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Our mandate is to end malaria across the World. We initiate, connect and engage Rotarians and malaria experts to collaborate for malaria control and elimination.
Small Grants Chair
About Steve Baker
Coordinator of the Mosquitero Project Venezuela that has delivered 75,000 LLIN style bed-nets to Venezuela using multiple Rotary Foundation Global Grants. Worked with Freddy Gomez & Patti Urban of the RCKB to deliver 17,250 LLINs in and around Iquitos, Peru.
Born & raised in Toronto, Canada now a dual American/Canadian citizen living in Miami, Florida & Lighthouse Cove, Ontario.
From 2001 to 2006 my wife Peggy & I lived in Caracas, Venezuela. During that time, I spent at least a month each year in the Alto Ventuari region of Amazonas State traveling in the jungle by dugout canoe and by foot. I met and became friends with Grand chief Isaias Rodriguez. Grand Chief Isaias often expressed his concern about how malaria was sickening and killing his people. I promised Isaias that I would work to help fight malaria. I worked with the indigenous people to create a bed-net (mosquitero) designed to work with the hammocks that the indigenous people customarily use for sleeping. Over three years Peggy & I delivered 1000 mosquiteros to the indigenous people of the Ventuari River and its tributaries and a further 1000 mosquiteros to indigenous people of the Caura River basin. We returned to the USA in 2006 then moved to Miami in 2008. I joined Rotary and everything changed!
Matching Grant #75905 –1500 bed nets for Venezuela 2011-2012
Global Grant #141114 — 6,000 bed nets for Venezuela 2013 -2014
Global Grant #1528880 – 67,595 – bed nets for Venezuela 2017 – 2019*
*(nets for this GG were donated by Vestergaard SA)
Total Nets delivered in Venezuela: 75,095
Global Grant #1638802
Phase I – 7,000 nets to Peru
Phase II – 10,250 bed nets to Peru
Total nets delivered in Peru: 17,250.
Statistic collected in both Venezuela and Peru show that our LLIN treated bed-nets can cut new malaria infections by up to 80% when used and cared for correctly by recipients. We know that, on average, our nets cover 2 people every night. Together, our group of Rotarians from Key Biscayne, Puerto Ordaz & Iquitos have provided effective protection against malaria infection for 165,000 people in Venezuela & Peru.
Board member of RAM-Global, Rotarians Against Malaria – Global
Rotarian Action Group (formerly REMaRAG) and work as Acting Treasurer & Learning & Development Director.
Member of the International Fellowship of Fishing Rotarians & Whiskey DRAM – Whiskey Drinking Rotarians And Members
Membership Chair
About Dai Mason
ai Mason KSJ, MSc (Eng), Master of Technology Management (E-Business)
Dai qualified as a Civil and Structural Engineer working on projects in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Great Britain. He managed consulting offices for major engineering consultants in Australia and was the General Manager for a design and construct company in Indonesia. As a Director of his own company he extended his expertise to Project Management, Business Organisation and training of Frontline Managers having consulted to organisations such as Queensland Rail and National Energy Company Limited (PNG)
He joined the Rotary Club of Nerang, on the Australian Gold Coast in 1979, when he was the manager and Associate Director of a large consulting company. As a Rotarian he was President of the Rotary Club of Ashgrove The Gap, Governor of Rotary District 9600 (2012-2013) which included Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Nauru.
Past district positions included Assistant Governor and Youth Director, Chairman of the National Engineering Summer School, Group Study Exchange Team Leader to Japan, Chairman of the Rotary Foundation Alumni in D9600 and Past Director Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS), D9600 representative on the Council of Legislation in 2016, RAM chair for D9640 and a project volunteer in the Solomon Islands.
