Core Values
PLeDGE Health is run by an all-volunteer group of physicians dedicated to improving emergency medical care around the world, through sustainable partnerships, open-source material development and dissemination, and development of the next generation of educational leaders in low-resource areas.
Leadership
Kevin Lunney, MD, PhD
President
Kevin Lunney is a physician scientist with a unique experience set spanning the fields of health systems management, public health, epidemiology, military medicine and emergency medicine. He has over 5 years on the ground experience in countries including Zimbabwe, Egypt, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Guatemala and Nicaragua. He is currently a community physician and US Navy reservist. Dr. Lunney’s military engagement experience covers both humanitarian (Pacific Partnership 2014) and operational (African Lion 2015) missions. He has presented a numerous domestic and international conferences including the Asia Pacific Military Health Exchange (Da Nang, Vietnam 2015 & Kuantan, Malaysia 2016), the African Conference on Emergency Medicine (Accra, Ghana 2012) and Travel Medicine in the Tropics (Bangkok, Thailand 2011). Dr. Lunney’s research interests encompass the development of remote and austere medical systems, patient transport and global emergency medical systems development.
Abigail Hankin-Wei, MD, MPH
Vice President
Hankin-Wei is a medical researcher and medical educator with expertise in emergency department-based public health research, HIV testing and linkage to care, and emergency care pedagogy in low-resource settings. She has been the Principal Investigator on funded projects including youth violence risk factor identification, drug and alcohol abuse screening and intervention in the emergency department setting, and an HIV screening and linkage to care program which led to no-cost HIV screening over 50,000 patients visiting an urban US emergency department. She has directed courses for students in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, and has expertise in curriculum development for emergency care training. She has worked clinically and in training physicians and nurses in medically-underserved rural communities in the United States, rural communities in the state of Karnataka in Southern India, rural Guatemala, and Maputo, Mozambique. Dr. Hankin-Wei was recently named as the 2018 recipient of the Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad for the State Department Africa Bureau.
Sarah Olds Mondlane
Country Director, Mozambique
Sarah Olds Mondlane grew up near Atlanta, Georgia. She has a bachelors degree from the University of Georgia in Child and Family Development. She has over 15 years of experience in the non-profit world including 6 years leading a mentoring program for 120 at-risk youth and 10 years as the program director at Masana, an organization serving the street boys of Maputo, Mozambique. Sarah is married to Roberto and they have 2 girls, Melina and Maya. They live in Maputo, Mozambique.
Partners
At each stage of our work, we are guided by goals, objectives, and outcomes identified and defined by our in-country partners
Mozambique
- Ministry of Health
- Eduardo Mondlane University School of Medicine
- ISCTEM (Instituto de Çiencas e Tecnologia em Moçambique)
- Hospital leadership at our partner hospitals
- Junior physicians and medical students with an interest in emergency medical skills and practice