USAID in Crisis: Challenges & Opportunities for Global Healthcare
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Mike Chupp and Dr. Jeff Barrows are joined for two conversations with Echo VanderWal and Dr. Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst to discuss the challenges facing global healthcare given the recent government funding changes related to USAID.
Meet Our Guest
Echo VanderWal is a visionary leader in global health and Executive Director of The Luke Commission (TLC), a faith-based non-profit transforming equitable healthcare access in Eswatini and other resource-limited contexts. With deep compassion, leadership acumen, business sense and a servant’s heart, Echo advocates at the highest levels for the health and development for the most vulnerable in Eswatini and beyond. With both mobile and fixed-site healthcare service provision, TLC offers a comprehensive continuum of care from community to tertiary level. Echo’s dedication extends beyond operations to passionate advocacy for equitable healthcare access, aligning technology and innovation with local community needs.
Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst, MD, MPH, FACOG, FAHA, is a practicing OB/Gyn with more than 30 years of experience in patient care, teaching, research, health service delivery and policy in domestic and international settings. She received her MD from Brown University and her MPH from Harvard University before completing her residency in OB/Gyn at Yale-New Haven Hospital and her postdoctoral fellowship at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She was a member of the OB/Gyn faculty at Duke University Medical Center before becoming Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator at the United States Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. She is currently a fellow at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame and chief medical officer at Healing:Global.
