Leadership

IntraHealth Board of Directors

Jeffrey L. Houpt, MD (Chairman)

Jeffrey Houpt is Dean Emeritus at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, where he was medical dean, vice chancellor for medical affairs and CEO of the UNC Health Care System until 2005. Currently he works in leadership development within the School of Medicine, serving System managers and leaders as a coach and mentor. Before joining UNC, Dr. Houpt was dean of Emory University’s School of Medicine; chair and professor of psychiatry (MD, Baylor College of Medicine; residency in psychiatry, Yale University). He is past president of the American College of Psychiatrists, and advised or served on committees for the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is a director on the Board of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC).

Peggy Bentley, PhD
Peggy Bentley is professor of nutrition and associate dean for global health for the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. Prior to her tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Bentley was associate professor of international health at Johns Hopkins University. She is a medical anthropologist (PhD in Medical Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 1987) whose research and publications focus on women's and infant's nutrition, behavioral research on sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and community-based interventions for nutrition and health. She holds memberships in the American Institute of Nutrition, the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Medical Anthropology, and the American Public Health Association. She is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

George Brown, MD, MPH
George Brown is an international health specialist in reproductive health and AIDS policy and programs. He served most recently as director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Health Equity program, advancing public-private partnerships for drugs and vaccines needed to treat neglected diseases; AIDS prevention and mitigation; and efforts to address the global human resources for health crisis. He contributed to pioneering research on AIDS, microbicides, and maternal mortality through behavioral intervention initiatives such as the creation of the International Partnership for Microbicides, designed to augment development of vaginal microbicides for women's self-protection from HIV transmission. Dr. Brown's prior experience included serving for two decades as vice president of international programs at the Population Council in New York; and director of population and health sciences at the International Development Research Centre of Canada. He received his MD from the University of Toronto, and a MPH from Harvard University. He has served on the Boards and advisory bodies of a number of international institutions, and has published extensively on family planning and reproductive health.

Barry Eveland
Barry Eveland is interim president/CEO of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI), the state's largest business organization. A 39-year veteran of IBM, he managed the company's Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, facility as senior state executive for nine years, before retiring in 2005. He holds an engineering degree from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. His executive portfolio includes supply chain management, information technology, business process reengineering, strategic and financial planning, and general management. He was responsible for IBM's relationships with the community, and was very active in community affairs, serving in many volunteer positions and on numerous boards. In addition to his NCCBI responsibilities, he is chair of the Governor's Business Council for Fiscal Reform and a director on the Board of CT Communications, Inc.

Pape Amadou Gaye, MBA
Pape Amadou Gaye is president and CEO of IntraHealth International. A native of Senegal, he draws on three decades of leadership in international health with extensive field experience in Francophone and Anglophone Africa. Prior to his appointment as IntraHealth's CEO, Gaye led the organization's regional office for West, Central and North Africa with his expertise in reproductive health, family planning, and HIV/AIDS program development, management and oversight, forging strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and international health leaders. Gaye contributed vastly to the strong reputation IntraHealth enjoys in Training and Learning, Performance Improvement and Human Capacity Development. A master stand-up trainer, he has worked with the US Peace Corps, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Committee and the Centers for Disease Control where he was responsible for field testing the mid-level management course in malaria prevention and diarrheal disease control. Technically adept and dedicated to improving health care for the poorest people around the globe, he recognizes that partnership is essential to meet the enormous challenges posed by viral pandemics such as HIV/AIDS and on-going efforts to reduce maternal mortality and improve reproductive health care. Skilled in building cooperative relationships among diverse groups, organizations and governments, Gaye is able to creatively channel human and material resources to produce the most vibrant results.

Duff Gillespie, PhD
Duff Gillespie is a leader in population and reproductive health, who currently serves as a senior scholar with the Gates Institute and as a public health professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, he served as a visiting scholar with the Packard Foundation; senior deputy assistant administrator to the Global Health Bureau, USAID; and director, Office of Population at USAID. He has a PhD in Sociology from Washington University. Dr. Gillespie received the 1977 Arthur Flemming Award for groundbreaking research on community-based family planning and primary provider systems; the Presidential Rank Award in 1988, 1990 and 2001; the 2003 Lifetime Recognition Award from the Global Health Council; and the USAID Administrator's Distinguished Career Award in 2004.

