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LCL FELLOWS
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LCLI Fellows are a living web of transformational connections that each Fellow can draw upon.
All Fellows (inevitably) inhabit other networks that then become visible to other LCLI Fellows.
The rich complexity within which we all live, work and help grow human connections
can and does contribute to enhanced life and flourishing for all.
All Fellows (inevitably) inhabit other networks that then become visible to other LCLI Fellows.
The rich complexity within which we all live, work and help grow human connections
can and does contribute to enhanced life and flourishing for all.
Kanwaljeet Anand
Dr. Kanwaljeet S. (“Sunny”) Anand graduated from M.G.M. Medical College, Indore (India). As a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford, he received the D.Phil. degree, followed by post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Pediatrics training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Critical Care Medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He received the Dr. Michael Blacow Award from British Paediatric Association (1986), Pediatric Resident Research Award from American Academy of Pediatrics (1992), the inaugural Young Investigator Award in Pediatric Pain from International Association for Study of Pain (IASP, 1994), the Jeffrey Lawson Award from American Pain Society (2000), Windermere Honorary Lectureship from Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (2004), Joan M. Cranmer “Mentor of the Year” Award (2007) from University of Arkansas, the Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Award from the Swedish Academy of Medicine (2009), the 9th Annual “In Praise of Medicine” Public Address from Erasmus University (2013), the 14th Dr. Jackson Rees Memorial Lecture (2013), the 5th Annual Dr. David Todres Grand Rounds (at MGH, 2014), the 14th Annual Dr. John Fangman Lecture (2014), and 2015 Journées Nationales de Néonatologie Lectureship at The Pasteur Institute (Paris, France). His community service activities were recognized by the Father Joseph Biltz Award (2007) from National Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ) and the Dr. Martin Luther King “Salute to Greatness” Individual Award (2008) from State of Arkansas. He is Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine; serves on the Executive Committee for Pediatric Pain Research Network (2015) and Governing Council for the Pain in Children SIG at IASP. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, edited 7 books and journal issues, contributed 60 book chapters and numerous other publications. He is a leading authority on pain and stress in newborn babies, and management of pain in infants and children.
Dr. Kanwaljeet S. (“Sunny”) Anand graduated from M.G.M. Medical College, Indore (India). As a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford, he received the D.Phil. degree, followed by post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Pediatrics training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Critical Care Medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He received the Dr. Michael Blacow Award from British Paediatric Association (1986), Pediatric Resident Research Award from American Academy of Pediatrics (1992), the inaugural Young Investigator Award in Pediatric Pain from International Association for Study of Pain (IASP, 1994), the Jeffrey Lawson Award from American Pain Society (2000), Windermere Honorary Lectureship from Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (2004), Joan M. Cranmer “Mentor of the Year” Award (2007) from University of Arkansas, the Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Award from the Swedish Academy of Medicine (2009), the 9th Annual “In Praise of Medicine” Public Address from Erasmus University (2013), the 14th Dr. Jackson Rees Memorial Lecture (2013), the 5th Annual Dr. David Todres Grand Rounds (at MGH, 2014), the 14th Annual Dr. John Fangman Lecture (2014), and 2015 Journées Nationales de Néonatologie Lectureship at The Pasteur Institute (Paris, France). His community service activities were recognized by the Father Joseph Biltz Award (2007) from National Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ) and the Dr. Martin Luther King “Salute to Greatness” Individual Award (2008) from State of Arkansas. He is Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine; serves on the Executive Committee for Pediatric Pain Research Network (2015) and Governing Council for the Pain in Children SIG at IASP. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, edited 7 books and journal issues, contributed 60 book chapters and numerous other publications. He is a leading authority on pain and stress in newborn babies, and management of pain in infants and children.
Kevin Barnett
Kevin, DrPH, MCP a senior investigator at the Public Health Institute, works in the intersection of health care, public health, and communities, with a focus on eliminating inequities and advancing social justice. His work emphasizes engagement of diverse stakeholders to address the root causes of health problems, working across sectors to align a broad spectrum of resources, assets and passions to make a difference in the lives of people from all walks of life. On a number of boards, from Trinity Health, a large, Catholic nonprofit health system, to Communities Joined in Action, a small but mighty national association of community health coalitions, he also has been a thought leader of the Stakeholder Health movement since its inception. When he’s not running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off, he relishes moments of solitude hiking in the backcountry, and relaxing with his wife Alison and son David.
Kevin, DrPH, MCP a senior investigator at the Public Health Institute, works in the intersection of health care, public health, and communities, with a focus on eliminating inequities and advancing social justice. His work emphasizes engagement of diverse stakeholders to address the root causes of health problems, working across sectors to align a broad spectrum of resources, assets and passions to make a difference in the lives of people from all walks of life. On a number of boards, from Trinity Health, a large, Catholic nonprofit health system, to Communities Joined in Action, a small but mighty national association of community health coalitions, he also has been a thought leader of the Stakeholder Health movement since its inception. When he’s not running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off, he relishes moments of solitude hiking in the backcountry, and relaxing with his wife Alison and son David.
Elias Bongmba
Elias holds the Harry and Hazel Chavanne in Christian Theology and is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in the USA. He holds a PhD in the Joint Program at lliff School of Theology and University of Denver, 1995, and is a Faculty Associate at Wless College. He is Also Managing Editor of Religious Studies Reviews as well as the Bulletin of the Council for Societies for the Study of Religion. His primary areas of teaching include African an African Diaspora Religious; African Christianity/Theology Hermeneutics and Theology; Contemporary Theology and Ethics, whilst his secondary teaching areas include 19th Century Theology and Philosophy of Religion, African Studies; Philosophy/Ethics. His book, The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa, won The 2007 Franz Prize for outstanding work in Caribbean thought, awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Elias holds the Harry and Hazel Chavanne in Christian Theology and is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in the USA. He holds a PhD in the Joint Program at lliff School of Theology and University of Denver, 1995, and is a Faculty Associate at Wless College. He is Also Managing Editor of Religious Studies Reviews as well as the Bulletin of the Council for Societies for the Study of Religion. His primary areas of teaching include African an African Diaspora Religious; African Christianity/Theology Hermeneutics and Theology; Contemporary Theology and Ethics, whilst his secondary teaching areas include 19th Century Theology and Philosophy of Religion, African Studies; Philosophy/Ethics. His book, The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa, won The 2007 Franz Prize for outstanding work in Caribbean thought, awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Heidi Christensen
Heidi, MTS, is the Associate Director for Community Engagement at the Centre for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Heidi's efforts focus on building the capacity of faith-based and community organizations to be agents of health care and education on wellness and preventative practices. This effort includes the First Lady's Let's Move Faith and Communities initiative to create access to healthy and affordable food and increase physical activity. She also partners with a national hospital health system learning collaborative, Stakeholder Health, to develop innovative models for engaging faith and community networks in increasing health outcomes and addressing the social and economic issues challenging the health of our nation's communities. Previously, at Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA), she helped to create a network of US faith leaders and their communities to support collaborative efforts on malaria and other health issues affecting the developing world. A as result, CIFA produced the strategic framework report, Many Faiths, Common Action: Increasing the Impact of the Faith Sector on Health and Development. Heidi has also managed communications and event production for the Cathedral College of Washington National Cathedral. She holds a master's degree in systematic theology and is a practicing visual artist exhibiting her work in Washington, DC and Boston area.
