Meeting Speaker for Monday, April 28, 2014

Joshua Bress, President – Global Strategies

Africa as a region bears more than 24% of the global burden of disease but has access to only 3% of the world's health workers and less than 1% of the world's financial resources.

Partnering with local healthcare providers in these areas of the world where few humanitarian organizations will go or stay, Global Strategies empowers communities to improve the lives of women and children who have limited or no access to modern healthcare. They are committed to transforming these communities by reducing maternal and infant mortality and overcoming barriers to the overall health of women and children.

Dr. Josua Bress is a pediatrician whose primary focus is the care of neonates. From 2011-2012, he lived in the eastern Congo longer than any other American physician, working in the city of Goma at a Congolese hospital providing pediatric and neonatal care.  There he continued the efforts of Global Strategies in Pediatric HIV and prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child, while expanding into areas of neonatology and severe malnutrition.

In his role as president of Global Strategies, Dr. Bress oversees maternal child health programs in Liberia, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo and India.