Sadhana Warty Hall, MPH
Sadhana Hall is associate director of student, public and faculty programs with the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, and brings 20 years of experience in international health and development to her first academic appointment. Previously, she was director of international relations at the Global Health Council (GHC); director of GHC's annual conferences attended by 1,500 participants from 80 countries; and the director of the offices for Primary Care and Rural Health for the State Department of Health and Human Services in New Hampshire. A certified health education specialist, she worked for Save the Children Federation with communities in Asia, the Pacific and the former Soviet Union for 10 years to establish and implement over 50 community development programs. She has a MPH from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and holds her MA in Ancient Indian History and BS in Biology from the University of Rajasthan, India. Ms. Hall is fluent in English, Hindi, Urdu and Marathi.

Anu Kumar, PhD, MPH
Anu Kumar is executive vice president of Ipas, an international nonprofit organization that focuses on women's sexual and reproductive rights and abortion issues; she oversees fundraising and communications for the agency. A Fulbright scholar in India, she earned a PhD in Anthropology and a MPH from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prior to joining Ipas, Dr. Kumar was senior program officer in the population and reproductive health area of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; a social scientist at the World Health Organization's Reproductive Health Research Division; assistant professor of maternal and child health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her Board responsibilities have included Apna Ghar and the World Health Organization Special Programme on Research in Tropical Disease.

Maurice Middleberg, PhD
Maurice Middleberg is vice president for policy, research and advocacy at the Global Health Council (GHC). He has 20 years of executive experience in population; global, public and reproductive health; program development; international non-profit operations and governance. Prior to joining GHC, he was executive vice president of EngenderHealth as well as serving in various capacities with CARE and USAID. As director of health and population for CARE, he managed a global health portfolio in excess of $72 million per year, reaching 14 million beneficiaries worldwide through 200 projects. He previously held positions as assistant professor of public health at Columbia University and Emory University. Dr. Middleberg received his BA in History from Temple University, and a PhD in Political Science from American University.

Gordon Perkin, MD
Gordon Perkin retired recently as senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, where he played a key role in the Foundation's early growth and strategic planning. He was co-founder/past president of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), an international non-profit providing strategies and resources to improve global health. A physician with nearly 40 years of experience in international health, Dr. Perkin obtained his MD from the University of Toronto in 1959. He was a longtime consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) Special Programme in Human Reproduction, and a program officer for the Ford Foundation on an array of international health and population projects. His board memberships have included the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, and the National Council for International Health. In 2005, Dr. Perkin received the inaugural Advancing Global Health Award from the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI).

Khama Rogo, MD, PhD
Khama Rogo is lead health-sector specialist with the World Bank, prior to which he was vice president of medical affairs for Ipas. A native of Kenya, Dr. Rogo received his MD from the University of Nairobi and earned a PhD in Public Health from Umea University, Sweden. A prominent advocate and authority on reproductive health issues in Africa, he is a visiting professor at several universities, and author of over 100 papers and book chapters. He has been a consultant to WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID and DFID, and advisor to many other bilateral and unilateral international organizations. Dr. Rogo is past president of the Kenya Medical Association and Kenya Obstetrical and Gynecological Society. At present, he is chairman of the National Council for Population and Development, and is on the Gender Advisory Panel of WHO, the Advisory Committee of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Board of the Center for African Family Studies.

Beth Traynham, MS, CPA
Beth Traynham is a partner at Hughes Pittman & Gupton, L.L.P., a certified public accounting firm in North Carolina. Traynham has worked with clients in a variety of industries including construction, real estate, software and technology development companies, biomedical and pharmaceutical companies, medical practices and non-profits. Her experience prior to becoming a licensed CPA includes consultancies and permanent posts with McGladrey & Pullen, Hardee's Food Systems, Inc., AT&T, and a national jeanswear manufacturer in the areas of accounting, computers, and business systems. She holds her BA in business administration from N.C. State University, her MS in management from N.C. State University and her BA in accounting from N.C. State University. Traynham serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, NC Triangle Affiliate.