Supporting Idealism in Action Since 1940

Improving Health

Developing Leaders

Creating Change

Our Board

Samuel Bradley Jr., DSW

New Orleans Schweitzer Fellow for Life 2012
Board Chair
Associate Dean, Boston College School of Social Work

Chris Bauer, MTS

Community Director, MassChallenge

Christopher Castaneda, MD

Chicago Schweitzer Fellow for Life 2013
Community Faculty, El Paso Psychiatric Center and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center of El Paso

Pritesh Gandhi, MD, MPH

Boston Schweitzer Fellow for Life 2007
Chief Health Equity & Community Impact Officer, CommonSpirit

Tim Lahey, MD, MMSC

North Carolina Schweitzer Fellow for Life 1997
Board Secretary
Director of Ethics, University of Vermont Medical Center

Stefan Kertesz, MD

Lambarene Schweitzer Fellow for Life
Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine

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Joseph O’Donnell, MD

Senior Medical Director, Promontory Therapeutics; Emeritus Professor, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Erica Pan, MD, MPH

Boston Schweitzer Fellow for Life 1993
Director, California Department of Public Health

Rachel Reichlin, MPH, MSN

Chicago Schweitzer Fellow for Life 2006
Founder & Principal, Health Justice Partners

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Alice Thompson, MSW

CEO, BFDI Educational Services, Inc.

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Lachlan Forrow, MD

Lambarene Schweitzer Fellow for Life 1982
Board Chair Emeritus
Harvard Medical School

ASF Site Leadership-US Programs Collaborative

  • Alabama | KIM EATON, MA, Alabama Schweitzer Fellow for Life 2023
  • Chicago | KAROL DEAN, PhD
  • Columbus-Athens | KEVIN STEINER, MD, PhD
  • Detroit |  DENNIS ARCHAMBAULT, MA, PRSA 
  • Houston-Galveston | ANDREA LINK, MD
  • New Hampshire/Vermont | NANCY E. GABRIEL, MA
  • North Carolina | BARBARA HEFFNER
  • San Francisco/Bay Area | HOLLY BARBACCIA, MPH
  • Tulsa | EMMA MORRIS, MPA

Our Team

Rachel Gold, MA

Executive Director

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Development Associate

Zahidul Islam

Data Intern

Jasmine Cherifi

Graduate Intern