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Michael E. Bird, MSW, MPH

Past President of the American Public Health Association and first Native American to be elected to the position.  He has also served as Executive Director of the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center and as a Director for the Indian Health Service.   

Wavy Gravy

Social Activist, Clown, Author, Co-Director Camp Winnarainbow.

David Green, MPH
MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, recognized by Schwab Foundation as leading social entrepreneur.

Gary Hahn — Chair Elect
Founder of Hahn and Associates, Inc., with over 30 years of experience in the environmental field.

T. Stephen Jones, MD ­

Public health consultant.  Retired from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Michael Lemle

Filmmaker

Stephen D. Miller, MD — Treasurer

Ophthalmologist and medical executive.  Former head of Kaiser-Permanente Hawaii eye department and past Vice-President of the Hawaii Permanente Medical Group.  Currently a management consultant for Kaiser-Permanente. 18 years volunteering with Seva teaching eye surgery and hospital management.

Sandra Nathan, PhD

Vice President, National Council on Aging, in Workforce Development which strives to improve work force opportunities for older American's.

Marina R. Rifkin, MHS

Senior Program Monitoring Advisor, South to South (S2S) Partnership for Comprehensive HIV Care and Treatment at the University of Stellensosch in Cape Town, South Africa.

Jahanara Romney — Secretary

Co-Director Camp Winnarainbow

Maura Santangelo, MD, MPH ­ — Chair

Ophthalmologist; medical advisor to Seva Tibet sight program; and Clinical Assistant Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University, clinical campus Binghamton, NY.

Martin Spencer, MD, FRCSC

Ophthalmologist, Nanaimo, BC, Canada., Seva Canada board member, volunteer in technology transfer to Seva sight programs.

Dr. M. Srinivasan, MBBS, DO, MS
Joint Director and Head of Cornea Services, Refractive Surgery and Eye Banking, Aravind Eye Care System; Vice President Eye Bank Association of India.

Ken Wilson, PhD
Ecologist and anthropologist interested in bio-cultural diversity, sustainable livelihoods, indigenous ways of knowing and human ecologies of health, and Executive Director of The Christensen Fund.

Mariano Yee, MD

Ophthalmologist; Founder of the Vincent Pescatore and the Visualiza Eye Clinic in Guatemala; founding Board Member of Fundal, the first school for blind and deaf children in Guatemala; recipient of VO SH/PA Humanitarian Award (2004).
   
Honorary Lifetime Board:
Ram Dass
Nicole Grasset, MD, DTMH
Gullapalli N. Rao, MD, FACS
Advisory Circle:
Kenneth Baum, MD
John Bennett
Alita Bowen
Dennis J. Bowen, Sr.
Girija Brilliant, PhD, MPH
Peter Buckley
Mirabai Bush
Terrance Carlson
Gary Cohen
Sally Crane
Paul Haible
Richard Iron Cloud
Michael Jeffery, JD
Jerry G Jones
Yvette Joseph-Fox, MSW
Neal L. Keny-Guyer
Lisa Laird
Mary LaMar
Glen Dune Lankard, Jr.
Lee Larson
David Levine
Maria Mangini, PhD, FNP
Sunanda Markus
Nipun Mehta
Alan Morinis, PhD
Doraiswamy Nagarajan
P. Namperumalsamy, MS
G. Natchiar, MS, DO
Pauline Pariser, MD
Dylan Sears
Isaac Sobol, MD
Beverly Spring, MD
R.D. Thulasiraj, MBA
Mark Tilsen
Linda Velarde
Bob Weir
Nedd Willard, PhD
Agnes Williams