Board of Directors
William E. Bertrand
Dr. William E. Bertrand is the Founder and former Director of the Payson Center for International Development at Tulane University. His areas of expertise include information and evaluation systems, instructional technology and design for behavior change, human resource planning, adaptation innovation and technology transfer, and organizational change in civil society sectors. Bertrand has advised many major institutions on system design and development projects. He served as a consultant for USAID’s Project for the School of Public Health in Haiti, evaluated AID’s HAPA program in Africa, advised the World Bank on its Pre-sectoral Development Plan in Kenya, and counseled the Inter-American Development Bank on the topics of Design of New Educational Delivery Systems and the IDB/PAHO contract.
Bertrand has also provided consultancy services directly to the Kenya Ministry of Health and is a principal investigator on a contract to establish a school of public health in Zaire. Bertrand founded the Center for International Health and Development in 1986 and the Department of International Health and Development at Tulane University in 1992. In 1986 he was named Wisner Professor of Public Health at Tulane’s School of Health, a position he still holds. He was recently appointed to the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council, the principal advisory body of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the components of the National Institutes of Health within the Department of Health and Human Services.
Fluent in English and Spanish, Bertrand has published a multitude of book chapters, reports and journal articles in both languages on the topics of reproductive health information, alternative data management techniques, social demography and nutrition. He teaches courses at Tulane University on microcomputers in health and development, human resource development in international settings, modernization in Latin America and programming and evaluation for health interventions in developing countries.
Eamon M. Kelly
Dr. Eamon M. Kelly was chosen to serve as the 13th president of Tulane University in 1981. While serving as President, he was responsible for managing an institution with a student body of 11,000; 6,000 faculty and staff; and an annual budget of over $684 million dollars. In July 1998, he retired as President of the University. He remains a full professor and holds an endowed chair at Tulane University.
Kelly, whose area of specialized interest is international urban and rural development, currently holds the rank of professor in the departments of Economics, Sociology, Latin American Studies, and International Health and Development at Tulane. He regularly teaches an interdisciplinary graduate course entitled “Organizational Leadership and Management in Developing Countries”. He is also a founding member of the Payson Center for International Development.
During his long professional career, he has acquired extensive experience in grant management and project implementation. As the officer in charge of the office of social Development of the Ford Foundation in New York (1969-74), he was responsible for the then largest domestic grant program of the Foundation concerned with social and economic development projects in the U.S. In 1995, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation, which sponsors scientific and engineering research, develops and sponsors educational programs and helps guide national policy. He was elected Chairman of the NSB in 1998 and re-elected in May 2000. He also held a presidential appointment as a member of the National Security Education Board and headed the Economic Development Commission of the State of Louisiana. Kelly serves on the Boards of many professional, philanthropic, civic and corporate organizations.
Kelly brings with him enormous stature, management skills, an extensive network of top-level contacts from within the U.S. and abroad, and formal training as a professional economist, policy advisor, teacher and analyst.
Nancy B. Mock
Dr. Nancy Mock has over 30 years experience in the Humanitarian, Food Security and Public Health fields. She is a co-founding member of the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (DRLA), an Associate Professor in International Health and International Development as well as past Interim Executive Director for the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women at Tulane University.
Dr. Mock was Associate Director of the Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (Latin American and Caribbean), a program funded through the Office of Naval Research to provide technical support to the United States Southern Command in the area of disaster preparedness and response. Dr. Mock co-led the development of INTERHANDS, a major training initiative, as well as providing mission support and lessons learned analysis. Additionally, as part of a separate USAID project, Dr. Mock co-directed the Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative (CERTI), a crisis coordination project that aims to prevent and mitigate conflict, improve timely and appropriate response, and offers support to populations affected by conflict in transition. She was a chief architect of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Famine Early Warning Systems Project (now FEWSNET) and serves on numerous advisory boards concerned with food security.
Other professional achievements include serving as a member of the Advisory Council for the World Vision Hurricane Relief Assistance Program and also as a member of the 2006 US Centers for Disease Control Expert Panel on Rapid Needs Assessment, Post-Disaster. She has also served as a technical advisor and course developer for international NGO’s and other academic institutions in the area of public health in emergency settings. She has been Principal and Co-Principal Investigator for multiple international programs and is currently involved in the development of a school of Public Health in Rwanda.
Officers
William E. Bertrand, President
Eamon M. Kelly, Vice-President
Joy L. Jones, Secretary/Treasurer