Dr. Mosoka Fallah
Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah is a renowned public health expert and the Founder and Executive Director of Refuge Place International. He also serves as Chairman of the Board. His work focuses on reducing maternal and infant mortality, with community involvement and empowerment at the core of his approach. Dr. Fallah was awarded the 2017 USAID Liberia Health Worker and Development Person of the Year for his contributions through Refuge Place. He was also the Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), which he co-founded in response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Under his leadership, NPHIL played a crucial role in Liberia's COVID-19 response.
Dr. Fallah, a trained immunologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, furthered his Global Health and Infectious Disease Epidemiology expertise at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He gained international recognition for his work during the Ebola epidemic, where he pioneered a community-based case-finding system that became a model for epidemic control. In 2014, Time Magazine named him a Person of the Year for his role in the Ebola response.
Currently, Dr. Fallah serves as Principal Investigator for several NIH-sponsored studies on Ebola in Liberia and is a part-time faculty member at Harvard Medical School. His extensive career also includes consultancy work with global organizations such as USAID, WHO, and Doctors Without Borders, and he has been instrumental in establishing Liberia’s first Master of Public Health (MPH) program at the University of Liberia.
Dr. Chris Tokpah
Dr. Chris Tokpah is the Associate Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness at Delaware County Community College in Pennsylvania; his responsibilities include supervising the Office of Institutional Research and the Institutional Review Board. The Office of Institutional Research oversees program evaluation, research design and implementation, federal and state compliance activities, marketing research, and external accreditors reports. The office also develops M&E frameworks, oversees the development and monitoring of the institution’s strategic plan, designs instruments, collects and analyzes data, prepares reports, and supports faculty in writing peer-reviewed articles and books. Dr. Tokpah is a Coach for Achieving the Dream (ATD) and a Peer Evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Chris holds a Ph.D. in Evaluation and Measurement (Kent State University, Ohio), an MBA, with an emphasis in Management Information Systems (Kent State University), and a B.Sc. in Mathematics (University of Liberia). He is an adjunct professor of Research Methods and Statistics in the doctoral program at Delaware Valley University (Pennsylvania) where his responsibilities include providing dissertation advice to students. He taught survey design and marketing research courses in the M.B.A. program at Indiana Tech University (Indiana), and a mixed-methods program evaluation course in the doctoral program at Walden University (online). Dr. Tokpah is an independent consultant and a co-founder of the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Policy. He is also a co-founder of the Augustus Richardson Memorial Foundation. In his spare time, he coordinates the Liberia Training and Volunteers Network to support education in Liberia. Chris is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Dr. Emmanuel D’Harcourt
Emmanuel D’Harcourt is a pediatrician and public health professional focusing on community health programs in Africa. He has worked as the Senior Health Director at the International Rescue Committee and as the Chief Program and Innovation Officer for Helen Keller International. He currently works on supporting several African-led public health and other development programs in Africa and the United States. In addition to his work as a public health leader, Emmanuel has worked as a clinician, researcher, teacher, and outbreak responder. He began his health career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. He has taught courses and classes at Harvard, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins universities, among others, and teaches a yearly course at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He is currently writing a book on the 2014 Ebola response and has previously authored peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the field of public health. Emmanuel received his undergraduate degree in comparative literature from Yale University, his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, and his Master of Public Health from Harvard University. He completed a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Angene and Jack Wilson
Angene and Jack Wilson were Peace Corps Volunteer teachers of History and English at Suehn Industrial Academy (Liberia) from 1962 to 1964, the same school that Mosoka Fallah and Chris Tokpah graduated from much later. They were the host family for Mosoka during his doctoral years at the University of Kentucky. Angene was a professor at UK’s College of Education for 29 years after teaching in teacher training colleges in Sierra Leone and Fiji when Jack was Associate Peace Corps Director and Peace Corps Director. Jack spent his stateside government career in Environmental Protection, retiring as Director of the Division of Water in Kentucky.
Dr. Darlene K. Jubah
Dr. Jubah is a nurse leader with over 20 years of healthcare experience. As of 2022, she works as the Regional Manager of Infection Prevention at Inspira Health Network, New Jersey, United States. Prior to that, she worked as an Infection Preventionist at other acute care facilities in the Philadelphia/New Jersey areas. She also currently serves as the membership director for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology-APIC, Chapter 011- New Jersey. Before becoming an Infection preventionist in 2015, she worked as a staff nurse in cardiac stepdown, telemetry, and ICU units.
Dr. Jubah is the owner and consultant at Keita Public Health Consulting. There she offers expert advice on healthcare and community and acute care infection prevention and control practices as well as health promotion and disease prevention to community and organization leaders and executives. Moreover, through her passion for education and coaching, Dr. Jubah serves as a part-time lecturer for the School of Nursing at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, which is one of America's leading public research universities. She is very passionate about empowering others through lived experiences and a shared vision of nursing empowerment and health equity.
Dr. Jubah is double board certified in Infection Control (CIC) and Nurse Executive Advanced (NEA-BC) as well as a certificate in Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. She holds a doctorate in Nursing Practice and a master’s in Public Health. When she is not teaching nursing or working as an expert IP, Dr. Jubah spends time with her family of 5 and her Yorkshire terrier. She loves to garden and undertake simple do-it-yourself (diy) projects.
Dr. Scott Venners
Scott began his career in education as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, where he taught physics in a public high school. He later spent five years in Taiwan, teaching English, mathematics, and computer science. He went on to earn a Master’s in Public Health from Tulane University, specializing in quantitative epidemiology and biostatistics. Scott continued his studies at Tulane University, earning a Ph.D. in Environmental Epidemiology. His dissertation research, conducted in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health, focused on the effects of air pollution in China on respiratory health and mortality.
After completing his Ph.D., Scott conducted postdoctoral research at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he led a large study funded by the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences investigating the impact of pesticide exposure on fertility in agricultural communities in China. During this time, he received a K01 grant to explore genetic susceptibilities to pesticides. In 2005, Scott was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health. He joined Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Health Sciences in 2008, where he initially researched the effects of low-level pollution on diabetes and cardiovascular disease. His current work focuses on the application of epidemiological methods in Indigenous health research.
Kerrie Flynn
Kerrie Flynn is a Master’s prepared Family Nurse Practitioner and Classical Homeopath who has been doing humanitarian work in countries around the world for more than 40 years.
Her clinical and research experience began in the early days of the HIV epidemic where she was the Chair of the Pediatric Patient Care Committee for the NIH, setting up clinics and conducting research on antiviral drugs including having her own research funded. She’s held combined clinical and research roles including as the Director of Clinical Research in Orthopedics at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, a leadership role in setting up, the first of its kind, a national rare neurological research network. This involved both the clinical and ethics components for the Harvard teaching hospitals. She volunteered on the Ethics Board for 9 years. She is a member of Physicians for Human Rights. Her recent Masters is in International Health.
Her humanitarian work began in the 1980’s including project's in Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Honduras, India, refugee camps and resettlements and elsewhere. Her NGO work includes Country Director Sierra Leone for Global Response Medicine, an American based NGO. She worked setting up a COVID tent hospital in the refugee camp in Matamoros Mexico. Also providing healthcare for the refugees. Her experience in Sierra Leone includes coordinating the disaster management for the fire emergency in Freetown 2022 working with Ambassador SidiqueWai at his request.
Her passion remains strong in community based health care in underserved regions across the globe. She and Dr. Fallah met at Harvard school of Public health and she now has the privilege of working with him for RPI.