Currently a member of Rotary Club of Samford Valley in D9600 – to become D9620 on 1 July 2021; Member of the committee on the Malaria Vaccine Project; Campaign Manager for the Global Fund and RAWCS-RAM partnership to raise USD$12m towards the elimination of malaria in PNG, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste and Vanuatu; Director of Membership and Ambassador Program for RAM-Global
Dai is keen to see the elimination/eradication of Malaria throughout the world.
His experience in management, organizational and IT skills as well as practical communication activities will contribute to the process of eliminating malaria.
Chair of RAM-G
About Drake Zimmerman
Normal Rotary Club, District 6490 started The Malaria Project on 1 July 1993 when he saw a new medicine that cures malaria, artemisinin. He soon visited Rotary Foundation’s Polio leaders, USAID in Washington and WHO’s Malaria unit in Geneva. At his booth at the RI Convention in Taipei he joined forces with Australian Malaria pioneers to form Rotarians Against Malaria or RAM. Projects in countries Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, West Africa, Zambia, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Haiti, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, among others, followed.
Breakthroughs: At the 1996 Rotary Convention in Calgary the group worked out a key breakthrough: putting nets in vaccination campaigns could accomplish the full coverage of treated nets needed to cut malaria dramatically. In 1997 he sponsored UNICEF’s review of “gray papers” on nets, leading UNICEF Chair Carole Bellamy to declare UNICEF would “put a net within reach of every child in Sub-Saharan Africa,” a call to action also adopted by the World Health Organization in 1998. To fund the Malaria work WHO organized The Global Fund on Malaria, adding TB and HIV/AIDS, THE major funder of malaria work since.
Beyond “nets in vaccination campaigns” Rotarians put 2 nets/household in Zambia 2004, now the gold standard. RAM Australia achieved the best full country coverage and maintains village-by-village data in all of Papua New Guinea, led by the indefatigable Ron Seddon of the Port Moresby Club, supported by RAM/Australia, The Global Fund and many others. Rotarians proved that DATA is essential to effective malaria control.
Going to scale: In 2002 Drake partnered with The Measles Initiative to show HOW to add nets to vaccine (Measles) distribution in Lawra District, Ghana using a Rotary Matching Grant, achieving the highest coverage at the lowest cost, followed by covering 4 districts in Zambia in 2003 and the full country of Togo in 2004, achieving unprecedented success.
Partnering: Drake Cofounded AMP. Multicountry rollout of nets with vaccines spun into The Alliance for Malaria Prevention AMP in2008, responsible for coordinating much of the 250 million nets distributed annually. Along the way, in 2003 Drake helped then UK Rotary International British Isles and Ireland President Brian Stoyel found the UK-based REMIT, Rotarians Eliminating Malaria in Tanzania, partnering with Canadian Rotarians Against Malaria (CRAM!) to distribute over 200,000 nets to date.
Drake cofounded the Rotarian Action Group on Malaria now RAM-Global as Vice Chair/Liaison with AMP and other groups. AMP just celebrated the 2 Billionth net, November 2019.
Drake joined Seattle-Based Rotarian Malaria Partners RMP board mid-2019, after helping the Rotarian Action Group restage. Together RMP and RAM-Global plan to “take malaria Rotary-wide, from Grassroots to Grasstops” by expand membership and participation.
Malaria is down by 2/3 or more, saving millions of lives.
Drake’s 26 year commitment continues with a vision for MalariaPLUS – using the data systems for malaria control to provide social networks and infrastructure to systematically provide deworming, micronutrients, safe water/sanitation and education for all. Drake says Rotarians’ legacy of help with Malaria control goes far beyond malaria.
Immediate Past Chair
About PDG Ellen Blasi
PDG Ellen Blasi is a member of the Rotary Club of Key Biscayne, Florida USA and has been a Rotarian for 19 years.
She has served the Rotary Club of Key Biscayne and Rotary International District 6990 in many roles.
President of Rotary Club of Key Biscayne 2003-2004. She was the Chairperson for the club’s signature fund raiser and received Rotarian of the Year award.
