The CCIH Board of Directors is elected by the membership to govern the organization, set organizational policy, and oversee CCIH activities. Board members serve two-year terms.

Board President: Jim Oehrig, MA, is Global Advisor, Christian Partnerships at Hope Rises International, formerly American Leprosy Missions. Collaborating with regional directors and teams, Jim fosters relationships with the organizations and churches where Hope Rises International (HRI) works, creating the conditions for partnerships to flourish. Jim’s expertise includes integral mission, community health development, capacity cultivation, member care, and inter-organizational collaboration. He earned his B.A. from Houghton College and a M.A. in Latin American studies and international development from the University of Connecticut. He did post-graduate work at the Centre for Development Studies at Swansea University, Wales. Jim has lived in six different countries on three continents and has hands-on program experience in more than 50 countries across Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.
Vice President: Barbara Campbell, RPh, CCN is Executive Director of the Dalton Foundation, where she is developing and implementing strategic programs and partner relationships to support health system strengthening in contexts in which they work. Barbara is currently Co-Chair of CCIH’s Mapping Working Group, helping oversee faith-based mapping initiatives. Barbara served in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and subsequently worked in Haiti for over 5 and a half years as Director of Medical Operations with Mission of Hope.
Secretary: Justin Narducci, MBA is President and CEO of CURE International, a network of Christian pediatric hospitals. He joined CURE in June 2020 and brings over 15 years of faith-based nonprofit, leadership, and international business experience. Justin began his career with The Boeing Company and most recently served as President/CEO of Lifewater International. He has an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BS in Business Administration from Arizona State University.
Treasurer: Dave Evans, MS is an International Development Consultant. Previously, he served as President of LifeNet International, which works in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Malawi. Before joining LifeNet, Dave worked as Senior Director for Innovation in World Vision International and Chief of Party in World Vision Zimbabwe. Dave also served for 22 years in Food for the Hungry, where he rose to the position of U.S. President and Global Executive Officer based in FH’s Washington, D.C. office. Dave’s experience includes relief and development leadership in the United States, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

 

Members at Large

David Damond, Chief Financial Officer of CMMB, brings over 30 years of financial experience in mission-driven nonprofits. At CMMB, he led an Enterprise Resource Planning system upgrade and improved contract efficiency, saving operational funds. Previously, as CFO at March of Dimes, he strengthened financial health and increased reserves. Dave also served as CFO of the American Red Cross Biomedical unit and began his career at KPMG. He holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a BSBA in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University.
Dr. Priya John, MBBS, MD, DNB is the General Secretary of the Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI), a position she has held since 2019. Before that role, Priya worked for CMAI in the Community Health Department and Palliative Medicine in New Delhi for three years before coming to CMAI. She earned her MBBS from the Christian Medical College in Vellore and degrees in Community Health and Preventive Medicine at St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences in Bangalore.
Zana Kiragu, MPH, MPharm is a Kenyan pharmacist and public health professional working in the access to medicines space. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health. She volunteered with CCIH in support of the 2019 annual conference while she was pursuing a Masters of Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to this, she received her Bachelors and Master of Pharmacy at the University of Manchester in 2015, and practiced in industrial, clinical and retail settings in both the UK and Kenya.
Patricia Kisare is Program Director for International Policy Advocacy at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, leading strategies on global health, gender justice, peacebuilding, and more. She previously served as International Policy Advisor for the Episcopal Church and ELCA, and with Mennonite Central Committee U.S. She was also a Research Assistant at the U.N. Tribunal for Rwanda. Patricia serves on the boards of Heifer International, Friends of Shirati, and Jubilee USA. She holds a Master of International Affairs from Pennsylvania State University.
Katelyn Long, DrPH is the John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her current work focuses on determinants of well-being, group dynamics of religion on human flourishing, and the development of tradition-specific spiritual well-being measures. She completed her doctoral studies at Boston University School of Public Health where her dissertation focused on the role of faith-based and charitable health providers in health systems. She earned an MSc in Public Health from the University of Utah and bachelors in religion from Vanguard University.
Mwai Makoka, MBBS is Programme Executive for Health and Healing at the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Dr. Makoka also serves on the boards of the Africa Christian Health Associations’ Platform and the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in Malawi in 2002, and received further training in public health microbiology and infectious diseases in the U.S. Besides clinical practice, Dr. Makoka previously worked in the national HIV programme and in academia and was previously Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Malawi.
Rick Santos, MBA, MTS is President and CEO of Church World Service. Prior to his current position, he led the Africa Christian Health Network, and was Board Chair of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, and a Fellow at InterAction focusing on Faith and Development and localization. From 2009 to 2018 Rick was the President and CEO of IMA World Health, and in his nine years there led the organization through a period of rapid growth that included increasing program impact and building healthy communities in some of the most difficult places in the world. Rick led the IMA merger with Lutheran World Relief and stayed on as Senior Advisor through 2019.
Littleton “Lit” Tazewell is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer with USAID. He served as Mission Director in Malawi and Panama, Deputy Director in Southern Africa, and legal advisor in Central Asia and Latin America. Earlier, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. Lit focused on health, education, trade, governance, and legal reform throughout his career. He holds a JD from William & Mary University and an LL.M. from the University of London.
Lanre Williams-Ayedun is Senior Vice President of International Programs at World Relief. She has 17 years of experience in strategy and systems building for new business acquisition, technical program design, and program management. She served as a Senior Program Advisor at Jhpiego, providing strategic guidance to country-office leaders and home office program and technical counterparts in positioning and capturing new program opportunities. Lanre also worked for ten years with World Vision US in various roles, including as director for the Child Protection and Education team, managing a global multi-million dollar portfolio of projects funded by US government donors, individual philanthropists, corporations, and foundations.
Doug Fountain, MPA Ex Officio. Doug serves as CCIH Executive Director. Doug brings over 30 years of experience in health services planning, research, and evaluation and over 20 years in the faith-based and international development sectors. He consults on development strategy and policy with bilateral and multilateral partners and global faith actors. He served in Executive Leadership at Medical Teams International, a relief-focused NGO, and with Uganda Christian University, where he lived for over eight years. He helped start the Christian Health Asset Mapping Consortium, the Christian Journal for Global Health, and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Uganda Christian University. Doug holds an MPA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.S. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Oregon.