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Our Team

VSI has staff around the world with headquarters in Anaheim, California and offices in Berkeley, California, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In addition, leading physicians serve as advisors in all of our program countries. 

Our leadership combines backgrounds in clinical medicine, demography, program design and management, epidemiology, monitoring and evaluation, private sector and business, finance, and public policy.  Each of our programs is supported by cross-functional teams which bring diverse perspectives to create the highest quality strategies, plans, and decision making. 

VSI Department Leads and Teams

Pamela M. Norick, MA
President and CEO

Communications and Development Team

  Finance, Accounting and Administration Team

Shannon Bledsoe, MA
Vice President, Operations

Programs and Field Teams

Ndola Prata, MD, MSc
Director, Medical and Programs

Medical and Monitoring and Evaluation Teams

Richard Lowe, PhD, MPH
Director, New Program Development