Heidi, MTS, is the Associate Director for Community Engagement at the Centre for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Heidi's efforts focus on building the capacity of faith-based and community organizations to be agents of health care and education on wellness and preventative practices. This effort includes the First Lady's Let's Move Faith and Communities initiative to create access to healthy and affordable food and increase physical activity. She also partners with a national hospital health system learning collaborative, Stakeholder Health, to develop innovative models for engaging faith and community networks in increasing health outcomes and addressing the social and economic issues challenging the health of our nation's communities. Previously, at Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA), she helped to create a network of US faith leaders and their communities to support collaborative efforts on malaria and other health issues affecting the developing world. A as result, CIFA produced the strategic framework report, Many Faiths, Common Action: Increasing the Impact of the Faith Sector on Health and Development. Heidi has also managed communications and event production for the Cathedral College of Washington National Cathedral. She holds a master's degree in systematic theology and is a practicing visual artist exhibiting her work in Washington, DC and Boston area.
Nomvula Dlamini
M.Ed., Executive Director at the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA), a civil society organisation based in Cape Town, where she has been for 21 years, Nomvula is also a trustee for Inyathelo: The South African Institute for Advancement and Keystone Accountability. She is experienced in facilitating organisational development, learning and transformation processes, conducting external evaluations using a participatory approach, designing & facilitating stakeholder dialogues & collaborations, and designing action research processes for innovations to improve developmental impact. She has worked with civil society formations in Southern and East Africa, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands. Her Masters in Adult Learning & Global Change was through a joint programme with the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), Linkoping University (Sweden), University of British Columbia in Canada, and Sydney Technologies University (Australia). A regular speaker at national and international conferences, Nomvula is a proactive, adaptable and conscientious social facilitator passionate about mentoring young people and learning from their creative energies. She thrives on a questioning approach, openness to learning and drawing on experience in working with a diversity of people, organisations and communities.
M.Ed., Executive Director at the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA), a civil society organisation based in Cape Town, where she has been for 21 years, Nomvula is also a trustee for Inyathelo: The South African Institute for Advancement and Keystone Accountability. She is experienced in facilitating organisational development, learning and transformation processes, conducting external evaluations using a participatory approach, designing & facilitating stakeholder dialogues & collaborations, and designing action research processes for innovations to improve developmental impact. She has worked with civil society formations in Southern and East Africa, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands. Her Masters in Adult Learning & Global Change was through a joint programme with the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), Linkoping University (Sweden), University of British Columbia in Canada, and Sydney Technologies University (Australia). A regular speaker at national and international conferences, Nomvula is a proactive, adaptable and conscientious social facilitator passionate about mentoring young people and learning from their creative energies. She thrives on a questioning approach, openness to learning and drawing on experience in working with a diversity of people, organisations and communities.
Douglas Easterling
Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine, Doug served as department chair from 2005-2015. Prior to coming to Wake Forest, he was a division director within the Center for Youth, Family and Community Partnerships at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. At both Wake Forest and UNCG, Doug has worked as an evaluator, strategic advisor and facilitator for national, state, and local foundations, as well as a variety of non-profit organizations and government agencies. He also served as the Director of Research and Evaluation at The Colorado Trust, a health foundation in Denver. Doug has written and presented extensively on the topics of program evaluation, strategic philanthropy, social capital, community capacity, collaboration, civic leadership and systems change. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School, an M.A. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of North Carolina, and a B.A. from Carleton College. Doug loves writing, dog training, exploring indigenous spirituality and healing, and travel—to mountains and desert! Above all, he seeks to be part of processes, experiences and communities where people grow, evolve and step into their power.
Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine, Doug served as department chair from 2005-2015. Prior to coming to Wake Forest, he was a division director within the Center for Youth, Family and Community Partnerships at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. At both Wake Forest and UNCG, Doug has worked as an evaluator, strategic advisor and facilitator for national, state, and local foundations, as well as a variety of non-profit organizations and government agencies. He also served as the Director of Research and Evaluation at The Colorado Trust, a health foundation in Denver. Doug has written and presented extensively on the topics of program evaluation, strategic philanthropy, social capital, community capacity, collaboration, civic leadership and systems change. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School, an M.A. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of North Carolina, and a B.A. from Carleton College. Doug loves writing, dog training, exploring indigenous spirituality and healing, and travel—to mountains and desert! Above all, he seeks to be part of processes, experiences and communities where people grow, evolve and step into their power.
Euginia Eng
Professor of Health Behaviour, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geni focuses on the relevance and measurement of the concept of community competence as an outcome of community-based interventions. She has done extensive fieldwork in rural villages of Togo, Indonesia, and African American communities in the Mississippi Delta and North Carolina. She also works on the lay health advisor (LHA) intervention model, based on the concept of natural helping across social networks in ethnic minority populations, and on applying the Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis. Previously Director of the Kellogg Health Scholars Program in community-based participatory research (CBPR), Geni also enjoys piano, jazz and all things West African.
Professor of Health Behaviour, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geni focuses on the relevance and measurement of the concept of community competence as an outcome of community-based interventions. She has done extensive fieldwork in rural villages of Togo, Indonesia, and African American communities in the Mississippi Delta and North Carolina. She also works on the lay health advisor (LHA) intervention model, based on the concept of natural helping across social networks in ethnic minority populations, and on applying the Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis. Previously Director of the Kellogg Health Scholars Program in community-based participatory research (CBPR), Geni also enjoys piano, jazz and all things West African.
Sharon Engebretson
Trained in Clinical Pastoral Education, Sharon is Associate Vice President in the Division of Faith & Health Ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health. She administers the division’s operational and strategic ministry initiatives, serves on the Medical Center’s Council for Inclusion and Diversity, and is also Adjunct Faculty at Wake Forest Divinity School. An ordained Methodist (Chicago/Illinois), she has held Board positions for the Association of Clinical Pastoral Educators, chairing several of the ACPE committees along the way and is also on the Advisory Board, Community Partnership for End of Life Care. Sharon has been key to supporting the LCL Initiative out of Wake Forest. When not carrying out all her formal duties, or immersing herself in a variety of literatures, she is also a lover of horses and the great outdoors.
Trained in Clinical Pastoral Education, Sharon is Associate Vice President in the Division of Faith & Health Ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health. She administers the division’s operational and strategic ministry initiatives, serves on the Medical Center’s Council for Inclusion and Diversity, and is also Adjunct Faculty at Wake Forest Divinity School. An ordained Methodist (Chicago/Illinois), she has held Board positions for the Association of Clinical Pastoral Educators, chairing several of the ACPE committees along the way and is also on the Advisory Board, Community Partnership for End of Life Care. Sharon has been key to supporting the LCL Initiative out of Wake Forest. When not carrying out all her formal duties, or immersing herself in a variety of literatures, she is also a lover of horses and the great outdoors.
Joyce Essien
With an MD and MBA, Joyce is a retired Captain, US Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; retired Director, Center for Public Health Practice, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. A Board Certified Pathologist in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, her current focus on interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral translation research leverages the evidence base to make progress toward system scale change for health and equity. She provides leadership coaching for cross-sectoral teams nationally for the Public Health Institute’s National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health. She served on the 2014 ProjectAdvisory Committee of the Institute for Alternative Futures publication, Public Health Scenario 2030: A Scenario Exploration; and the Institute of Medicine Committees on the Assessment of Resiliency and Prevention Programs for Mental and Behavioral Health in Service Members and Their Families (2013-2014); and the Committee on Public Health Strategies (2009-2012). She serves on the boards of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc. and AMGP Georgia Managed Care Company, Inc.
