The ten founding directors of Rapha Mozambique.
The founders are also the elected board — no honorary seats. Photographs and short profiles are being added as the founding phase continues.
Featured profiles
Former Dean of Universidade Lúrio's School of Medicine in Nampula, the medical school of the very city where Rapha is being built; later, four years with USAID. Currently collaborating with Harvard researchers on non-communicable disease research in Mozambique, and president of Light for Health. Deeply embedded in Mozambique's national health leadership.
Board-certified emergency physician (Wayne State School of Medicine; residency, Henry Ford Hospital). Seventeen years in Mozambique: he taught at the Catholic medical school in Beira, directed the emergency-medicine residency at Central Hospital of Maputo, worked and taught at AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kenya, and has trained more than 300 Mozambican physicians. He is relocating to Nampula to lead the pilot personally.
FORMoza — U.S. officers
Alongside the boards
American, raised in the Middle East and Europe; Austrian master's-level training in international management. Served on the management team of the State Hospitals Holding of Salzburg, Austria, in organizational development. Now with Banda Health, which serves health systems across the developing world with practical processes and technology.
Ethnomusicologist, author, and adjunct professor, serving in worship arts and discipleship in Mozambique since 2009. The Meyers family first prepared for Mozambique in 2008; eighteen years later, they are returning to Nampula together.
