Ayantu Tesfaye is a senior associate of RDA Africa, and a physician at Nordic Hospital, a Norwegian hospital operated by highly experienced Ethiopian and international medical professionals. She is an associate professor at St Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she received her medical degree in 2013. She completed her Internal medicine residency at St Paul in 2020, and obtained a Master’s in Public Health from Jimma University that same year. She was noted for leading with excellence several departments in the hospitals she served and for mentoring over 20 health professionals. Prior to her current position at Nordic, Dr. Ayantu worked as a general practitioner at Menillik II Hospital and Ambo Hospital in Oromia Region in Ethiopia. Dr. Ayantu established hemodialysis center at Minillik II Hospital to serve low-income patients. Dr. Ayantu is fluent in Amharic, Afan Oromo and English. She is a member of the Ethiopian Medical Association, Ethiopian Heart Association and Ethiopian Blood Bank.

Dr. Sikipa is a physician with a post-graduate qualification in Maternal and Child Health (MCH). He worked at various levels of the Zimbabwean health system from junior hospital clinician rising through the ranks at District, Province and National levels ending as Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Health. Godfrey is the Founder and currently Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Senior Technical Advisor of Compre Health Services, a private health consulting and service delivery company registered in Zimbabwe and based in Harare. He is the immediate past chairman of the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals Management Board. Recently he was appointed as a board member of Island Hospice and Healthcare, established in 1979 as the first hospice in Africa.

In addition, as a Member of the Presidential Advisory Council to the President of Zimbabwe , he has participated in development of High Level Advisories to the President on various health issues including the COVID 19. He is a Current member of the Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG) of the Governing Board of the Geneva-based Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. In addition, he has wide global experience, having worked in various senior-level leadership and management positions leading multinational, multicultural teams in both developed and developing countries.

Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Kinesiology & Health Sciences at The College of William & Mary, USA. She has a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a master's in preventive veterinary medicine from University of California at Davis. She also has a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Cornell University, USA. In 2003, she was appointed Commissioner for Health in Ogun State of Nigeria and in 2007 she was elected to the Nigerian Senate in 2007, where she was the chair of the health committee. In 2011, she became an advanced leadership fellow at Harvard University and since then has done significant work exploring issues of governance, leadership and public health.

Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.  He is co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Health Equity Steering Committee and is the co-director and co-founder of Medicine for the Greater Good, a novel medical initiative impacting over 10,000 Baltimore City lives in regards to health and wellness while at the same time creating physician-citizens. He has published over 60 research articles, with a focus on health equity, community engagement, and contextual-level variables impact on health outcomes, and is a co-author of the book series, "Building Health Communities".  During the pandemic, Dr. Galiatsatos and colleagues coordinate community engagement to assure all populations were able to access COVID-19 updates and resources in an effort to assure compliance with public health requests. His clinical responsibilities center on critical care services in adult populations, Director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Associate Director of The Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Clinical Excellence, and Physician in The Obstructive Lung Disease Group at Johns Hopkins Medicine and in the post-COVID-19 acute clinic.

Dr. Kechi Achebe is an experienced public health physician, scientist, and researcher, with more than 20 years of technical, programmatic, and leadership experience in public health and clinical medicine. A recognized global expert in the area of global health--especially HIV, tuberculosis and related diseases, she has worked and led the design and delivery of public health programs globally.

Dr. Achebe is the Director of the Office of Global Health and HIV (OGHH). In this role, she serves as PEPFAR Deputy Principal, representing Peace Corps to the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy at State Department (S/GAC). Prior to joining OGHH, Dr. Kechi was most recently the managing partner of the International Development and Relief Consulting Group (IDR Consulting Group). Prior to that, she served as the Senior Director for HIV/AIDS and TB programs at Save the Children USA, and previously, was the Director of the office of Health and HIV/AIDS (OHHA) at Africare, all based in Washington DC. Dr Achebe also served as member and advisor to the UNITAID civil society board. Her extensive work experience covers Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the USA. She has also served as the principal investigator on many CDC/NIH and PEPFAR funded projects, and has published white papers, technical support documents, and peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Achebe holds a medical degree (MD) from the University of Benin in Nigeria, and a master's degree in public health (MPH) from Boston University. She also obtained a fellowship in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health.

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Rebkha is the Founder and CEO of RnD Associates/RDAssociates Africa. Also the Director, Bunting Neighborhood Leadership Program, and an affiliated Faculty Member of Bloomberg American Health Initiative, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Rebkha is also a Research Associate at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. 

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In 2019, Rebkha established RnD Associates/Global and promote public health, youth development, and  leadership development in the northeast region of the U.S. In 2021, she launched RDAssociates Africa in Ethiopia and Kenya to build human capacity in healthcare and pharma, engineering and manufacturing, and hospitality and tourism and integrating youth engagement, women empowerment and digital transformation across these sectors