As the Principal Chief Program Officer, Cate serves to ensure that PIH’s mission and theory of change are achieved by strengthening the global movement for health equity, through advocacy, policy, government accompaniment, health financing, and resource mobilization efforts. She serves as a key driver of PIH’s strategy for engagement with government and institutional partners, working hand-in-hand with PIH colleagues around the world in how we are supporting the health system strengthening efforts of local, district and national leaders in all efforts we undertake.

Cate is a passionate advocate for universal health care, for social justice and global health equity which her close to two decades of work with PIH, most notably working and living in Haiti and Liberia, have informed. Cate has extensive experience working on issues of health and social justice in Rhode Island and Massachusetts through homeless rights initiatives, especially in access to nutrition, housing, and health care. Internationally, Cate has worked in Sub Saharan Africa, South America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific on initiatives aimed at understanding the social context of disease while working hand-in-hand with communities and governments to improve health outcomes and fight for structural change.

She earned her MPH in Epidemiology and Program Design and a BA in International Development and Community Health and serves as a course leader and instructor in Brown University’s Leadership Institute Global Health program.

John Green is an American author, YouTuber, podcaster, and philanthropist. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. Green’s books have been published in more than 55 languages and over 24 million copies are in print.

In 2007, John and his brother Hank ceased textual communication and began to talk primarily through videoblogs posted to YouTube. The videos spawned a community of people called nerdfighters who fight for intellectualism and to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. (Decreasing suck takes many forms: Nerdfighters have raised millions of dollars to fight poverty in the developing world; they also planted thousands of trees around the world in May of 2010 to celebrate Hank’s 30th birthday.) Although they have long since resumed textual communication, John and Hank continue to upload two videos a week to their YouTube channel, vlogbrothers. Their videos have been viewed more than 800 million times.

John and Hank launched educational YouTube channel Crash Course in late 2011 with funding from YouTube’s original channel initiative. John, Hank, and a range of other hosts teach humanities and science courses to viewers, with multiple new series launching each year. World History, Literature, Economics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Government are just some of the courses available to date. Crash Course has over 10.7 million subscribers and 1.2 billion views.

John sits on the Board of Trustees of Partners In Health. He grew up in Orlando, Florida before attending Indian Springs School and then Kenyon College. He currently lives in Indianapolis with his family.

Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM, is the Director of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Global Health Delivery and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM) at Harvard Medical School. He is also Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Keshavjee has been leading the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery since 2014. Under his direction, the Center addresses some of the most pressing global health challenges by focusing on research, medical education and training that promises to improve healthcare delivery systems and patient outcomes for diseases prevalent in the United Arab Emirates, Middle East, North Africa and neighboring regions.

With advanced training in both medicine and anthropology, Dr. Keshavjee is a leading expert in drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment and the anthropology of health policy. He is the author of Blind Spot: How neoliberalism infiltrated global health­.  He has worked extensively with the Boston-based non-profit Partners In Health (PIH) on the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis.  Over the last 16 years, Dr. Keshavjee has conducted clinical and implementation research in Russia (2000-present).  He was also the Deputy-Director for the Partners In Health’s Lesotho Initiative (2006-2008), launching one of the first community-based treatment programs for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis/HIV co-infection in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2005, he became a member of the World Health Organization/Stop TB Partnership’s Green Light Committee for MDR-TB Treatment.  From 2007 to 2010, he was the committee’s chair. Dr. Keshavjee is leading an initiative at Harvard Medical School on how to achieve zero deaths from tuberculosis, and has been working with global partners to build the Zero TB Cities Initiative.   

While researching tuberculosis in Botswana, Michelle Morse discovered the global health equity residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, which she eventually completed in 2012. She then co-founded EqualHealth to strengthen health professional education in Haiti after the earthquake. She also co-founded he Social Medicine Consortium (SMC) to use activism and disruptive pedagogy rooted in the practice and teaching of social medicine to address the miseducation of health professionals on the root causes of illness. In 2020, SocMed and EqualHealth came together under one organization, united around the goal of supporting the next generation of health professionals to organize and act. Currently, the united organization supports medical education fellowships, social medicine courses, and a women’s leadership roundtable as transformative leadership training.

Between 2012 and 2016, Morse served as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for PIH and the Director of Medical Education and the Advisor to the Medical Director of Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais in Haiti, helping to launch residency programs in Haiti. Morse’s leadership in EqualHealth and PIH contributed to her being awarded the 40 under 40 leaders in Health Award by the National Minority Quality Forum in 2018. Currently, she is the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness at the New York City Department of Health, focusing on racial disparities in clinical care.

Before joining Universities Allied for Essential Medicines North America as Executive Director, in April 2023, Justin led Partners In Health's efforts on domestic policy and advocacy strategy, where he worked on legislative policy changes like the American Rescue Plan Act and advocated for a rational COVID-19 response. Previously, Justin worked on health care priorities with Families USA and Public Citizen in Washington D.C., focused on lowering drug prices, taking on pharmaceutical patent overreach, expanding health care coverage, and lowering underlying health care costs. In his early career, Justin worked as a part of the PIH Engage team, building out parts of the advocacy and organizing strategy. Justin holds an MPH in Health Policy from Yale University and a B.S. in biomedical sciences and neuroscience from Central Michigan University.

Silvio first joined PiH Engage as a part of the Bainbridge High School Global Health Club, eventually becoming the team's advocacy lead, which helped foster his passion for policy advocacy and coalition building. After graduating high school in 2018, he began his double-major in Political Science and Public Health in Washington, DC. Outside of the classroom, Silvio took advantage of DC's many hands-on learning opportunities and completed internships in Congress, local government, and public health advocacy groups, as well as working on multiple successful campaigns during the 2020 and 2022 cycles. After graduating, Silvio began preparing for law school, working in a DC firm and preparing his application. Silvio will begin his studies into constitutional and environmental law at the Wythe Law School at William & Mary next week.

