Staff — GAIA Global Health

GAIA Malawi

GAIA Malawi is an independent, local non-governmental organization, working to improve access to healthcare via nurse training programs and mobile health clinics in remote, rural areas. The GAIA Malawi staff is 100% local/Malawian, 64% female, and 27% nurses. GAIA Malawi is supported by GAIA U.S. with funding and technical support.

Joyce Jere

Country Director

Nelson Khozomba

Programs Manager

Adalireni Manyungwa Nkhata

Finance and Administration Manager

Elias Kaunde

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Gladys Lameck

Senior Accountant

Innocent Sajiwa

Projects Coordinator

Hope Bowa

Logistics Officer

Isaac Maudzu

Human Resource Officer

Lucy Munthali

APA Program Manager

Chimwemwe Mwangonde

Projects Officer Nursing

Janice Padambo

Pharmacy Nurse / Supply Chain

Mphatso Phiri

Clinical Officer

Annie Sekani

District Case Management Officer

James Seleman

Clinical Officer

Anna Mviha

Mobile Clinic Nurse

Austen Gondwa

Senior Driver

Austin Chilunje

Finance Officer

Beatrice Saulo

Community Tester

Bridget Mwangolemba

Community Tester

Caroline Bonongwe

Nurse Aide

Catherine Moses

Office Assistant

Chawanangwa Mwale

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Chifundo Chomanika

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Coordinator

Christina Eruwa

Community Tester

Cynthia Goodson

Community Tester

Daniel Chirombo

Senior Driver

Deborah Gwemba

HIV/AIDS Coordinator

Doreen Nserebo

Nurse Midwife Technician

Edna Bolokonya

Community Outreach Nurse

Edward Banda

Handy Man

Edward Simika

Mobile Clinic Driver

Elevance Mtonga

Nurse Midwife Technician

Ellen Chisale

Mobile Clinic Nurse

Ellen Nangwale

Community Tester

Emmanuel Mwanza

IT Database Officer

Eric Kalipinde

Driver

Esnart Masiano

Nurse Midwife Technician

Eunice Msunga

Mobile Clinic Nurse

Fatuma Phiri

Office Assistant

Favour Matiki

Community Tester

Gladys Chirimba

Community Outreach Nurse

Hanna Kholomana

Community Tester

Harold Lameck

Mobile Clinic Driver

Innocencia Mnelemba

Administrative Assistant

Innocent Mitambo

Data Clerk

Jaison Bvalani

Mobile Clinic Driver

Janet Botha

Deputy Chief of Party, HRH Project

Lonely Mtemang'ombe

Clinical Officer

Lonjezo Divason

Finance and Adminstration Assistant

Loti Kasonkanji

Mobile Clinic Driver

Luseshelo Simwinga

Nurse Mentor, GAIN Project

Mary Ching'anda

Mobile Clinic Nurse

Matias Chinguwo

Accounts Assistant

Mercy Chirwa

Mobile Clinic Nurse

Mercy Nasekwa

Community Tester

Mwandida Chinangwa

Community Tester

Mwandida Segula

Community Tester

Oveka Jana

Maternal and Child Health Coordinator, GAIN Project

Owen Chibweya

Mobile Clinic Driver

Owen Mukhanga

District Case Management Officer

Pauline Chipapi

Community Tester

Richard Kang'ombe

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Stella Banda

Nurse Aide

Steven Kabvinga

Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant

Sungeni Waliwa

Community Tester

Susan Mphande

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Tamara Giva

Nurse Midwife Technician

Tereza Mangame

Nurse Aide

Thandiwe Chimwaza

Nurse Aide

Thomas Makwinja

District Coordinator

Tionge Nyirongo

Fellowship Projects Officer

Tsala Nancy Banda

HIV/AIDS Coordinator

Violet Mwapasa

Nurse Aide

Wilfred Zinyongo

Mobile Clinic Driver

Winnie Gunde

Accountant

Charles Chikadewa

Nursing Officer

Chinsinsi Nkupira

Nurse Midwife Technician

Edith Maliko

Nurse Midwife Technician

George Bvomera

Ambulance Driver

Goodson Kazembe

Ambulance Driver

Zex Majawa

Temporary Driver

George Chagaluka

Consultant Pediatrician, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blantyre

Nanzen Kaphagawani

Principal Lecturer, Malawi College of Health Sciences Zomba Campus

Phindile Chitsulo Lupafya, Deputy Chair

Program Policy Officer, Nutrition (World Food Programme) Lilongwe

Jones Masiye

Deputy Director Preventative Services in the Ministry of Health

Josiah Chidya Mayani, Chair

Research Pharmacist, College of Medicine Johns Hopkins Research Project Blantyre

Eunice Ndingo

Senior Examiner, Reserve Bank of Malawi, Blantyre

Alfred Marcolino Nhlema

Banking and Finance Specialist

Ivan Weinberg

U.S. Board Representative

Dorothy Mercy Zimba

Project Accountant, Malawi Housing Corporation, Blantyre

GAIA US

Todd Schafer

Executive Director

Cristin Klein

Director of Development & Communications

Molly Brostrom, MPP

Program & Grants Manager

Alina Aslanian, MPA

Program & Grants Manager

Kelsey Fisher, MPA

Program & Grants Manager

Doug Bozick

Director of Finance

Shruthi Reddy

Development & Communications Officer

Hannah Graykowski

Event & Operations Coordinator

Philip Arscott

Redwood City, CA. Independent Contractor

Jim Cashel

Sonoma, CA. Businessman

Bob Daily

Los Angeles, CA. Television Writer & Producer

Lisa Deal

Atherton, CA. Nurse and Community Volunteer

Erin Fish

Kentfield, CA. Community Volunteer

Joel Goldman

Santa Monica, CA. National Director of Social Impact and Influencer Engagement

Kaboni Gondwe

Seattle, WA. Assistant Professor of Nursing

Galym Imanbayev

Palo Alto, CA. Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Nina Kola

Princeton, NJ. Research Physician

Zander MacQuitty

Palo Alto, CA. Product Manager at Google, Inc.

Tim Mohan, Chair

Chicago, CA. Attorney & Community Volunteer

Timi Most, Vice Chair

Menlo Park, CA. Businesswoman & Community Volunteer

Melanie Norris

Pacifica, CA. Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Ashley Paff

KENTFIELD, CA. RETIRED INVESTMENT BANKER & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER

Andy Pflaum

Portola Valley, CA. Software, open source and ag-tech startup advisor

Ellen Schell

San Francisco, CA. Retired former GAIA Director of International Programs, RN, PhD, FAAN

Azmat Siddiqi

Saratoga, CA. Engineer

Ivan Weinberg

Larkspur, CA. Attorney

Medical Advisory Board

Dean Winslow, M.D.

Professor and Vice Chair of Medicine at Stanford University

A. Eugene Washington, M.D.

Chancellor Emeritus for Health Affairs, Duke University & President and CEO, Duke University Health System

Paul Volberding, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF

Jean L. Richardson, DrPH

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine

Thomas J. Coates, Ph.D.

Professor of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Director of the UCLA Center for World Health

Sir Richard G.A. Feachem, Ph.D.,D. Sci.

Professor Emeritus of Global Health, UCSF, Founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Michael Gottlieb, M.D.

Physician and immunologist known for his 1981 identification of AIDS as a new disease Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

William L. Holzemer, Ph.D.

Dean Emeritus, School of Nursing, Rutgers University

Jay A. Levy, M.D.

Research Virologist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine, UCSF

Nancy S. Padian, Ph.D.

Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, Former Executive Director of Women's Global Health Imperative, UCSF