Allison Howard-Berry, Chair & Co-Founder

Allison Howard-Berry is a social sector leader whose 20-year career sits at the intersection of global health systems, social enterprise, and sustainable impact — driven by the conviction that lasting change requires both mission and market. In 2009, she co-founded C2C in Haiti alongside Elizabeth Sheehan, a physician assistant and global health policy expert, building it from the ground up into a thriving social enterprise. As Chief Executive for a decade, she led strategic growth and optimized a business model designed to generate both social value and financial sustainability.

Currently, Allison serves as Chief Advancement Officer at Touch Health, where she champions efforts to strengthen health systems across sub-Saharan Africa through innovative partnerships and programs that break down the barriers in access to care. Her earlier career includes leadership roles at Planned Parenthood North Central States and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Ethiopia — experiences that deepened her conviction that durable health solutions require both rigorous systems thinking and entrepreneurial execution.

Allison holds a Master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. She also serves on the Board of the KLM Foundation, a charitable organization advancing youth leadership development and education in rural South Africa.

Elizabeth Sheehan, PA-C, MPH, Co-Founder and Director

Elizabeth Sheehan is a founder, philanthropist, advocate, and global health expert. Originally trained as a Physician Assistant, Elizabeth worked in Africa and Asia for two decades, where she saw how the gap in healthcare services at the community level led to poor health and perpetuated cycles of poverty. She worked for USAID on a primary health care reconstruction project in post-war Mozambique and later in Angola. In 2008, she co-founded Care 2 Communities (C2C), a non-profit social enterprise that delivers comprehensive primary health care in Haiti. Elizabeth is a member of the Women Moving Millions executive board and joined Co-Impact as a founding community member.

Claire Dillavou, Ph.D., Director

Dr. Dillavou is Managing Director, AI & Data in the Public Services sector at Accenture, focusing on Public Health. Previously, she founded Unfathomable Health and served as Senior Science and Technology Advisor at ARPA-H, where she oversaw investments in population health, biotechnology, biosecurity, and women’s health.

As Director of the Vaccine Preventable Disease Control Program and Chief of Epidemiology and Data at the LA Department of Public Health, she led COVID-19 vaccine distribution to 10 million residents, expanded DPH’s capabilities to include medical therapies for COVID+ patients, and partnered across public, philanthropic, and private sectors to meet urgent epidemic needs. Her work earned a gubernatorial appointment to California’s COVID-19 Vaccine Priority Population Guideline Workgroup and a Best of California Award from Government Technology Magazine.

Her broader career includes service as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, consulting for the WHO, CDC, and various public and private health organizations, and receipt of a Bill & Melinda Gates Grand Challenges award. She serves on Uber’s Safety Advisory Board and the boards of two international NGOs.

Dr. Dillavou holds a BS from Vanderbilt University, an MPH from Columbia University, and a PhD in Epidemiology from UCLA.

Glenn Paredes, Director

Glenn Paredes is a business leader out of the high-tech industry interested in applying his experience to help advance the success of mission-driven nonprofits and social enterprises. He has applied this commitment to supporting social impact ventures as a Board member and business advisor in the areas of growth strategy, scaling up operations, leadership, and organization development. Glenn has held several executive leadership roles for companies such as Booking Holdings Corporation, Wolters Kluwer and Dell Technologies spanning general management, global business operations, acquisition integration, global centers of excellence, and services. Enabling and driving business transformation has been a central theme throughout his career in high-velocity businesses and markets.  He is certified in Six Sigma and a practitioner of the LEAN methodology. Glenn has an MBA from Northeastern University and a BA from the College of the Holy Cross.

Kim Wilson, MD, MPH, Director

Dr. Wilson’s work has focused on improving health care for underserved populations domestically and internationally. In Boston, Dr. Wilson has combined clinical care for underserved families with the implementation of programs to improve the health of children with chronic illnesses. Her international work grew from her clinical pediatric practice in Boston, working with transnational families from the Dominican Republic. Internationally, Dr. Wilson has led a maternal and neonatal training and quality improvement program at hospital facilities in the Dominican Republic. Her current work applies the technology of health to quality improvement, using cell phone-based protocols as decision aids to improve newborn health care in Tanzania. Dr. Wilson teaches at Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health, focusing on global maternal-child health and social determinants of disease. In addition, she developed and directs the Global Pediatric Fellows Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, with pediatric fellows working in Haiti and Rwanda.

Christine Candio, LFACHE, Director

Christine Candio is a seasoned healthcare executive with over four decades of experience in acute care and outpatient settings. She served as President and CEO of St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis from 2015 to 2020, and previously as CEO of Inova Alexandria Hospital and Senior Vice President of Inova Health System in northern Virginia. She currently serves as a Strategic Advisor to U.S. Acute Care Solutions, a physician-owned national organization providing integrated acute care across hospitals and health systems.

