Anbrasi Edward, PhD, MPH, MBA

Anbrasi Edward has a doctoral degree in nutrition and following completion of MPH and post doctoral fellowship in Nutrition at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, she joined the department of International Health and has been a full time faculty for eleven years. She is a co-instructor for several courses at the school including the Quality Assurance Management Methods for developing countries. She has provided technical consultancies and conducted projects for the Quality Assurance Project II, BASICS II, World Relief, World Bank, John Snow Incorporated, ICDDRB, Future Generations, and Plan International. Currently she provides technical support to the National Health Services Performance Assessment in Afghanistan with the World Bank and MOPH and engaged in other projects related to health systems performance. Her experience has been primarily in working with district health systems and community based primary health care in Eastern and Southern Africa and South East Asia.  

Gilbert Burnham, MD, PhD

Gilbert M. Burnham is a professor in the Department of International Health, Division of Community Health and Health Systems, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Studies at Johns Hopkins. He has extensive experience in emergency preparedness and response, particularly in humanitarian needs assessment, program planning and evaluation that address the needs of vulnerable populations, and the development and implementation of training programs. He also has extensive experience in the development and evaluation of community-based health program planning and implementation, health information system development, management and analysis, and health system analysis. Dr. Burnham is currently involved with numerous humanitarian and health development programs for multilateral and non-governmental organizations, regional health departments, ministries of health (national and district level), and communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Richard H. Morrow, MD, MPH

Richard Morrow earned a BA in economics from Swarthmore College, his MD from Washington University, and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is board certified in internal medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American College of Epidemiology. Dr. Morrow worked in Africa (especially in Ghana and Uganda) for 12 years, at WHO in Geneva for 11 years, and has spent another ten-plus years split between Harvard and Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Morrow is known for his expertise in the design and implementation of quality assurance management methods for developing countries; the development of burden of disease measures and their use in health planning and health sector reform; and epidemiological methods for field trials in developing countries. He has been instrumental in the establishment of programs in public health in developing countries, particularly in Ghana and Uganda. In his more than 30 years of public health experience, Dr. Morrow has developed considerable expertise in applying epidemiology to health system issues, developing strategies for assessing and implementing quality assurance management, and building capacity in public health education in developing countries.

Eight years ago, Dr. Morrow and Dr. Burnham launched this first postgraduate course in quality assurance management methods for developing countries. The course, now also given as an intensive two-week course in June, has evolved rapidly into a must-take course for those with an interest in providing health services. More than 400 health care professionals from more than 30 countries have participated in this course, which has now been exported to a number of countries that conduct it independently of the Bloomberg School.

Diwaker Mohan, MD, MPH

Diwakar Mohan MD MPH, is doctoral candidate in the department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests include maternal and child health issues and chronic diseases in low and middle income country settings.  He received his medical degree from Madras Medical College, Chennai, India and completed his residency in Community Medicine from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He also has an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.