board of directors

Gunjan Sinha
Board Chair
Gunjan Sinha joined CFHI’s board in 2001. Gunjan is Chairman at MetricStream and is responsible for leading the strategy and execution with the company. Most recently, Gunjan served as eGain's co-founder and President and has spent over a decade in various product, sales management and executive positions developing, marketing and selling software and Internet services. At eGain (NASDAQ: EGAN) he led Sales, Marketing, Services since inception and served over 800 global customers in targeted financial services, telecom and retail verticals. Prior to eGain, he was the co-founder and President of WhoWhere? Inc., a leading Internet services company acquired by Lycos in 1998. Gunjan also co-founded Viman Software, Inc. and Parsec Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and UC Santa Cruz, respectively. He also holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University. Mr. Sinha was one of the 50 most successful immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States.

Josh Pickus
Vice Chair
Josh Pickus joined CFHI’s board in mid-2005. He joined SupportSoft as CEO and president in April 2006. Prior to SupportSoft, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Computer Associates’ (CA) Clarity Division, part of the Business Service Optimization unit, and is responsible for the division's sales, professional services, marketing, and research and development. Previously, Mr. Pickus served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Niku Corporation, which CA acquired in August 2005. Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Pickus served Niku as Chief Financial Officer and, prior to that, was Niku's President, Vertical Markets. Before joining Niku, Mr. Pickus was a partner in the private equity group at Bowman Capital Management, a technology investment firm, and a partner at Venture Law Group, a Silicon Valley law firm. Mr. Pickus holds an A.B. in public and international affairs from Princeton University and a J.D. from Chicago Law School.

Alan D. Biller
Treasurer
Alan D. Biller is president of Alan D. Biller & Associates, Inc. of Menlo Park, California, an investment consulting firm specializing in working with multiemployer benefit plans for more than 20 years. Mr. Biller has written several articles and serves as an expert witness on fiduciary investment management. He has a bachelor's degree from Yale, a master's degree from the University of London, a Ph.D from Columbia University and an M.B.A from Harvard.

Laurie C. Zephyrin, MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Laurie C. Zephyrin joined CFHI’s board in January 2008.  Dr. Zephyrin is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Population and Family Health and Clinical Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. In this capacity, Dr. Zephyrin practices Obstetrics and Gynecology, supervises and teaches residents and medical students and has a grant portfolio which includes research focusing on cost and health systems globally. She previously served as a White House Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs and was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins Medical School and a Physician in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution. Dr. Zephyrin completed her training at Harvard's Integrated Residency Training Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital-Massachusetts General Hospital. She served as Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Massachusetts section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Zephyrin has organized workshops for women on HIV education and general women's health domestically and overseas, currently working on global women's health issues related to obstetric fistula prevention and capacity building. She competes in Olympic distance triathlons to raise money for various charities. Dr. Zephyrin is a recipient of the 2005 American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award and is an Emerging Leaders Life Fellow with the South Africa-Duke Center for Leadership and Public Values. She holds a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences, cum laude, from the City College of New York, an MD from the New York University School of Medicine, and an MPH and MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Ajoy Mallik
Ajoy Mallik joined CFHI's board in 2003 and was the Chair from 2005 to 2007. Based in Saratoga, California, Ajoy has global responsibility for Venture Capital FOR TCS (TATA Consultancy Services) -  ­Asia's largest software services company and part of the TATA group; the largest Indian business conglomerate. He serves as advisor, investor, and board member to several start-ups in the U.S and In recent prior roles he served as head of business development and strategy for 123SignUp and Odesk. He has also worked at Peregrine Systems, responsible for the alliance with IBM's software group in North America and EMEA. He holds an M.B.A. in International Business and Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Evaleen Jones, M.D., ex officio
President/Founder & Medical Director
Dr. Evaleen Jones founded Child Family Health International in 1992. She is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco Family Medicine Residency. She currently holds a position on the Clinical Faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Jones is an active member of the Global Health Medical Education Consortium (G.H.E.C.). Her commitment to the underserved stems from growing up in rural New Jersey and spending her college years in the Appalachian region of Virginia, where poverty prevails. She began her work in international health taking trips to Latin America as a medical student. Within five years, she founded CFHI, which is now a 3.4 million dollar organization that works with over 250 global partners, sending 700+ medical students abroad each year. She works actively to support the organization's growth and development, traveling extensively to strengthen sustainable healthcare for underserved communities worldwide. She is married, with two sons, Kodiak and Miles.

