our team

United States:

Brad Gautney MPH, MSN/PNP - President

Sarah Finocchario-Kessler PhD, MPH - Kansas University Medical Center: Research Coordinator

Kenya:

May Maloba Ph.D. Fellow, MNCH, RN, CRC,

Country Director, GHI Kenya

Nicodemus Maosa: MPH, Clinical officer

Study Manager Siaya

Shadrack Babu Kale: Psychology

Emmy Adagi - Kapsabet Peer Educator

Tanzania: 

Farida Segesela BSc,Msc - Program coordinator ,Health Monitoring and Evaluation

Board of Directors

Michael Miller

Michael is married to Lorisa and have 4 beautiful children. He has lived and served in ministry in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area for the past 18 years. He is currently serving as the founding director of the Upper Room in Dallas, Texas. The Upper Room is a multi-cultural resource center in the Urban Dallas area focusing on prayer and city transformation. Michael has been actively involved in international ministry since 2000 and continues to have a passion for people living in resource-limited areas. He has been involved with GHI since 2003.

Dr. Austin Lehr

Austin lives just outside Kansas City, Missouri with his wife of 20 years and five awesome children. He works as a general surgeon in Kansas City and has experience in advanced laparoscopy, robotic surgery, bariatrics, hepatobiliary procedures and surgical burn care. Austin became involved in international missions and ministry largely through his acquaintance with GHI’s founder and president and has a heart for providing medical care to the underserved as well as supplying other basic needs and services to lend a hand to the impoverished.

Brad Gautney

Brad is the President and Founder of Global Health Innovations (GHI). Brad is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health where he specialized in International Health. In addition to living and working in Haiti for several years, he works in multiple developing countries implementing new health programs to reach those most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as providing health care to orphaned and vulnerable children in Western and Eastern Africa. To provide comprehensive care for HIV-positive mothers and their children, Brad and his colleagues created the HITSystem© to directly address local and national challenges in HIV/AIDS care. This innovative intervention has proven to be a cost-effective method of providing optimal care for those most burdened by HIV/AIDS.