Board of Advisors
Meet our Board
The DGHI Board of Advisors comprises experts in global health and related fields who provide input to the director on the institute’s strategic direction and philanthropic goals and provide connections to global health issues and organizations.
Dave Gendell T’83
Chairman, DGHI Board of Advisors; Partner, Tontine Associates LLC; Vice Chairman, IES
Jack Leslie P’14
Chairman, Weber Shandwick; Outgoing Chairman, DGHI Board of Advisors
Thomas M. Gorrie
Chair, DUHS Board of Directors; T.M. Gorrie & Associates, LLC; Duke Board of Trustees
Leslie Bains P’97, P’00
Managing Director, Citi Private Bank
D. Craig Brater
Vice President of Programs, Walther Cancer Foundation, Regenstrief Foundation
Brian Clement AB’11
Associate, Investments, Greystar
Chris Elias
President, Global Development Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Paul Farmer AB’82
Co-founder, Partners In Health; Duke Board of Trustees; Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University
Roy Tyler Frizzell
St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center; St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center
Elizabeth Fuller
Consultant
Pape Gaye
President and CEO, IntraHealth International
Jennifer Gross AB’97
Founder and CEO, Blue Chip Foundation
Larry H. Hollier BS’87
Chief of Plastic Surgery, Texas Children’s Hospital
Andrew T. Huang HS’69
President and CEO, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center
Elaine Leavenworth AB’80
Sr. VP, Chief Marketing and External Affairs Officer, Abbott
Christine McKenna AB’08
Sr. Manager, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer
Rekha B. Kumar AB’02
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Attending Endocrinologist, Weill Cornell Medical College
Wendy A. Taylor AB’90
Fellow, The Rockefeller Foundation