She served as District Governor’s Special Representative to charter the Rotary Club of Miami Brickell and received her second Rotarian of the Year award.
She served as District Rotaract Chairperson from 2005-2013 and Director of Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) from 2016-2019.
She was Assistant Governor 2008 – 2010 and served as District Director of Club Operations 2010-2011.
She was awarded District Rotarian of the Year for Community Service for the 2008-2009 Rotary year.
Ellen served as District Governor in 2013-2014 and led her District to an increase in membership and increased giving to The Rotary Foundation’s Polio campaign.
Ellen is a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a Paul Harris Society Member of the Rotary Foundation and served as the District Chair of PHS in 2018-2019.
Ellen was instrumental in bringing the Rotarian efforts to eradicated malaria in the Americas and to integrate that work into the Rotarian global efforts to eradicate malaria.
She has served as advisor to the Americas for Rotarians Against Malaria – Global (formerly Rotarians Eliminating Malaria Action Group) and was appointed Chairwoman of that group in March 2018.
Under her leadership the Rotarian Action Group has been reorganized and partnered with Rotarian groups and other stake holders working to eliminate malaria.
Secretary
About Dr. Jenny Kerrison
I am a nurse and midwife with specialisation in nurse education and international development in maternal and newborn health. My Doctor of Education degree was completed at the Centre for Program Evaluation, University of Melbourne, Australia. The D.Ed. research focused on the use of an evaluation method called ‘evaluability assessment’ in a community health service delivery change project. In 2016, I completed a PhD degree where I studied the antenatal care needs of pregnant teenagers using focused ethnography and the social ecological determinants of health framework.
In 2011, I joined the Rotary Club of North Hobart District 9830, Australia. I have served as the club President and club Bulletin Editor. I am also a Rotary Foundation Technical Cadre.
One of the highlights for me in Rotary was the Kumudini Hospital project in Bangladesh established with a lot of support from my club and other Rotary clubs in my district. Between 2010 and 2014, I was the project manager and made yearly self-funded visits to the Kumudini Hospital where I stayed one month each year for a period of five years. On each visit, I took a small group of health practitioners (infection control, nurses and midwives). Through my club and other clubs in D9830, I initiated shipment of 250 decommissioned quality steel hospital beds for the hospital. I am currently an honorary Senior Nurse Lecturer at the Kumudini Hospital and will commence twice yearly teaching inputs in 2020.
Another major project for me is my involvement in Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) Australia. In June 2019, I took up the position of National Manager for RAM Australia. RAM is a network that exists in all Australian Rotary Districts and is governed by Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) Ltd. We support our partner countries: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor Leste. In 2020, we will provide support to West Timor (NTT province, Indonesia) and Vanuatu. I am passionate about growing our resources to accelerate malaria elimination in our partner countries, and beyond.
Vice-Chair
About Michael Hayward
Vice Chair of Rotarians Against Malaria – Global
Michael was born in London but spent his first few years in Buenos Aires, before returning to London and studying at the French Lycee. Throughout his life he has worked and travelled extensively, speaking English and French, he has two children and one stepchild and is married to Hélène Dufays. His degree is in the service industry, however he went into consultancy and then IT, working for Global organisations. In 1994 he started his own Software, Training and Global Consultancy company. Working for multinational companies and several UN Organisations. In 2004 he emigrated to France and started working for the World Health Organization. In 2008 he joined the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria where he saw the effects of Malaria on countries, their health services, their economies, communities and families, this is when he became passionate about eradicating Malaria. He started Gift Of A Life, a staff funded organization helping Lazarus effect children in Lesotho and sponsoring two students at University in Zambia. He retired in 2017 and became an active Rotarian with the Rotary Club Thonon Genevois International and is currently Vice-President and President Elect. Through Global Grants the club has projects in Bolivia, Brazil, Guinea-Conakry, Mali, Morocco and Nepal. He helped form the Partnership between the Global Fund and Rotary Australia World Community Service – Rotarians Against Malaria, which has led to a pledge of $12 million from RAWCS-RAM for Malaria projects in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Timor-Leste. This triggered a $25 million pledge from EMTIL a group of banking institutions for fighting malaria in the four target countries. It also triggered a 2 for 1 matching pledge of $24 million from Dfid for fighting Malaria globally.
