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| THE BOARD |
An Advisory Board for The MENTOR Initiative strengthens the technical and operational management of The MENTOR Initiative programmes and overall service function, ensuring that it maintains and continues to develop its leading position to support the humanitarian community for disease control in emergency and recovery settings. The advisory board supports the development of new programmes and reviews the performance and developments of the past year and assists in strategic planning for the coming year.
Advisory Board Members
• Mr Paul Jobson. After an international career in senior management at Massey Ferguson and Perkins Engines, Paul became a partner in ECi, a venture capital firm operating predominantly in the management buyout market in the UK. A decade later he became Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of CDC (Commonwealth Development Corporation). He retired in 2001 and now advises charities and businesses on strategy and business development. He also acts as a mentor and coach and became an accredited mediator in 2003.
• Richard Brennan, MBBS, MPH, is Health Director of the International Rescue Committee, a non-governmental organization that provides humanitarian assistance, protection and resettlement services to refugees and victims of armed conflict. His team of 17 health professionals provides technical assistance to the IRC’s 20 health programs in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Rick has published on a range of humanitarian issues and chaired the development of the Health Services chapter of The Sphere Project: Minimum Standards in Disaster Response.
• Christopher Whitty is Professor of International Health and Director of the Malaria Centre at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a consultant physician at The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and works on malaria in various parts of Africa and Asia.
• Christa Hook studied medicine in Edinburgh and tropical medicine at Liverpool. She worked in a mission hospital in Zululand, South Africa in the late 1970's/early 80's, and returned to overseas work in Somalia in 1992. She joined MSF in 1994 working in sub Saharan Africa and central Asia as a field doctor, medical coordinator and then Health Adviser. With a strong interest and expertise in malaria, she then coordinated the MSF Malaria Working Group until 2005.
• Ron Waldman is Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. He began his career in the WHO Smallpox Eradication Program. While at the US Centers for Disease Control during the 1980's, he and colleagues studied and published extensively on refugee health. He served at the World Health Organization's Division of Child Health and was responsible for coordinating cholera control activities. He was Technical Director of the USAID-funded BASICS Project for child survival and has coordinated communicable disease control activities in complex emergencies from Somalia to Aceh, and from Bosnia to Goma.
• Warren Lancaster is a consultant in international development working as the Senior Development Advisor with Geneva Global. Previously Warren led The Leprosy Mission, England. He was CEO of Merlin (Medical Emergency Relief International). Warren also held leadership roles in Medair and worked with the British Red Cross and the principal relief agencies in the UK examining the feasibility of an Ombudsman for humanitarian assistance.
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