Board & Team

Board Chair

Lawrence K. Fish is the former Chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a multi-state commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. During his 17-year tenure, CFG grew 30-fold and became one of the 10 largest commercial bank holding companies in the United States in total assets and deposits. It operates its branch network in 13 states through its Citizens Bank and Charter One brands, and has non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states....

Barbara Bierer

Dr. Barbara Bierer is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and a hematologist/oncologist. She is the faculty co-chair of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Harvard University (Harvard MRCT), a study center whose purpose is to improve the ethical, logistical and regulatory aspects of international clinical trials, with a special focus on the emerging economies, and the Director of the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics and the Law Program of the Harvard clinical and translational sciences center....

Charles J. Dockendorff

Former executive vice president and chief financial officer for Covidien, a publicly traded medical device and supplies company, Charles J. Dockendorff was responsible for the company’s global financial management activities, including Corporate Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Financial Planning and Investor Relations, as well as Internal Audit and Information Services....

Robert E. Hallagan

Robert E. Hallagan is Vice Chairman and Co-Leader for the Board Leadership Services Practice at Korn Ferry, the world’s largest talent management firm, with 80 offices worldwide. He is a recognized expert in Board Governance and has a strong record of identifying and securing top talent for a wide range of clients whom he advises on Board and CEO issues. In 1996 he co-founded The Center for Board Leadership, a joint venture with The National Association of Corporate Directors. He served as the Center’s CEO and then Chairman, leading its mission of developing “Best Practices for Effective Board Leadership.”

Paula Doherty Johnson

Paula Doherty Johnson is a Senior Research Fellow with Harvard University’s Hauser Institute for Civil Society at the Center for Public Leadership, where she leads research on the growth, practices, and impact of global philanthropy. Ms. Johnson has twenty-five years of experience in global philanthropy and international development, with particular focus on the nexus of the two fields. She has conducted extensive research on and analysis of global philanthropic growth, institutions and practices....

Katherine Luzuriaga

Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga is the UMass Memorial Health Care Chair in Biomedical Research, Professor of Molecular Medicine, and Vice Provost for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). She is a pediatric infectious disease physician, whose research has led to the development of new prevention and treatment strategies for pediatric HIV-1 infection and informed global treatment guidelines and policies. As Director of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Dr. Luzuriaga leads efforts to translate scientific discoveries into products and approaches that improve individual and population health.

Latanya Mapp Frett

Latanya Mapp Frett is President and CEO of Global Fund for Women. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global, the international arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, with regional and country offices in Africa and Latin America. She quadrupled the size of the program in four years to become one of the most innovative and sustainable global health organizations in the field. Prior to joining Planned Parenthood Global, Ms. Frett worked with USAID for 10 years, including as Mission Director in Nigeria and Assistant Director in Mali.

W. Gyude Moore

W. Gyude Moore is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development. He previously served as Liberia’s Minister of Public Works with oversight over the construction and maintenance of public infrastructure from December 2014 to January 2018. Prior to that role, Moore served as Deputy Chief of Staff to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Head of the President’s Delivery Unit (PDU). As Head of the PDU, his team monitored progress and drove delivery of the Public Sector Investment Program of Liberia—a program of over $1 billion in road, power, port infrastructure, and social programs in Liberia after the civil war...

Bernard Nahlen

Dr. Bernard Nahlen is Director of the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health and comes to MSH with decades of experience in research and disease elimination programs around the world. Prior to his recent appointment as Director of the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health, Dr. Nahlen served as Deputy Coordinator of the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) from 2007 to 2017. From 2005 to 2006, Dr. Nahlen was Senior Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation, at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria....

Dan Pellegrom

Dan Pellegrom’s career in reproductive health spanned more than 4 decades including Presidencies of three different organizations, concluded with a 26 year tenure as President and CEO of Pathfinder International. Dan is widely respected for his experience in both management and advocacy....

Marian W. Wentworth

President and Chief Executive Officer

Marian W. Wentworth is President and Chief Executive Officer of MSH, a global nonprofit that works side-by-side with leaders in low- and middle-income countries to build strong, equitable and sustainable health systems that save lives and improve health outcomes. Since joining MSH in 2017, Marian has focused on developing a new strategic vision to guide the organization’s broad, decades-long technical expertise in addressing evolving challenges in leadership, health systems management, human resources, and access to medicines.

Gordon Comstock, MBA

Vice President, Program Delivery Group

Gordon Comstock is the Vice President of the Program Delivery Group at MSH, where he is responsible for MSH’s global portfolio of health care programs and people; shaping and overseeing program execution; and managing all country operations to support the achievement of MSH’s mission, goals, and objectives.

David Humphries

Chief External Affairs Officer

David Humphries is Chief External Affairs Officer at Management Sciences for Health. Since 2000, David has led strategic communications and government relations teams, and has led communications strategies in countries across Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia in the nonprofit, government and private sector....

Colleen McGuffin

Chief People and Culture Officer

Colleen McGuffin is Chief People and Culture Officer of MSH. Colleen has extensive leadership and culture-shaping experience from a diversity of global roles. Most recently, she served in various Vice President roles at Merck & Co, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Colleen’s roles at Merck span over a decade in customer engagement, marketing, vaccine strategy, in addition to global medical and policy affairs.

Craig Molyneaux

Chief Financial Officer

Craig Molyneaux is Chief Financial Officer of MSH, where he plays a broad and strategic leadership role in the organization’s overall growth and development. He serves as financial advisor and partner to the CEO, leadership team, the board of directors and its audit and finance committees on matters relating to financial status, risk management, and long-term planning. Craig comes to MSH with more than 30 years of financial management experience, having held CFO roles in diverse business environments, including public, private, venture-backed, and non-profit organizations....

Dana Sandstrom Keating

Head of Business Development and Partnerships

Dana Sandstrom Keating is head of Business Development and Partnerships at Management Sciences for Health. She leads MSH’s donor engagement and strategic partnership efforts across all areas of the organization’s work. Dana joined MSH in 2008, working in Zambia, where she was based until late 2017 when she returned to the US to work from MSH’s Arlington office. She joined the business development team in 2012 and has held various strategy and management roles at MSH, working with diverse donors such as the US Agency for International Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the UK Department for International Development, the World Bank, the Government of Namibia, and foundation and corporate donors.