Treasurer
Education Chair
Meet our rAM Global Board
Interested in becoming a board member? Email Ellen Blasi at [email protected]
Rotary Club of Key Biscayne
About Steve Baker
Coordinator of the Mosquitero Project Venezuela that has delivered 75,000 LLIN style bed-nets to Venezuela using multiple Rotary Foundation Global Grants. Worked with Freddy Gomez & Patti Urban of the RCKB to deliver 17,250 LLINs in and around Iquitos, Peru.
Born & raised in Toronto, Canada now a dual American/Canadian citizen living in Miami, Florida & Lighthouse Cove, Ontario.
From 2001 to 2006 my wife Peggy & I lived in Caracas, Venezuela. During that time, I spent at least a month each year in the Alto Ventuari region of Amazonas State traveling in the jungle by dugout canoe and by foot. I met and became friends with Grand chief Isaias Rodriguez. Grand Chief Isaias often expressed his concern about how malaria was sickening and killing his people. I promised Isaias that I would work to help fight malaria. I worked with the indigenous people to create a bed-net (mosquitero) designed to work with the hammocks that the indigenous people customarily use for sleeping. Over three years Peggy & I delivered 1000 mosquiteros to the indigenous people of the Ventuari River and its tributaries and a further 1000 mosquiteros to indigenous people of the Caura River basin. We returned to the USA in 2006 then moved to Miami in 2008. I joined Rotary and everything changed!
Matching Grant #75905 –1500 bed nets for Venezuela 2011-2012
Global Grant #141114 — 6,000 bed nets for Venezuela 2013 -2014
Global Grant #1528880 – 67,595 – bed nets for Venezuela 2017 – 2019*
*(nets for this GG were donated by Vestergaard SA)
Total Nets delivered in Venezuela: 75,095
Global Grant #1638802
Phase I – 7,000 nets to Peru
Phase II – 10,250 bed nets to Peru
Total nets delivered in Peru: 17,250.
Statistic collected in both Venezuela and Peru show that our LLIN treated bed-nets can cut new malaria infections by up to 80% when used and cared for correctly by recipients. We know that, on average, our nets cover 2 people every night. Together, our group of Rotarians from Key Biscayne, Puerto Ordaz & Iquitos have provided effective protection against malaria infection for 165,000 people in Venezuela & Peru.
Board member of RAM-Global, Rotarians Against Malaria – Global
Rotarian Action Group (formerly REMaRAG) and work as Acting Treasurer & Learning & Development Director.
Member of the International Fellowship of Fishing Rotarians & Whiskey DRAM – Whiskey Drinking Rotarians And Members
Rotary Club of Samford Valley
About Dai Mason
Dai Mason KSJ, MSc (Eng), Master of Technology Management (E-Business)
Dai qualified as a Civil and Structural Engineer working on projects in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Great Britain. He managed consulting offices for major engineering consultants in Australia and was the General Manager for a design and construct company in Indonesia. As a Director of his own company he extended his expertise to Project Management, Business Organisation and training of Frontline Managers having consulted to organisations such as Queensland Rail and National Energy Company Limited (PNG)
He joined the Rotary Club of Nerang, on the Australian Gold Coast in 1979, when he was the manager and Associate Director of a large consulting company. As a Rotarian he was President of the Rotary Club of Ashgrove The Gap, Governor of Rotary District 9600 (2012-2013) which included Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Nauru.
