CHAIR
Judy Lewis
Haitian Health Foundation

Judy Lewis is a public health sociologist who has been on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center for over 35 years.  She is currently a professor of Community Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of Global Health Education.  She served as a founding member and president of the Global Health Education Consortium, the chair of the APHA MCH Section International Health Committee, and is a member of the Management Committee of the Women and Health Task Force.  Judy has collaborated with the Haitian Health Foundation for the past 25 years, and currently serves as the Research and Technical Advisor.  She authored, “The Health of Women/Mothers and Children,” in the text Understanding Global Medicine and Health, as well several articles about work on maternal newborn and child health in Haiti, Ecuador and Sri Lanka. She has worked in 30 countries conducting research, program evaluations and training.  Judy was the co-chair of the CORE Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Working Group for several years. She has been on the CORE Board since 2008.

VICE-CHAIR
Demet Gural
Pathfinder International

Demet Güral is a physician and a public health specialist with more than twenty five years experience in sexual and reproductive health programs and primary health care management,  20 years of which have been spent developing programs, managing large-scale projects, and provisioning medical and technical assistance for projects on both a long- and short-term basis.  Currently, as Vice President of Programs at Pathfinder International, Dr. Gural oversees the implementation of Pathfinder strategies through both her supervision of the Programs Systems, Technical Services, and Research & Metrics Units, as well as her oversight of the country management teams which support Pathfinder offices around the world.  Dr. Gural received her medical degree from Ege University School of Medicine in Turkey, her MPH from Boston University School of Public Health, and a Masters in Archaeology from Istanbul University in 2007.

TREASURER
Jed Hoffman
World Vision

Jed joined World Vision US in February 2009 as the Senior Director of the Health and HOPE team in the International Programs Group after many years at Catholic Relief Services, most recently as the Chief of Party for AIDS Relief.  He received his MA from University of Wisconsin-Madison, held a Fulbright research grant in Peru and he plans to finish his second MA (International Policy and Practice) from George Washington University next year

SECRETARY
Diana DuBois
WellShare International

Diana is the Executive Director of WellShare International. She has spent 23 years working on public health issues, including 5 years of professional work in Africa.  Prior to her current position, she served as a Family Planning Specialist, working with Somali refugees on reproductive health issues at Neighborhood Health Care Network.  She also served as the Country Co-Director for the International Rescue Committee in Ghana for 3 years, where she launched and ran a comprehensive health, education program for Liberian women refugees.

AT-LARGE
Lisa Bowen
White Ribbon Alliance

Lisa Bowen has 15 years of demonstrated experience leading and managing international teams to design, budget, manage, monitor and evaluate public health, education and community development projects in approximately 25 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms. Bowen has held the position of Capacity Building Advisor for the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA) since 2009 where she provides technical assistance and organizational strengthening support for WRA National Alliances in their work to improve maternal health and survival. Prior to her work with WRA, Lisa worked for 6 years with Plan International USA, Inc. as their Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health Advisor. Ms. Bowen holds an MPH from University of North Carolina and she is a fluent Spanish speaker.

AT-LARGE
Jaime Carrillo

TECHNICAL LIASON
Emmanuel d'Harcourt
International Rescue Committee

Emmanuel d'Harcourt has been involved with the CORE group since 1999, when he joined the International Rescue Committee as manager of its Child Survival Program in Kibungo, Rwanda.  He now serves as a Senior Technical Advisor for Child Health for IRC.  Emmanuel served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal working as a community health worker. After Peace Corps, he went to medical school and completed a pediatric residency.  He also has a Master’s of Public Health.

AT-LARGE
Mary Hennigan
Catholic Relief Services

Mary Hennigan graduated from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.  She has worked for different US PVOs on health and nutrition activities.  Mary began her work in the public health field when she was assigned to the Dominican Republic as a Peace Corps volunteer and worked with Catholic Relief Services.  Since 2003 she has been a Senior Technical Advisor in Health for CRS.  She serves as co-chair of CORE Group’s Nutrition Working Group.

