Our Team

Our History

In the Spring of 2016, three of my brilliant former mentees, young professional women working at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Washington, DC and I, decided to start our own free-of-charge, Internet-based mentoring program in Global Health. Although I had been a face-to-face mentor of international students and young professionals for three decades, my experience with virtual mentoring was limited to three years of work with 17 mentees from the Canadian Society for International Health (MentorNet), the Global Health International Advisors, and the Next Generation Global Health Network/Swedish Society for International Health (GHMe). Through this experience, I realized that this form of mentoring was the way of the future - and the way towards the future, if we wanted to reach dozens of young people and rapidly develop a multi-national critical mass of bright and committed global health and human development workers.

In an intergenerational combination of action, energy, and talent (theirs) and expertise and experience (my own), Clair, Claudia, Alexandria and I were able to start the first Class of MultiPOD Mentoring in March of 2017. Except for imagination and the hard work and technological savvy of these three young women and their volunteer successors, we had no support of any kind for the first three years. Since 2018, members of our leadership and technical team have come and gone, but we are now embarking in the fifth year of continuous contribution to the development of students and young professionals working in Global Health and Human Development across the world. We are very pleased and proud for what has been accomplished and very grateful for the contribution of our mentors and mentees to our continuing success… And we know that with your help, we will get even better in the years to come.

F. Zacarías

Program Founders