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, 53% female, and 34% 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
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Lucy Munthali
Deputy Programs Manager

Billy Kandoje
Finance and Administration Manager

Elias Kaunde
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Gladys Lameck
Senior Accountant

Innocent Sajiwa
Projects Coordinator

Hope Bowa
Procurement Officer

Chifundo Chomanika
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Coordinator

Luseshelo Simwinga
Maternal Neonatal Child Health Sustanability Coordinator

Janice Padambo
Community Outreach Nursing Officer

Mphatso Phiri
Team Leader

James Seleman
Clinical Officer

Anna Mviha
Senior Nurse

Austin Chilunje
Finance Officer
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Austin Gondwa
Senior Driver
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Bridget Mwangolemba
Nurse Aide

Caroline Bonongwe
Nurse Aide
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Catherine Moses
Office Assistant

Daniel Chirombo
Senior Driver

Deborah Gwemba
Supervisor Comm Health Worker

Doreen Nserebo
Mobile Clinic Nurse

Edna Bolokonya
Community Outreach Nurse

Edward Banda
Handy Man
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Ellen Chisale
Nurse Midwife Techncian

Eric Kalipinde
Driver

Esnart Masiano
Nurse Midwife Technician
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Eunice Msungama
Nurse Midwife Technician

Fatuma Phiri
Office Assistant

Favour Matiki
Nurse Aide
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Gladys Chirimba
Community Outreach Nurse

Harold Lameck
Driver

Innocencia Mnelemba
Adninistration and Fleet Management Officer
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Innocent Mitambo
Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

Kasonkanji Loti
Mobile Clinic Driver

Lonely Mtemang'ombe
Clinical Officer

Mary Ching'anda
Community Outreach Nurse

Matias Chinguwo
Accounts Assistant

Mercy Chirwa
Nurse Midwife Technician (Clinic Incharge)

Mercy Nasekwa
Community Health Worker

Mwandida Chinangwa
Community Health Worker
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Mwandida Segula
Community Health Worker
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Owen Chibweya
Driver

Stella Banda
Nurse Aide
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Sungeni Waliwa
Nurse Aide

Susan Mphande
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Tereza Mangame
Nurse Aide

Violet Mwapasa
Nurse Aide

Wilfred Zinyongo
Driver

Charles Chikadewa
Nursing Officer

Chinsinsi Nkupira
Nurse Midwife Technician

George Bvomera
Driver

Goodson Kazembe
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
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, Chair
Project Accountant, Malawi Housing Corporation, Blantyre
GAIA US
US Board Bios
Todd Schafer
Executive Director

Cristin Klein
Director of Development & Communications

Molly Brostrom, MPP
Program & Grants Manager

Alina Aslanian, MPA
Program & Grants Manager

Doug Bozick
Director of Finance

Shruthi Reddy
Development & Communications Officer

Hannah Graykowski
Operations Officer

Philip Arscott
Independent Contractor, Redwood City, CA.

Jim Cashel, Chair
Businessman, Sonoma, CA.

John Cullison
Retired Bank Executive

Bob Daily
Television Writer & Producer, Los Angeles, CA.

Phil Darrow
Retired Real Estate and Environmental Lawyer, Denver, CO.

Lisa Deal
Nurse and Community Volunteer, Atherton, CA.

Erin Fish
Sales and Marketing Advisor and Community Volunteer, Kentfield, CA.

Brian Frantz
Retired USAID Senior Foreign Officer, Rockville, MD.

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

Kaboni Gondwe
Assistant Professor of Nursing, Seattle, WA.

Michael Gottlieb
Physician and Immunologist, Pasadena, CA.

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

Nina Kola
Research Physician, Princeton, NJ.

Zander MacQuitty
Product Manager at Datagrid AI, Palo Alto, CA.

Timi Most
Businesswoman & Community Volunteer, Menlo Park, CA.

Ashley Paff, Vice Chair
RETIRED INVESTMENT BANKER & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, KENTFIELD, CA.

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

Mel Sahyun
Chemist, Santa Barbara, CA.
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Ellen Schell
Retired former GAIA Director of International Programs, RN, PhD, FAAN, San Francisco, CA.

Azmat Siddiqi
Engineer, Saratoga, CA.

Ivan Weinberg
Attorney, Larkspur, CA.
Medical Advisory Board
Melanie Norris, MSN, CPNP, CTH®
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Sutter Health
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