Ms. Candio began her career as a nurse and progressed through nursing and senior executive leadership roles across multiple health systems, gaining deep expertise in healthcare operations and strategy. She holds a B.S. in Nursing from William Paterson University and a Master of Public Administration with a focus in healthcare management from Fairleigh Dickinson University. A Life Fellow and Past Chairman of the American College of Healthcare Executives — an international professional society of more than 40,000 healthcare leaders — she is board-certified in healthcare management.

Ms. Candio is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2019 ACHE Gold Medal Award — the field’s highest honor for meaningful contributions to the healthcare industry — and the 2019 Missouri Hospital Association Distinguished Service Award. She has also been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of 10 “Women to Watch in Healthcare” and named one of the Most Influential Business Women by the St. Louis Business Journal, both in 2017.

In addition to Board service at C2C, Ms. Candio currently chairs the External Advisory Committee of the George Washington University MHA Program and serves on the board of HANDS of Saint Lucie County, which provides primary healthcare to low-income uninsured adults.

Elizabeth Louis, Ph.D., Director

Dr. Elizabeth Farrah Louis is a Haitian-American licensed clinical psychologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She conducts research on the experiences of home health aides, health disparities, racial and ethnic minorities wellness, and global mental health. She provides therapy to diverse patients to address their mental health and social determinants of health. Dr. Louis is a diversity, equity, inclusion and feminist consultant and advocates for marginalized populations. She serves as a Board of Director for the American Psychological Association and other national and Haiti based organizations. She volunteers in communities around post-traumatic healing and racial reconciliation and provides mental health literacy workshops to communities in Haitian Creole. She has worked in Haiti and Rwanda with Partners in Health on diverse mental health initiatives. Dr. Louis is the chair of the executive committee for The Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center, the first Haitian cultural center in New England. She enjoys cooking, indoor rock climbing, listening to audiobooks, dancing, solo travel, and has been to 42 countries and counting.

Sheila Phicil, Director

Sheila Phicil is a Social Change Futurist™ with nearly two decades of experience shaping healthcare innovation. She is the founder of Phicil-itate Change, an innovation studio helping startups, investors, and health systems implement ethical AI solutions.

Sheila has held leadership roles at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Boston Medical Center, where she served as Director of Innovation for the Health Equity Accelerator. She developed the SEEDS Innovation™ Framework and launched Listen Phirst™, a platform translating patient stories into actionable insights, while advancing data sovereignty through consent and compensation.

A first-generation Haitian American, Sheila launched her first nonprofit at age 14. She holds dual master’s degrees from Boston University, is a PMP and FACHE, and has received multiple leadership honors.

She is a sought-after speaker and a published contributor to journals including JAMA Oncology. Her forthcoming book, Remembering How to Care, explores reimagining healthcare in the age of AI.

Sarah Matousek, Ph.D., Director

Sarah Matousek, PhD, MPH, is a Principal at Day Health Strategies (DHS), where she leads a team working on multiple healthcare transformation initiatives in multiple healthcare sectors. After spending eight years in academia researching Alzheimer’s disease in Rochester, NY, and then at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Sarah studied health policy and management at the Boston University School of Public Health. While there, she collaborated with a team at Harvard Medical School to develop and implement a mobile phone solutions program for surgical patients in rural Haiti. Sarah has held adjunct and affiliate faculty positions at Boston University’s Metropolitan College and Ariadne Labs. She holds a Ph.D. in Neurobiology & Anatomy from the University of Rochester and an MPH in Health Policy & Management from Boston University.

Naïké Ledan, Director

Naïké Ledan is a social justice defendant, a committed feminist of heart that brings forward 20 years of experience in human rights and health justice advocacy, women’s empowerment, the fight for universal access to basic services and social inclusion, and civil society capacity building. She has built extensive work in Canada, West, and Southern Africa, and Haiti in civil rights advocacy capacity building while emphasizing the social determinants of structural exclusion. Presently she is working to increase civil society involvement to hold Governments, PEPFAR, and the Global Fund accountable to communities while providing technical assistance on building effective Community-Led Monitoring to different countries while building pertinent educational tools to inform stakeholders. She leads the global support for Zimbabwe civil society and is instrumental in translating Data for civil society to use for advocacy purposes. Naïké holds an MS in International Development from the University of Montreal and is pursuing a postgraduate degree in Public Health at New York University’s Global Institute of Public Health.

