Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Stop TB Partnership Board

Names Organization Country of work

Subrat Mohanty (Board Member)

REACH

India

Mayowa Joel (Board Member)

Stop TB Nigeria

Nigeria

Abudu Imoro (Communication Focal Point)

Afro Global Alliance

Ghana

Bertrand Kampoer

DRAFT TB

Cameroon

Choub Sok Chamreun (Alternate Board Member)

KHANA

Cambodia

Márcia Leão

Stop TB Brasil

Brasil

Rodrick Mugishagwe

EANNASO

Tanzania

Philip Waweru Mbugua

NOPE

Kenya

Quesada Amara

ACHIEVE

Philippines

Rachel Otu-Amponsah

Africa Coalition on TB (ACT) 

Ghana

Liliana Caraulan

Union for Equity and Health

Moldova

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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.


 

Mayowa Joel

Mayowa Joel is a Development Specialist and the 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.

 

 


 

Abudo Imoro

Mr. Abudu Imoro has joined the delegation as the Communications Focal Point. An experienced Human Resource and Operations Manager with over 15 years of work experience in Human Resource Management, Operations, Community Mobilization and Civil Society engagement. He has implemented community based projects in Tuberculosis, Malaria with funding and collaboration from the World Health Organization and the Civil Society Challenge Facility.

 

 

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. 


 

Rachel Otu-Amponsah

Rachel Otu-Amponsah has a degree in economics,linguistics and law. She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association and a health advocate. She currently works with Afro global Alliance Ghana where she supports the TB33 campaign and Deadly divide 2.0. She has good communication skills and particularly interested in enforcement of human right, health awareness and advocacy campaigns of epidemic and pandemics in our society.

 

 

Liliana Caraulan

Liliana Caraulan is a public health specialist with 20 years of experience in managing programs related to communicable diseases, health and community system strengthening and CRG in Moldova and Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region. She has been linked to national Global Fund TB and HIV programs since the round 1 in Moldova, led the multi-country, multi-partner Global Fund TB grant for EECA region (TB-REP 2.0) and has a rich regional technical assistance record to various stakeholders in EECA, including the Global Fund.

She is the CRG advisor for the Union for Equity and Health that actively promotes human-rights, social justice and gender equality in the context of public health and safety in Moldova, and serves in a number of boards, board constituencies, Working Groups, Task Force, and Committees with the Global Fund, Stop TB Partnership, WHO EURO and SEE RCN regional affected communities’ networks.