Network Leaders

The Network supports major efforts in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. The talented Executive Directors across the Network manage large staffs and complex programs and are internationally recognized experts who regularly provide national and international technical and policy consultations.

Agustina Perez is the Executive Director of Baylor Foundation - Argentina. Agustina holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Torcuato Di Tella and a Bachelor’s in Public and Institutional Affairs from UADE. She has more than 18 years of experience in social, corporate social responsibility, public affairs, communications, managing relations with government, communities and marketing within both the philanthropic and commercial areas and has managed social invest programs that aim to ease relations between the community and the companies that serve them. Pérez has strong abilities in negotiating and working in international and multicultural environments. She previously worked with the YPF Foundation and HSBC.

Agustina Perez, M.B.A.
Fundación Baylor Argentina

Dr. Mogomotsi Matshaba, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, and Executive Director- Botswana-Baylor Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence Trust, is a graduate of University College of Dublin, National University of Ireland. He worked as a medical officer in Botswana from 2005-2008, during which time he spent one year as a physician-in-training at the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Center of Excellence. He has postgraduate training in HIV management, trauma management, pediatric nutrition, gastroenterology and hepatology, and completed his residency training in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in 2011.
From 2011 to 2014 he was the Associate Director- Training and Clinical Services at the Botswana- Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence in Gaborone, Botswana. In 2014 he moved to Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) Centre of Excellence as the Interim Executive Director and returned to Botswana to resume his duties as the Deputy Director at the Botswana Centre of Excellence at the end of the same year. In 2017, Dr. Matshaba became the Executive Director of the Botswana-Baylor Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence Trust.
He is a national leader in pediatric healthcare in Botswana and is the current National Coordinator and Chief Advisor for the Presidential COVID-19 Task Force. He sits on several Ministry of Health Committees as the pediatric expert; Botswana National HIV Guidelines Committee, TB/ HIV Integration Technical Working Group, Drug Forecasting and Purchasing Committee, TB/HIV Drug Resistance Technical Working Group, and Adolescent HIV Guidelines Committee. He chairs the WHO-supported National Validation Committee for the Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/Syphilis and Hepatitis. In the regional and international arena, he is a member of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education, steering committee member of Human Health and Heredity fo Africa (H3Africa) and Global Alliance for Genomics (GA4GH).

Mogomotsi Matshaba, M.B.B.Ch.
Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence Trust

Ana Maria Galvis is the Executive Director of Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation Colombia. She is a specialist in policy, government and public affairs with vast experience in social project design and implementation.
Galvis has over 18 years of experience in managing innovations models for social projects, including health care, education, research and development, among others.
She has a master degree in social, environmental and health impacts management, holds a business administration degree from Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administration and obtained certifications on Social Franchising for Health; Health Workforce Productivity, Analysis, and Improvement, Child Survival, community based family planning, monitoring and evaluation of early childhood development among others.
Galvis has strong leadership skills, which makes her well suited to work in an international and multicultural environment, leading Fundación Baylor Colombia over the last 8 years, since it was founded.

Ana María Galvis
Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation - Colombia

Makhosazana (Khosi) Dlamini is an accomplished public health professional with over 15 years experience in HIV/SRH programming. She has served in NGO senior management positions leading teams of various cadres to include doctors, nurses, social scientists, researchers, counselors amongst others. She has extensive skills in program design, implementation as well as financial management and monitoring and evaluation. She has worked with several donors such as PEPFAR agencies – CDC and USAID, World Diabetes Foundation and UNITAID. Makhosazana also participates in several National Technical Working Groups and core teams at Eswatini Ministry of Health. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Nursing Science, Midwifery and Community Health obtained from the University of Eswatini and a Masters in Business Administration measuring in HealthCare Management from Regent Business School, South Africa.

Makhosazana M. Dlamini, M.B.A.
Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation - Eswatini

Dr. Lineo Thahane joined BIPAI and the Texas Children’s Global Health Network as the Executive Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Lesotho in August 2018. She previously worked with BIPAI from 2005-2012, first as a Pediatric AIDS Corps physician and subsequently as Associate Director of the Baylor–Lesotho program. During that time, she helped to establish the Foundation as the largest provider of services for HIV-infected and affected children in Lesotho; supported the Government of Lesotho with national scale up and decentralization of pediatric HIV care, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), diagnosis and treatment of childhood tuberculosis, and management of childhood malnutrition; and trained health providers throughout the country.

Following her time in Lesotho, she spent six years as a Hospitalist Pediatrician at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. There she focused on medical education research and global health education for pediatrics residents and was the co-director of the institution’s Introduction to Global Child Health course. She then returned to Lesotho to continue to support the expansion of the Baylor-Lesotho program.

