and MS from Tufts School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine.

Board of Directors

Mr. Abbott is President and CEO of WGBH Boston. Before working at WGBH, Abbott served as Senior Vice President for Development and Corporate Relations at PBS (1992-1998). Prior to that, he spent five years in senior management with San Francisco public station KQED.

In addition to Project Healthy Children, he is a board member of American Public Television (APT) as well as public television's Major Market Group. He is a Trustee of the Boston Children's Museum, Arts Boston and an Advisory Council Member for Harvard University's Master of Liberal Arts in Management Program. Mr. Abbott holds a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Mr. Bradach is a co-founder and managing partner of Bridgespan Group where he guides the development of the organization, its knowledge strategy, and the Bridgestar initiative, which seeks to increase the flow of talented leaders into and within the nonprofit sector. Additionally he writes, teaches and speaks extensively on topics relating to nonprofit strategy, business planning, and philanthropy.

Previously, Mr. Bradach had been a consultant at Bain & Company until he left to pursue his advanced degrees. He received his BA from Stanford University, and his MA in sociology and PhD in organizational behavior from Harvard University.

Stephanie Dodson is the co-founder of Strategic Grant Partners, a coalition of family foundations working to create positive futures for children and families in Massachusetts and nationally.

In addition to being a co-founder and current board chair of Project Healthy Children, Mrs. Dodson was involved in the creation of the Maranyundo Initiative and serves on the board for this all girls middle school and teacher training institute in Rwanda. She also serves as a trustee of Cambridge College. She previously worked in the computer industry and with the United Way and the American Heart Association. She holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MBA from Stanford University.

Mrs. Floor has worked as a consultant to the Radcliffe Seminars Management Program, marketing director at University Loan Services and sales manager at Tufts Health Plan. For the last 14 years, she has worked in the nonprofit world as the Board Chair of Mother Caroline Academy, a private inner city school in Boston, from 1996 to 2002 and as the Board Chair of the Maranyundo Initiative, an educational initiative for girls, teachers and members of the community in Rwanda since 2005. She has a BA in French from Emmanuel College.

Doctor Rodriguez specializes in infectious disease and HIV medicine, with a focus on global issues. He has supported national health care programs for HIV, TB and malaria treatment and diagnostics in resource-poor settings for the US CDC's Global AIDS Program in Vietnam, the National Institutes of Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization. Dr. Rodriguez served as the Chief Medical Officer for the William J. Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, with responsibility for the Foundation's programs to support delivery of drugs, diagnostics and clinical programs in 63 countries and launched the Foundation's operations research program. Most recently, he is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, where he helped launch the Global Health Delivery Project, and co-founder of Daktari Diagnostics, Inc., focused on the development of point-of-care diagnostics for global health. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine.

Mr. Simon is a co-founder of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Peace Action Network and Chair of the World Presidents Organization (WPO) Presidents Action Network. He is particularly interested in youth empowerment issues, and is on the Board of Free the Children, Minga, and is active with Youth MicroCredit International and OneChild. Mr. Simon is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, Ashoka Support Network and Aspen Institute. Some of his other endeavors include involvement in microcredit with Accion International, Kiva.org, Unitus and the Microcredit Summit; in Middle East issues with OneVoice and Seeds of Peace; and in health with International Medical Corps. Mr. Simon is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School.