UCGHI Leadership
A team of inspired and committed faculty and staff lead UCGHI, providing strategic direction and oversight of UCGHI programs.
Leadership Team
Madhavi Dandu, MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF and the Director of the UC Global Health Institute. She received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and medical degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She completed her residency training in the Categorical Medicine Program at UCSF in 2003. Afterward, Dr. Dandu attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received a Masters in Public Health with a focus on international health and health and human rights. At UCSF, Dr. Dandu spends time in the inpatient clinical services supervising and teaching medical students and residents. Her main non-clinical areas of focus are global health education, curriculum development, and mentorship, especially in the areas of ethics and cultural humility. She has previously directed the Master of Science in Global Health program at UCSF and the Global Health Pathway/Area of Distinction for the Internal Medicine Residency. In addition, she previously co-directed the Global Health Core for the Division of Hospital Medicine and was a senior curriculum adviser for the HEAL Fellowship.
Dr. Dandu continues to pursue her research interests in human rights and global public health. She collaborates with colleagues at UCSF and several community-based organizations to create cultural humility training for public health professionals.
Ndola Prata, MD, MSc, a physician and medical demographer from Angola and the Associate Director of the UC Global Health Institute, earned her medical degree from the University of Angola and an MSc in medical demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Prata began her career practicing medicine in Angola for 10 years and served as head of the Social Statistics Department at the National Institute of Statistics of Angola. Shortly after moving to the US, while beginning her tenure as a researcher and lecturer at UC Berkeley, she served as a demographer/analyst for the Centers for Disease Control's Division of Reproductive Health for six years, a role she resumed briefly from 2010 to 2011. Her research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of family planning and maternal health interventions that maximize distribution and financing to increase access to contraceptives in developing countries, particularly for underserved populations. Her projects investigate strategies for harnessing existing resources, including human capacity and healthcare infrastructure, while also gathering evidence for setting priorities on national health agendas.
Sun Yu Cotter, MPH, is the deputy director for UCGHI and leads operations and strategic development. She is co-Chair of the UCGHI Black Lives Matter Task Force. Sun is a multi-lingual global health professional certified in mediation & conflict resolution and trained in restorative justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion champion with 15+ years of experience in academic, non-profit, and private settings. Sun is also a member of the UCOP Anti-Racism Working Group. Prior to UCGHI, she was a senior program manager at UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences on a project aiming to improve the quality of maternal health, family planning and abortion care for women in Kenya and India. She also has extensive field experience implementing large clinical trials in Africa, including a study on childhood mortality and childhood morbidity. Her passion for global health began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Uzbekistan.
Education Director
Oladele A. Ogunseitan, PhD, MPH
UC Irvine
GloCal Health Fellowship Director
Craig Cohen, MD, MPH
UCSF
Maxwell Mattern
Program Analyst
Maxwell Mattern, MS in Higher Education & Student Affairs is the Program Analyst for the UC Global Health Institute. Max joins UCGHI from the Youth Mental Health Academy where he served as the Learning Manager, developing a mental health curriculum for high school students passionate for the field. He also brings his experience from UC Berkeley where he served as Associate Director and Interim Director at New Student Services, facilitating programming yearly for the incoming 10,000 students. Max has more than 7 years of program development and coordination experience.
Stephanie Sumstine-Felice, MPHCommunications Specialist
Stephanie is the Communications Specialist for the UC Global Health Institute. Stephanie joins UCGHI from the UCLA Center for Community Health where she worked as a Project Director for six years working on research studies on substance use, sexual health, and addressing health disparities in historically underserved communities. Stephanie was the Center Coordinator for UCGHI’s Center for Gender and Health Justice (CGHJ) for over five years where she managed communications and the Center’s education and training programs. She has supported the CGHJ’s signature research project on local and global campus-based violence prevention since 2018. Prior to working at UCLA, Stephanie worked on community and place-based evaluation initiatives in Long Beach, including the Building Healthy Communities and Narrative Change Strategy for Youth Investment projects.