Global Health & Development

Who We Are

Peggy Clark
Vice President, Policy Programs at The Aspen Institute
Executive Director, Global Health & Development
Peggy Clark is the Vice President of Policy Programs at The Aspen Institute and the Executive Director of Global Health & Development (GHD). Peggy served as the founding Managing Director of Realizing Rights, providing overall strategic, financial and management direction. Previously, Peggy was the Executive Vice President for Policy Programs and Seminars for the Aspen Institute, where she managed all programmatic and leadership divisions of the Institute. Peggy was a leader in founding and shaping the microenterprise and microfinance fields internationally, helping to draft the first microenterprise legislation for USAID in the U.S. and serving on the first Microenterprise Advisory Council to the Administrator of USAID. Peggy also led efforts to establish the microfinance field in the U.S., helping to draft the first legislation to support it out of the SBA and leading the first national evaluation and documentation of the microenterprise field in the U.S. Peggy received the Inaugural Presidential Award for Excellence in microenterprise Development from President Bill Clinton in 1995.

Peggy was Founder and Executive Director of the Economic Opportunities Program of the Aspen Institute from 1991-2000, addressing poverty and workforce strategies in the U.S.  Peggy also helped to define and found the new field of "Sectoral Workforce Development" with the publication Jobs and the Urban Poor.  Peggy was a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation where she led the foundation's global women’s development, employment and US poverty, workforce and microenterprise portfolio, and she was the first Director of Small Scale Enterprise and Credit Programs at Save the Children Federation from 1985-1988, where she developed their first microcredit and livelihoods global strategy. Peggy is the author of numerous publications on poverty, workforce strategies, microenterprise, and global health.

Rosann Wisman
Director, Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health
Rosann Wisman is Director of the Ministerial Leadership Initiative, a program of Global Health & Development at the Aspen Institute.  Ms. Wisman has over thirty years of executive leadership experience in non-profit organizations working in public policy and health care access, with a special emphasis on women’s health and rights.  Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Ms. Wisman served as Executive Director of the Accordia Global Health Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting infectious diseases through building the clinical and research capacity of academic medical institutions in Africa.  She also served as Senior Vice President at the Centre for Development and Population Activities, directing programs to improve the lives of women and girls in developing countries through leadership development, education, and access to reproductive health services.  While living in Tokyo, from 1998 to 2000, she was Senior Advocacy Advisor for Population Action International.  For the 20 years prior, Ms Wisman was President and CEO of Planned Parenthood affiliates including Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC, where she led the significant expansion of its clinical scope, geographic reach, and policy impact.  During this time, she was Chair of Planned Parenthood’s National Executive Directors’ Council, where she was recognized for her expertise in effective non-profit management and board development.  She has served on numerous national and Washington DC area boards.

Stephanie Weber
Program Officer, Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health


Ibadat Singh Dhillon
Senior Consultant, Health Workforce
Prior to joining Realizing Rights, Ibadat Dhillon, JD, MSPH, LLM, spent three years working as a Health Scientist with the Office on Smoking and Health, Epidemiology Branch, at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While with the CDC, his work included global health surveillance projects related to tobacco control, measles and polio eradication, and improving maternal and perinatal health care. Ibadat worked for a year with the Carter Center’s Global 2000 program in the effort to reduce the impact of Lymphatic Filariasis and Schistosomiasis in Nigeria. He has also worked on furthering access to HIV drugs through the use of law.

Ibadat received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Environmental Sciences; a Masters of Science in Public Health from Emory University; a Juris Doctorate degree from Washington University in St. Louis; and a Masters of Law degree in Global Health Law from Georgetown University.

Gwen Hopkins
Administrative Assistant, Global Health & Development
Gwen earned a BA in English Literature from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, with minors in French and Women, Gender & Sexuality. She spent a semester abroad in Dakar, Senegal, where she had the opportunity to intern with women's rights NGO Siggil Jiggeen (which translates from Wolof as "to raise the heads of women") and observe rural women’s advocacy organization APROFES (Association pour la Promotion de la Femme Sénégalaise) on the ground, as well as practice French and Wolof with her host mother. Gwen also concentrated on creative nonfiction and the personal essay as an undergrad and wrote her senior thesis on travel writing. After graduating, she worked on Teach For America's Recruitment Team before joining Realizing Rights.

Lyndon Haviland
Senior Health Fellow, Global Health & Development
Lyndon Haviland, DrPH, MPH, is a nationally recognized expert in strategic philanthropy, public health communications, brand marketing and applied research. She holds a doctorate degree in public health and has more than 20 years domestic and international public health management and leadership. From 2002-2004, Dr. Haviland was chief operating officer of the American Legacy Foundation, during which time she helped to frame tobacco as a social justice issue and to build public-private partnerships to support a national grassroots movement against tobacco use.

Advisory Board
Hon. Mary Robinson  
Honorary Co-Chair  
President
Realizing Rights

Dr. Madeleine Albright, ex officio
Principal
The Albright Group

Peggy Clark
Executive Director
Global Health & Development

Lord Nigel Crisp
Former Chief Executive
UK National Health Service
Permanent Secretary
UK Department of Health

Senator Tom Daschle
Distinguished Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress
Former Senate Majority Leader

Dr. Paul Farmer
President
Partners in Health

Robert E. Friedman
Friedman Family Foundation

Elliot Gerson  
Executive Vice President
Policy and Public Programs
International Partnerships
The Aspen Institute

Robert Kapp
Of Council
Hogan & Hartson

Dr. Francis Omaswa
Executive Director
African Center for Health & Social Transformation

Lynda Resnick
Co-Chairman
Roll International Corporation