Laurence Wood, BArch BSc, PGCAPHE
Laurence studied architecture at the University of Dundee graduating in 2005. After this he worked both in practice and in construction of several housing projects in Scotland. His interest in post disaster reconstruction began after responding to the reconstruction of Gulf Coast, Mississippi with Architecture for Humanity following Hurricane Katrina in 2006. This led to […]
Jan Semenza, PhD
Jan is an environmental epidemiologist with research interests in climate change and public health. He led the US CDC response to the 1995 heat wave in Chicago that claimed the lives of more than 700 people and elucidated the underlying environmental, societal, and behavioural risk factors for heat-related mortality. He also worked internationally in Uzbekistan, Sudan, […]
Professor Gerry Killeen
Gerry is the AXA Research Chair in Applied Pathogen Ecology at the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University College Cork. Prior to joining UCC, Gerry was based at the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) in Tanzania for almost 17 years, where he established what is now known as its Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences […]
Margie Ferris Morris
Margie brings expertise in nutrition, food security and programme monitoring and evaluation. After graduating from Cornell University and University of Connecticut, with specialised studies in nutrition and Maternal Child Health, she initiated her career with the World Food Programme on the Thai-Cambodia border. She then went on to address famine in the Sahel with the […]
Dr Giles Cattermole
Giles is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Princess Royal University Hospital, King’s College Hospital NHS Trust. He studied medicine at Oxford and trained as a specialist in Emergency Medicine (EM) in Wales. While a trainee, he served 10 years in the Army Reserve and obtained diplomas in prehospital care and the medical care of catastrophes. He […]
Dr Linda Mobula, MD, MPH
Linda brings a wealth of relevant experience and highly reputable expertise to the MENTOR board. She has held various senior positions as a health specialist, humanitarian advisor and Chief Medical Officer. She was an ambassador for USAID and OFDA at UN cluster meetings and has worked with a range of organisations from the World Bank […]
Dr Darvin Scott Smith
Scott grew up in Boulder Colorado and attended medical school at the University of Colorado. He went to public health school at Harvard University where an interest in Tropical Public Health was further developed, leading to a year-long study as a Fulbright Scholar in Cali Colombia. Here he studied improved diagnostic technologies to understand the […]
Dr Richard Allan OBE PhD
Richard is a tropical parasitologist and disease control expert with 39 years’ experience in emergency public health and applied research. In Oct 2002, Richard founded The MENTOR Initiative which he led as its CEO until October 2024, when he took up the position as its Chair of the Board of Directors. Since 1988, he has […]