Andrew C. Beggs, is an Instructor at the Department of International Health at Boston University School of Public Health. He teaches health care management and finance in courses for health care professionals from developing countries. He holds a Master of Management from the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University. His interest in health care began while working at the Massachusetts General Hospital, as medical interpreter for the four languages in which he is fluent: Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and English. His most recent work includes a costing study of the six year medical education in Vietnam, which was written in collaboration with Mr. Phi Van Tham of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, and Dr. William Bicknell of the Department of International Health.  In addition to his work at the Department, Mr. Beggs has taught management principles to clinicians in the national tuberculosis programs of numerous developing countries, in a JICA-funded course at the Research Institute for Tuberculosis in Japan.

Mike Devlin, MPH

Richard Laing is an Associate Professor and Associate Director for the Department and Center of International Health in the Boston University School of Public Health.   Trained as a community health physician, he worked at Management Sciences for Health in their Drug Management Program and Management Training Programs (1989-1995). From 1976-1989, he worked for the Ministry of Health in his native Zimbabwe, where he was responsible for the training component of the Essential Drugs Action Programme and was director of Manpower Planning and Training. Previous to this he worked as a Provincial Medical Director and as a Medical Superintendent of a provincial hospital. He has taught in the UK, the US,  Japan, South Africa, Tanzania, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Ghana, and has worked as a consultant in numerous others.

David Kahler holds a doctorate in adult and international education from the Center for International Education, UMASS/Amherst.  Dr. Kahler has worked in international development and training since the early 1960's when he began his international work as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal.  Since then he has worked on long term development activities in Honduras, Iran, India and China and has provided organizational development, training and technical assistance to projects in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti, Zambia, Kenya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Tunisia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines.  For the past ten years, Dr. Kahler has focused his energies on working with technical specialists, particularly in health and agriculture, on the use of
nonformal education methods and strategies to ensure that program beneficiaries are able to apply new technical information and skills to every day tasks and decision making.   Dr. Kahler speaks English, French and Spanish.