Emergency in Zimbabwe—A Legal Response for a Health Crisis

Frank Donaghue is the chief executive officer of Physicians for Human Rights. With more than three decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, Donaghue has assembled a distinguished track record in humanitarian service, fundraising, and management.

For the majority of his career, he worked for the American Red Cross in a variety of capacities, serving as president and CEO of the Red Cross in Philadelphia, vice president of both development and corporate communications for the national Red Cross, and as national spokesperson for both national and international disasters and conflicts, including the 1999 Izmit earthquake in Turkey and the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, and Bosnia.

As director of Public Health Watch in the OSI Public Health Program, Cynthia Eyakuze oversees the project's work to strengthen meaningful and sustained engagement by infected and affected communities in the development, implementation, and monitoring of TB, HIV and TB/HIV policies, programs, and practices.

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Tawanda Mutasah is director of programs for the Open Society Institute.

Rebecca Shaeffer is the author of an upcoming Human Rights Watch report on the impact of the recent cholera outbreak on Zimbabwean migrants to South Africa. Shaeffer, the Kroll Family Human Rights Fellow at Human Rights Watch, documents longstanding failures in the South African asylum system to protect Zimbabwean forced migrants, failing to provide them with adequate access to food, shelter, sanitation, and health care.

Richard Sollom consults at Physicians for Human Rights, where he focuses on human rights investigations in conflict areas. He serves as coordinator for Physicians for Human Rights' Zimbabwe investigation and also recently traveled to eastern Chad to participate in the organization’s examination of gender-based violence among Darfuri refugees.

Sollom formerly served as senior program associate at Physicians for Human Rights and led human rights investigations to Albania, Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, and Rwanda and managed Physicians for Human Rights’ campaign to ban landmines. He also worked with the United Nations in Haiti, Somalia, and Burundi investigating human rights violations there. He holds advanced degrees in public international law from the Fletcher School and international health from Harvard University.