Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Stop TB Partnership Board

Names Organization Country of work

Subrat Mohanty (Board Member)

REACH

India

Austin Obiefuna (Vice Chair)

Afro Global Alliance

Ghana

Mayowa Joel (Alternate Board Member)

Stop TB Nigeria

Nigeria

Watara Yahaya (Delegation Focal Point)

Afro Global Alliance

Ghana

Bertrand Kampoer

DRAFT TB

Cameroon

Choub Sok Chamreun

KHANA

Cambodia

Márcia Leão

Stop TB Brasil

Brasil

Rodrick Mugishagwe

EANNASO

Tanzania

Philip Wuweru Mbugua

NOPE

Kenya

Quesada Amara

ACHIEVE

Philippines

Peace Chioma

Afro Global Alliance

Nigeria

Liliana Caraulan

PAS Center

Modolva

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Subrat Mohanty

Subrat Mohanty is a very Senior Advisor at REACH. He is a social development professional with a track record of 29 years in the management and coordination of the implementation of large-scale projects and national level programs, including the USAID supported project. He has vast experience in leading, managing and implementing Global Fund Grants as Principal Recipient in India. He is currently the Board member representing the Developing Country NGO Delegation on the STOP TB Partnership Board. He is also a Core group member of the Global Drug Initiative, WHO representing Civil Society and member of UNITAID representing Civil Society delegation.

 

Obiefuna Austin Arinze

Obiefuna Austin Arinze is a Law graduate from Nigeria resident in Ghana and a Member of the Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Stop TB partnership. He has worked with Afro Global Alliance where he is the Executive Director with vast experience working globally. He has chalked many successes including advising governments, CSOs and other partners on public health design and implementation and integrated support programmes including behavioural change, human rights and building partnerships. He has also served in other capacities, was a member and former Vice-Chair of the Ghana Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism CCM, former member of the Ghana National TB Advisory Board, and was the founding National Coordinator of the Stop TB Partnership Ghana. He represents Africa on the Executive Board of the International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases Paris and the Secretary General of the UNION Africa Region. Obiefuna is a World Health Organisation consultant and a member of the WHO AFRO Regional Green Light Committee.

 

Mayowa Joel

Mayowa Joel is a Development Specialist and the Alternate Board Member representing Developing Country NGOs on the Stop TB Executive Board. With special focus on public health, Mayowa is the Executive Secretary of Stop TB Partnership Nigeria – a multi-stakeholder partnership working to end TB in Nigeria. He is also the Executive Director of Communication for Development Centre – an organization promoting effective and sustainable health and development programs in Africa. He provides technical assistance and manages programs on different development issues especially public health; community systems strengthening; socio-economic empowerment etc. He serves as resource person to many organizations and plays key roles in several committees and networks at the national, regional and global levels. He also contributes to wide range of articles and publications on health and development.

Watara Yahaya is a communication specialist and currently the Communication Focal Point for Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Stop TB Partnership. He specializes in strategic communication and is responsible for journalistic reports, writing and editing of news stories, writing features, social stories, hosting events and including public speaking. Watara is a powerful force in the workplace and uses his positive attitude and tireless energy to encourage others to work hard and succeed. He is inspired daily by the challenges of life to rise up and become a beckon of hope for other young people. In his free time, He likes to read and play video games.

Watara Yahaya

Watara Yahaya is a communication specialist and currently the Communication Focal Point for Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Stop TB Partnership. He specializes in strategic communication and is responsible for journalistic reports, writing and editing of news stories, writing features, social stories, hosting events and including public speaking. Watara is a powerful force in the workplace and uses his positive attitude and tireless energy to encourage others to work hard and succeed. He is inspired daily by the challenges of life to rise up and become a beckon of hope for other young people. In his free time, He likes to read and play video games.

 

Bertrand Kampoer

Bertrand Kampoer is a TB community activist and a human right advocate for the past 15 years based in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Its efforts in recent years have been oriented towards empowerment of networks of TB affected communities in order to strengthen community engagement and accountability in the TB response in Francophone Africa. Bertrand has a Masters in Public Health from the Faculty of Medicine, Nancy School of Public Health (France).

 

Choub Sok Chamreun

Choub Sok Chamreun, known as Chamreun is currently the Executive Director of Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA). Chamreun has involved in public health over the past two decades and half. In addition to the experiences in primary health care, in the past twenty years, He is actively involved in the HIV, AIDS and TB prevention, care, support and treatment through his tireless efforts/commitment and activism in community mobilizations, community system strengthening and community and key population networks institutional and advocacy capacity development.  

