Advisory Board of the ORCD
Dr. Nick Mawani,DrPH, MPH, RRT, CNPA, BSc
Dr. Nick Mawani founded ORCD Canada Inc. (Non-Profit) in 2016 and co-founded ORCD Ghana in 2018. ORCD is Organization for Research and Community Development.
Dr. Nick was awarded Queen Elizabeth II, Diamond Jubilee Medal, in January 2013 for his promotion of health care and healthy living in Canada.He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, Canada in Biological Sciences. He is also a graduate in Respiratory Therapy.
Dr. Nick received the Alberta Society of Respiratory Therapists Award for Academic Excellence as the top student in the Province of Alberta, Canada. He was elected as the Master of Public Health (MPH) student leader at the University of Liverpool, the UK in 2013.
He graduated successfully with a Master of Public Health Degree from the University of Liverpool, UK. His MPH Dissertation abstract was accepted at the European Public Health Association 7th Conference in June 2014 for poster presentation in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Dr. Nick also received the Canada 150 Award for Community Service in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada in 2017. He inspired and helped create the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health Symposium 2018 Abstract which was selected for Panel Presentation: Health Technology Assessment: Examining Conventional, Complementary, and Traditional Approaches to Health Care.
He was appointed on the Doctor of Public Health Student Advisory Council, Walden University, USA. Dr. Nick was also appointed to the School of Health Professions Assessment Council in 2020.
Dr. Nick is currently developing an ambitious plan to create a rural hospital in Ghana.
Dr. Qudratullah Nasrat
Dr. Qudratullah Nasrat is a Fulbright Scholar and an Afghan Medical Doctor. He has done his Masters in International Public Health from the University of Liverpool having over 12 years of working experience in different disciplines within public health by working with various national and international organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
On behalf of ORCD, he is an elected member of the following forums:
1. Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) / UNOCHA
2. Co-Chair of Health Cluster / World Health Organization (WHO)
3. Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM) / Global Fund
Meanwhile, he is one of the board member of White Ribbon Alliance Afghanistan that is advocating regulating for improving maternal health in Afghanistan.
He has been involved in the management of health care delivery, policy formulation and implementation, monitoring and evaluation and fundraising initiatives with several nongovernmental organizations. He has got capabilities of providing managerial and technical support to several multi-million projects worth more than USD 20 million in various parts of the country. In addition, he is also actively involved in the development of the programs.
James B. Foster
Currently studying at the University of Ottawa, James has a wide background of experience in a variety of fields. Initially writing algorithms on spec for clients, James went on to create a small fund trading bitcoins, stocks and bonds with automated trading algorithms. With D.J. McCready, James has co-lectured a course on generational differences, offering a millennial's perspective, as well as co-authored a book on economic justice and ethics, set for publication in 2017.