With an MD and MBA, Joyce is a retired Captain, US Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; retired Director, Center for Public Health Practice, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. A Board Certified Pathologist in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, her current focus on interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral translation research leverages the evidence base to make progress toward system scale change for health and equity. She provides leadership coaching for cross-sectoral teams nationally for the Public Health Institute’s National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health. She served on the 2014 ProjectAdvisory Committee of the Institute for Alternative Futures publication, Public Health Scenario 2030: A Scenario Exploration; and the Institute of Medicine Committees on the Assessment of Resiliency and Prevention Programs for Mental and Behavioral Health in Service Members and Their Families (2013-2014); and the Committee on Public Health Strategies (2009-2012). She serves on the boards of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc. and AMGP Georgia Managed Care Company, Inc.
Shirley Eloby Fleming
Shirley, Dr. Rev. is a long-time advocate for equity and social justice in health and human services, working for more than thirty years in public health locally and nationally as a provider, administrator and advocate to assure that all people, especially those who are disadvantaged, have the opportunity to enjoy the highest level of health and engagement in human society. Until March, 2004, she was second ranking public health officer for the City at the Chicago Department of Public Health, retiring from this position to attend seminary and do the work of health, healing and social justice, focused on the faith beliefs and practices of those who live on the margins. Since 2013 she has been co-director of The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation, a collaborative between Advocate’s Health Care and the Office for Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Shirley is the recipient several local and national awards, and served on numerous local and national academic, faith-based and governmental boards that are focused on understanding and eliminating health inequity across the life cycle, with a special passion for community-driven strategies for improving maternal and child health.
Shirley, Dr. Rev. is a long-time advocate for equity and social justice in health and human services, working for more than thirty years in public health locally and nationally as a provider, administrator and advocate to assure that all people, especially those who are disadvantaged, have the opportunity to enjoy the highest level of health and engagement in human society. Until March, 2004, she was second ranking public health officer for the City at the Chicago Department of Public Health, retiring from this position to attend seminary and do the work of health, healing and social justice, focused on the faith beliefs and practices of those who live on the margins. Since 2013 she has been co-director of The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation, a collaborative between Advocate’s Health Care and the Office for Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Shirley is the recipient several local and national awards, and served on numerous local and national academic, faith-based and governmental boards that are focused on understanding and eliminating health inequity across the life cycle, with a special passion for community-driven strategies for improving maternal and child health.
Ellen Idler
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology at Emory's Religion and Public Health Collaborative, with additional appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory's Center for Ethics, and the Graduate Division of Religion. In this very interdisciplinary environment she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses across schools on a variety of topics including religion and public health, sociological aspects of health and illness, epidemiology of aging, comparative health systems, and social gerontology. She is the editor and contributing author of Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health (Oxford 2014). Current research interests include the determinants and consequences of global self-ratings of health, the role of chaplains in palliative care, and religion as a factor in community and individual health.
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology at Emory's Religion and Public Health Collaborative, with additional appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory's Center for Ethics, and the Graduate Division of Religion. In this very interdisciplinary environment she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses across schools on a variety of topics including religion and public health, sociological aspects of health and illness, epidemiology of aging, comparative health systems, and social gerontology. She is the editor and contributing author of Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health (Oxford 2014). Current research interests include the determinants and consequences of global self-ratings of health, the role of chaplains in palliative care, and religion as a factor in community and individual health.
Evance Kalula
Evance (LLB, LLM, PhD; Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford) is Director of the International Academic Programmes Office and Confucius Institute, University of Cape Town. He also holds a personal chair as Professor of Employment Law and Social Security. Among many appointments and consultancies, he is or has been human rights fellow and external collaborator in the ILO in Geneva, Switzerland, and African Programme coordinator for Rights and Humanity in London, on the Ministerial Economic Advisory Panel in the Department of Economic Development, President of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association, a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, on the board of the Children's Institute at UCT, the advisory board of the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, McGill University (Montreal). He served as chair of the SA Employment Conditions Commission (2000-2011), on the governing Councils of the Universities of Cape Town and University of Lusaka, Zambia, the advisory board of the Tourism and Business Institute of Southern Africa, and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Commission of Inquiry into complaints of non-observance by Zimbabwe of freedom of association and collective bargaining conventions, 2008-2010.
Evance (LLB, LLM, PhD; Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford) is Director of the International Academic Programmes Office and Confucius Institute, University of Cape Town. He also holds a personal chair as Professor of Employment Law and Social Security. Among many appointments and consultancies, he is or has been human rights fellow and external collaborator in the ILO in Geneva, Switzerland, and African Programme coordinator for Rights and Humanity in London, on the Ministerial Economic Advisory Panel in the Department of Economic Development, President of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association, a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, on the board of the Children's Institute at UCT, the advisory board of the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, McGill University (Montreal). He served as chair of the SA Employment Conditions Commission (2000-2011), on the governing Councils of the Universities of Cape Town and University of Lusaka, Zambia, the advisory board of the Tourism and Business Institute of Southern Africa, and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Commission of Inquiry into complaints of non-observance by Zimbabwe of freedom of association and collective bargaining conventions, 2008-2010.
Horst Kleinschmidt
Horst, 'retired' but remains a very busy social activist, also researched Southern African History, German Colonial History, human rights and related matters. He has a long and deep history of political engagement against Apartheid in South Africa, and in building a free and just society since. He worked as Assistant to Beyers Naude, Director of the Christian Institute of SA (banned in 1977), and in exile, was head of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa in London for 10 years. On returning to SA, he worked with Lawyers for Human Rights, Kagiso Trust (a major development funding organisation in Johannesburg), Mvula Trust (implementing water and sanitation supply in rural villages), and as a Civil Servant to the Head of Fisheries section in Government (initially employed to investigate corruption and malpractices). Still very active in civil society, Horst is optimistic that people can change if given, education, self-awareness and exposure.
Horst, 'retired' but remains a very busy social activist, also researched Southern African History, German Colonial History, human rights and related matters. He has a long and deep history of political engagement against Apartheid in South Africa, and in building a free and just society since. He worked as Assistant to Beyers Naude, Director of the Christian Institute of SA (banned in 1977), and in exile, was head of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa in London for 10 years. On returning to SA, he worked with Lawyers for Human Rights, Kagiso Trust (a major development funding organisation in Johannesburg), Mvula Trust (implementing water and sanitation supply in rural villages), and as a Civil Servant to the Head of Fisheries section in Government (initially employed to investigate corruption and malpractices). Still very active in civil society, Horst is optimistic that people can change if given, education, self-awareness and exposure.
Paul Laurentii
Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine and director of the Laboratory for Complex Brain Networks (LCBN). Paul leads a team pioneering the use of complexity theory and network science to understanding the brain as a complex, integrated network. They apply network science methods brain imaging studies that range from understanding normal aging to the adverse effects of pesticides in Latino migrant farmworkers. Paul is an avid and amazing grower of orchids!
Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine and director of the Laboratory for Complex Brain Networks (LCBN). Paul leads a team pioneering the use of complexity theory and network science to understanding the brain as a complex, integrated network. They apply network science methods brain imaging studies that range from understanding normal aging to the adverse effects of pesticides in Latino migrant farmworkers. Paul is an avid and amazing grower of orchids!
Sandy Lazarus
An independent contractor (senior specialist scientist) at the South African Medical Research Council/University of South Africa’s Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit in Cape Town, Professor, University of the Western Cape, and Extraordinaire Professor, University of South Africa, Sandy’s professional experience and expertise is in community psychology (education and health sectors). An academic activist, researcher and teacher (professionally registered as a research psychologist), she has contributed to local, provincial, national and international contexts over four decades. This has included national policy development and practice in education (on the development of an inclusive education system and education support services in South Africa); national policy development and practice in health promotion (specifically in the development of health promoting schools); and research methodology, with a particular focus on the development of community engaged research through participatory action research approaches. Over the last ten years, she focused particularly on violence, violence prevention, and safety and peace promotion in South Africa. Sandy lives in the rural town of McGregor, Western Cape.
