CO-FOUNDER

Anne Goldfeld is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Senior Investigator in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital . She is also a Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the Infectious Disease Division at Brigham & Women's Hospital/ Mass General Brigham in Boston, USA. After working as medical coordinator of the American Refugee Committee program in Site 2 on the Thai-Cambodian border, she co-founded Cambodian Health Committee in 1994, and founded the Global Health Committee in 2008.

CO-FOUNDER

Dr. Sok Thim repatriated to Cambodia after spending 11 years as a refugee on the Thai-Cambodian border where he received training as a nurse and medic with the American Refugee Committee (ARC), and became the coordinator of the ARC TB Program which pioneered treatment of TB in a refugee camp. In 1989, Thim became the UN Border Relief Organization (UNBRO)’s Khmer TB advisor, managing the TB program along the Thai-Cambodian border camps. Thim repatriated to Cambodia in 1993 and co-founded the Cambodian Health Committee in 1994 and retired as its Executive Director in 2014. Thim also played a critical role in establishing GHC’s DR-TB work and program in Ethiopia. He died in December 2021.

CO-FOUNDER

Brian Heidel has worked in helping international humanitarian and development agencies achieve results for people affected by disasters and poverty worldwide for over 3 decades. When he was Country Director of the American Refugee Committee’s Cambodian Program, he co-founded CHC with Anne Goldfeld and Sok Thim.