 

Márcia Leão

Márcia Leão is a Brazilian lawyer, she work with Human Rights and public health policies.  She also work with parliament, on advocacy actions, in tuberculosis, hepatitis and HIV / AIDS. Stop TB Brasil.

 

Rodrick Mugishagwe

Rodrick Mugishagwe is TB Program, Knowledge Management and Learning Manager at Eastern Africa National Network of AIDS and Health Service Organization (EANNASO) and National Coordinator for Tanzania TB Community Network (TTCN). He has a Master’s Degree in Project Planning and Management from Mzumbe University in Tanzania and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Management from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. 
Rodrick has over 6 years’ experience working with civil society and communities, providing technical support and capacity development in implementation TB programs and support communication work of the Global Fund Community Rights and Gender Platform for Anglophone Africa.  Currently he sits in the Tanzania Ministry of Health Community TB and TB in Mining technical working groups, Stop TB Partnership Board Member representing Developing Country NGOs Delegation and board member of the Tanzania Stop TB Partnership representing Civil Society.

 

Philip Wuweru Mbugua

Philip Waweru Mbugua has over twenty years' experience with HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria programs in East Africa. He is the founder and Executive Director of National Organization of Peer Educators (NOPE), headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Philip is a member of the Board of the Stop TB Partnership Kenya and the Chairman of Africa Capacity Alliance (ACA). He holds an MA degree in Rural Sociology and Community Development from the University of Nairobi and a BA in Literature and Sociology from Kenyatta University.

 

Quesada Amara

Amara Quesada is the Executive Director of Action for Health Initiatives (ACHIEVE), Inc., an NGO in the Philippines, which has been working on HIV and AIDS, TB, human rights and gender and sexuality issues among key and vulnerable populations, particularly migrant workers and their families, people who use drugs, sex workers, people living with HIV and young key populations. She is the Principal Representative of ACHIEVE as a NGO representative to the Philippine National AIDS Council and a Steering Committee member of the Philippine Migrant Health Network. ACHIEVE also leads an NGO advocacy platform, the Network to Stop AIDS Philippines, and serves as the Secretariat of the United TB-HIV Advocates Network. 

 

Peace Chioma

Peace Chioma is a graduate of Political Science and International Relations. She is an advocate of health and development issues and loves to work in a culturally diverse environment. She speaks French and English fluently and is an interpreter and translator for both languages. She also manages an online training platform for those interested in learning French or English. She currently works as Advocacy Officer with the Developing Country NGO Delegation and Africa Coalition on Tuberculosis (ACT) where she supports the Regional Secretariat and the TB33% Campaign. She also volunteers for Stop TB Partnership Nigeria in program implementation. She has good interpersonal relationship, pays attention to details and possess skills in communication, google-digital, Client and vendor relations etc.

 

Liliana Caraulan

Liliana Caraulan is the Acting Director of the Center for Health Policies and Studies (PAS Center), a regionally exposed Moldovan non-profit, think-tank and watchdog organization that implement a vast range of public health and policy programs related to health and community systems, communicable and non-communicable diseases and social accountability in Moldova and Eastern Europe and Central Asia region.

She is currently the Treasurer for Developing Country NGO Delegation where she supports the delegation finance work. Liliana is public health professional with 17 years of experience in managing health programs at national and international level and a reach regional technical assistance record to various Global Fund stakeholders in EECA. She works with PAS Center since 2010 leading the Global Fund TB Grant for EECA, Global Fund HIV Grantss and other large-scale grants including World Bank’s initiative on social accountability for better health, with a one and a half year break to serve as Grants Manager for the USAID portfolio at the Stop TB Partnership in Geneva. Prior to joining PAS Center, she coordinated the M&E of Global Fund TB and HIV programs and the Youth Friendly Health Centers Network with the Ministry of Health PIU, preceded by her involvement in development and scale up of national harm reduction services with the Public Health Program of the Soros Foundation-Moldova. 

Linked to Global Fund programs since its establishment in different capacities - she worked most of her career in defining and expanding the role of civil society and community-based organizations in the continuum of care, bridging the gap between civil society and state health services, enabling programmatic and financial sustainability of Global Fund supported services, addressing the needs of key and vulnerable populations, removing human rights and gender barriers in accessing services and strengthening CSO and CBO capacity to become equal provider of services in the People-Centered Model of Care. 

She holds an executive MBA degree from the Newport University, USA and Master of Public Health degree from the School of Public Health Management in Moldova, and serve in a number of boards, board constituencies, Working Groups, Task Force, and Committees with Global Fund, Stop TB Partnership, WHO EURO and regional affected communities’ networks.