Rupal Ramesh Shah, MPH, Director

Rupal Ramesh Shah serves as the Executive Director of YMCA of Central Ohio, in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Rupal has Master’s degrees in Microbiology from Clemson University and in Public Health from Boston University. She has worked in various countries such as South Africa, Tanzania, and Haiti. Originally from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Rupal is passionate about social justice initiatives and has often worked on community initiatives that support and empower local people. Rupal has also been writing about issues surrounding homelessness, and her publications can be found in street newspapers nationwide.

Jay Evans, MSc, FRCSEd, FRRHH, Director

Jay Evans is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Interactive Health Ltd (IHL), with over a decade of international experience in global health. In addition to his role at IHL, Jay is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh within the Faculty of Rural, Remote & Humanitarian Health. He also serves on the faculty for the Advanced Programme in Digital Health with ISTCE in Lisbon and supports the NHS Digital Academy in collaboration with Imperial College London. Jay is the Chief Investigator for several RCUK-funded studies focused on democratizing digital health tools and building government capacity to manage digital health initiatives. Jay’s expertise is grounded in designing scalable, impactful health systems. In South Asia and Latin America, he and his team implemented large-scale community-based health programs in partnership with governments, including one of the largest community-funded maternal and child health programs globally.Jay has also advised national governments, including developing the National eHealth Strategy in Nepal and supporting the Government of Bermuda in their National Digital Health Strategy.

Elizabeth Johansen

Elizabeth is the Director of Product Design at Jana Care, a social enterprise providing affordable tools for managing chronic disease. Over 50,000 people have signed up for the Habits diabetes lifestyle management app, and over 100,000 Aina HbA1c diagnostic kits have been sold for diabetes screening and monitoring. Elizabeth uses a human-centered design strategy to guide the development of Jana Care’s rapid diagnostic kits, smartphone-integrated hardware, and lifestyle management apps. Before Jana Care, Elizabeth was a director at Diagnostics For All and Design that Matters and a project lead at design consultancy IDEO. Past product launches include the Eli Lilly Kiwkpen insulin injector for diabetes, and Firefly phototherapy, now treating newborns with jaundice in low-resource hospitals in 22 countries.

Kettie Louis

Kettie R. Louis, DNP, is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine, a practicing Nurse Practitioner at Boston Medical Center. Kettie is committed to continuing nursing education in Haiti, mentorship, and universal access to cervical screening and the HPV vaccination. Kettie is an EqualHealth board member who contributes to nurse training programs and research on nursing education in Haiti. She is co-leader of EqualHealth’s Women’s Leadership Roundtable.

Robin Reed, MD

Dr. Robin Reed is an internal medicine physician whose career has been focused on primary care, public health, and community service. Her training began at Columbia University’s Harlem Hospital Center in NYC, leading to her clinic position at Shattuck Hospital, a state-run safety net hospital in Boston. There, she held leadership roles such as Director of Ambulatory Medicine, Liaison to Mattapan Community Health Center (a clinic that serves primarily Haitian Americans), and ultimately Chief of Internal Medicine. Dr. Reed is an Assistant Medicine Professor at Tufts University PA Program. 

Constance Eagen

Connie is a risk management executive with 35 years of experience in the financial services industry. Most recently, with Bank of America, Connie’s expertise includes developing and implementing governance, policy, data, and reporting platforms to manage commercial credit risk actively. Connie also has extensive experience in sales, client development, and relationship management. As a College of the Holy Cross’ Board of Trustees member, Connie brought her professional skills to Committees on Finance, Development, and Student Affairs. She led the College’s nationally recognized annual giving campaign for five years. In 2013 Holy Cross recognized Connie’s contributions by awarding her its In Hoc Sign award for distinguished service. She graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, majoring in Classics, and attended Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Connie is a resident of New York City and West Stockbridge, MA.

Rick Dwyer

Rick co-founded halix.io LLC, a recent startup focused on building a technology and service platform to help small businesses succeed. Halix.io is his third startup in a career as a software developer and entrepreneur that’s spanned over 25 years. Between building companies, Rick worked at Ford Motor Company, Apple, and Follett Corporation and most recently spent a few years as a stay-at-home dad – the best and toughest job ever. Rick is excited to use his energy, talents, and resources to help make the world a better place. He received his undergraduate degree in Applied Math from Harvard University and his Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurial Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Rick lives outside Boston with his wife and children.

Carmel Shields

Carmel Shields is the Executive Vice President of Shields Health Care Group and Director of ProCare Medical Equipment Maintenance and Service. Before joining Shields, she was a Fiscal and Legislative Analyst for the House Committee on Ways and Means, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She currently serves on the board of various not-for-profits, including Yawkey House of Possibilities, the Board of Overseers of Boston Children’s Hospital and the Council of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is a former trustee of Stonehill College and CRUDEM. Carmel graduated from Boston College and earned an MBA from Northeastern University, a graduate degree in Environmental Law, University of Sydney (AUS), and a law degree from New England School of Law.