Who We Are

The Fistula Care project is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by USAID and managed by EngenderHealth. The project works to address the enormous backlog of women awaiting life-altering fistula repair, ensuring that they receive timely and quality care from trained providers. At the same time, it works to remove barriers to emergency obstetric care that lead to fistula in the first place, so that women in labor get to the right place with the right services at the right time. The project is supporting a network of facilities offering a continuum of services, from emergency obstetric care, referrals, and family planning to complex fistula repairs and advanced surgical training. In addition, the Fistula Care Project gathers data from other USAID-supported projects that work on fistula. 

EngenderHealth is an international reproductive health organization working to improve the quality of health care in the world’s poorest communities. We empower people to make informed choices about contraception, train health professionals to make motherhood safer, promote gender equity, enhance the quality of HIV and AIDS services, and advocate for positive policy change. We work in partnership with governments, institutions, communities, and health care professionals in more than 40 countries. For more than 65 years, EngenderHealth has reached more than 100 million people to help them realize a better life.

Fistula Care Project Staff

Headquarters Staff

Isaac Achwal, Senior Medical Associate
Mark Barone, Senior Medical Associate
Karen Beattie, Project Director
Sarah Burgess, Project Coordinator
Levent Cagatay, Senior Technical Advisor
Bethany Cole, Senior Program Associate
Altiné Diop, Project Coordinator
Betty Farrell, Senior Medical Associate
Renée Fiorentino, Senior Program Associate for Monitoring and Evaluation
Vera Frajzyngier, Senior Program Associate for Monitoring and Evaluation
Jeanne Kabagema, Senior Medical Associate
Evelyn Landry, Deputy Director
Karen Levin, Program Associate for Monitoring and Evaluation
Mieko McKay, Senior Program Associate
Carrie Ngongo, Senior Program Associate
Celia Pett, Medical Associate 
Joseph Ruminjo, Clinical Director
Dana Swanson, Project Assistant
Maynard Yost, Budget and Financial Management Advisor

Project Managers in the Field

Bangladesh
Abu Jamil Faisel

Guinea
Moustapha Diallo

Mali 
Cheick Touré (IntraHealth International)

Nigeria
Iyeme Efem

Rwanda
Jean Nepomuscène Mugenzi

Uganda
Edith Ronah Mukisa