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Audrey Pabs-Garnon has a long career as an early childhood educator and is passionate about working with young children. She gained her undergraduate and graduate degrees in early childhood education, specializing in guidance and counseling, from the Universities of Nottingham, Bristol and Reading in the United Kingdom respectively. For almost two decades she served as Director of the American Institute of Physics on-site Child Care Center in College Park, Maryland, for which she attained National [NAEYC] & State [MSDE] accreditations. Currently, she is an International Early Childhood Consultant and a part-time assessor for Maryland State Department of Education [MSDE] & Maryland Family Network [MFN]. She travels extensively presenting at conferences, is a member of various philanthropic organizations, serves on several Advisory & Non-Profit Boards and was named Woman of the Year 2010/2011 by the National Association of Professional Women. Her hobbies include sewing, cooking and reading.

Dr. John Davies-Cole was the former Chief Epidemiologist at the District of Columbia Department of Health in Washington, DC where he administers a comprehensive epidemiology program. He supervised a team of epidemiologists and analysts that were responsible for preventing diseases and outbreaks in the nation’s capital. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC. He was a Certified Public Manager and had extensive experience in epidemiology, disease control and research. After 9/11, Dr. Davies-Cole planned and executed a project to develop a comprehensive electronic disease surveillance system for the District of Columbia Department of Health, known as the Washington, DC Automated Disease Surveillance System. He was a World Health Organization (WHO) Fellow and was involved in control of river blindness in Burkina Faso, Mali and the Ivory Coast. He worked in the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone and supervised malaria control and control of various disease vectors in Freetown. He conducted research and control of sleeping sickness in Kenya and later served as a Senior Program Officer with Network for Water and Sanitation International also in Nairobi, Kenya. In that capacity he worked on water and sanitation projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Sudan, that included capacity building for government staff in Management for Sustainability in Water & Sanitation Programs, in collaboration with the Water & Sanitation Center (IRS) in the Hague, Netherlands.