Saving Mothers' Lives in Rural Tanzania

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Project Personnel

Melodie Holden, MS, MPH - President

An engineer and businesswoman who led strategy projects as an IBM consultant for 7 years, Melodie worked extensively in Asia and Africa and is experienced in developing business plans, budgeting and evaluation. She applies business approaches to improve health. She is responsible for VSI’s drug regulatory and distribution programs.

Godfrey Mbaruku, MD, PhD - Regional Medical Director, Kigoma, Tanzania

Dr. Mbaruku is a Tanzanian obstetrician-gynecologist and the Regional Director for the Ministry of Health in Kigoma, a rural region in eastern Tanzania. He recently completed a PhD in Sweden on maternal mortality in Tanzania. He has published seven papers on this topic.

Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG - Bixby Professor, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Dr. Potts is a Cambridge-trained obstetrician and reproductive biologist. As the first Medical Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, he introduced family planning methods into many developing countries. As CEO of Family Health International, he launched the first large scale studies of maternal mortality. He has published ten books and over 200 scientific papers.