Our Board of Directors helps the BRP staff to make major decisions regarding collaborations with other NGOs, new program initiatives, and fundraising. Members of  share with us their goal to develop the organization, as well as their efforts to help us garner the resources, funds, and people needed to accomplish our work. They also share their expertise in a wide range of issues, especially those concerning participatory development, Burmese and Shan culture, the Thai context, public health and education, and refugees.

Alexander R. Green, MD, MPH, is a staff physician at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and Senior Scientist at the Disparities Solutions Center within the Institute for Health Policy. He was a National Health Service Corps fellow, Assistant Professor of Medicine, and served as Associate Director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Medical Center. He currently teaches at Harvard Medical School and has been deeply involved in education, research, and policy in the field of cultural competence in health care since 1997.

Emeritus (currently serving as Advisor). Kyi May Kaung was born in Rangoon, Burma where she was an Associate Professor of Economics from 1978 to 1988. Her Ph.D. dissertation, from the University of Pennsylvania, is on the erosion of human rights and the devastating effects of central control in Burma. She is based in Washington DC and is now an independent scholar, writer, and artist. Since 1997, she has worked in international radio, and with The Burma Fund as a Senior Researcher.

Rufina Lee received her doctorate in social work from Columbia University and works as a researcher who focuses on severe mental illness, homelessness, and psychiatric epidemiology. Before starting her studies, she worked for 10 years as a psychiatric social worker in community, inpatient and emergency settings. She recently completed a study of Joint Crisis Plans, a type of psychiatric advanced directive, for people with severe mental illness in New York City; and she also sits on the Board of the New York Asian Women's Center, a social service agency for survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking.

For more information, see the co-founders page.

David Rosenthal, Ph.D., is the Director of Behavioral Medicine in the Family Medicine Residency program at Columbia University and also teaches in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Mailman School of Public Health. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center. He is a Family Therapist who also has done research on a wide variety of issues including drug use, family issues and public health. He has also served on a number of community boards ,including the Iowa City Hospice and the Institute for Social and Economic Development.

Colin Stewart is an MBA Candidate at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He has an AB degree from Princeton University and an MPH degree from Columbia University. He has experience working in finance and operations for a variety of players within the healthcare industry including the NYC Department of Health. Colin was born in South America and is passionate about improving health and social welfare in the developing world. He currently serves as president of a non-governmental organization whose mission is to improve access to healthcare for African children.

For more information, see the co-founders page.