An independent contractor (senior specialist scientist) at the South African Medical Research Council/University of South Africa’s Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit in Cape Town, Professor, University of the Western Cape, and Extraordinaire Professor, University of South Africa, Sandy’s professional experience and expertise is in community psychology (education and health sectors). An academic activist, researcher and teacher (professionally registered as a research psychologist), she has contributed to local, provincial, national and international contexts over four decades. This has included national policy development and practice in education (on the development of an inclusive education system and education support services in South Africa); national policy development and practice in health promotion (specifically in the development of health promoting schools); and research methodology, with a particular focus on the development of community engaged research through participatory action research approaches. Over the last ten years, she focused particularly on violence, violence prevention, and safety and peace promotion in South Africa. Sandy lives in the rural town of McGregor, Western Cape.
Jørn Lemvik
Immediate past Secretary General of Digni, Norway, continues as a Special Advisor until retirement. Digni is an umbrella organisation for 20 Norwegian mission societies and churches engaged in long-term development cooperation that manages a multi-year agreement with Norad , and actively works against corruption and systematically to build solid organizations and competent management at all levels. Jørn has a special interest in the leadership and the role of the civil society in development work, including a focus on the importance of religious actors. He has been a visiting fellow at World Faiths Development Dialogue, Washington D.C, and spent 13 years in Ethiopia and a year in Kenya, followed by many more years traveling around the world. Though he says “I am not an academic. I have no papers or reports for you. I am a storyteller,” he has intensively engaged as a thinker and practitioner on organization and leadership, communication, conflicts, and partnerships in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Immediate past Secretary General of Digni, Norway, continues as a Special Advisor until retirement. Digni is an umbrella organisation for 20 Norwegian mission societies and churches engaged in long-term development cooperation that manages a multi-year agreement with Norad , and actively works against corruption and systematically to build solid organizations and competent management at all levels. Jørn has a special interest in the leadership and the role of the civil society in development work, including a focus on the importance of religious actors. He has been a visiting fellow at World Faiths Development Dialogue, Washington D.C, and spent 13 years in Ethiopia and a year in Kenya, followed by many more years traveling around the world. Though he says “I am not an academic. I have no papers or reports for you. I am a storyteller,” he has intensively engaged as a thinker and practitioner on organization and leadership, communication, conflicts, and partnerships in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Leslie London
Professor in the School of of Public Health and Family Medecine, University of Cape Town (UCT), Leslie is a physician with a strong occupational, environmental and public health focus orientated toward civil society participation and agency in realizing the Right to Health. After a few years working for Trade Union-linked health services before moving to UCT, he 'shifted from being a quantitative epidemiologist to thinking about how to integrate human rights into Public Health practice.' Leslie, for whom social justice is fundamental and persistence a virtue, believes that 'we should constantly struggle to help create a better world- which is possible.' He lives this metaphorically by cycling, falling off bicycles, and getting back on again.
Professor in the School of of Public Health and Family Medecine, University of Cape Town (UCT), Leslie is a physician with a strong occupational, environmental and public health focus orientated toward civil society participation and agency in realizing the Right to Health. After a few years working for Trade Union-linked health services before moving to UCT, he 'shifted from being a quantitative epidemiologist to thinking about how to integrate human rights into Public Health practice.' Leslie, for whom social justice is fundamental and persistence a virtue, believes that 'we should constantly struggle to help create a better world- which is possible.' He lives this metaphorically by cycling, falling off bicycles, and getting back on again.
Douglas McGaughey
Emeritus Professor in Religious Studies, Willamette University, OR. He completed his doctorate under Paul Ricoeur at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is the author of a trilogy of books in Philosophical, Systematic, and Practical Theology as well as the editor of a Festschrift in honor of Herman Waetjen at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA. His translation of Otfried Höffe’s Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality was published by Northwestern University Press in 2010. A Fulbright Senior Fellow during 1992-1993 in Tübingen, in 2006 he was among the prize winners of an essay contest sponsored by Das Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany on the question ‘Braucht Werterziehung Religion?’, published by the Wallstein Verlag in Göttingen in 2007. In 2010, he participated in a conference under Otfried Höffe on Kant’s Religion Within the Limits of Mere Reason, his paper subsequently being published in Immanuel Kant: Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft (Berlin: Akadamie Verlag, 2010). He is a Corresponding Member of the Research Center for Political Philosophy (Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Forschungsstelle Politische Philosophie) at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen. He is host of the website http://www.criticalidealism.org.
Emeritus Professor in Religious Studies, Willamette University, OR. He completed his doctorate under Paul Ricoeur at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is the author of a trilogy of books in Philosophical, Systematic, and Practical Theology as well as the editor of a Festschrift in honor of Herman Waetjen at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA. His translation of Otfried Höffe’s Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality was published by Northwestern University Press in 2010. A Fulbright Senior Fellow during 1992-1993 in Tübingen, in 2006 he was among the prize winners of an essay contest sponsored by Das Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany on the question ‘Braucht Werterziehung Religion?’, published by the Wallstein Verlag in Göttingen in 2007. In 2010, he participated in a conference under Otfried Höffe on Kant’s Religion Within the Limits of Mere Reason, his paper subsequently being published in Immanuel Kant: Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft (Berlin: Akadamie Verlag, 2010). He is a Corresponding Member of the Research Center for Political Philosophy (Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Forschungsstelle Politische Philosophie) at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen. He is host of the website http://www.criticalidealism.org.
Jeremy Moseley
Jeremy (B.S. in Public Health Policy & Administration, UNC-Chapel Hill; Master's in Public Health Analysis & Management, East Carolina University) is Program Administrator for Community Engagement, Wake Forest Baptist Health's FaithHealth Division. He has worked to improve community-based care transitions, increase community engagement and access to services, and link community resources to healthcare systems. He has designed regional projects for the CDC to address heart disease and stroke prevention and systems of care, and for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to address care transitions and hospital readmissions, and health system programs to improve transitions of care and the health of individuals residing in socially complex communities. He staffed a state heart disease and stroke prevention legislative committee, and served on workgroups for Stakeholder Health to transform health through community partnership. Exposed to the complexities of a small town where racial divides, economic distress, and high levels of crime were profound and persistent, Jeremy is a product of a father who gave his life to improving the lives of those who face challenges of mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities, and of a mother who educated three generations of elementary students in a small rural town in eastern North Carolina.
Jeremy (B.S. in Public Health Policy & Administration, UNC-Chapel Hill; Master's in Public Health Analysis & Management, East Carolina University) is Program Administrator for Community Engagement, Wake Forest Baptist Health's FaithHealth Division. He has worked to improve community-based care transitions, increase community engagement and access to services, and link community resources to healthcare systems. He has designed regional projects for the CDC to address heart disease and stroke prevention and systems of care, and for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to address care transitions and hospital readmissions, and health system programs to improve transitions of care and the health of individuals residing in socially complex communities. He staffed a state heart disease and stroke prevention legislative committee, and served on workgroups for Stakeholder Health to transform health through community partnership. Exposed to the complexities of a small town where racial divides, economic distress, and high levels of crime were profound and persistent, Jeremy is a product of a father who gave his life to improving the lives of those who face challenges of mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities, and of a mother who educated three generations of elementary students in a small rural town in eastern North Carolina.
