James M. Stone, Board Chair, is chair of the Plymouth Rock Companies. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Harvard University, where he also taught the economics of securities markets. Stone has been Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance, chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an advisor to governments in three developing countries, and a director of the Boston Globe. He currently serves as a director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Stephen W. Carr is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School. He is a retired partner of the law firm of Goodwin Procter, where he was an attorney for 35 years and served on the executive and management committees. He currently is a director or trustee of various publicly held and nonprofit organizations.
Alan Detheridge is associate director of The Partnering Initiative, a global program of the International Business Leaders Forum in association with Cambridge University. Before joining the Initiative, he spent 30 years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group, retiring in April 2007 as vice president for external affairs. In addition to MSH, he is a member of the boards of the Synergos Institute, Africare, and the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help. He also serves on the advisory board of the Revenue Watch Institute.
Rebeca de Vives is president of RDV Consulting and was born and raised in Santiago, Chile. She studied business in the United States and started a career as an intern at Saks Fifth Ave, eventually becoming president of REVILLON, Inc., a French fashion apparel company with enterprises at Saks and Bloomingdales stores throughout the United States. She has served on the board of Accion International, a well-known microlending institution, with offices in the United States, Latin America, Africa, and India. She currently lectures on corporate social responsibility in Santiago's University of The Americas’ Business School and has participated in projects and roundtables on corporate leadership.
Sue J. Goldie is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, director of the Program in Health Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, and faculty director of Harvard Institute for Global Health. Trained as a physician, decision scientist, and public health researcher, she is best known for bringing together a wide variety of disciplinary approaches to address critical global health challenges. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Award, has published more than 100 original research papers, serves on several international committees that influence health policy, and has received numerous teaching and mentorship awards.
John Isaacson founded Isaacson, Miller in 1982. John was diverted from his natural career in his twenties by an academic and civic engagement, which took him to Dartmouth for a BA; to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship for a BA/MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; and to Harvard Law School. Following Law School, he chose a career in public service. He launched his career as an assistant to the Secretary of Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He served three governors and five secretaries of human services over eight years, recruiting cabinet officers and commissioners. In between recruiting assignments, he served as an Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Youth Services, as an Assistant Secretary of the Executive Office of Human Services, and as the Director of the Office for Children. In his time with Isaacson, Miller, John has led searches in many areas of the firm's practice. He has helped the firm develop its cumulative knowledge of the craft of search and has attended, with increasing interest, to the missionary purposes of institutions, the disciplines of markets, and the emotional and intellectual learnings that leaders acquire in a committed working life.
Ronald O’Connor is the founder of MSH. He was exposed to the health realities of rural Asia by an inspirational physician/Hiroshima survivor working in rural Nepal as a medical student in the 1960s. He realized that poor health prospects in the developing world emerged largely from basic problems that were resolvable with existing knowledge and local resources—if only well organized and applied. Despite growing international interest and resources for development at that time, existing institutions did not focus on the application of practical public health management knowledge and experience to the health problems of developing country institutions and communities. To fill this gap, he created MSH in 1971 in order to provide a platform for motivated individuals who were committed to helping countries use existing tools and knowledge to address their public health challenges.
Una Ryan is President and CEO of Diagnostics for All, a non –profit organization dedicated to delivering low-cost, point-of-care tests to the developing world. Prior to that she was CEO of Waltham Technologies, Inc. and was formerly President and CEO of AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines. Dr. Ryan is also Research Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and serves on its Board of Visitors. She serves on the board of AMRI Global, Altos Vision Ltd., IQuum, the Business Advisory Board of BIO Ventures for Global Health, the Scientific Advisory Board of Genocea, Inc., the Advisory Board of Phacilitate Vaccine Forum and the UMASS High Technology Executive Council. She is a member of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Collaborative Leadership Council, the Goddard Council and the Climate Change and Green Energy Council.
Joyce Sackey-Acheampong is an associate professor in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health, and dean for Multicultural Affairs and Global Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is also cofounder of the Foundation for African Relief (FAR), a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization that fosters collaboration between US academic medical centers and their counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa to improve access to education and health care. FAR has contributed to the fight against HIV & AIDS in Africa by training African physicians in the forefront of providing care to people living with HIV & AIDS in Ghana, Sudan, and Botswana.
M Anjali Sastry is senior lecturer in system dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She teaches and researches global health delivery and management, focusing on systems thinking and practical business-based approaches for increasing medical and prevention services in low-resource settings, carrying out numerous field studies while developing teaching materials. Her advisory roles include working with the Lemelson-MIT Program, the MIT Ideas competition, the NIH-CDC Institute for Systems Science, the Global Business School Network, and the United Network for Organ Sharing, among others. Since 2008, she has collaborated closely with the Global Health Delivery Project.