AT-LARGE
David Pyle
Consultant

David has over 40 years of experience in community-based health, nutrition, and family planning programming.His special expertise is in evaluation, having served as team leader in more than a dozen major evaluations and design of cost‑effective and sustainable programs. He is familiar with US and worldwide health, population and nutrition networks as well as with USAID and multilateral donor agency personnel and procedures. David has worked extensively with INGOs and local NGOs. His research has addressed the difficulties of "scaling‑up" community‑based integrated health efforts, considering how strategy influences structure, and identifying solutions which include strengthening information systems, effective decentralization, and increased collaboration with private sector.

AT-LARGE
Ben Schwartz
CARE

AT-LARGE
Bakary Sidibe
Cureamericas Global, Inc.

Bakary Sidibe works as a Senior Program Manager at Curamericas Global, Inc. He has more than 18 years in international development and managing public health projects including HIV, child survival, malaria, water and sanitation, and women and youth empowerment, as well as providing organizational capacity building and personnel training. With Curamericas, Bakary leads the expansion of the organization's programs portfolio in Africa. He's responsible for oversight of managing programs, including Maternal Health and Child Survival, HIV/AIDS, Family Planning, Community Case Management, Water & Sanitation, and Community Development projects in Liberia, Haiti, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Mozambique. Before working at Curamericas, Bakary served as a Senior Program Manager for Africa at Global Health Action.

AT-LARGE
Eric Starbuck
Save the Children

Eric Starbuck has worked for Save the Children (SC), initially as a Child Survival Specialist, and more recently as Advisor for Child Health and Pandemic Preparedness, since 1998, providing child health and community case management (CCM) program design and other technical support to SC country office staff. He has played a leading role in SC agency-wide global pandemic influenza preparedness efforts since early 2006, and served as Public Health Advisor with the CORE Group on the Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness (H2P) Initiative from October 2007 through September 2010. Eric previously served for two terms on the CORE Board of Directors from 2001 - 2006. Prior to joining SC, Eric served as a Fellow with USAID’s Child Survival Grants Program for three and one-half years. He began his work in international public health in 1981 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal, managing the district-wide implementation of a program involving 320 community health workers and 12 health facilities. Eric is co-author of Reduction in Total Under-Five Mortality in Western Nepal Through Community-Based Antimicrobial Treatment of Pneumonia in the Lancet, and Childhood Mortality After a High Dose of Vitamin A in a High Risk Population in the British Medical Journal, and holds a DrPH and an MPH from The Johns Hopkins University.

AT-LARGE
Areana Quinones
Catholic Medical Mission Board

Since July 2010, Areana Quinones has led the Grants Acquisitions and Management team in the development of strategic program proposals for CMMB’s work in Maternal and Child Health, HIV/AIDS, NTDs, and Chronic Disease. At CMMB she works to develop partnerships in order to help CMMB generate resources for collaborative activities in its eight field offices and looks for opportunities to further grow CMMB’s work in additional countries. Upon arriving at CMMB she was thrilled to reengage with the CORE Group on our behalf as she had spent nearly five years as member of the CORE staff where she managed Malaria Working Group and RMB Activities, contributed to developing proposals for CORE’s work, and worked closely with the NGO Malaria networks in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Areana has a Masters in Public Health, is dedicated to concepts of collaborations to strengthen community health programs and is thrilled to be able to bring her knowledge of corporate giving, partnership, and corporate social responsibility as well as her experience with US Government and foundation funding to offer a unique fundraising perspective to the CORE Board as it moves to indentify resources and new opportunities for CORE and its members.

CORE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Karen LeBan

Since 2002, Karen LeBan has served as the Executive Director of CORE Group. She is responsible to create a forum that nurtures collaboration among CORE members and partners ensuring that the members’ ownership of CORE Group is maintained. She provides strategic and operational leadership and overall management of the CORE Group to achieve its mission, strategy, annual goals and objectives. Karen has worked in Bolivia, Maldive Islands, Sri Lanka and Thailand and has provided short-term technical and management support to community programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean through various positions with the USG and NGOs over the past 25 years. Karen holds Master’s degrees from American University/National Training Laboratories and Southern Illinois University.