Past district positions included Assistant Governor and Youth Director, Chairman of the National Engineering Summer School, Group Study Exchange Team Leader to Japan, Chairman of the Rotary Foundation Alumni in D9600 and Past Director Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS), D9600 representative on the Council of Legislation in 2016, RAM chair for D9640 and a project volunteer in the Solomon Islands.
Currently a member of Rotary Club of Samford Valley in D9600 – to become D9620 on 1 July 2021; Member of the committee on the Malaria Vaccine Project; Campaign Manager for the Global Fund and RAWCS-RAM partnership to raise USD$12m towards the elimination of malaria in PNG, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste and Vanuatu; Director of Membership and Ambassador Program for RAM-Global
Dai is keen to see the elimination/eradication of Malaria throughout the world.
His experience in management, organizational and IT skills as well as practical communication activities will contribute to the process of eliminating malaria.
Normal Rotary Club
About Drake Zimmerman
Normal Rotary Club, District 6490 started The Malaria Project on 1 July 1993 when he saw a new medicine that cures malaria, artemisinin. He soon visited Rotary Foundation’s Polio leaders, USAID in Washington and WHO’s Malaria unit in Geneva. At his booth at the RI Convention in Taipei he joined forces with Australian Malaria pioneers to form Rotarians Against Malaria or RAM. Projects in countries Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, West Africa, Zambia, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Haiti, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, among others, followed.
Breakthroughs: At the 1996 Rotary Convention in Calgary the group worked out a key breakthrough: putting nets in vaccination campaigns could accomplish the full coverage of treated nets needed to cut malaria dramatically. In 1997 he sponsored UNICEF’s review of “gray papers” on nets, leading UNICEF Chair Carole Bellamy to declare UNICEF would “put a net within reach of every child in Sub-Saharan Africa,” a call to action also adopted by the World Health Organization in 1998. To fund the Malaria work WHO organized The Global Fund on Malaria, adding TB and HIV/AIDS, THE major funder of malaria work since.
Beyond “nets in vaccination campaigns” Rotarians put 2 nets/household in Zambia 2004, now the gold standard. RAM Australia achieved the best full country coverage and maintains village-by-village data in all of Papua New Guinea, led by the indefatigable Ron Seddon of the Port Moresby Club, supported by RAM/Australia, The Global Fund and many others. Rotarians proved that DATA is essential to effective malaria control.
Going to scale: In 2002 Drake partnered with The Measles Initiative to show HOW to add nets to vaccine (Measles) distribution in Lawra District, Ghana using a Rotary Matching Grant, achieving the highest coverage at the lowest cost, followed by covering 4 districts in Zambia in 2003 and the full country of Togo in 2004, achieving unprecedented success.
Partnering: Drake Cofounded AMP. Multicountry rollout of nets with vaccines spun into The Alliance for Malaria Prevention AMP in2008, responsible for coordinating much of the 250 million nets distributed annually. Along the way, in 2003 Drake helped then UK Rotary International British Isles and Ireland President Brian Stoyel found the UK-based REMIT, Rotarians Eliminating Malaria in Tanzania, partnering with Canadian Rotarians Against Malaria (CRAM!) to distribute over 200,000 nets to date.
Drake cofounded the Rotarian Action Group on Malaria now RAM-Global as Vice Chair/Liaison with AMP and other groups. AMP just celebrated the 2 Billionth net, November 2019.
Drake joined Seattle-Based Rotarian Malaria Partners RMP board mid-2019, after helping the Rotarian Action Group restage. Together RMP and RAM-Global plan to “take malaria Rotary-wide, from Grassroots to Grasstops” by expand membership and participation.
Malaria is down by 2/3 or more, saving millions of lives.
Drake’s 26 year commitment continues with a vision for MalariaPLUS – using the data systems for malaria control to provide social networks and infrastructure to systematically provide deworming, micronutrients, safe water/sanitation and education for all. Drake says Rotarians’ legacy of help with Malaria control goes far beyond malaria.