Malusi Mpumiwana
Bishop of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church, Malusi ains at 'an all-inclusive African church experience whose spirituality empowers the weak...and engages the social and economic realities of our time for the common good.' He is chair of the Ubuntu-Botho Churches' Trust, on the Board of TrustAfrica (a Senegal-based, supporting civil society organizations in Africa), and serves as General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He trained at the Federal Theological Seminary and the University of Cape Town and has an honorary doctorate from Nelson Mandela Metro University. Until 2006, he was the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Southern Africa Regional Director.
Bishop of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church, Malusi ains at 'an all-inclusive African church experience whose spirituality empowers the weak...and engages the social and economic realities of our time for the common good.' He is chair of the Ubuntu-Botho Churches' Trust, on the Board of TrustAfrica (a Senegal-based, supporting civil society organizations in Africa), and serves as General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He trained at the Federal Theological Seminary and the University of Cape Town and has an honorary doctorate from Nelson Mandela Metro University. Until 2006, he was the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Southern Africa Regional Director.
Laura Chanchien Parajón
MD, MPH, is a family physician, serving in Nicaragua as a American Baptist International Ministries missionary alongside her husband David, an internist since 2001, with him founding the Nicaragua-based non-profit organization, AMOS Health and Hope (amoshealth.org), which is dedicated to using community-based and empowering approaches to reduce health inequities. Trained in family medicine and public health, Laura applies Community-based participatory research (CBPR) frameworks in global health to develop future health professionals and community health workers (CHWs) to provide basic medical care, disease prevention and health promotion to their communities as well as organize to address social determinants of health and advocate for social and policy change.
MD, MPH, is a family physician, serving in Nicaragua as a American Baptist International Ministries missionary alongside her husband David, an internist since 2001, with him founding the Nicaragua-based non-profit organization, AMOS Health and Hope (amoshealth.org), which is dedicated to using community-based and empowering approaches to reduce health inequities. Trained in family medicine and public health, Laura applies Community-based participatory research (CBPR) frameworks in global health to develop future health professionals and community health workers (CHWs) to provide basic medical care, disease prevention and health promotion to their communities as well as organize to address social determinants of health and advocate for social and policy change.
Kenneth I Pargament.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, and Adjunct Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine. Ken specialize in clinical/community psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality. Mentoring over 40 Ph. D. graduate students, he has been a consultant with NIH, WHO, Templeton Foundation, and Fetzer Institute. Editor-in-chief of the APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality, among his many publications is Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred. Ken went into psychology because he was ‘interested in the big questions: Why are we here? How should we live our lives? How can we make the world a better place?’
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, and Adjunct Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine. Ken specialize in clinical/community psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality. Mentoring over 40 Ph. D. graduate students, he has been a consultant with NIH, WHO, Templeton Foundation, and Fetzer Institute. Editor-in-chief of the APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality, among his many publications is Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred. Ken went into psychology because he was ‘interested in the big questions: Why are we here? How should we live our lives? How can we make the world a better place?’
Larry Pray
Larry is co-author with Gary Gunderson of The Leading Causes of Life, the book that launched the ideas that lie at the core of this Initiative. More recently he authored a book richly mixed with his own reflections and paintings on Thresholds: Connecting Body and Soul after Brain Injury (Ruder Finn Press). Before that he published Journey of a Diabetic with Simon and Schuster. His interests lie in creativity and healing, chronic disease, and … finding life in unlikely places! Larry, par excellence a pastor, writer, poet and painter, graduated from Union Theological Seminary (MDiv), having received an MA at Johns Hopkins University, and a BA at Beloit College. Larry’s deeply insightful and powerfully evocative poems and paintings following a series of strokes, and created for as many Fellows as he was able, are a central, vital element of our self-understanding.
Larry is co-author with Gary Gunderson of The Leading Causes of Life, the book that launched the ideas that lie at the core of this Initiative. More recently he authored a book richly mixed with his own reflections and paintings on Thresholds: Connecting Body and Soul after Brain Injury (Ruder Finn Press). Before that he published Journey of a Diabetic with Simon and Schuster. His interests lie in creativity and healing, chronic disease, and … finding life in unlikely places! Larry, par excellence a pastor, writer, poet and painter, graduated from Union Theological Seminary (MDiv), having received an MA at Johns Hopkins University, and a BA at Beloit College. Larry’s deeply insightful and powerfully evocative poems and paintings following a series of strokes, and created for as many Fellows as he was able, are a central, vital element of our self-understanding.
Shingai Ndinga
Shingai is a Congolese and Zimbabwean, passionate about ethnochoreology, dance, technology and politics within Africa. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and French Language & Literature from the University of Cape Town and is currently doing his Graduate studies. Being a former refugee from the Congo war of 1997 in Brazzaville, he has had a deep leaning to understand the structures that underpin the world we live in, and the reasons why we do what we actually do.
He is excited about LCLI because the framework shifts many of these underpinnings from looking at death, to looking at life itself and what actually brings life to one's world or the world as we know it in general. He is married to a wonderful lady named Masana and together have a precious daughter called 'Elikia' (which means 'Hope' in the Congolese language Lingala).
Shingai is a Congolese and Zimbabwean, passionate about ethnochoreology, dance, technology and politics within Africa. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and French Language & Literature from the University of Cape Town and is currently doing his Graduate studies. Being a former refugee from the Congo war of 1997 in Brazzaville, he has had a deep leaning to understand the structures that underpin the world we live in, and the reasons why we do what we actually do.
He is excited about LCLI because the framework shifts many of these underpinnings from looking at death, to looking at life itself and what actually brings life to one's world or the world as we know it in general. He is married to a wonderful lady named Masana and together have a precious daughter called 'Elikia' (which means 'Hope' in the Congolese language Lingala).
Masana Ndinga-Kanga
Masana is Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. With a multi-disciplinary background in African Studies, politics, economics, international development and law, Masana has an MSc in Political Economy of Late Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.Com. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Cape Town. She has worked at the Robert F Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights in Washington D.C. and as the first Machel-Mandela Fellow at The Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg, where she has been involved in multi-country studies on economic development, international relations, innovations in development practices and conflict analysis. She is also a frequent blogger for Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader and an an alumnus of the South African Washington International Program and the David & Elaine Potter Fellowship. Masana is a Chevening Scholar from 2012–13, and is currently a fellow at the Leading Causes of Life Initiative.
Masana is Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. With a multi-disciplinary background in African Studies, politics, economics, international development and law, Masana has an MSc in Political Economy of Late Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.Com. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Cape Town. She has worked at the Robert F Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights in Washington D.C. and as the first Machel-Mandela Fellow at The Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg, where she has been involved in multi-country studies on economic development, international relations, innovations in development practices and conflict analysis. She is also a frequent blogger for Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader and an an alumnus of the South African Washington International Program and the David & Elaine Potter Fellowship. Masana is a Chevening Scholar from 2012–13, and is currently a fellow at the Leading Causes of Life Initiative.
Bret Nicks
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Chief Medical Officer Wake Forest Baptist Health Davie Medical Center, Director Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Immediate Past President North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians, Affiliate Faculty Office of Global Health.His interests include Emergency Medecine development, global health integration in resource austere settings, and Community/Health System partnerships. He has key relationships with colleagues in Tanzania and Nicaragua, and has been a Lead educator and care provider in more than15 countries worldwide with numerous NGO and governmental organizations. Outdoor and wilderness activities are a particular passion of Bret's, as are ethnic foods, and family life. Coming from a disadvantaged background, Bret is motivated by a desire to serve others regardless of situation or circumstance.
