Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH
Dr. Khoshnood is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director for Humanitarian Research Lab (https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/) at the Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Khoshnood is trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has more than three decades of global health research experience. Dr. Khoshnood's research interests include: 1) epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, 2) research ethics and 3) humanitarian health. Dr. Khoshnood teaches a new course on health in humanitarian crises for public health graduate students.
Tendai Machingaidze, MD
Nuvance Health/UVMLCOM Global Health Site Director for Zimbabwe; Editor and Writer for the “Global Health & The Arts” section of the Nuvance Health Global Health eMagazine; Global Health Scholar Tendai Machingaidze holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Syracuse University, a Master of Arts in Education and a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Seminary, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Privolzhsky Research Medical University.Tendai is also a fiction writer who has published a novel and several short stories.
Nelson Merchan (Colombia)
Business Advisor
Connecticut Small Business Development Center
A business advisor with the Small Business Development Center, Nelson Merchan services prospective and business owners in Connecticut. In 2019, he was the business advisor with the highest-lending impact in the state of Connecticut. Nelson is a board member with Housatonic Habitat for Humanity, Housatonic Industrial Corporation Inc., the WCSU Foundation and United Way of Western Connecticut.
Merchan has advised businesses in Costa Rica and has been invited, as keynote speaker, to Chile and El Salvador. He earned his MBA from Georgia State University and BBA from Universidad del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia.
Chiratidzo E Ndhlovu, M Med Sci( Clin Epi), FRCP
Science as well as Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine. As a medical educator and clinician involved in Nephrology and HIV Medicine, she has vast experience in internal medicine, renal care, and looking after HIV patients in a resource-limited setting.
She is a Principal Investigator in various HIV related research activities, in particular studying outcomes in cryptococcal meningitis and HIV, and adherence to antiretroviral therapy in adolescents. She is the current Chairperson of the National Medicines and Therapeutics Policy Advisory Committee (NMTPAC) which advises the Secretary of Health & Child Welfare on all issues pertaining to pharmaceutical use including coordinating the review of the Zimbabwe Essential Medicines List as well as monitoring rational use of medicines in the country. She is Principal Investigator for the AMBITION Study in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is recipient of the prestigious Anvar and Pari Velji-CUGH Faculty Leader Award in 2019.
Jason Nova
Jason Nova was born and raised in the Bronx, New York by Dominican parents who immigrated in the late 80s to the United States. With experience in higher education; student affairs, crisis management/harm reduction, and non-profit management. He currently works as an account manager at Marketing Dimensions, Inc. and political organizer.
He is a proud member of Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and the Dominican Community Center located here in Danbury.