As a founder and director of the Stanford/Yale Global Health Scholars Program, Dr. Barry has sent more than 2,000 physicians overseas to help strengthen health infrastructure in low-resource settings. She is an investigator in two NIH-HEPI (Health Professional Education Partnership) grants at the University of Zimbabwe and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In addition, she is part of an NIH consortium sending researchers overseas as Global Health Equity Scholars. She launched the Women Leaders in Global Health conferences and WomenLift Health, a leadership accelerator for women working in global health. Dr Barry received the Elizabeth Blackburn Award for mentorship of women in careers in medicine and the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Consortium of Universities of Global Health.

Board-certified in anesthesiology and critical care medicine; Dr. Crawford founded the Division of Global Health Equity within the Department of Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she is the Director of Global Engagement Strategy. Dr. Crawford serves on multiple committees at the local, state, national and international levels and also serves as an advisor to several international organizations including the WHO, a Lancet Commission, and the Essential Emergency and Critical Care Network. She is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of the Global Anesthesia and Critical Care Learning Resource Center (“the LRC”), an open-access education platform used to reach over 8000 learners from 145 countries during COVID-19. And, she is the proud recipient of the 2021 Kevin Malott Humanitarian Service Award, for her work with the Pine Ridge Native American community during the pandemic.

Gary L. Darmstadt, MD, MS, FPIDS, is Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health, and Professor, ;:partment of Pediatrics in the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Darmstadt studies the effects of reducing gender inequality across the life course, ensuring child survival, and nurturing children’s growth and development on overall community health in developing countries. A passionate educator and advocate for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition, Dr. Darmstadt came to Stanford from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was senior fellow in the Global Development Program and led foundation initiatives to address gender inequalities and empower women and girls globally. Prior to this role, he led strategy development and implementation across maternal, newborn, and child health; family planning; and nutrition for the Foundation.

Dr. LaBeaud is a physician-scientist, epidemiologist, and professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Dr. LaBeaud studies the epidemiology and ecology of domestic and international arboviruses and emerging infections, with an interest in the vector, host, and environmental factors that affect transmission dynamics and spectrum of disease. She currently heads a clinical research lab focused on better understanding the risk factors and long-term health consequences of arboviral infections, specifically Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, dengue fever, yellow fever and Zika, and the most effective means of prevention. Her research is community-engaged and seeks to define and then disrupt the underlying structural determinants of health. She studies the human health impacts of climate change including research focused on innovative solutions to the global plastic pollution crisis. Her current field sites include Kenya, Grenada, and Brazil. She has also recently launched a nonprofit, the Health and Environmental Research Institute- Kenya (www.heri-kenya.org) which is an initiative focused on Kenya to inspire community education, new research, policy change and grass roots activism in environmental health issues.

Dr. Luby studied philosophy and earned a Bachelor of Arts sum ma cum laude from Creighton University. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital. He studied epidemiology and preventive medicine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Luby’s previous positions include directing the Centre for Communicable Diseases at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 2004 – 2012, conducting research and teaching epidemiology at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan from 1993 -1998, and working as an epidemiologist in the Food borne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Anurag Maira I is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and the Director, Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. In these roles, he leads initiatives focused on applying the biodesign process to resource-constrained settings globally. Further, he facilitates opportunities for students, faculty and fellows at Stanford to work on global healthcare needs. He is part of the founding faculty team for MED 232, Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings and BIOE 371, Global Biodesign: Medical Technology in an International Context, graduate-level courses offered to engineering, business, and medical students at Stanford University. Earlier, he served as Associate Director for the Stanford-India Biodesign and Singapore-Stanford Biodesign programs. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific, partnering closely with the industry and academia in the region. He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area­based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry.

Dr. Maldonado is the director of Global Child Health and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics. She served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and she led several domestic and international pediatric vaccine studies. Her research interests include the impact of rotavirus, measles, and polio vaccines on the epidemiology and prevention of childhood infections in low-resource populations and the prevention and treatment of perinatal HIV infection in the U.S., Mexico, and Africa. The chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, she has published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and is co­editor of the textbook “Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant.”

Dr. Mitchell has worked in Mozambique in collaboration with a group from MD Anderson focused on improving screening for cervical cancer and training local caregivers. Dr. Mitchell is particularly interested in improving HPV vaccination rates, both locally and abroad. In addition, as a Hematologist, Dr. Mitchell endeavors to improve education in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant hematologic disorders.

