Global Health Operations Committee

CUGH recognizes that facilitating administrative functions, processes, and services are vital to effectively supporting the global health enterprise.

The Global Health Operations Committee (GHOC) works to identify and develop guiding principles to enhance university and organizational administrations’ procedural and financial alignment with programmatic priorities in global health, education, research, and service activities.

The GHOC develops strategies to effectively respond to global opportunities and share best practices for, amongst other things:

  • Managing international risk;
  • Developing legal frameworks;
  • Establishing and sustaining global health partnerships.

Chairs: 

  • Richard Wamai, PhD, Northeastern University
  • Anna Helova, Dr PH, MA, MBA, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Alexandra Leader, MD, MPH – Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • Alyson Lofthouse, MUPP – University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health
  • Annalicia Pickering, MD – Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Carlene Radix, MD, MPH – Ross University School of Medicine, Barbados
  • Chris Rapalje – Emory University
  • David Vanderpool, MD – Live Beyond
  • Edward Rosenbaum – New York University College of Dentistry
  • Emmanuel Abara, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FWACS, MScCH – Richmond Hill Urology Practice and Prostate Institute
  • Georgina Yeboah – AFREHealth
  • Jason Rosenfeld, DrPH, MPH, CHWI – University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
  • John Olawepo, MBBS, PhD – Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
  • Jonathan W. Meadows, DO, MS, MPH, CPH, PHAP Certs – Individual CUGH Member
  • Kari Brossard Stoos, PhD – Ithaca College
  • Lisa Nunez – Emory University
  • Oriaku Oluchi Okereke – University of Abuja, Nigeria
  • Pascal G. Felix, DrPH, MSBE – Intellectual Consortium, LLC
  • Richard Wamai, PhD – Northeastern University
  • Shahanaz Chowdhury, MD – Bangladesh University of Health Sciences
  • Srikanth Mahankali, MD – Individual CUGH Member
  • Summer Hassan – Arizona State University
  • Sylvester Kimaiyo, MBBS – AMPATH, Moi University School of Medicine, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya
  • Tasha Ayinde, MPPPA – McGill University
  • Wingdie Neensie Didi Bertrand – University of Miami
  • Yvonne Butler Tobah, MD – Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Members:

  • Ayesha Ali
  • Samuel Omidoyin
  • Pratyush Kumar
  • Ayesha Ali
  • Bernard Owusu Agyare

  • The GHOC has developed a Travel Toolkit that combines information and resources to assist those engaging in international travel for global health work. 
  • The GHOC has also prepared, in collaboration with colleagues from low and middle income countries (LMIC), a series of considerations to guide partnerships with those in LMICs in a way that is responsive to their local context. The documents are in progress.
  • The GHOC operates a listserv which CUGH members can use to ask questions and share information about operational issues of interest to global health practitioners.