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Chief Medical Officer Wake Forest Baptist Health Davie Medical Center, Director Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Immediate Past President North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians, Affiliate Faculty Office of Global Health.His interests include Emergency Medecine development, global health integration in resource austere settings, and Community/Health System partnerships. He has key relationships with colleagues in Tanzania and Nicaragua, and has been a Lead educator and care provider in more than15 countries worldwide with numerous NGO and governmental organizations. Outdoor and wilderness activities are a particular passion of Bret's, as are ethnic foods, and family life. Coming from a disadvantaged background, Bret is motivated by a desire to serve others regardless of situation or circumstance.
Jill Olivier
With a PhD from the University of Cape Town, Jill is the Research Director of the International Health Assets Programme based in the School of Public Health & Family Medicine, UCT, conducting research in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, the DRC, the USA and the Asia-Pacific region. Her particular interests are in health systems research, interdisciplinary research and theory, collaboration and partnership studies, communication theory, cultural hermeneutics, HIV/AIDS and society, complexity studies, health promotion, monitoring and evaluation, leadership and institutional development, community-driven development and participatory inquiry, health literacy and translational sciences, and African Studies. She has a previous life in the publishing industry, as a researcher with several other projects and at the World Bank.
With a PhD from the University of Cape Town, Jill is the Research Director of the International Health Assets Programme based in the School of Public Health & Family Medicine, UCT, conducting research in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, the DRC, the USA and the Asia-Pacific region. Her particular interests are in health systems research, interdisciplinary research and theory, collaboration and partnership studies, communication theory, cultural hermeneutics, HIV/AIDS and society, complexity studies, health promotion, monitoring and evaluation, leadership and institutional development, community-driven development and participatory inquiry, health literacy and translational sciences, and African Studies. She has a previous life in the publishing industry, as a researcher with several other projects and at the World Bank.
Kirsten Peachey
Kirsten, Rev., MSW, MDiv, DMin, Director of Congregational Health Partnerships for Advocate Health Care in Chicago, supports faith communities in their role as promoters of health and healing through training, consultation, resource linking and partnership development. Instrumental in founding The Center for Faith and Community HeRealth Transformation in metropolitan Chicago, which focuses on health inequities and a vision for the role that people of faith can play. Her thinking has been shaped by experiences overseas as a child in the Middle East, as an adult in South Africa, and in diverse urban settings in the USA, from which she brings an appreciation for the ways in which ordinary people create resilient lives in the midst of struggle for justice and peace. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Kirsten holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry in faith and health from the Chicago Theological Seminary. She has worked as a social worker, hospital chaplain, pastoral counselor and bus driver! She lives in Oak Park, IL with her partner and their son and loves traveling, camping and reading in their backyard tree house when the weather is nice.
Kirsten, Rev., MSW, MDiv, DMin, Director of Congregational Health Partnerships for Advocate Health Care in Chicago, supports faith communities in their role as promoters of health and healing through training, consultation, resource linking and partnership development. Instrumental in founding The Center for Faith and Community HeRealth Transformation in metropolitan Chicago, which focuses on health inequities and a vision for the role that people of faith can play. Her thinking has been shaped by experiences overseas as a child in the Middle East, as an adult in South Africa, and in diverse urban settings in the USA, from which she brings an appreciation for the ways in which ordinary people create resilient lives in the midst of struggle for justice and peace. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Kirsten holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry in faith and health from the Chicago Theological Seminary. She has worked as a social worker, hospital chaplain, pastoral counselor and bus driver! She lives in Oak Park, IL with her partner and their son and loves traveling, camping and reading in their backyard tree house when the weather is nice.
Tom Peterson
Tom is principal at Thunderhead Works, which is focused on communications for world change. He teaches marketing for non-profits and social change at the Clinton School of Public Service. Peterson directs the communications for Stakeholder Health. Previously, he led Heifer International's marketing efforts for most of two decades, growing the annual revenue from $3 million in 1992 to $90 million in 2008—raising about $900 million and making Heifer one of the fastest growing non-profits in the U.S. Many online, direct mail, PR, and branding programs he led won national awards. In the 1980s he edited Seeds, a magazine about U.S and World Hunger. Peterson holds a BA in philosophy from the Univ. of Texas and an MDiv from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Tom is principal at Thunderhead Works, which is focused on communications for world change. He teaches marketing for non-profits and social change at the Clinton School of Public Service. Peterson directs the communications for Stakeholder Health. Previously, he led Heifer International's marketing efforts for most of two decades, growing the annual revenue from $3 million in 1992 to $90 million in 2008—raising about $900 million and making Heifer one of the fastest growing non-profits in the U.S. Many online, direct mail, PR, and branding programs he led won national awards. In the 1980s he edited Seeds, a magazine about U.S and World Hunger. Peterson holds a BA in philosophy from the Univ. of Texas and an MDiv from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Doug Reeler
Cultural anthropologist, historian and social facilitator for the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) in Cape Town. His work focuses on designing and facilitating social change processes with a wide range of actors towards developing more effective social change practices and co-creative, collaborative organisational forms. His particular interest is the creative force of civil society in dissolving the domination and collusion of economic and political societies, in search of more freedom, inclusion and sufficiency. He has done work with NGOs and social movements across Africa, Asia and Europe. He has co-pioneered the Barefoot Guides to Social Change over the past 10 years, supporting the publishing of the experienced, but missed, voices of grassroots leadership and practitioners to contribute to global social change practice (from the experience of those who do not usually write to support the change practices of those who do not usually read).
Cultural anthropologist, historian and social facilitator for the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) in Cape Town. His work focuses on designing and facilitating social change processes with a wide range of actors towards developing more effective social change practices and co-creative, collaborative organisational forms. His particular interest is the creative force of civil society in dissolving the domination and collusion of economic and political societies, in search of more freedom, inclusion and sufficiency. He has done work with NGOs and social movements across Africa, Asia and Europe. He has co-pioneered the Barefoot Guides to Social Change over the past 10 years, supporting the publishing of the experienced, but missed, voices of grassroots leadership and practitioners to contribute to global social change practice (from the experience of those who do not usually write to support the change practices of those who do not usually read).
Steve Scoggin
Steve is the Assistant Vice-President of Behavioral Health and CareNet, Inc. at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He also holds the position of Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. He is an ordained minister. As President of CareNet, a state-wide network of 35 plus outpatient behavioral health clinics—as leaders in spiritually integrated psychotherapy, counseling, education and research, the largest network of its kind in the world—Steve is deeply involved at the national, state, local and non-profit levels in advocacy, education, and service provision for children, adults and families who live with physical, emotional, social and spiritual challenges. Living at the intersection of mind, body, spirit and community, he seeks to root new models of spiritually integrated behavioral health into medical and non-profit contexts, for the sake of all.
Steve is the Assistant Vice-President of Behavioral Health and CareNet, Inc. at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He also holds the position of Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. He is an ordained minister. As President of CareNet, a state-wide network of 35 plus outpatient behavioral health clinics—as leaders in spiritually integrated psychotherapy, counseling, education and research, the largest network of its kind in the world—Steve is deeply involved at the national, state, local and non-profit levels in advocacy, education, and service provision for children, adults and families who live with physical, emotional, social and spiritual challenges. Living at the intersection of mind, body, spirit and community, he seeks to root new models of spiritually integrated behavioral health into medical and non-profit contexts, for the sake of all.