Ellen Levy, Ph.D.
Ellen Levy joined CFHI’s board in 2004. Ellen Levy is Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy at LinkedIn. Prior to that, she was Managing Director at Silicon Valley Connect and before that the Director of Industry Collaboration & Research for MediaX at Stanford University, holding venture capitalist positions, both as a Managing Director at NeoCarta Ventures and at Softbank Venture Capital. Dr. Levy has also worked in management level positions in a number of technology startups Softbook Press and WhoWhere, as well as technology companies Interval Research and Apple Computer. Outside the world of technology, she worked for the Harvard School of Public Health, planning the VIIIth International Conference on AIDS. She currently serves on the Board of Child Family Health International, on the advisory board for a number of Silicon Valley startups, and is a Charter Member of the Indus Entrepreneur Organization (TiE). Dr. Levy received her M.A. & Ph.D. at Stanford University in Cognitive Psychology. She was also a 2004 White House Fellows Regional Finalist.

Steven E. Schmidbauer, ex officio
Executive Director
Steve Schmidbauer joined CFHI as Executive Director in 2004 where he is responsible for managing all global operations. Prior to 2004, he served six years as a program manager and director for one of the largest child and family service agencies in California, where his work in innovative program development was recognized at state and national levels. In 1998, he received the Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the California State University at Hayward. Prior to working in California, Steve was a volunteer teacher in Namibia (1982-1985) and from 1990-1993, he worked to support international relief efforts in Central and South America. Steve holds a B.A. in Journalism, Broadcasting, and Speech from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, and an M.Div. from the University of Toronto.

 staff

Amanda Jones
Programs/Office Assistant
Amanda joined the CFHI Team in March 2008 as the Programs/Office Assistant. She is a recent graduate of Colorado College, where she designed a major in American Cultural Studies with a focus on how HIV/AIDS is affected by race, stigma, and discrimination. After college, she lived in San Miguel de Allende, and worked with a local non-profit called CASA (Centro para los Adoloscentes de San Miguel). Amanda enjoys interacting with CFHI’s diverse and committed constituency and hopes to further pursue her interests in health and culture at the global level.

Rebecca Lubitz
Alumni/Outreach Coordinator
Rebecca joined CFHI in April of 2008.  As Alumni/Outreach Coordinator she enables CFHI alumni to stay connected and involved in the organization as well as conducting outreach for CFHI’s global health education programs.  Prior to working for CFHI, Rebecca taught English at a language school in Brazil.  She also worked for two years at the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, a D.C. based non-profit promoting Latino health and advocacy.  Rebecca is originally from the D.C./Maryland area and has a B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park in Anthropology and Latin American Literature.  She moved to San Francisco in 2007, where she enjoys studying languages and volunteers for Y.F.U., a cultural exchange organization for high school students.  She has traveled extensively throughout Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. 

Betsy Fuller Matambanadzo
Special Projects Director
Betsy Fuller Matambanadzo is the Special Projects Director for Child Family Health International (CFHI), previously serving as the Program Director. Ms. Matambanadzo has traveled to all CFHI program sites, and is an expert in international exchange program design, implementation, and management. Ms. Matambanadzo has a B.A. in Sociology and African Studies from the University of Arizona, and participated in international experiential education during high school and university through Nacel (Cote D’Ivoire, 1991) and the School for International Training (South Africa, 1997). She is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Administration degree program at NYU’s Robert Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, focusing her studies on International Health Policy and Management.

