Daniel Zoughbie is the Founder, CEO, and President of the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP), an organization dedicated to providing access to health care in the developing world. Zoughbie's research interests and community service activities combine the fields of international development, global health, international relations, and higher education. Zoughbie received his BA in Urban Studies (2006) with a minor in Middle Eastern Studies (Phi Beta Kappa and Highest Honors) from the University of California, Berkeley. He has received many honors and awards including the Marshall Scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Katie Watson is Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of the Global Micro-Clinic Project. She attended New York University where she received her B.A. in Psychology with a minor Middle Eastern Studies. After graduation, she has pursued two primary areas of interest: cognitive neuroscience research and public health. She has worked in an HIV/AIDS clinic to help establish the use of new treatments via clinical trials, particularly for patients who are resistant to standard medications. Watson established much of the clinic's research environment, set up research protocols and initiated studies.

Watson's interest in global development led her to Amman, where she worked with Queen Rania's Jordan River Foundation, with a particular focus on abused children. She was named the UCSF Clausen Fellow, under the guidance of the Global Health Sciences Division headed by Dr. Haile Debas. As a Clausen Fellow, she worked with Daniel Zoughbie, the Founder of the Global Micro-Clinic Project to establish a pilot project in Jordan with the aim of serving Jordan's diabetic population. Watson has since joined the GMCP leadership team as it continues to expand its operations globally. Watson has a wide range of other interests including writing, travel and learning languages, including improving her spoken Arabic and French.

Leila Makarechi is the Senior Project Manager for the Global Micro-Clinic Project. She is spearheading the campaign to establish micro-clinics in India.

Makarechi worked for the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Latin America & the Caribbean, a position she started as a 2006-2007 John Gardner Public Service Fellow. During her time at UNDP she focused on gender and development, poverty reduction and democratic governance. She helped manage more than 92 projects throughout 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

For multiple summers, Makarechi has conducted community outreach in the Dominican Republic with 180º para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo, a non-governmental organization based in Spain. She works in rural sugar cane communities, known as bateys, where she has helped design and implement a series of projects focusing on educational enrichment, reproductive health, and environmental sustainability. Most recently, 180º has created the first ever vaccination program for people living in bateys.

While at the University of California, Berkeley, Makarechi conducted research for Associate Dean Ananya Roy on microfinance in Bangladesh, Lebanon, and Egypt. Makaraechi graduated (Phi Beta Kappa and Highest Honors) with a double major in political science and social welfare.

Matt Werner is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the GMCP. He maintains the website, assembles GMCP multimedia and marketing materials, and helps write and edit the GMCP’s internal and external communications.

During his five years at McSweeney’s Publishing in San Francisco, Werner helped edit, fact check, and research for many titles, including the first serialized installments in the Believer Magazine of What is the What by Dave Eggers (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and also the Voice of Witness Series books Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, and Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan.

Other titles Werner has edited include the collected UC Berkeley lectures of Ricardo Lagos (President of Chile 2000-2006) for UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies, and also an English-language translation of Rumi’s Book of the Sun with Persian scholar Fouad Tabary.

Werner received his BA in English in 2007 (Phi Beta Kappa and Highest Honors) from the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Winston Churchill Scholarship by the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco for his Master’s in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He currently works at Google.

Ali Alhassani is Research Associate for the GMCP in Jordan. He aides in standardizing project evaluation and in project planning.

Ali attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Biomedical Engineering.  He was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to pursue a MSc in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing jointly at the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Passionate about community health, social empowerment, and health policy, Ali has worked at the World Health Organization in Geneva, a community organizing foundation in London, and a social health project in Washington, DC.

Chas Salmen is the Organic Health Response (OHR)-GMCP HIV/AIDS Initiative Director. He grew up in the mountains of Western Colorado. As a pre-med undergrad at Duke University, Chas studied English Literature and Arabic Language. Following graduation, Chas volunteered for six months in Eldoret, Kenya in the Community Mobilization Department for the Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH). He has received many honors and awards including the Rhodes Scholarship to study Medical Anthropology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Chas' research passions are in infectious disease, environmental sustainability, and social justice. His dissertation at Oxford focuses on the human ecology of HIV/AIDS along the shores Lake Victoria in Kenya.