Lineo K. Thahane, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation - Lesotho

Phoebe Nyasulu is the Executive Director of Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Malawi and serves as Chief of Party for the USAID funded 5-year CORE Program. She has more than 20 years of progressive experience in senior management positions with donor funded non-governmental organizations. Phoebe joined Baylor Foundation-Malawi in 2012. Prior to becoming Executive Director, she worked as Administration Director and later was promoted to Deputy Program Director for Baylor Malawi’s largest program, The Tingathe (“Yes We Can”) Program, funded by USAID. Phoebe always demonstrates excellent leadership and executive skills and is gifted in developing strong teams capable of delivering institutional results. She has extensive experience in managing large USAID grants by providing fiscal and budgetary oversight. Phoebe also serves on several boards of local and international non-governmental organizations.

She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from University of Malawi, a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Cyprus Institute of Marketing, and a Diploma in Marketing and Business Management from Damelin School of Business Management and Corporate Training (RSA).

Phoebe Nyasulu, M.B.A.
Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation - Malawi

Ana-Maria Schweitzer has served as Executive Director of the Baylor-Black Sea Foundation and has led the Clinical Center of Excellence in Constanta, Romania, since 2005. She joined the HIV program in 1999, setting the stage for pilot health programs in Romania and directly contributing to measuring health outcomes and health determinants that influence patients’ experiences through the continuum of care.
Schweitzer contributed to developing multidisciplinary health psychology programs for patients with HIV, viral hepatitis, and other chronic conditions, including some oncological diseases. Her experience is with disclosing unfavorable news for patients, designing adherence to treatment and behavioral interventions that influence positive health outcomes, and designing health literate messages to support adjustment to living with a chronic condition.

Ana-Maria Schweitzer
Fundația Baylor Marea Neagră (Romania)

Lumumba Mwita is Executive Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Clinical Centers of Excellence in Lake Zone (Mwanza) and Southern Highlands Zone (Mbeya), Tanzania.
I worked with the government at Mbeya Zonal Referral Hospital as a general practitioner working in the department of Internal Medicine and Outpatient and Casualty. From 2003 to 2005, I joined the Department of Internal Medicine at Muhimbili National Hospital, where I worked in the areas of HIV/TB, cardiology and diabetes. Working with the government provided an opportunity for me to gather a rich experience in the health care systems strengthening and research. I started health program work in 2005 leading areas of HIV, Clinical and Diagnostics, Safe Motherhood and Fistula, Specialist Outreach, Laboratory Services and Malaria programs among others. I joined Baylor Tanzania in February 2012 as a site director for the Lake Zone operations, where I was instrumental in establishing relations at national and local levels which resulted to expansion of program scope. Since 2014, I’m leading Baylor Tanzania operations with two Centers of Excellence providing care and treatment to approximately 4005 children and adolescents living with HIV and supporting 15 regions in the Lake and Southern Highlands Zones of Tanzania.

Lumumba Mwita, MD, MMED
Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation - Tanzania

Dr. Kiragga is a public health physician who brings to Baylor Foundation-Uganda 20+ years of experience in technical leadership and management of complex health programs in Africa and Asia. Currently, as Chief of Party (COP) for the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in the North, Acholi (RHITES-N, Acholi), Dr. Kiragga provides technical and managerial oversight for USAID/Uganda’s Health and HIV/AIDS project implementation across eight districts in Acholi, as well as leadership for the rollout of USAID’s Quality Improvement Collaborative across all regions of Uganda.
Prior to his work on RHITES-N, Acholi, Dr. Kiragga was a COP of the USAID/Uganda Private Health Support Program (PHSP) and the Health Initiatives for the Private Sector (HIPS) Project, where he spearheaded service delivery, public-private partnerships (PPPs) and OVC programs across the country. Under the HIPS project and together with key professionals, established the Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF), an umbrella group for the private sector in Uganda. Early in his career, Dr. Kiragga managed critical health service infrastructure rehabilitation and the establishment of functional health systems on World Bank post-conflict projects in East Timor and Rwanda, grounding his understanding of programmatic implementation in fragile settings.
From District Director of Health Services to senior-level technical advisory and management positions on four US government projects, Plan Uganda and World Bank projects, Dr. Kiragga has fostered and maintained collaborative working relationships with USAID, CDC, GOU, MOH, and its related agencies, international and local implementing partners, and other key stakeholders and has successfully built coalitions to deliver results. A native of Uganda, Dr. Kiragga has a MBCHB (MUK), MPH (Liverpool), MSC (London), and is currently a PhD candidate at Walden University, USA.

Dithan Kiragga, M.B.Ch.B., MPH, MSc
Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation - Uganda