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
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Nelson Khozomba
Programs Manager

Adalireni Manyungwa Nkhata
Finance and Administration Manager

Elias Kaunde
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Gladys Lameck
Senior Accountant

Richard Malirakwenda
GAIN Project Officer
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Isaac Maudzu
Human Resource Officer
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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 Selemani
Clinical Officer

Aida Zakeyu
District Education/Safe Schools Officer
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Alice Duwa
Quality Improvement Officer

Anna Mviha
Mobile Clinic Nurse
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Austen Gondwa
Senior Driver

Beatrice Saulo
Community Tester

Bernadetta Juma
Senior HIV/AIDS Coordinator
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Bridget Mwangolemba
Community Tester

Caroline Bonogwe
Nurse Aide
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Catherine Moses
Office Assistant
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Chawanangwa Mwale
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Chifundo Chomanika
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Coordinator
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Chimwemwe Balasankhunda
Quality Improvement Officer

Christina Eruwa
Community Tester
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Christopher Ndakubera
Driver

Cynthia Goodson
Community Tester

Daniel Chirombo
Senior Driver

Daniel Malikebu
Quality Improvement Officer
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Davie Newa
Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant

Deborah Gwemba
HIV/AIDS Coordinator

Edna Bolokonya
Community Outreach Nurse

Edward Banda
Handy Man

Edward Simika
Mobile Clinic Driver

Ellard Gulo
District Education/Safe Schools Officer
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Ellen Chisale
Mobile Clinic Nurse

Ellen Nangwale
Community Tester

Emmanuel Salapa
Finance & Administration Assistant
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Ester Munyawa
Nurse Aide
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Eunice Msungama
Mobile Clinic Nurse

Ezlon Mwenibabu
Quality Improvement Officer

Fanny Lusekero Simwinga
Nurse Mentor

Fatuma Phiri
Office Assistant

Favour Matiki
Community Tester

Focus Chakondwa
Floater
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Gladys Chirimba
Community Outreach Nurse

Hanna Kholomana
Community Tester

Harold Lameck
Mobile Clinic Driver

Innocencia Mnelemba
Administrative Assistant
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Innocent Mitambo
Data Clerk

Jaison Bvalani
Mobile Clinic Driver

Jimmy Katoma
Driver

Judith Tasaukadala
District Economic Strengthening Officer

Lonely Mtemang'ombe
Clinical Officer

Loti Kasonkanji
Mobile Clinic Driver

Mary Ching'anda
Mobile Clinic Nurse
Matiasi Chinguwo
Accounts Assistant
Mercy Chirwa
Mobile Clinic Nurse

Mercy Nasekwa
Community Tester

Mwandida Chinangwa
Community Tester
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Mwandida Segula
Community Tester
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Owen Chibweya
Mobile Clinic Driver

Owen Mukhanga
District Case Management Officer

Owen Nyirenda
District Parenting Officer

Pauline Chipapi
Community Tester

Richard Kang'ombe
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Stella Banda
Nurse Aide

Steven Bwanali
Technical Specialist- Education and Social asset Building
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Steven Kabvinga
Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant
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Sungeni Waliwa
Community Tester
Tereza Mangame
Nurse Aide

Thandiwe Chimwaza
Nurse Aide

Tiwonge Munthali
District Economic Strengthening Officer

Tsala Nancy Banda
HIV/AIDS Coordinator

Victoria Thondoya
Quality Improvement Officer

Violet Mwapasa
Nurse Aide
Wilfred Zinyongo
Mobile Clinic Driver

Winnie Gunde
Accountant

George Chagaluka
Consultant Pediatrician, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blantyre

Ellen Chirwa, Chair
Professor, Kamuzu College of Nursing Blantyre

Andy Chitele
Technical Advisor, Public Finance Economic Management (PFEM), GIZ Malawi

Phindile Chitsulo Lupafya
Program Policy Officer, Nutrition (World Food Programme) Lilongwe

Jones Masiye
Deputy Director Preventative Services in the Ministry of Health

Josiah Chidya Mayani
Research Pharmacist, College of Medicine Johns Hopkins Research Project Blantyre

Alfred Marcolino Nhlema
Banking and Finance Specialist
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Ellen Schell, RN, PhD
Senior Advisor, GAIA U.S.

Jean Phillipo
Senior Assistant Chief State Advocate, Ministry of Justice
GAIA US

Todd Schafer
Executive Director
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Ellen Schell, RN, PhD
Senior Advisor
Beth Geoffroy, MA
Director of Programs & Strategic Partnerships

Molly Brostrom, MPP
Program & Grants Officer

Kelsey Fisher, MPA
Program & Grants Officer

Marcel Thanasack
Director of Finance

Ninon Pallavicini
Events & Operations Manager

Chloe Frank
Development & Communications Associate
Suzanne Alwan
Charlotte, NC. Bank Finance Attorney & Community Volunteer

Christine Simpson Brent, Chair
Tiburon, CA. Businesswoman & Community Volunteer

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

Kaboni Gondwe
Milwaukee, WI. Professor of Nursing

Laurie Hunter
Palo Alto, CA. Retired Businesswoman & Community Volunteer

Galym Imanbayev
Palo Alto, CA. Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Jennifer Kepner
Wilton, CT. Community Volunteer

Nina Kola
Princeton, NJ. Research Physician

Tim Mohan, Vice Chair
Chicago, CA. Attorney & Community Volunteer

Timi Most
Menlo Park, CA. Businesswoman & Community Volunteer
Melanie Norris
Pacifica, CA. Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Ashley Paff
KENTFIELD, CA. RETIRED INVESTMENT BANKER & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER

Geoffrey Peck
New York, NY. Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Ruth Thurmond Scott
Raleigh, NC. Retired Businesswoman and Community Volunteer
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 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
Arthur J. Ammann, M.D.
Founder, Global Strategies for HIV Prevention
Thomas J. Coates, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Richard G.A. Feachem, Ph.D.,D. Sci.
Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
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.
Retired Dean, School of Nursing, Rutgers University
Jay A. Levy, M.D.
Research Virologist and Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Nancy S. Padian, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley