Global Micro-Clinic Staff

Daniel E. Zoughbie, Founder, CEO, and President

Daniel Zoughbie is the Founder, CEO, and President of the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP), an organization dedicated to providing access to health care in the developing world. Zoughbie's research includes several published articles and reports on the Middle East, where he served as a student journalist for the University of California News Center. Additionally, he has researched the University of California's impact on the state and national economies. Zoughbie is actively involved in serving his various communities and has participated in or served as a director for several nonprofit organizations and public service projects. Zoughbie received his BA in Urban Studies (2006) with a minor in Middle Eastern Studies (Phi Beta Kappa and Highest Honors) from the University of California, Berkeley. He has received many honors and awards including the Marshall Scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Oxford.

Kathleen T. Watson, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President

Katie Watson is Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of the Global Micro-Clinic Project. She attended New York University where she received her B.A. in Psychology with a minor Middle Eastern Studies. After graduation, she has pursued two primary areas of interest: cognitive neuroscience research and public health. She has worked in an HIV/AIDS clinic to help establish the use of new treatments via clinical trials, particularly for patients who are resistant to standard medications. Katie established much of the clinic's research environment, set up research protocols and initiated studies.

Watson's interest in global development led her to Amman, where she worked with Queen Rania's Jordan River Foundation, with a particular focus on abused children. She was named the UCSF Clausen Fellow, under the guidance of the Global Health Sciences Division headed by Dr. Haile Debas. As a Clausen Fellow, she worked with Daniel Zoughbie, the founder of the Global Micro-Clinic Project to establish a pilot project in Jordan with the aim of serving Jordan's diabetic population. Katie has since joined the GMCP leadership team as it continues to expand its operations globally. Watson has a wide range of other interests including writing, travel and learning languages, including improving her spoken Arabic and French.

Leila Makarechi, Senior Projects Manager

Leila Makarechi is the Senior Project Manager for the Global Micro-Clinic Project. She is spearheading the campaign to establish micro-clinics in India.

Makarechi worked for the United Nations Development Program’s Regional Bureau for Latin America & the Caribbean, a position she started as a 2006-2007 John Gardner Public Service Fellow. During her time at UNDP she focused on gender and development, poverty reduction and democratic governance. She helped manage more than 92 projects throughout 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

For multiple summers, Makarechi has conducted community outreach in the Dominican Republic with 180º para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo, a non-governmental organization based in Spain. She works in rural sugar cane communities, known as bateys, where she has helped design and implement a series of projects focusing on educational enrichment, reproductive health, and environmental sustainability. Most recently, 180º has created the first ever vaccination program for people living in bateys.

While at UC Berkeley, Leila conducted research for Associate Dean Ananya Roy on microfinance in Bangladesh, Lebanon, and Egypt. Leila graduated UC Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa and Highest Honors) with a double major in political science and social welfare. Leila will pursue an M.P.A. in International Affairs and Public Policy at Columbia University in fall, 2008.

Matt Werner, Communications Director

Matt Werner graduated UC Berkeley with highest honors in English. During his time interning, editing, and writing for McSweeney’s Publishing he worked on such titles as What is the What by Dave Eggers, Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, and the forthcoming Voice of Witness series book on Sudanese refugees. He currently works for Pearson Educational Publishing in San Francisco.

Other writing projects Werner is proud of include editing the collected UC Berkeley lectures of Ricardo Lagos (President of Chile 2000-2006) for UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies, and also an English-language translation of Rumi’s Book of the Sun with Persian scholar Fouad Tabary.

In the fall of 2008, Matt Werner will study at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland for a Master’s in English on the Winston Churchill Scholarship awarded by the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco.

Andrew Lynch, Project Research Officer

After growing up in Southeast Asia, Andrew Lynch became a proud citizen of Williamsburg, Southeastern Kentucky at the start of high school. Lynch graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky (go Cats!).

As an undergraduate, Lynch developed an interest in the interface between technology and public health. He pursued this interest through water quality monitoring research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, rural solar energy volunteer work in Thailand, and NIH-funded nanotechnology research at the University of Kentucky. To balance these scientific pursuits, Lynch enjoyed taking part in a special humanities track at Kentucky. Lynch also enjoys traveling, the outdoors, and taking part in amateur athletics.

Starting in the fall of 2008, Lynch will attend the University of Cambridge to pursue a PhD in the Biosciences Engineering research group on the Gates Fellowship. As a member of the GMCP team, Lynch specializes in translating technology into meaningful improvements in people's quality of life.


Global Advisory Board

Nezar AlSayyad

Nezar AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History where he teaches urbanism, urban design and housing in developing countries and serves as the Associate Dean for International Programs at the College of Environmental Design. Dr. AlSayyad is also the Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Berkeley. Additionally, Dr. AlSayyad is the Director of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), as well as Editor of its journal Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.

Dr. AlSayyad is the author or editor of many books, including: The Streets of Islamic Cairo (1981); Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition (1989); Cities & Caliphs (1992); Forms of Dominance (1993); Consuming Tradition (2000); Hybrid Urbanism (2001); Muslim Europe/Euro Islam (2002), Urban Informality (2004), The End of Tradition (2004), and has two forthcoming books, Making Cairo Medieval (2005) and Cinematic Urbanism (expected 2006). Additionally, he has written, co-produced or co-directed two NEA- funded public television programs, “Virtual Cairo” and “At Home With Mother Earth.” Professionally, Dr. AlSayyad is a Principal in XXA-Office of Xross-Xultural Architecture, a private and urban design architectural firm with several award-winning credits in its portfolio.

Dr. AlSayyad holds a B.S. in Architectural Engineering and Diploma in Town Planning from Cairo University, a M.S. in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Architectural History from UC Berkeley.

Dr. AlSayyad is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Among them are those received from the NEA, SSCR, and the Getty and Graham Foundation. His awards include the Beit Al Quran Gold Medal for his contribution to the study of Arab History, the Pioneer American Society Book Award, and the American Institute of Architects Education Honors. Dr. AlSayyad serves on the boards of directors and editorial committees of several associations and journals including the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, among many others.

Nancy Barry

Nancy Barry was President of Women's World Banking from 1990-2006, and has served on the WWB Board of Trustees since 1981. WWB is a global not-for-profit financial institution devoted to increasing poor women’s economic access, participation and power. Founded in 1979, WWB is at the forefront of microfinance globally. The WWB global network of 55 microfinance institutions and banks provide financial services to over 15 million low income women and men in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, North America and the Middle East. WWB had led work to build performance standards in the microfinance industry, and financial policies and systems that work for the majority.

Ms. Barry is recognized as a global leader in building financial systems that work for microfinance. She is a frequent speaker in fora of top bankers, policy makers and microfinance practitioners. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and Asia Society's Asian Social Issues Advisory Committee, and chairs the Donald A. Strauss Foundation Board. She received the award for the Outstanding Woman in Finance and Consulting from HBS Women's Student Association in 2001, the Forbes Executive Women’s Summit Trailblazer Award in 2002, and the Kellogg-McKinsey Award for Distinguished Leadership in 2004. In 2004 she was also named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World by Forbes magazine.

Prior to joining WWB, Ms. Barry spent 15 years with the World Bank, where she pioneered the Bank's involvement in small enterprises, designing operations in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. As head of the World Bank’s global Industry Development Division, she led the World Bank's work on industry, trade and finance. She chaired the Donor’s Committee on Small and Medium Enterprises, and was a founding member of the CGAP Policy Advisory Group. Ms. Barry has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Arthur I. Blaustein

Arthur I. Blaustein teaches community development, social history, and urban policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Blaustein served on the board of the National Endowment for the Humanities (appointed by President Bill Clinton) and as Chair of the President's National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity under President Jimmy Carter.

Additional experience includes service as president of the National Economic Development and Law Center. Professor Blaustein has been the faculty advisor to the AmeriCorps Program at the University of California, Berkeley since 1994. In addition, he served as a board member for the Center for Ethics and Economic Policy and on the editorial board of Social Policy. He has previously served as chair of the board of directors of The Center for Rural Studies, and the National Joint Legislative Task Force.

Professor Blaustein is the author of several books and publications, and most recently published Make a Difference: America’s Guide to Volunteering and Community Service. He earned a B.A. from Bard College in 1957 and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1961.

Haile T. Debas

Haile T. Debas is executive director of the UCSF Global Health Sciences, the Maurice Galante Distinguished Professor of Surgery, dean emeritus of the School of Medicine, vice chancellor emeritus for medical affairs, and chancellor emeritus at University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Debas is recognized internationally for his contributions to academic medicine and is currently widely consulted on issues associated with global health. A native of Eritrea, he received his M.D. from McGill University and completed his surgical training at the University of British Columbia. He was a member of the faculty of Surgery at the University of British Columbia (1971-1979), UCLA (1980– 85), and the University of Washington (1985 – 87).

Under Dr. Debas's stewardship, the UCSF School of Medicine became a national model for medical education, an achievement for which he was recognized with the 2004 Abraham Flexner Award of the AAMC. His prescient grasp of the implications of fundamental changes in science led him to create several interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research centers that have been instrumental in reorganizing the scientific community at UCSF. He played a key role in developing UCSF's new campus at Mission Bay. He has held leadership positions with numerous membership organizations and professional associations including serving as president of the American Surgical Association and chair of the Council of Deans of the AAMC.

One of the few surgeons to be elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also a member of the Institute of Medicine. He currently serves on the United Nations' Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa and on the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences.

Leonard Duhl

David J. Evans

Dave Evans is 30-year veteran executive of Silicon Valley who offers a range of services to rapidly growing companies. Since 1990, Dave has been assisting clients in strategic planning, sales and marketing, new business development, mergers and alliances, growth management, and executive development. Dave's clients range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, primarily in a high technology including such leaders as VERITAS (now Symantec), HP, Intel, and British Telecom. Prior to consulting, Dave was VP and Co-Founder of software publisher Electronic Arts and held senior marketing positions with Apple Computer, IBM/ROLM Corporation, and voicemail manufacturer VMX (now Avaya).

Mr. Evans holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Thermosciences from Stanford University. He also mentors at the Stanford Graduate Schools of Law and Business and teaches an undergraduate course at UC Berkeley on Finding Your Vocation.

Ian Goldin

Dr Ian Goldin was appointed as the first Director of Oxford University’s James Martin 21st Century School on September 1, 2006.

From January 2001 to August 2006, Dr Goldin was at the World Bank, first as Director of Development Policy, and from 2003-2006 as Vice President. As Director of Development Policy he provided policy and management leadership, contributing to the Bank’s renewed focus on poverty and support for the Millennium Development Goals. He played a catalytic role in the development of the Bank’s research on trade, infrastructure and migration. On becoming Vice President, Ian became an active member of the Bank’s senior management team, with particular responsibility for the Bank’s relationship with all developed countries, and for key institutional relationships, including with the United Nations.

From 1995 to 2001, Dr Goldin was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Under his leadership, the Bank was transformed to become the leading agent of infrastructure development in the fourteen countries of Southern Africa. It financed the provision of water, electricity and other basic services to over 500 municipalities and supported public utilities, agriculture and small business initiatives throughout Africa. During this period, Ian served on several Governmentcommittees and Boards, accompanied President Mandela on many state visits and was Finance Director for South Africa’s Olympic Bid.

Prior to returning to South Africa, Dr Goldin worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, where as Principal Economist he took the lead in developing the strategy of the Bank for the accession of its members to the European Union. He previously worked at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, where he directed the Programs on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development.

Dr Goldin was born in South Africa and after his BSc and BA(Hons) degrees at the
University of Cape Town, graduated with a MSc at London School of Economics and a
DPhil at Oxford University. He has received numerous awards and prizes, including
Chevalier (Ordre du Merit) from France and was nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow
by the World Economic Forum. He has published over fifty articles and 13 books, the
most recent being Globalisation for Development: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration and
Policy.

Percy C. Hintzen

Percy C. Hintzen is Professor and former department chair of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught since 1979. He is also a former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at Berkeley.

Dr. Hintzen holds a Ph.D. in comparative political sociology from Yale University, M.A. and M.Phil degrees in sociology from Yale University, an M.A. in International Urbanization and Public Policy from Clark University in Worcester Massachusetts, and a B.Soc. Sc. from the University of Guyana. He has been a member of Caribbean Studies Association since 1980 and has served on the Executive Council on two occasions. In 2005 he was elected Vice President and President-Elect of CSA. His term as President begins in June 2006, his principal areas of research are post-colonial political economy of the English-Speaking Caribbean and the global African Diaspora. Additionally, since 1989, he has added to this field of inquiry the study of West Indian and Black immigrants to the United States.

Dr. Hintzen’s publications include The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial mobilization, elite domination and control of the state in Guyana and Trinidad (Cambridge Univ. Press), West Indian in the West: Self-representations in an immigrant community (New York University Press), and (edited with Jean Rahier) Problematizing Blackness: Self ethnographies by Black immigrants to the United States (Routledge). He is currently completing a volume titled Coloniality, Creole Nationalism, and Globalization in the West Indies that examines the political, economic, social, and cultural conditions of Caribbean post-colonial formations. He has authored articles in journals and chapters in edited volumes on the political economy of the Caribbean, on West Indian immigration to the United States, and on issues of race and ethnicity in the Caribbean and the United States. He teaches courses on political and economic Development, African and Caribbean political economy, comparative race and ethnicity, and critical methodology.

Susanne Huttner

Susanne Lee Huttner is the Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry for the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)s.

Prior to joining the OECD, she was Associate Vice-Provost for Major Research Initiatives and Industry Partnerships for the University of California’s Office of the President, where she worked from 2001 to 2007.

Over the past decade, she has been responsible for the California Institutes for Science and Innovation and the Industry-University Cooperative Research Program, which has engaged hundreds of R&D companies and represent a joint research investment portfolio of more than $2 billion from industry, university, and government sources. These economic development initiatives have advanced new paradigms for performing science and engineering research. She also oversaw the University of California Economic Research Program that develops quantitative measures of contributions from industry-university research activities and improves understanding of the role of public research investments in regional economies.

Between 1985 and 2001, she was director of two biotechnology programs, the Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program and the BioSTAR Project, which expanded regional basic research and workforce development, and promoted public understanding and scientifically sound public policy making in health, agriculture, environment, and the economy. She also taught neurobiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Ms. Huttner holds a B.A. and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley and a University of California Management Institute certificate.

David Matthews

Professor David Matthews is Professor of Diabetes Medicine, a tutorial fellow of Harris Manchester College Oxford, and chairman of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, one of the world's foremost centres for the study of this diabetes. He divides his time between research, teaching and clinical care.

Professor Matthews is active in research, clinical practice and teaching, and thus symbolises in his own work the motto of the centre he heads, which is predicated on integrating these disciplines in the study of diabetes, metabolism and endocrine disorders. He is a well-known clinician in diabetes medicine; he plays an active role in assessing the impact of diabetes in society and holds a Wellcome Trust grant undertaking the oral history of diabetes. He is part of the DAWN advisory boards, which has undertaken a wide survey of the impact of diabetes in society.

Leslie W. McBee

Leslie W. McBee was appointed the Diplomat-in-Residence at UC Berkeley after being the United States Consul General for the south of France, Corsica, and Monaco.

His recent assignment in southern France occurred during what was arguably the most difficult period for Franco-American relations since the conclusion of World War II. All of his diplomatic skills were called upon to carry out his bilateral duties with local, regional and national politicians, top military officials, university presidents, professors and students, editors and reporters, business leaders, law enforcement officials and community and religious leaders. Marseille, where McBee’s Consulate was physically located, is France’s oldest (2600 years) and second largest city.

In the course of his postings, he has served as Mission spokesperson and press liaison; directed political, economic, commercial, consular and public diplomacy sections; managed and designed professional and academic exchanges for Europe, North Africa, the Near East and South Asia; served as editor-in-chief for a policy oriented Serbo-Croatian magazine; worked as refugee liaison officer for Vietnamese “boat people”; served as Embassy treaty representative on Law of the Sea issues surrounding the USS Alabama; designed and executed democracy building programs in the developing world; and designed cultural diplomacy programs around diverse figures such as Ella Fitzgerald, John Irving, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison, Sydney Lumet and Tom Cruise. He is the recipient of numerous Department of State Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor Awards.

In addition to France, McBee has served at Embassies or Consulates in Italy, both Congos (Brazzaville and Kinshasa), Finland, Fiji (where he was accredited to 4 Pacific Island Nations), the former Yugoslavia, and Malaysia. He was also a Peace Corps Volunteer, living 2 years in a small village in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa. He is a native Californian who finished high school in Tehran, Iran, subsequently graduating from the University of San Francisco and Columbia University. His languages include French, Serbo-Croatian, Italian and Finnish.

Ananya Roy

Theogene Rudasingwa

Theogene Rudasingwa is the Director of Bridging the Divide, the UC Berkeley initiative to promote business and technology in developing countries. He also teaches in the Haas School of Business where he is conducting in-depth research and analysis on ways to promote science & technology, innovation, entrepreneurship and business development in Africa and the developing world. Previously he has served as the Chief of Staff for both the President and Vice President of Rwanda, the Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, and the Representative of Rwanda to the International Monetary Fund. As a member of the top leadership that steered Rwanda out of Genocide, Ambassador Rudasingwa has represented the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) to the African Unity, the U.S. State Department and the United Nations, was a member of the Rawandese Patriotic Front (RFP) team that negotiated the Arusha Peace Agreement with the former government of Rwanda, and has held the position of Secretary General of the RFP.

Prior to his distinguished diplomatic and political careers, Ambassador Rudasingwa worked as a physician in Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. He has written, and presented numerous papers on the subject of post-genocide challenges in Rwanda, especially on reconciliation, transitional justice, governance, democratization and socio-economic development and specializes on role of business and technology in sustainable development especially in the developing regions of Africa, Latin America and Asia. His forthcoming book is titled Healing a Nation. Ambassador Rudasingwa is an Honorary Member of the World Affairs Council of San Fransisco, a member of the World Economic Forum, and a member of Fortune “Brainstorm” – an annual forum sponsored by Fortune magazine attended by executives and global thought leaders.

Ambassador Rudasingwa holds a Doctorate in Medicine from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, is the recipient of an honorary Ph.D from Trinity College, and the Global Leader for Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum, for leadership in difficult times and contribution to peace and prosperity for all humanity.

Stephen M. Shortell

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Organization Behavior at the School of Public Health and Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. He is also the Dean of the School of Public Health at Berkeley. Dr. Shortell also holds appointments in the Department of Sociology at UC-Berkeley and at the Institute for Health Policy Research, UC-San Francisco.

A leading health care scholar, Dr. Shortell, has been the recipient of many awards including the distinguished Baxter-Allegiance Prize for his contributions to health services research, the Gold Medal Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives for his contributions to the health care field, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research. He and his colleagues have also received the George R. Terry Book of the Year Award from the Academy of Management, the James R. Hamilton Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives, and several article of the year awards from the American College of Healthcare Executives and the National Institute for Health Care Management. His most recent book (with colleagues) is entitled Remaking Health Care in America: The Evolution of Organized Delivery Systems.

He is the past editor of Health Services Research, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; has served as President of the Association for Health Services Research; and is a past Chairman of the Accrediting Commission for Graduate Education in Health Services Administration.

Dr. Shortell received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, his masters degree in public health from UCLA, and his Ph.D. in the behavioral sciences from the University of Chicago.