Nancy Bui serves as the Director of Research Administration for the Global Micro-Clinic Project. She coordinates the financial, operational and compliance reviews of GMCP's activities, prepares proposals, conducts needs assessment, and measures outcomes related to the strategic research goals, objectives, and reporting requirements.

Bui originally joined GMCP as the second Clausen Fellow, where she designed the monitoring and evaluation system for the pilot project in Amman, Jordan.  Prior to working with GMCP, she worked at the University of California, San Francisco, Global Health Sciences where she gained a better understanding of health issues that transcend borders and the need to improve the health workforce around the world.  She brings to the GMCP her experience working in HIV/AIDS, older adult and adolescent health, community health education, reproductive health, program planning and evaluation.  Her professional interests include working to reduce health inequities and improve community health through capacity building, improving access to services and resources, and focusing on determinants of health and illness.

Bui holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Community Health Education from Hunter College/CUNY, and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, with a concentration on health and social behavior.

Sean Hanlon is Chief Financial Officer and Vice-President, Financial Administration and Planning of the Global Micro-Clinic Project.
 
Sean received his BS in Management Science, with an emphasis in Accounting and Economics, in 2006 (Magna Cum Laude) from Boston College.  After graduation, Sean joined Jesuit Volunteers International, serving in Nepal until 2008.  While there, he helped coordinate mobile health clinics at 21 sites around the Kathmandu Valley as well as helping establish a computer lab and curricula for underserved high school students. 
 
Sean received his Certification as a Public Accountant in California in 2010.

Hal earned his master's degree in English literature from the University of California and served in the Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, in the 1970s.  After returning to the United States, he taught autistic and severely handicapped children before earning his doctorate in education from Johns Hopkins University.  In the 1980s and 90s, he worked in the field of interactive training design and started his own training company in Colorado in 1998.  He has designed game-based training programs for a wide array of professions, from physicians and roofers to hotel maids and power generation personnel.

In 2003, he decided to focus on health promotion and earned his MPH from Johns Hopkins.  He returned to Africa with his family as associate field director of HIV Community Mobilization in western Kenya for Indiana University School of Medicine from 2006-2008.  He developed innovative games and activities to teach Kenyan audiences about the biology, transmission, and prevention of HIV.  Hal Campbell has published in the fields of education, training, patient wellness, and poetry.

Eric Ding is Senior Research Associate at the Global Micro-Clinic Project.
 
Eric Ding, ScD, a nutritionist and epidemiologist, is currently a Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, Director of the Campaign for Cancer Prevention, and a Fellow of the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, New York, NY.
 
In 2006, he played a major role leading a two-year-long investigation into the controversial drug safety of Vioxx® that drew national attention. Priority published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), as chief author, Eric was recognized and named in the New York Times and USA Today. In 2004, he received the Health Commissioner's Commendation Award from the Baltimore City Health Department. In 2003, he co-founded and served as editor of the journal Epidemic Proportions, awarded the 'Best Johns Hopkins Publication 2005' and recognized by deans of Johns Hopkins University and the director of the National Institutes of Health.
 
A cancer prevention advocate, he founded the Campaign for Cancer Prevention, and was featured in Newsweek. As director of the Campaign for Cancer Prevention, currently with nearly 5 million members, he was profiled in the book CauseWired (Wiley & Sons, Inc). His efforts have raised more than $100,000 in unrestricted public donations for cancer research.
 
Born in Shanghai, China, Eric was raised in the Great Plains and the Appalachia of Pennsylvania. A Sigma Chi, he earned his BA from The Johns Hopkins University with Honors in Public Health and election to Phi Beta Kappa. Trained as an NIH National Cancer Institute predoctoral fellow, he earned his doctorate in epidemiology and doctorate in nutrition at age 23 from Harvard University, where he was the youngest-ever graduate from his dual doctoral programs. At Harvard, Eric has taught and lectured in more than a dozen graduate courses throughout Harvard University and undergraduate courses at Harvard College, for which he received the Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Award.
 
In addition to teaching, he has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and actively contributes as a reviewer. His 2 dozen publications have received over 400 external citations, garnering an H-INDEX scientific impact factor of 10. He currently also serves as an appointed expert committee member on the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease Project.