Advisory Board Members

 

Edward Cardoza - Founder, Still Harbor; Past Vice President for Development, Partners in Health.

Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH - Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University; MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Peter Ehrenkranz, MD, MPH - Medical Director, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative - Liberia; Senior Technical Adviser to the National AIDS & STI Control Program, Liberia.

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD - Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard University

Robert Lawrence, MD - Director, Center for Livable Future; Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH - Medical Director, Partners in Health; Asst Professor of Medicine, Harvard University.

  

Edward Cardoza

Founder, Still Harbor (http://www.stillharbor.org)

Past Director of Development at Partners in Health (http://www.pih.org)

Mr. Cardoza holds a MA and a BA from St. John's Seminary in Boston. He also attended the University of Lisbon where he studied Portuguese and worked with refugees from East Timor. While in the seminary, Mr. Cardoza served in the Office of AIDS Ministry and the chaplaincy office at MGH.  In 1998, Mr. Cardoza took his final leave from the seminary. He has served as a development researcher at Tufts University and Harvard Medical School among other organizations. In December 2002 he joined Partners in Health as director of development. He led highly successful fundraising campaigns at Partners in Health for programs in Boston, Haiti, Russia, Peru, Rwanda, Mexico, and Guatemala. In the spring of 2002, he completed a practicum in spiritual direction at the Center for Religious Development through the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge.  Mr. Cardoza was born and raised in Boston. He currently resides in Cranston, RI. He serves as a spiritual director and is a retreat director for churches throughout the New England region. His focus is on spirituality and social justice.

 

 

Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH

Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Epidemiology

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health

2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow 

 

Lisa Cooper is a nationally and internationally recognized physician and public health researcher whose scholarship on clinical communication is improving medical outcomes for minorities in the United States.  A Liberian raised outside of the U.S., she brings a unique perspective to American medical care.  While most studies concerning the disparities in health care across race and gender have focused on socioeconomic causes, Cooper has identified the crucial role race, ethnicity, and gender play in the physician-patient relationship.  In a landmark 1999 Journal of the American Medical Association paper, she found that minority patients perceived their physicians’ decision-making style as significantly less participatory than non-minorities.  She also established a direct link between the propensity of physicians to involve patients in treatment decisions and the success of health care interventions.  In response to these findings, Cooper has developed culturally tailored education programs designed to improve the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension and depression among African-Americans.  Preliminary results indicate that when patients and physicians are trained in patient-centered communication skills, patients are more likely to keep scheduled appointments, take medications as prescribed, and adhere to diet and exercise regimens.  Given the growing population in the U.S. of ethnically diverse consumers, Cooper’s analytical and clinical skills are key to enhancing the quality and delivery of medical care.

 

Lisa Cooper received a B.A. (1984) from Emory University, an M.D. (1988) from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. (1993) from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.  She is currently a professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  She also holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

 

Peter Ehrenkranz, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative - Liberia

Senior Technical Advisor to the National AIDS & STI Control Program, Liberia

Peter Ehrenkranz is currently the Medical Director of the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative’s programs in Liberia.  His primary role is to serve as Senior Technical Advisor to the National AIDS and STI Control Program.  He also advises the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Program (NLTCP) and the National Blood Safety Program.  His work focuses on improving access to quality prevention, care and treatment for HIV and TB in Liberia, but, as much as possible, he strives to leverage the resources available to the vertical programs to strengthen the entire health system.  Along with NLTCP and Tiyatien Health he helped identify and treat the first cases of MDR-TB in Liberia.  

He received his undergraduate degree in the History of Science and Medicine from Yale University, and medical and public health degrees from Emory University.  He trained in internal medicine-primary care and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.    

 

He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. 

 

 

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD

Co-Founder, Partners in Health (http://www.pih.org)

Maude and Lillian Presley Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University

 

Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he is also Vice Chair, and a founding director of Partners In Health, an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer’s work draws primarily on active clinical practice and focuses on community-based treatment strategies for infectious diseases in resource-poor settings, health and human rights, and the role of social inequalities in determining disease distribution and outcomes. He is the Associate Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, and served for ten years as medical director of a charity hospital, L’Hôpital Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti. Along with his colleagues at BWH, in the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at HMS, and in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, and Malawi, Dr. Farmer has pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for AIDS and tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis). Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have successfully challenged the policymakers and critics who claim that quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poor settings.

 

Dr. Farmer has written extensively about health and human rights, and about the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases. He is the author of Pathologies of Power, Infections and Inequalities, The Uses of Haiti, and AIDS and Accusation. In addition, he is co-editor of Women, Poverty, and AIDS and of The Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Dr. Farmer is the recipient of the Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Salk Institute Medal for Health and Humanity, the Duke University Humanitarian Award, the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the American Medical Association’s Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award, the Heinz Award for the Human Condition, and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 1993, he was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award in recognition of his work. Dr. Farmer is the subject of Pulitzer Prizewinner Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House, 2003).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Lawrence, MD

 

Director, Center for a Livable Future

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

 

 

Robert Lawrence is the Center for a Livable Future Professor and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Lawrence is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He served for three years as an epidemic intelligence service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Public Health Service.

 

Dr. Lawrence is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, the American Public Health Association, and Physicians for Human Rights. From 1970 to 1974, he was a member of the faculty of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he helped develop a primary health care system funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity. In 1974, he was appointed as the first director of the Division of Primary Care at Harvard Medical School where he subsequently served as the Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Medicine at the Cambridge Hospital until 1991. From 1991 to 1995, he was the director of health sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation.

From 1984 to 1989, Dr. Lawrence chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force of the Department of Health and Human Services and served on the successor Preventive Services Task Force from 1990 to 1995. He currently serves as a consultant to the Task Force on Community Preventive Services at the CDC. Dr. Lawrence has participated in human rights investigations on behalf of PHR or other human rights groups to Chile, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Kosovo, the Philippines and South Africa.

 

 

In 1996 Dr. Lawrence became the founding director of the Center for a Livable Future at the School of Public Health. The Center is an inter-disciplinary group of faculty and staff that focuses attention on equity, health, and the Earth's resources. Research, education, and advocacy examine the relationships among diet, food production systems, the environment, and human health. The Center's webpage is www.jhsph.edu/clf/

 

 

 

 

 

Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Partners in Health (http://www.pih.org)

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice

 

 

 

Dr. Joia Mukherjee trained in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she teaches medical students, residents and fellows in the fields of infectious disease, global health and health disparities. Since 2000, Dr. Mukherjee has served as the Medical Director of Partners In Health, an international medical charity with clinical programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, and inner-city Boston. In this capacity she is involved in programmatic and clinical work to provide health care and reduce health disparities by developing public sector, community based programs with local colleagues in those countries. Additionally, Dr. Mukherjee consults for the World Health Organization on the treatment of HIV and MDR-TB in developing countries and is a member of the Executive Board of Health Action AIDS, a campaign conducted with Physicians for Human Rights to engage the US health professional community in the international advocacy and education effort to stop the global AIDS pandemic.