Rotary Club of Biscayne
About PDG Ellen Blasi
PDG Ellen Blasi is a member of the Rotary Club of Key Biscayne, Florida USA and has been a Rotarian for 19 years.
She has served the Rotary Club of Key Biscayne and Rotary International District 6990 in many roles.
President of Rotary Club of Key Biscayne 2003-2004. She was the Chairperson for the club’s signature fund raiser and received Rotarian of the Year award.
She served as District Governor’s Special Representative to charter the Rotary Club of Miami Brickell and received her second Rotarian of the Year award.
She served as District Rotaract Chairperson from 2005-2013 and Director of Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) from 2016-2019.
She was Assistant Governor 2008 – 2010 and served as District Director of Club Operations 2010-2011.
She was awarded District Rotarian of the Year for Community Service for the 2008-2009 Rotary year.
Ellen served as District Governor in 2013-2014 and led her District to an increase in membership and increased giving to The Rotary Foundation’s Polio campaign.
Ellen is a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a Paul Harris Society Member of the Rotary Foundation and served as the District Chair of PHS in 2018-2019.
Ellen was instrumental in bringing the Rotarian efforts to eradicated malaria in the Americas and to integrate that work into the Rotarian global efforts to eradicate malaria.
She has served as advisor to the Americas for Rotarians Against Malaria – Global (formerly Rotarians Eliminating Malaria Action Group) and was appointed Chairwoman of that group in March 2018.
Under her leadership the Rotarian Action Group has been reorganized and partnered with Rotarian groups and other stake holders working to eliminate malaria.
Rotary Club of North Hobart
About Dr. Jenny Kerrison
I am a nurse and midwife with specialisation in nurse education and international development in maternal and newborn health. My Doctor of Education degree was completed at the Centre for Program Evaluation, University of Melbourne, Australia. The D.Ed. research focused on the use of an evaluation method called ‘evaluability assessment’ in a community health service delivery change project. In 2016, I completed a PhD degree where I studied the antenatal care needs of pregnant teenagers using focused ethnography and the social ecological determinants of health framework.
In 2011, I joined the Rotary Club of North Hobart District 9830, Australia. I have served as the club President and club Bulletin Editor. I am also a Rotary Foundation Technical Cadre.
One of the highlights for me in Rotary was the Kumudini Hospital project in Bangladesh established with a lot of support from my club and other Rotary clubs in my district. Between 2010 and 2014, I was the project manager and made yearly self-funded visits to the Kumudini Hospital where I stayed one month each year for a period of five years. On each visit, I took a small group of health practitioners (infection control, nurses and midwives). Through my club and other clubs in D9830, I initiated shipment of 250 decommissioned quality steel hospital beds for the hospital. I am currently an honorary Senior Nurse Lecturer at the Kumudini Hospital and will commence twice yearly teaching inputs in 2020.
Another major project for me is my involvement in Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) Australia. In June 2019, I took up the position of National Manager for RAM Australia. RAM is a network that exists in all Australian Rotary Districts and is governed by Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) Ltd. We support our partner countries: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor Leste. In 2020, we will provide support to West Timor (NTT province, Indonesia) and Vanuatu. I am passionate about growing our resources to accelerate malaria elimination in our partner countries, and beyond.
Rotary Club of Seattle
About Larry Granat
Larry Granat is a 32-year veteran of the Rotary Club of Seattle, a large club with 350 members. He has served as a Vice President and Board Member of the Club and chaired two committees. He is a Paul Harris Fellow and past president of his club’s foundation. While serving in that role, the foundation created the Pinkham and Skeel Society to recognize and encourage members to give considerably more than the minimum donation. Members who donate $1,000 or more to the foundation receive recognition and are treated to a private event. Each year approximately 25% of the club’s members qualify for Pinkham and Skeel recognition.
