OUR TEAM
Board of Directors
Dr. Rosanna Mirante, MD
Dr. Mirante received her BA from Yale University and her MD from New York University. She completed her pediatric residency at Mount Sinai hospital. After one year working at Mount Sinai in the ER and the pediatric clinics as a teaching attending, she joined the private practice of BSM where she has been for twenty years. She is also an assistant clinical professor at Mount Sinai school of medicine. Dr. Mirante has been listed several times in the Best Doctor as well as Super Doctor listings for New York. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Gold Award for humanitarianism in medicine. She is on several Boards at Mount Sinai (most recently the Physician's advisory board) and have been a doctor co-chair for several MSH fundraising events. This year she will be one of the doctor co-chairs for the Mount Sinai adolescent health center which helps to raise money for the AHC to provide free, comprehensive, health care for any teen in need in NYC
Dr. Jason Andrews, MD, SM, DTM&H
Rajeev Goyal, MS, JD
Rajeev Goyal, is a lawyer, development worker, and activist. A graduate of Brown University, the New York University School of Law and Cornell University, he is a former Peace Corps volunteer. Between 2008 to 2011, he led a national legislative campaign which attained $60 million in new appropriations for the Peace Corps. He is the co-founder of the KTK-BELT project (www.belt-project.org). His book, Springs of Namje (Beacon Press, 2012), received the Paul D. Cowan non-fiction award.
Advisory Board
Dr. Grace Kodindo, MD
Dr. Grace Kodindo is the adviser to the Ministry of Health in Chad. Dr. Kodindo has dedicated her life to providing healthcare to developing countries and is strong advocate of maternal health issues. She received her MD in 1990 from the University of Montreal and is an assistant clinical professor at the Mailman School of Public health at Columbia University. She is also a Medical and Advocacy Advisor for Columbia University’s RAISE Initiative (Reproductive Health Access, Information and Services in Emergencies). Dr. Kodindo was previously the Chief Physician at the Central Maternity Hospital, N’Djamena, Chad and has extensive experience working in developing nations and advocating for improved healthcare.
Please watch Dr. Kodindo's fight against time to save maternal lives in Chad!
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Dr. Isaac I. Bogoch, MD
Dr. Bogoch is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Medicine, and is an Infectious Diseases consultant and General Internist at the Toronto General Hospital. He completed medical school and Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Toronto, and then specialized in Infectious Diseases at the Harvard Partners program. He holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and has completed fellowships in both Tropical Infectious Diseases and HIV care. Dr. Bogoch’s clinical and research interests focus on Global Health, Tropical Infectious Diseases, and HIV. He works with an international and interdisciplinary team that predicts the spread of emerging infectious Global Health threats, such as Ebola and Zika viruses. In addition he develops and implements innovative diagnostic solutions to improve the quality of care in resource-constrained settings, and also directs a dedicated HIV Prevention Unit in Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Kenrad Nelson, MD
Dr. Nelson is a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the department of Epidemiology and International Health. Dr. Nelson received his medical degree from Northwestern University. His research interests include HIV/AIDS, tropical medicine, leprosy, nosocomial infections, hepatitis B, C, and E, infections in drug users, transfusion-transmitted infections, tuberculosis and Penicillium marneffei, viral-induced liver cancer.
Sanjay K. Shrestha
Sanjay Shrestha is the Chief Strategy Officer for Plug Power. Prior to joining Plug Power, Mr. Shrestha served as the CIO of a global solar IPP and President Sky Capital Americas since 2015. Under his leadership, Sky Capital America built and acquired over 100MW of operating solar assets and secured pipeline over 100MW. He also sourced various types of financing solutions to support this growth including project debt, construction equity and long-term equity. He brings almost two decades of experience in the broader clean tech sector to our team. Before global solar IPP, he led the renewables investment banking effort at FBR Capital markets. During 2014, and under his leadership, the firm was ranked among the top renewable energy underwriters in the U.S. Prior to joining FBR, Mr. Shrestha spent seven years as the global head of renewables research coverage at Lazard Capital Markets. During his tenure at Lazard Capital Markets, he was a member of the Institutional Investor All America Research team and was also ranked as one of the top five stock pickers on a global basis. Prior to Lazard Capital Markets, Mr. Shrestha spent seven years at First Albany Capital, where he built the firm’s renewables and industrial research practice. Starmine/Forbes Magazine ranked him the number 1 stock picker and the number 1 earnings estimator during his tenure at First Albany Capital. Mr. Shrestha serves as an independent director on the board of directors of Fusemachines, an AI company.
Dr. Subhra Chakraborty, PhD, MPH
Dr. Subhra Chakraborty is an assistant scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the department of International Health. Dr. Chakraborty received her PhD from Jadavpur University in India. She completed her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests include strategies to reduce the morbidity and mortality due to diarrhea. Her research is focused in three areas, delineating the role of the environment and understanding the occurrence and transmission of diarrheal pathogens, develop new diagnostic tools for resource poor settings to better understand disease epidemiology and finding new strategies for improved enteric vaccines.
Officers
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Rashmi Shrestha, MS, MPH
Founder, President
Rashmi Shrestha is an adjunct faculty at New York University College of Dentistry. Rashmi received her MPH with a concentration in infectious disease epidemiology and a certificate in vaccine science and policy from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her M.S. in Clinical Research from New York University College of Dentistry. She is a doctoral student at New York University School of Global Public Health. She worked as a scientist for Lifecell Corporation for four years. She has years of experience volunteering for non-profit organizations in different capacities since 2003. She was one of the co-founders of Adhikaar, an organization based in New York City that promotes and advocates policy on human rights and social justice for the marginalized Nepali population.
Herbert D. Beniker, MS, JD
Treasurer
Herbert D. Beniker is an intellectual property lawyer who graduated from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, TX. He worked as a senior scientist at Lifecell Corporation and Kinetic Concepts Inc. for eleven years. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Biology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, TX.
