Positively Changing Lives, Families and Communities.

Board Chair

Dr. Angela Amadi Ofoegbu

President/Chief Executive Officer

Ms. Osita-Oleribe

Ms. Osita-Oleribe, the President/Chief Executive Officer, holds a BS in Biochemistry, an MBA in Non-profit Management, and an MS in International Health Policy and Management from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.

She previously served as the Executive Director of the Centre for Family Health Initiative in Nigeria, where she oversaw the planning, implementation, and evaluation of several social and health development projects. Ms. Osita-Oleribe has nearly 2 decades’ experience in the non-profit space, international development work, grant and project management, and more. Her professional focus is centered around community development, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion of and for people at the fringes of society. Princess is happy for the opportunity to teach along the way.

In her personal and professional capacity, she has the privilege to volunteer her services to various community groups in Oregon. These include the Oregon Department of Education’s African American/Black Student Success Advisory Group; the Board of Klamath Family Head Start; the Healthy Klamath Steering/Leadership group and its Extended Network for Diabetes Management Workgroup, the Community Information Exchange (CIE) Workgroup of Oregon Health Authority, Klamath Promise Executive and its Steering Committee, and the Kids Church of Refuge City Church.

Very importantly, Princess is a proud wife and a grateful mother of three wonderful children – two of which are in college and the baby of her home is in high school.

Secretary/Chief Operating Officer

Dr Obinna O Oleribe

Dr Obinna O Oleribe, the Secretary/Chief Operating Officer, is trained by the best of institutions in the world including Harvard Business School, John Hopkins University, Walden University, Universities of Nicosia, Cyprus, University of Port Harcourt, Benin, and Imo State all in Nigeria. He is both a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Holder and PRINCE 2 Practitioner.

He holds a medical degree, and a doctorate in public health and masters in health care and hospital administration and business management. He has been in the corporate leadership of both for-profit and non-profit-organizations for over 15 years; and is the proponent of deliberate proactive leadership style. In Nigeria, he championed several public health initiatives including decentralization and commonization of HIV services, door-to-door and house-to-house testing, same day care, among several other initiatives.

Dr Oleribe served as consultant to Royal College of Physicians, London; Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, London; BroadReach Group, South Africa; Tanzanian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Tanzania; IntraHealth LLC, USA; Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria; AIDS Prevention Initiative, Nigeria; AIDSRelief, Christian Aids, Health System Development Foundation, UN Foundation, National AIDS Control Agency, Nigeria, National Malarial Elimination Program, Nigeria; and several other bodies.

Technical Adviser

Dr. Ochi Akwiwu-Ibe

Dr. Ochi Akwiwu-Ibe has more than 30 years of clinical and public health program experience and 19+ years of increasing responsibility in developing and managing programs to improve service delivery and strengthen health and social systems in Africa in the public and private sector, and for the United States Agency for International development (USAID).

Her technical expertise spans Global Health Security, Community Health Systems, including health workforce planning and community-based surveillance; HIV/AIDS Care and Support including Orphans and Vulnerable Children; Nutrition; Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. She has held technical advisory positions in USAID-funded project and has worked with USAID in Liberia, Namibia, and Nigeria.

Dr. Akwiwu-Ibe is a member of the American Public Health Association, International AIDS Society and the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. She is also a member of the International Network of Kangaroo Care and Core Group. Dr. Ochi is a frequent presenter on Community health systems strengthening and is a published writer on child survival and Kangaroo Mother Care. Ochi is a fellow of the West African College of Physicians and an associate fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College; has two master’s degrees in Maternal and Child Health and Public Health from University College London and University of Lagos respectively and a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Nigeria.

Technical Adviser

Dr. Okey C. Nwanyanwu

Dr. Okey C. Nwanyanwu is a world-class, University of Texas and U.S. CDC trained epidemiologist (EIS 1989). A retired senior executive with HHS/CDC with over 30 years of experience in disease control and health security around the world, he has previously held the following positions within the United States Government: Advisor to the Malawi Government on Health; Director, USAID Office of Health, Population and Nutrition, Mozambique; Director, CDC Guyana; Director, CDC South Africa & Regional Director, CDC Southern Africa Program and Director CDC Nigeria & HHS Health Attaché for West Africa.

Dr. Nwanyanwu is the founder of Fast Forward Africa, LLC and Director of Vaccines and Therapeutics Development for Ogevity Therapeutics, LLC, two separate US companies dedicated to helping governments, private sector companies and individuals in developing countries, especially Africa, ensure better health security, save lives and find simpler solutions to the existential challenges of daily living. He has been influential in the creation of some of Africa’s strongest public health institutions.

He has an extensive network of grassroots contacts, organizations and infrastructures in support of training and rapid deployments for health and security such as Africa Field Epidemiology Training Network, headquartered in Kampala, Uganda and with offices in more than 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa which has trained more than 2,000 epidemiologists on the continent to respond to emerging diseases of public health consequences such as Ebola and Covid-19. Dr. Nwanyanwu is instrumental in the creation of the Pan African Medical Journal that gives African scientists a platform for publication of their works; championed the creation of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) – the preeminent agency for disease control policy in Nigeria. NCDC was instrumental in the eradication of Ebola in the country and is now managing efforts for COVID-19 control. This organization is the counterpart to the United States CDC.

Finally, Dr. Nwanyanwu was the leader in significantly increasing the number of people on HIV treatment in both South Africa and Nigeria and helped to put the first 1,000,000 South Africans on HIV treatment and later another 1,000,000 more patients on treatment in Nigeria.

Technical Adviser

Eucheria Ekwenugo

Eucheria Ekwenugo is a public health leader with years of experience in healthcare and community advocacy. She has spent her career doing critical work in public health for the underserved regions including impoverished communities and completed several successful medical missions to Nigeria. She has done extensive work with Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia, developing strategies to improve maternal and infant health throughout Georgia.

Ms Ekwenugo is the founder of Global Health Exchange, Inc, Georgia USA, a non-profit organization as well as the Chief Executive Officer of Angels Unlimited, Inc, Georgia. As a healthcare outreach executive, she has sponsored, organized, and executed community seminars on skill acquisition to facilitate women-owned businesses, led educational programs for women/girl-child regarding COVID-19 and healthy health behaviors to protect against communicable and infectious diseases in various communities.

Her non-profit activities focuses on women empowerment and girl/child education aimed at reducing maternal/infant mortality, child trafficking, gender inequality, economic/social disparity, and communicable diseases such as HIV, diabetes, TB, malaria, and others. She is a contributing partner to many organizations locally and internationally.

As licensed Cosmetologist/Instructor, and international beauty expert with specialty in Esthetics, Eucheria advocates for quality control in the practice of beauty protocols, and use of non-carcinogenic ingredients in beauty products. Eucheria enjoys making natural skincare products and owns a private skincare label.

Advisor

Dr. Esther Okafor

Treasurer/Admin Director

Delight C. Osita