Teach Traditional Ethiopian Midwives to Save Lives

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Project Personnel

Ndola Prata, MD, MSc - Medical and Programs Director

Dr. Prata is an Angolan physician and medical demographer who has worked in many African countries. She has designed the protocols and directed technical assistance and training for the Venture Strategies clinical demonstration studies in Tanzania, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Egypt. She is also a professor in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Tesfanesh Belay Adale, MD, MPH - Country Program Director

Dr. Tesfanesh previously served as Head of the Family Health Department at the Ministry of Health where she was responsible for developing and leading the national strategies on reproductive health, safe motherhood, and ensuring reproductive health commodity supplies. She is a founding member of the Public Health Nursing Association and the Ethiopian Women's Medical Association.

Nap Hosang, MD, MPH, MBA, FRCOG - Chairman, Venture Strategies Innovations

Dr. Hosang is an obstetrician-gynecologist at Kaiser Permanente in Hayward, California. He is a lecturer and directs the Interdisciplinary MPH program for mid-career professionals at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. Dr. Hosang is Jamaican and spent four years on faculty at the University of the West Indies. He focuses on management systems to reduce maternal deaths in developing countries