Mohamed Seedat
Head of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, and the SA Medical Research Council-UNISA Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Mohamed has served on several editorial boards, international conference organising committees, acted as an external examiner/reviewer on masters and doctoral level research reports/thesis, books, funding proposals and journal manuscripts and provided advisory services to agencies in the injury prevention, community psychology and development fields. He has published in the areas of community psychology, racism, violence and community development, and acted as an advisor to several authorship development initiatives and research Unit applications for the Medical Research Council and National Research Foundation.
Head of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, and the SA Medical Research Council-UNISA Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Mohamed has served on several editorial boards, international conference organising committees, acted as an external examiner/reviewer on masters and doctoral level research reports/thesis, books, funding proposals and journal manuscripts and provided advisory services to agencies in the injury prevention, community psychology and development fields. He has published in the areas of community psychology, racism, violence and community development, and acted as an advisor to several authorship development initiatives and research Unit applications for the Medical Research Council and National Research Foundation.
Rachel Sinha
Rachel is a British award-winning social innovator. She is Founder of The Systems Studio designed to build a thriving field of systems change practice. Prior to that Rachel was one of four co-founders of The Finance Innovation Lab, named by the Guardian newspaper as one of 50 Radicals- ‘changing the face of the UK for the better’, she built the Lab from an idea, to an independent fully funded not-for-profit. She is an established thought leader in the field of social innovation and systems change and has co-written book on social Labs (Labcraft), written for publications including HBR and Fast Company, documented the work of systems leaders with Oxford University as well as written up her experiences of running a Lab in A Strategy for Systems Change. Her most recent publication written in partnership with Tim Draimin, Mapping Momentum, offers a snapshot of the emerging field of systems change practice.
Rachel is a British award-winning social innovator. She is Founder of The Systems Studio designed to build a thriving field of systems change practice. Prior to that Rachel was one of four co-founders of The Finance Innovation Lab, named by the Guardian newspaper as one of 50 Radicals- ‘changing the face of the UK for the better’, she built the Lab from an idea, to an independent fully funded not-for-profit. She is an established thought leader in the field of social innovation and systems change and has co-written book on social Labs (Labcraft), written for publications including HBR and Fast Company, documented the work of systems leaders with Oxford University as well as written up her experiences of running a Lab in A Strategy for Systems Change. Her most recent publication written in partnership with Tim Draimin, Mapping Momentum, offers a snapshot of the emerging field of systems change practice.
Fred Smith
Fred, Rev. Dr., is a Christian educator serving in communities dealing with long-term challenges and vulnerabilities. Educated at Harvard, SMU and Emory, he has worked at the foundation of the Interfaith Health Program at the Carter Center. He is the primary architect of 'Not Even One', a highly creative strategy to treat every handgun death as a "sentinel event" subject to broad community analysis to prevent the next one. He has adapted religious assets mapping and leading causes of life into his participatory educational designs at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, and been a key leader in Stakeholder Health and the congregational networks in both Memphis and North Carolina. A widely sought speaker and counselor in both religious and public health circles, he recently returned to his boyhood home, Valejo California, as a United Methodist pastor and community leader.
Fred, Rev. Dr., is a Christian educator serving in communities dealing with long-term challenges and vulnerabilities. Educated at Harvard, SMU and Emory, he has worked at the foundation of the Interfaith Health Program at the Carter Center. He is the primary architect of 'Not Even One', a highly creative strategy to treat every handgun death as a "sentinel event" subject to broad community analysis to prevent the next one. He has adapted religious assets mapping and leading causes of life into his participatory educational designs at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, and been a key leader in Stakeholder Health and the congregational networks in both Memphis and North Carolina. A widely sought speaker and counselor in both religious and public health circles, he recently returned to his boyhood home, Valejo California, as a United Methodist pastor and community leader.
Craig Stewart
Craig has degrees in Zoology and International Development. At first a high school science educator, he is now the CEO of The Warehouse Trust in Cape Town, a very active and highly respected faith based community development organization engaged in community development and community-based advocacy. He is interested in the application of complexity and systems thinking to the work of community development along with a passion for leadership development. Craig most recently has developed a growing curiosity about water, sanitation and hygiene related issues which brings together his academic fields of study. Calling himself 'reasonably gregarious extrovert with a need for regular silence and times of solitude,' Craig also loves mountain biking and camping in the mountains. He is motivated by the belief that 'in wholeness of my life I can work towards the establishment of shalom [human thriving] in the world around me.'
Craig has degrees in Zoology and International Development. At first a high school science educator, he is now the CEO of The Warehouse Trust in Cape Town, a very active and highly respected faith based community development organization engaged in community development and community-based advocacy. He is interested in the application of complexity and systems thinking to the work of community development along with a passion for leadership development. Craig most recently has developed a growing curiosity about water, sanitation and hygiene related issues which brings together his academic fields of study. Calling himself 'reasonably gregarious extrovert with a need for regular silence and times of solitude,' Craig also loves mountain biking and camping in the mountains. He is motivated by the belief that 'in wholeness of my life I can work towards the establishment of shalom [human thriving] in the world around me.'
Soma Stout
Dr. MD, MS, Executive Lead of 100 Million Healthier Lives at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, an unprecedented collaboration of change agents working to improve the health and wellbeing of people, communities and populations globally, Soma is deeply committed to improving the health and wellbeing of underserved people and communities. She has worked as a primary care doctor in the “safety net” for over 15 years and in global health for over 20 years, in some of the most under-served communities in the world. Previously, as Vice President for Patient Centered Medical Home Development at Cambridge Health Alliance, she led a whole system transformation that garnered numerous national awards for achieving breakthrough results in the Triple Aim of better health, better experience and lower cost. In 2012, she was awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leader Award for her contributions to improving the health of the nation. She also directs the Innovation Fellows Program at Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, where she helps to grow a generation of change leaders who can create the needed changes in health and health care, and continues as Lead Transformation Adviser at Cambridge Health Alliance. With her daughter, Shohini, she had the pleasure of founding Raising Peacemakers, a grassroots, parent-child program that helps children (and their families!) develop the attitudes and skills to make a meaningful difference in the world.
Dr. MD, MS, Executive Lead of 100 Million Healthier Lives at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, an unprecedented collaboration of change agents working to improve the health and wellbeing of people, communities and populations globally, Soma is deeply committed to improving the health and wellbeing of underserved people and communities. She has worked as a primary care doctor in the “safety net” for over 15 years and in global health for over 20 years, in some of the most under-served communities in the world. Previously, as Vice President for Patient Centered Medical Home Development at Cambridge Health Alliance, she led a whole system transformation that garnered numerous national awards for achieving breakthrough results in the Triple Aim of better health, better experience and lower cost. In 2012, she was awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leader Award for her contributions to improving the health of the nation. She also directs the Innovation Fellows Program at Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, where she helps to grow a generation of change leaders who can create the needed changes in health and health care, and continues as Lead Transformation Adviser at Cambridge Health Alliance. With her daughter, Shohini, she had the pleasure of founding Raising Peacemakers, a grassroots, parent-child program that helps children (and their families!) develop the attitudes and skills to make a meaningful difference in the world.
Beulah Tertiens-Reeler
BA, HDE, BDE, Med, A teacher at heart, Beulah's first degrees are from the University of the Western Cape, her Masters in Higher Education Studies from the University of Cape Town. After teaching English at a Senior Secondary township school in a Cape Town, she worked with adults at the Catholic Institute of Education as a Developmental Practitioner, doing in-service training and developmental work for teachers, principals and governing bodies for the Whole School Development and Renewal project. In 1999 she was in Ohio, USA, on a Fulbright Scholarship, doing Outcomes-Based Education with founder William Spady and others. She also completed Waldorf teacher training at the Centre for Creative Education (CCE), taught at Michael Oak Waldorf School in Cape Town from 2000 – 2006, and lectured at CCE from 2007-2016, training primary school teachers. An advocate of holistic, creative and contemporary educational approaches that foster the development and growth of individuality and freedom of expression, she is now engaged as an associate of the Communit Development Resource Association (CDRA) to facilitate processes that enable community and individual learning and participation to bring about social awareness, active involvement and interconnection.