Menraj Sachdev
Program Development & Quality Manager
Menraj has a Masters of Philosophy (Research Degree) from the University of Sydney, titled: Higher Education in a Transition Economy: The Case of India 1991-2003, for which he spent approximately 6 months in India interviewing Education and Information Technology Professors at various higher education institutes. Menraj completed a BA in Human Development from UC San Diego.  During his time in San Diego, Menraj had the opportunity to partake in his first round-the-world travels through the Semester at Sea program in 1996. After graduation, Menraj continued his love of travel, and at one point, spent one month tutoring Tibetan refugees to speak English. Menraj brings his wealth of experience and insight gained through travel to assist CFHI in its goal to be at the forefront of offering premium grade Global Health Education Programs .

Polina Spivak
Bookkeeper
Polina Spivak began working for CFHI as the Bookkeeper/Registrar at the end of November 2006. Polina handles various functions related to program payments and oversight of CFHI's accounting practices. She moved to San Francisco in1996 from and worked for six years as a Financial Assistant in Walden House, Inc. In addition to this, Polina has a wealth of experience in accounting. After graduation she started working as an accountant in the Science/Development Institute and has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Odessa State University.

Evaleen Jones, M.D.
President/Founder & Medical Director (bio above)

Hema Pandey
India Coordinator
Hema Pandey, an independent contractor based in Delhi who serves as our India Coordinator, joined the CFHI team in 2005. She has been instrumental in establishing CFHI's growing presence in India, developing new program sites and researching CFHI's growth potential in-country. With more than 10 years of experience in the health field, Hema has handled a wide range of projects for government and non-government organizations in India, including the Indian government's Year of Scientific Awareness (YSA) 2004, which highlighted needs and issues related to disaster preparedness, health & nutrition, and soil & water conservation. She also worked with Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI).

Nick Penco
Student Programs Manager 
Nick Penco joined CFHI in the spring of 2005. He is a native of Buenos Aires, who has lived in the for over 20 years. He graduated with a bachelor's in International Relations from San Francisco State University. He worked full time while in school in the hospitality industry, which served as a great benefit to CFHI, where he now works as a primary person communicating and supporting CFHI's 700 yearly students as well as international partners on a daily basis. Nick travels extensively for CFHI, facilitating bilingual evaluation site-visits around the world. He is also fluent in French, German and conversational Portuguese.

Rachel True
Programs Director
Rachel True joined the CFHI team in June 2007. Rachel brings a background in public health, non-profit management, program development and tremendous enthusiasm to her new post. Rachel has worked as an outreach worker and advocate for culturally sensitive health services for immigrant families in Marin County, and as the executive director of Global Health through Education, Training and Service (GHETS), a small non-profit organization in Boston, MA. Rachel received her Masters in Public Health in 2005 from Boston University where she focused on international and reproductive health. These academic and professional experiences have confirmed Rachel’s commitment to programs which recognize and encourage local strengths, priorities and leadership and which are built with long-term sustainability in mind.

Steven E. Schmidbauer
Executive Director (bio above)

Avril Whate
Africa Coordinator
Avril Whate was introduced to CFHI in 2004, but officially started work on April 1^st of 2005, as Medical Director for the Cape Town program before moving to the role of CFHI's Africa Coordinator in 2007. She is a registered nurse, and has worked for the Department of Health in for over 20 years.  Avril has a B. Tech. Occupational Health Degree, a diploma in Nursing Management, a diploma in Community Health Nursing and midwifery and is a Clinical Nurse Practitioner, certified in Advanced Pediatric Life Support.  Avril worked for many years at the Grootte Schuur Hospital in the trauma unit, and from this experience became very passionate about three things: teaching, trauma nursing, and working on CFHI’s programs.