In 2011, Larry became interested in a group of fellow Rotarians passionate about eliminating the dread disease, malaria. This war against malaria came from an idea first proposed by a senior club member, Bill Gates. Rotarian Malaria Partners became a 501 C(3) in 2013 and has been growing ever since. We believe that after polio is wiped out, malaria should be the next war. 1 ¼ mil Rotarians have shown the world that when we commit, we stay in it for the long haul. After all, in human history, malaria is estimated to have killed more people than any other disease.
Larry serves as a Board President of Rotarian Malaria Partners and today is the groups tour planner and tour leader who has planned group tours to malaria projects in 2018 and 2019 to Uganda and Zambia.
In early 2019, Larry learned that the Rotary Action Group for malaria (now RAM Global) was going to re-form under fresh leadership. He was inspired and offeed to serve after being aware of RAM Global since mid 2016. Besides being a current Board Member, Larry serves as Group Travel Planner and Meeting Planner.
How many people lose their lives to malaria today? Let’s ask Larry
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About James Moore
Rotary Club of Sinkor
About Angela Benson
MD, DCH, MPH, FLCPS, FWACP
Dr. Benson is a Leader in Global Health, Medical Education, Program design, implementation, monitoring & evaluation. She coordinated Healthcare services in several African Countries (Liberia, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Ethiopia, Lesotho and Republic of Congo) as a team leader and visionary at WHO/AFRO. She completed her medical training from the University of Liberia, did Child Health at the National University of Ireland and International Public Health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990. Dr. Benson has vast experience in the Health sector Policy, Planning and Management including system strengthening in AIDS, TB & Malaria having worked in the Public, Private and Multilateral Organizations at UNICEF and WHO.
Dr. Benson co-founded the Global Health Innovations and Action Foundation providing Technical support in NCDs across Sub-Saharan Africa through the Ministries of health and strengthening the Health System toward attainment of the SDG 3. She also cofounded the Benson Hospital with her husband and the 60 bed hospital provides quality healthcare services to women, children, young people and men on Liberia endemic diseases. The Hospital takes care of about 13,000 patients / year with emphasis on Malaria, Acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, and maternal child health. I am the past President of the Rotary Club of Sinkor as well as past Foundation Chair and past President of the Liberia Rotary Malaria Committee.
About Dele Balogen
Member of Rotarians Against Malaria -global, water ,sanitation and hygiene RAG (WASH) and International fellowship of Rotarian Doctors.
Professional Summary
Skilled Chairman proficient in driving improvements and maintaining order within the company board of directors. Offering excellent judgment, strong listening skills and a deep understanding of business operations.
Experienced Chairman well-versed in the nuances of steering discussions without forcing decisions. Expert in procedure and running meetings efficiently. Veteran of the healthcare industry and looking to continue to make a positive impact on corporate operations.
Skills
· Training & Development · Business administration | · Financial administration · Financial Management |
Work History
Chairman ,Board of Directors, St. Joseph Medical C, 05/2017 to 03/2020
ST Joseph Catholic Church – Gowon Estate, Lagos
- Reviewed outcomes and metrics to evaluate performance, effectiveness and impact.
- Provided recommendations on board of directors on group’s effectiveness, actions and future plans.
- Defined organizational problems to create and implement correction plans.
- Facilitated decision making by building consensus and developing solutions.
Executive Medical Director, 06/1986 to 01/2018
Shefi Hospital – Lagos, Lagos
- Drove significant improvement in achievement of goals related to health, safety and employee relations.
District Governor, 07/2014 to 06/2015
Rotary International District 9110 – Lagos, Lagos
- Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
- Collaborated with departments or management to achieve result
Chairman,Board of Directors, Harvey Road General H, 03/2013 to 03/2015
Lagos State Government. – Lagos, Lagos
- Defined organizational problems to create and implement correction plans.
- Provided recommendations on board of directors on group’s effectiveness, actions and future plans.