Dr. Palaniappan’s research focuses on the study of diverse populations, chronic disease, and prevention. She seeks to address the gap in knowledge of health in Asian subgroups and other under-studied racial/ethnic minorities. In partnership with the Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford Impact Labs, and non-profit organization Arogya World, Dr. Palaniappan’s work enhances existing chronic disease prevention programs in India that impact health behavior at a population level. Exploring the use of new health technologies in low-resource settings, Dr. Palaniappan works to improve population-based interventions, advance the research capacity of nonprofit partners, and seeks better ways to evaluate health outcomes for chronic disease prevention. She was recently awarded a Midcareer Investigator Award by the National Institutes of Health to provide mentoring to junior clinical investigators in the conduct of patient-oriented research. In 2018, she co-founded the Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE) at Stanford.

Dr. Prakash studies the structure, function, and evolution of organisms through the lens of physics. He advocates for frugal science and builds low-cost and powerful tools for field science, bringing science from the lab into parts of the world where traditional tools are not available or affordable. Dr. Prakash’s curiosity-­driven research group invented a human-powered centrifuge, built with 20 cents worth of paper, plastic, and twine. This low-cost tool can separate blood into its individual components in 90 seconds. His lab also created the Foldscope, a paper origami microscope which he field-tested in Madagascar and which has been used to identify microscopic eggs of agricultural pests in India, to catalog the biodiversity of soil anthropods in the Amazon, and to detect bacteria in water samples in Mexico. Dr. Prakash’s team also created Abuzz, an iPhone app that identifies malaria-carrying mosquitoes by recording and measuring the frequency of their buzz.

Dr. Strehlow is an internationally recognized educator focusing on emergency care in developing countries. His research focuses on maternal and child emergency referral systems, scalable in-service education using mobile technology and gaming, and the intersection of emergency care systems and gender-based violence. Dr. Strehlow is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. Currently, Dr. Strehlow serves as the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Stanford Emergency Medicine International (SEMI). In addition to these roles, Dr. Strehlow is a Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health and an advisor to Stanford’s Digital Medic initiative. He collaborates across the campus to help advance Stanford University’s mission of improving health and education worldwide. Dr. Strehlow is a recognized educator both nationally and internationally, focusing on emergency care in developing countries, cardiology, and human and planetary health.

Dr. Geoff Tabin is co-founder and chairman of the Cure Blindness Project and a professor of Ophthalmology and Global Medicine at Stanford University. He has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, two books, and a dozen book chapters related to his work in ophthalmology and the developing world. He is the fourth person in the world to reach the tallest peak on each of the seven continents. With his Himalayan Cataract Project co-founder, Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Tabin has trained physicians throughout Nepal who have reversed blindness in nearly one million people.

Dr. Paul Wise is dedicated to bridging the fields of child health equity, public policy, and international security studies. He is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology and Developmental Medicine, and Health Policy at Stanford University. He is also co-Director, Stanford Center for Prematurity Research and a Senior Fellow in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Wise is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been working as the Juvenile Care Monitor for the U.S. Federal Court overseeing the treatment of migrant children in U.S. border detention facilities.

Wise received his A.B. degree summa cum laude in Latin American Studies and his M.D. degree from Cornell University, a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and did his pediatric training at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. His former positions include Director of Emergency and Primary Care Services at Boston Children’s Hospital, Director of the Harvard Institute for Reproductive and Child Health, Vice-Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and was the founding Director or the Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine. He has served in a variety of professional and consultative roles, including Special Assistant to the U.S. Surgeon General, Chair of the Steering Committee of the NIH Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research, Chair of the Strategic Planning Task Force of the Secretary’s Committee on Genetics, Health and Society, a member of the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, and the Health and Human Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant and Maternal Mortality.

Wise’s most recent U.S.-focused work has addressed disparities in birth outcomes, regionalized specialty care for children, and Medicaid. His international work has focused on women’s and child health in violent and politically complex environments, including Ukraine, Gaza, Central America, Venezuela, and children in detention on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Dr. Wren has extensive experience working in humanitarian crises in Sub-Saharan Africa and leads research projects that examine the epidemiology of surgical disease in conflict zones. She serves on the executive council and builds capacity through educational collaboratives with the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa, a 14-country consortium, with more than 100 training programs that shape and lead the training and retention of surgeons in the Sub-Saharan region. Dr. Wren facilitates and supports mentorship for women in surgical training to increase the number of women surgeons in the COSESCA region. She also developed the International Humanitarian Surgery course that provides high-resource physicians in skills and information critical to their working in low resource environments.