International Advisory Board
The Center for Health and Hope benefits from the vision, experience, and expertise of an International Global Advisory Board.
Senator Bob Dole
Honorary Chairperson United States Senator, Republican nominee for President and Senate Majority Leader
Dr. Musa W. Dube
distinguished international speaker, author and HIV and AIDS activist, Professor of New Testament at the University of Botswana in Africa
Jim Mitulski, MDiv, DD
Major Gifts Officer, Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies, Pacific School of Religion, international travel related to HIV includes time in Australia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Senator Tom Daschle
Honorary Chairperson United States Senator, the Democratic Majority Leader
Bishop Lawi Imathiu
former President of the World Methodist Council, founded Kenya Methodist University in Meru, Kenya
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Moore
Dean of Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA
Bishop Ivan Abrahams
General Secretary of the World Methodist Council, formerly the presiding bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
Rev. Dr. M. Kent Millard
retired senior pastor of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, President of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio
Dr. Pauline Muchina
of Kenya, based in Washington, D.C., on the staff of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society. She founded African Women & Youth Initiative and the Future African Leaders Project
In Memory
Herbert L. Bacon
of Grand Junction, Colorado, a well known civic leader and philanthropist affiliated with the Bacon Family Foundation
Bishop Ruediger Minor
of Dresden, Germany, previously president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops and episcopal leader of Russia. Deceased, 2018.
Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar
U.S. Congressman, President of Common Cause, President of Claremont School of Theology, and General Secretary of the National Council of Churches. Deceased, 2013
Ambassador George S. McGovern
United States Senator and presidential nominee, special United Nations Ambassador on Hunger, Honorary Chair of the International Advisory Board. Deceased, Oct. 2012