Claude Allen
Mr. Allen brings a wealth of public policy experience to the MFP Board through his senior management positions in the non-profit and Government sectors. He was past Senior Vice-President of the Gerard Health Foundation managing 3-5 million dollars in grants to non-profits in the U.S., Caribbean, and Africa. He was Assistant to the President for […]
James Chen, MD, PhD
James Chen is a practicing physician who received his undergraduate degree from Cornell and his MD and PhD “with distinction in research” from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has been associated with the Hawthorne Medical Group as a primary care physician and Director of an Urgent Care Center in North […]
Kathleen Crane
A playwright and former drama teacher, Ms. Crane founded the Children’s Scholarship Fund For Girls (CSFG) nearly three decades ago. The CSFG was founded to support girls from El Salvador who had fled to the United States to escape the civil war in that country. The CSFG now welcomes girls in need from many countries […]
Brittany Galvin, RN, NP
Ms. Galvin is a nurse practitioner and international relief worker with extensive experience in Haiti. A graduate of Quincy University and the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professionals, she has worked to provide health care to low-income patients in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and to homeless people during the COVID pandemic in Washington, DC. She spent […]
William Schaffner, M.D.
If you watch the nightly national news, you are likely to see Dr. William Schaffner carefully explaining the dangers that COVID19 poses for our country, how we can protect ourselves, and how to use the vaccine effectively. He is an expert in infectious diseases, particularly in vaccine efficacy, and has a much-appreciated ability to present […]
Michael V. Viola, M.D.
Dr. Viola founded Medicine For Peace in 1991 shortly after the Gulf War. Since then, he has guided medical and mental health programs during armed conflicts and natural disasters in El Salvador, Iraq, and Bosnia. He now oversees a comprehensive women’s health program in the rural Artibinite district of Haiti. Also, he directs the Medicine […]
Monika Viola
Ms. Viola is a fiction writer and high school English teacher who received a degree in Middle East Studies from Brown University and graduate degrees in fiction writing and literature from Johns Hopkins University and Trinity College, Dublin, respectively. She worked in the MFP office in the U.S. on both the Bosnian Children’s Project and […]