Pangaea Adds Three Leaders in Global Health to Board of Directors
Pangaea is very pleased to have recently added three leaders in HIV/AIDS and global health is to our Board of Directors. The three new directors are:
- Arnab (Arnie) Ghatak, partner in the New Jersey Office of McKinsey & Company and Americas leader of McKinsey’s Global Public Health practice;
- Jill Sheffield, founder and president of Women Deliver, and also the founder of Family Care International (FCI); and
- Dr. Paul Volberding, Chief of Medical Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Arnie, Jill and Paul join a dynamic board that includes Board Chairman Joseph Garrett, Vice-Chair Lokelani Devone, Dr. Elaine Daniels, and Eric Roberts. More information about our three new board members is set out below.
Arnab (Arnie) Ghatak is a Partner in the New Jersey Office of McKinsey & Company and Americas leader of the Global Public Health practice. Since joining McKinsey, Arnie has focused on work in the healthcare field with clients both in the nonprofit and for-profit arenas. In the nonprofit arena, Arnie has extensive experience with large multilateral technical institutions, governmental departments, foundations and stand-alone NGOs. Arnie holds a degree in molecular biology from Princeton University, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School where he majored in healthcare.
Jill Sheffield is the founder and president of Women Deliver, and also the founder of Family Care International (FCI), a distinguished non-governmental organization and winner of the 2008 United Nations Population Award for outstanding work in sexual and reproductive health and rights. Jill completed advanced degrees at Columbia University, Teachers College and she also received the American Public Health Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. She was Director of International Programmes at the Carnegie Corporation, and founded FCI in 1987 in response to the call at the Women’s Decade Conference in Nairobi which identified the silent tragedy that one woman dies each minute from pregnancy related causes.
Paul Volberding, MD, is Chief of Medical Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. For much of the AIDS epidemic, Paul’s professional activities centered at San Francisco General Hospital where he established a model program of AIDS patient care, research, and professional education. His research career began with investigations of HIV-related malignancies, especially Kaposis Sarcoma. His primary research focus, however, shifted to clinical trials of antiretroviral drugs. Paul has written many research and review articles. He is the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and a founder of HIV InSite, a comprehensive source of HIV information. He is the founder and Chair of the Board of the International AIDS Society - USA. He also served as President of the HIV Medical Association. Paul was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