Kimberly is a Certified CHW serving patients of Johnson Health Center, an FQHC located in the City of Lynchburg and the Counties of Amherst, Bedford and Campbell. Kimberly appreciates her life as a Wife, Mother, Grandmother and Daughter, and acknowledges her ancestors' lands that is currently the City of Lynchburg, Virginia. Education, Volunteer and Business opportunities have spanned multiple fields such as Allied Cab Company (Driver and Dispatcher); Girl Scouts (Asst. and Troop Leader); Lynchburg City Schools and Parks and Recreation; legislative advocacy on the local, state and federal levels; Virginia Organizing Environment Justice Strategy Committee; CASA of Central VA Board member; Literacy Council and other advocacy opportunities for residents within Virginia's correctional facilities; Policy & Communications committee co-chair for IPHI's Workforce Development Council; and, a current member of the State Health Commissioner's Advisory Council on Health Disparity and Health Equity." Kimberly is a proud member of the VACHWA and the NACHW, and honored recipient of the 2022 Change Agent award.

Vincent is the Associate Director of Health Policy & Advocacy at Partners In Health. He started volunteering with the Harvard College PIH Engage team when it began in 2014, and joined the Network Leadership Team in 2017. After graduating, Vincent joined the Boston City PIH Engage team and continued to support Engage through coaching, advocacy campaigns, training institutes, and an initial version of the crash course. He worked with Paul Farmer at Harvard Medical School for 3 years then joined the PIH advocacy team to lead the health workforce federal advocacy project. He continues to fundraise with PIH Engage and support behind the scenes. Feel free to email him at vlin@pih.org if you want to chat 1:1 anytime.

Elisa is a seasoned community engagement professional with a wealth of experience in health equity, inclusion, advocacy, and community engaged research. She served on the staff for various elected officials such as the Late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid-NV; U.S. Representative Bobby Scott-VA; and Governor James B. Hunt-NC. During her time on Capitol Hill, Elisa assisted with appropriations funding for cancer research, allocations for CDC and the National Health Institute, and passage of two Congressional bills (The Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act). Although, politics was her first love. Community development played a critical role in her career and life. She worked on crucial initiatives dealing with the HIV/AIDS pandemic, breast cancer advocacy, racial health disparities, and workforce development. Her affiliations include American Cancer Society, NAACP Voter Fund, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Komen Foundation, and UNC at Chapel Hill. Elisa was awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Ladder to Leadership Fellowship to address health disparities in eastern North Carolina. In all her work, Elisa advocated for innovative and necessary programs and sought solutions that increased equity and impact for our most vulnerable neighbors. She is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Western Carolina Medical Society and currently serves in the role of Senior Project Lead for the Partners In Health-US Community Engagement and Advocacy work stream for North Carolina. Elisa is a North Carolina native, member of The Links Incorporated, and lover of dogs, plants + reggae music.

Megan Rodgers is the U.S. Policy and Advocacy Manager at Nonviolent Peaceforce. In this role she leads NP’s policy and advocacy efforts towards the U.S. government including efforts to elevate Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) and improve U.S. government response in countries where NP has programming. She has previously worked on policy teams at the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. Her interests include atrocity prevention, forced displacement, and grassroots peacebuilding. Megan is originally from Siloam Springs, Arkansas and holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Political Science, and Spanish from the University of Arkansas and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Tiffany Scott, CCHW, CHWI, is a pioneering figure in the field of Community Health Work (CHW), renowned for her unwavering commitment and extensive experience. Serving as Vice-Chair of the Maryland CHW Advisory Committee since 2018, she has been instrumental in shaping statewide policies and initiatives while co-founding and chairing the Maryland CHW Association, fostering professional development and advocacy. A Master Trainer for CHWs and CHW Instructors, imparting her expertise to over 1,000 individuals nationally. Her dedication to teaching, combined with her passion for community, wellness, and education, shines brightly through every cohort she instructs, making a lasting impact on individuals and communities alike.Description goes here

Policy advocate and organizer passionate about pushing against structural inequities and advancing health and human rights through policy change. Organizing alongside community- and organizational-partners to ensure that the voices and lived experiences of systemically marginalized groups are centered across local and national policy- and decision-making. Has worked at the intersection of many fights for justice, from public health and decarceration efforts, to educational equity and voting accessibility. Currently advocating for health as a human right with Partners In Health United States.

Juan Carlos Guillen Huaman (he/him) is a Peruvian social psychologist with 3 years of experience in the design and execution of social projects and initiatives in causes such as rural education, mental health, access to health and social protection. I currently lead the Socios en Salud (SES) Engage network in Peru, accompanying 4 university teams with more than 70 members, and leading local and international volunteer initiatives and policies at Socios en Salud Perú.

Taylor Norris (he/him) is the Senior Manager of Advocacy and Engagement for the PIH-US North Carolina Team. In this role he mobilizes community organizations, government agencies, and healthcare providers to build infrastructure for the CHW workforce in NC and advocate for the development of equitable CHW policies. He has been with PIH-US for 2.5 years and is excited to attend his first Engage TI!

Astrid has a degree in International Relations from the Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) with a terminal line in International Cooperation for Development. She has participated in research projects on gender issues at the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women (CONAVIM), mainly on compliance with sentences issued by the International Court to Mexico. Since 2021 she has been working for Partners in Health Mexico as Assistant Director and recently assumed the leadership of CES Embajadores/ CES Engage.