Leadership
Email Brian at bwillis@globalhealthpromise.org
Email Isabella at idanel@globalhealthpromise.org
Isabella Danel MD MSc served as the Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, from 2014 through 2019. Prior to joining PAHO/WHO, Isabella worked twenty-one years with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a variety of positions focusing initially on reproductive and maternal health, and later broadening to provide support for strengthening public health systems globally. Her posts at CDC included Chief of the Field Support Branch of the Division of Reproductive Health (DRH), Associate Director for Program Development at CDC’s Center for Global Health, Director of the CDC Regional Office for Central America and Panama in Guatemala, Deputy Chief of the Pregnancy and Infant Health Branch of DRH and CDC Epidemic Intelligence Officer. From 2000-2006 she worked at the World Bank, on secondment by CDC, as a Senior Public Health Specialist in the Bank’s Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office. Earlier in her career, Isabella was a Clinical Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine focusing on maternal mortality and an attending physician at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois where she specialized in medical complications during pregnancy.
Isabella is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She has written numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on reproductive health, maternal mortality, public health systems and other public health topics. She holds a medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York and a Master of Science from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Program Manager for Nutrition, Education and Economic Empowerment — Lyndsey Roos
Email Lyndsey at lroos@globalhealthpromise.org
Lyndsey Roos is an English language teacher based in Portland, Oregon. She studied Philosophy at Willamette University in Salem, OR before earning a master’s degree in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) from Portland State University. An avid language learner, she previously studied French abroad in Angers, France. She has also lived and taught English in Bali, Indonesia.
As a child, her family instilled in her the values of education and service to others through their work in her small hometown of Port Angeles, WA. She is a passionate advocate for community activism, education equity, and social justice, and looks forward to learning more about non-profit work while helping Global Health Promise grow and develop.
Program Manager for Maternal Neonatal and Child Health Program — Regan Moss
Email Regan at rmoss@globalhealthpromise.org
Regan Moss is an MPH student at Columbia University. Regan studies maternal, reproductive, and menstrual health through health equity and social determinants of health frameworks for policy and health systems impact.
She has engaged in maternal health efforts across a variety of sectors, such as through March of Dimes, ARRWIP at Johns Hopkins University, Health Omics and Perinatal Epidemiology at Yale’s Child Study Center and Averting Maternal Death and Disability at Columbia University.
Regan has been engaged with community-based efforts and community-based participatory research initiatives focused on commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), sex work, and/or sexual abuse for 6+ years. In undergrad, Regan founded a student-led organization that worked to combat the myths about commercial sexual exploitation and engage community partners in efforts to decrease risk of CSE.
Most recently, Regan supported the development of didactic training tools for the American Academy of Pediatrics (Chapter 3) to improve physician knowledge and practice for youth impacted by CSE.
