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Maureen E. Farrell, MD, MPA Dr. Farrell was born and raised in Michigan. She was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD and received her undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering. Her first duty station was the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D.C. where she worked for future Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen. She then went on to medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, MO and returned to active duty after completing her medical degree. She retired from the United States Navy in 2019 after over 20 years as a comprehensive obstetrician gynecologist.Her time in the Navy took her to bases around the world where she served as a department head, chair of the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff, OBGYN residency program director and Director of Surgical Services aboard the hospital ship, USNS Mercy. After retiring from the Navy, Dr. Farrell joined the faculty at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. She was appointed to the position of Medical Director of Gynecologic Surgical Services. Additionally, she was Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs in association with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2022, she graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with a master's in public administration focusing on healthcare economics, business strategy, and policy.Presently, she is a member of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Diego. Her professional interests are graduate medical education, healthcare policy and politics and gynecologic surgery. Dr. Farrell is a McCain Advocacy Fellow at the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology and previously served on the Executive Board of the Society of Specialists in General Obstetrics & Gynecology. Carrie Hessler-Radelet Carrie Hessler-Radelet is the President & CEO of Global Communities, an international non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives, advance equity and secure strong futures. Prior to Global Communities, Carrie served as the President & CEO of Project Concern International (PCI), which merged into Global Communities on April 6, 2020. Prior to that, Carrie served as the Acting and then Confirmed Director of the Peace Corps (2012-2017) and Deputy Director (2012-2015), leading America's iconic international volunteer service organization with programs in over 65 countries. At Peace Corps she and her team led historic reforms to modernize and strengthen the agency to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Before being appointed to the Peace Corps by President Obama, Carrie worked as the Vice President and Director of the Washington D.C. office of John Snow, Inc. (JSI), overseeing the management of public health programs in 85 countries around the world. Her decades of global health work also included serving as the lead consultant on the first Five-Year Global HIV/AIDS Strategy for the President George W. Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), working with USAID in Indonesia on maternal and child health and HIV programming, founding the Special Olympics in The Gambia, and serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer with her husband in Western Samoa. Carrie is passionate about empowering communities to discover their own sustainable, innovative solutions to ensuring positive health and wellbeing and reducing poverty. She holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Boston University.

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