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EZRA JEROME
Founder
Ezra Jerome is founder of and partner at Protea Consulting. He offers strategic consulting services rooted in best practices to bring high-quality, low-cost public health solutions to communities. By working with communities as partners, he empowers people to define challenges, determine interventions, measure effectiveness, and ultimately create sustainable solutions to improve their health, well-being, and happiness. With over a decade of experience, he provides services across the entire program lifecycle including partnership development, resource mobilization, program design and implementation, and project management.
Ezra sees program design and implementation and resource mobilization as two sides to the same coin that can mutually reinforce one another. He readily adopts this lens as an Assistant Director of Foundation Partnership at UNICEF USA where he stewards relationships and facilitates co-creation of programs with leading institutional funding partners including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. He currently manages and supports a complex, international grant portfolio of over $300M with a focus on communicable diseases (polio, malaria); water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH); community health; and digital health.
While pursuing his MPH at New York University and working at the patients’ needs-driven nonprofit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Ezra first learned of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and how these ancient ailments create lifelong, community-wide debilitation and contribute to cyclic, intergenerational poverty in families. His commitment to marginalized communities was reinforced after traveling to Sudan and collaborating with the Mycetoma Research Centre on implementing a digital health-based surveillance and case management platform to help map mycetoma patients and connect them to care. As a former member and ongoing collaborator with NYU’s Applied Global Public Health Initiative, he continues to drive forward NTD control and elimination projects in Sudan and Ethiopia. Relatedly, he is a firm advocate of the access to medicines movement, having co-founded the NYU chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and worked with Médecins Sans Frontières’ Access Campaign.
Ezra serves as a Board member and Director of Public Health for ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE, a nonprofit organization of aviators, clinicians, and multidisciplinary experts that provides disaster response and medical/logistical support to underserved areas domestically and internationally with a focus on health systems strengthening projects in Haiti. In addition, he has significant experience working with UN development agencies, international non-governmental organizations, and civil society organizations and has built out a wide network of partners from disparate backgrounds, geographies, and skill sets.
Rachel Svetanoff
Partner
Rachel Svetanoff is a partner at Protea Consulting. With over 7 years of experience as a leader of cross-functional teams, Rachel uses data-driven insights to make informed decisions for executing strategies that meets clients' objectives in the service areas of fundraising, marketing, program design, and partnerships. Receiving numerous appointments and 32 awards, Rachel is a sought-out thought leader as a founder of 3 social enterprises and actively contributes to publications on matters concerning youth, sustainable development, and human rights.
With a record of supporting efforts to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Rachel weaves her networks together through trust-based interactions to create deep connections for impact. As a Foundations Partnerships Consultant for UNICEF USA, she supports a $300 million portfolio by working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and UN Foundation among others to advance UNICEF’s role in aligned efforts to achieve global public health, climate action, and innovation impact for youth worldwide. Rachel's history of clients includes the following: UN-award-winning fashion designer Berny Martin, TechStar company The Collaboratory, NSF-funded Re+Collective, Inc., SBIR-funded Work Help Life, LLC, and MassChallenge-funded TVP Health, among others.
Prior to consulting, Rachel worked in the pharmaceutical industry at companies Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly and Company. At Johnson & Johnson, she was the Programs Lead of the charitable giving platform CaringCrowd which helped nonprofits attain the necessary funding they needed for projects that improved health outcomes and was a Sustainability Associate where she helped shape the new department's environmental strategy. At Eli Lilly, Rachel was a Quality Control Chemist working in their purchased materials quality control labs.
Rachel earned her MBA from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management, Master of Science in Global Health from the University of Notre Dame, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Purdue University where was honored as a top 10 leader of her graduating class and a recipient of 9 leadership awards. In her free time, Rachel serves as a strategic advisor at various nonprofit organizations including The Trebuchet, InternetBar.Org Institute, and Purdue Student Life Young Alumni Advisory Council.