BA, HDE, BDE, Med, A teacher at heart, Beulah's first degrees are from the University of the Western Cape, her Masters in Higher Education Studies from the University of Cape Town. After teaching English at a Senior Secondary township school in a Cape Town, she worked with adults at the Catholic Institute of Education as a Developmental Practitioner, doing in-service training and developmental work for teachers, principals and governing bodies for the Whole School Development and Renewal project. In 1999 she was in Ohio, USA, on a Fulbright Scholarship, doing Outcomes-Based Education with founder William Spady and others. She also completed Waldorf teacher training at the Centre for Creative Education (CCE), taught at Michael Oak Waldorf School in Cape Town from 2000 – 2006, and lectured at CCE from 2007-2016, training primary school teachers. An advocate of holistic, creative and contemporary educational approaches that foster the development and growth of individuality and freedom of expression, she is now engaged as an associate of the Communit Development Resource Association (CDRA) to facilitate processes that enable community and individual learning and participation to bring about social awareness, active involvement and interconnection.
Anna Tharyan
Professor and consultant in general adult Psychiatry, with an interest in psychosocial rehabilitation, Anna works on ways of extending the reach of the clinical services of the tertiary care referral center in which she has worked all her life. How to make mental health care affordable and accessible to those who are economically deprived is her vital concern. Anna has taught Psychiatry to postgraduate students of Psychiatry, medical undergraduates, nursing and occupational therapy students, but of greater interest to her is the opportunity to teach basic Psychiatry to community volunteers and other non-professional workers, as well as to initiate innovation in service delivery amongst economically challenged communities & carry over lessons learnt to redefine what, in the context of health, is assumed to be standard wisdom and science.
Professor and consultant in general adult Psychiatry, with an interest in psychosocial rehabilitation, Anna works on ways of extending the reach of the clinical services of the tertiary care referral center in which she has worked all her life. How to make mental health care affordable and accessible to those who are economically deprived is her vital concern. Anna has taught Psychiatry to postgraduate students of Psychiatry, medical undergraduates, nursing and occupational therapy students, but of greater interest to her is the opportunity to teach basic Psychiatry to community volunteers and other non-professional workers, as well as to initiate innovation in service delivery amongst economically challenged communities & carry over lessons learnt to redefine what, in the context of health, is assumed to be standard wisdom and science.
Herman Tolentino
Dr. A practitioner of public health informatics working in health care, community health, public health, and global health, Herman aims to empower people and organizations to use health information effectively for transforming health systems. Trained in medical anesthesiology at the University of the Philippines, and in medical informatics the
University of Washington, his career in public health began through working on a project to integrate notifiable disease surveillance systems in six Mekong Basin countries. He then developed an award-winning community based electronic medical record for community health centers in Manila and realized there that he was addressing a form of injustice in the lack of access to health information by the people who needed it the most. He became a fellow at the CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program in 2004, and its program director from 2007-2015, where he contributed to the development of the informatics workforce domestically and in global health. He has also developed innovative approaches
to train “interprofessional boundary spanners” who can collaboratively solve problems through systems thinking, and passionately continues to learn to harness the power of computing for social good and the transformative power of human wisdom and resilience.
Dr. A practitioner of public health informatics working in health care, community health, public health, and global health, Herman aims to empower people and organizations to use health information effectively for transforming health systems. Trained in medical anesthesiology at the University of the Philippines, and in medical informatics the
University of Washington, his career in public health began through working on a project to integrate notifiable disease surveillance systems in six Mekong Basin countries. He then developed an award-winning community based electronic medical record for community health centers in Manila and realized there that he was addressing a form of injustice in the lack of access to health information by the people who needed it the most. He became a fellow at the CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program in 2004, and its program director from 2007-2015, where he contributed to the development of the informatics workforce domestically and in global health. He has also developed innovative approaches
to train “interprofessional boundary spanners” who can collaboratively solve problems through systems thinking, and passionately continues to learn to harness the power of computing for social good and the transformative power of human wisdom and resilience.
Emily Viverette
M.Div. Emily serves as the Director of FaithHealth Education in the Division of FaithHealth Ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health. In this role, she provides leadership for educational initiatives and innovative offerings that bridge faith and health across the scope of the Division both inside and outside the walls of the medical center. Emily is passionate about the power of education to transform lives and communities, particularly collaborative learning that builds on the assets, personal reflections and lived experiences of participants. She has experience as a high school math teacher, chaplain, and chaplain supervisor (Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc.). Ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Emily holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Elon University and a M.Div. from Vanderbilt University. When she isn’t working, she enjoys spending time with her spouse and two children, reading a good memoir or Southern novel, and almost any destination with a body of water.
M.Div. Emily serves as the Director of FaithHealth Education in the Division of FaithHealth Ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health. In this role, she provides leadership for educational initiatives and innovative offerings that bridge faith and health across the scope of the Division both inside and outside the walls of the medical center. Emily is passionate about the power of education to transform lives and communities, particularly collaborative learning that builds on the assets, personal reflections and lived experiences of participants. She has experience as a high school math teacher, chaplain, and chaplain supervisor (Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc.). Ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Emily holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Elon University and a M.Div. from Vanderbilt University. When she isn’t working, she enjoys spending time with her spouse and two children, reading a good memoir or Southern novel, and almost any destination with a body of water.
Marlese von Broembsen
Marlese is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School- after a year as Harvard South African Fellow- and the Law Programme Director, a global membership-based research and advocacy organisation for women who work in the informal economy.
Marlese is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School- after a year as Harvard South African Fellow- and the Law Programme Director, a global membership-based research and advocacy organisation for women who work in the informal economy.
Francis Wilson
An economist, and consummate inspirer of others, Francis is part of the team that leads a national initiative on strategies for dealing with poverty and inequality in South Africa. Education is another passion, with a particular concern about how one creates an environment that builds moral, visionary and deeply human persons. Founder of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), first Director of the Data First Resource Unit at the University of Cape Town, a former UCT orator, Chairperson of Council at the University of Fort Hare from 1990-1999, and first Chairperson, 1996- 1999, of the National Water Advisory Council; from 2001 Chairperson of the International Social Science Council’s Scientific Committee of the International Comparative Research Program on Poverty. The 3rd. edition of his most recent book, Dinosaurs, Diamonds & Democracy: A Short Short History of South Africa, is due to be published in December 2016 in Afrikaans, English and Xhosa.
An economist, and consummate inspirer of others, Francis is part of the team that leads a national initiative on strategies for dealing with poverty and inequality in South Africa. Education is another passion, with a particular concern about how one creates an environment that builds moral, visionary and deeply human persons. Founder of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), first Director of the Data First Resource Unit at the University of Cape Town, a former UCT orator, Chairperson of Council at the University of Fort Hare from 1990-1999, and first Chairperson, 1996- 1999, of the National Water Advisory Council; from 2001 Chairperson of the International Social Science Council’s Scientific Committee of the International Comparative Research Program on Poverty. The 3rd. edition of his most recent book, Dinosaurs, Diamonds & Democracy: A Short Short History of South Africa, is due to be published in December 2016 in Afrikaans, English and Xhosa.