- Reviewed outcomes and metrics to evaluate performance, effectiveness and impact.
Chairman, Roll Back Malaria Committee, 06/2001 to 06/2012
Rotary D9110 – Lagos, Lagos
Facilitated decision making by building consensus and developing solutions..
Introduced the concept of reduction of the scourge of malaria and the eventual reduction in mortality of children and pregnant women due to malaria to D9110
Introduction of training programs to Rotarians, district leaders and friends of Rotary in partnership with WHO,UNICEF and other NGOs like FUTURES GROUP, SuNmap. Society For Family Health.
Collaboration with ministries of agriculture, education and health in formulating a clear policy which guided the National plan for a Roll back Malaria plan.
Executed projects on Roll Back malaria involving many rotary clubs, interact and rotaract clubs.
We executed locally funded projects, marching grants with with many foreign based rotary clubs like Rc Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan ,Canada , CRCID ( Canadian Rotarian committee for International Development.
We had a radio drama group that performed dramas to illustrate the messages on malaria prevention ,diagnosis and treatment .
Executed a global grant project GG1530415 invoking 22 rotary clubs ,2 Rotaract clubs and the Inner wheel district 910 , a media house Rave television and Hygeia health maintenance organization .
We used Rotarians in the media both electronic and print to run a series of publicity programs to increase the nation wide awareness on goals of the Roll Back Malaria Committee.
Head, Medical Department, 05/1984 to 06/1998
Concord Press Of Nigeria – Lagos, Lagos
- Developed standard operating procedures.
- Increased customer loyalty and
- Developed a lasting relationship with the print media
Education
MBBS: Medicine, 06/1978
University Of Ibadan , Medical School – Ibadan
Master Of Public Health: 12/1991
College Of Medicine, University Of Lagos – Lagos
Diploma Health Care Leadership: Healthcare Leadership Management, 07/2016
Healthcare Leadership Academy – Lagos
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About Ron Seddon
Der Rotary Club Berlin-Brücke der Einheit
About Konrad Meyfarth
Konrad was raised on a farm in Germany. He studied Mathematics and Physics at universities in Berlin, New Orleans and Stanford.
He received his PhD in Mathematics at the Freie Universitaet Berlin in 1975.
Afterwards he taught at the Technische Universitaet and at a High School in Berlin.
From 1986 – 1992 he trained mathematics students at Gweru Teachers College in Zimbabwe.
Being back in Berlin he trained teachers in Berlin until his retirement in 2006.
For more than 10 years he was Chairman of IPA, Initiative Partners for Africa, an NGO in Germany supporting schools and orphans in Zimbabwe.
He is a founding member of the Rotary Club Berlin – Bruecke – der – Einheit, serving as President in 2015 / 16.
Since 2020 he is a member of the Board of RAM-Global and Regional Ambassador for Europe.
His focus is on the information of all Rotarians in Germany / Europe about the dangers of Malaria especially in Africa and the ongoing work of „Rotarians Against Malaria“.
He offers Zoom-Presentations for all Rotary Clubs about RAM-Global.
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About Faye Cran
Faye Cran joined Rotary for all the wrong reasons. As a busy wife and mother, all she wanted was to have one lunch a week with her Rotarian husband, Derick. “We rarely saw each other during the day,” she recalls, “because I was spending all day, including Sundays, running the chicken farm. It was 55 miles away, so I was leaving Arusha at 6.00am and returning between 07:00 and 08:00pm. I was in Moshi by day and Arusha by night, so we agreed that we should meet for lunch once a week,” she says.
Those weekly lunches nurtured a Rotarian few can match, not only in Tanzania but in District 9211 as a whole. Today, Faye, or Mama Kuku as she is affectionately known, is a Service Above Self Recipient, a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow, one of the longest serving lady Rotarians in Tanzania and winner of several District Awards and Presidential Citations.
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About Dr. Emma Bruce
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