Abuja, Nigeria

Commander Kerton R. Victory PhD ’14, MS ’10, REHS

2014 PhD, Environmental Health Sciences

Regional Global Health Security Advisor for West Africa, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
2023 Alumni Global Achievement Award Winner

Dr. Kerton R. Victory is the Regional Global Health Security Advisor for West Africa in CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP) and Commander (CDR) in the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service. He has contributed immensely to Global Health Security work in West/Central Africa including providing technical support for Ebola and Cholera preparedness activities, Cholera, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever outbreaks, and strengthening the region public health systems to respond to future infectious disease threats.

Zurich, Switzerland

Sarah Battaglia MPH ’20, BS ’15

2020 MPH, One Health

Safety and Incident Response Specialist, EF Education First

Sarah Battaglia is from Tucson, AZ and is a graduate of MEZCOPH’s MPH One Health program. Sarah is interested in applying systems-thinking and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging public health challenges. Her work in pandemic preparedness at Maricopa County Department of Public Health primed her to become a leader in their COVID-19 Response in 2020. Sarah is currently located in Zurich, Switzerland where she is working in safety, preparedness, and response for an educational travel company. Her commitment to creating resilient communities drives her to make a positive impact worldwide.

Khartoum, Sudan

Safa Elkrail DDS, MPH ’19

2019 MPH, Health Services Administration

Director of Operations, National Human Resources for Health Observatory (NHRHO)

Dr. Safa Elkrail serves as the Director of Operations at the National Human Resources for Health Observatory (NHRHO) – Sudan where she leads a team that designs and executes health research studies to guide evidence-based policy decisions. She oversees data management and sharing systems, and recently developed a new organizational structure for the Observatory that significantly enhanced the efficiency of the organization’s health information system. Additionally, she managed the launch of the National Health Workforce Account for Sudan, a multiphase project to create the most comprehensive database of Healthcare Human Resources in the country.

Lusaka, Zambia

Kafula Silumbe MPH ’09

2009 MPH, Public Health Policy & Management

Zambia Team Lead, PATH/Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)

Kafula Silumbe, team leader of the Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa (MACEPA) program in Zambia, provides oversight and manages activities and interventions targeting malaria control, prevention, and elimination based on an agenda established by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Zambia. The MACEPA program is part of the global nonprofit Promote a Healthier Planet (PATH), and Kafula also provides technical assistance to MACEPA/PATH partner personnel, particularly the Zambia National Malaria Elimination Centre, for vector control interventions, program implementation, and data collection techniques.

Manchester, England

Angelo Ericia PhD, MPH ’09

2009 MPH, Health Behavior Health Promotion

Implementation Manager, Evergreen Life
2022 Alumni Global Achievement Award Winner

Angelo Ericia, PhD, MPH ’09, currently works with Evergreen Life, a digital health company in Manchester, England, that improve health and healthcare delivery in the United Kingdom through digital solutions. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area in California, Dr. Ercia earned his MPH at the University of Arizona then returned to the Bay Area to work in community health before he went on to earn his PhD in International Public Health Policy at the School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK where he studied the Affordable Care Act’s impact on patient coverage and access to care in Arizona, California, and Texas. He then pursued a post doctorate at the University of Manchester and studied how to optimally implement the use of electronic patient reported outcome measures in dialysis units, work developed his expertise in digital care solutions. He was recently accepted as a fellow in the Royal Society for Public Health, UK.

Bali, Indonesia

Komang Triyani Kartinawati MD, MPH ’17

2017 MPH, Public Health Practice

Public Health Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Warmadewa University

Komang Triyani Kartinawati, MD, MPH ’17, currently teaches public health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Warmadewa University, Bali, Indonesia. She focuses her education and community health efforts on underserved populations, and especially works to prevent health conditions due to malnutrition in children. Dr. Triyani combines research and teaching to address global public health challenges, and she has published numerous papers in medical and public health journals. She earned her Medical Doctor degree from the Faculty of Medicine at Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia, and her MPH from the University of Arizona where she learned to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams to manage and evaluate public health programs that address health disparities in diverse populations. Passionate about health equity, Dr. Triyani works to inspire her students to help underserved communities and never stop learning.

Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Jean Wysler Domerçan MD, MPH ’07

2007 MPH, Family & Child Health

Executive Director, Institut pour la Sante, la Population et le Developpemt (ISPD)

Jean Wysler Domerçant, MD, MPH, currently serves as Executive Director of the Institut pour la Santé, la Population et le Développement (ISPD) – in English: Institute for Population Health and Development – a non-profit organization that he founded to continue the improvement and expansion of access to high quality health services in Haiti. ISPD focuses particularly on the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, and in 2019 ISPD was awarded a 3-year $10M-grant from USAID to expand HIV services access for vulnerable populations in Haiti.

Dr. Domerçant’s leadership of ISPD emerged from his role as Country Director for the EQUIP consortium program in Haiti, funded by USAID, that collaborated internationally to deliver high quality HIV services. Prior to that role, he served as co-lead on the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program in Haiti for the CDC, and also worked with CDC on responses to major epidemics notably the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010, and the Ebola epidemic in Guinea in 2015.

Kazakhstan

Kamila Tuyakbayeva MPA, BS ’16

2016 BS, Public Health

Market Access Manager, Pfizer
2021 Alumni Global Achievement Award Winner

Kamila Tuyakbayeva began her volunteering work at the age of 15, when she joined Y-PEER network of the UN Population Fund, UNFPA. In 2012, she became the Country Focal Point in Charge for the network in Kazakhstan.

In her 13+ years of volunteering, she has trained over 5,000 adolescents and young people on issues of reproductive health and rights, gender equality, resource mobilization, NGO capacity building, HIV / AIDS and other STIs prevention, prevention of stigma, discrimination and violence. Together with the Y-PEER team, Kamila organizes national and international projects, including the annual Summer Leadership Schools, which have been recognized as the most successful social project in Kazakhstan by the World Bank and Soros Foundation in Kazakhstan.

Having co-founded the youth NGO Dostar in South Kazakhstan, Kamila decided to devote herself to protecting public health. She received her diploma at the University of Arizona, where she studied under the Bolashak program. She later completed her MA in Public Administration from the Graduate School of Public Policy of Nazarbayev University. She now works as Patient and Health Impact Manager at Pfizer to ensure innovative therapies are available to patients across Central Asian countries, Caucasus and Mongolia.