Saving Lives Through Alternate Options

	JUDITH LAHAI MOMOH Executive Director; MPH. Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Texas; & B. Sc. Health Care Administration, Texas Southern University, May 1991
	Experience Executive Director, 1997 to present: Established a non-profit organization (SLAO) to help African, Caribbean, and under-served populations in Houston. Coordinate health-related services and programs for these populations in HIV/STD, cancer, and Teen pregnancy prevention. Co-chair's the Health Research Committee. Participate in grant writing and work with Program Directors on fund-raising events. Manage organizational activities including supervising interns and volunteers. Organize workshops, training, seminars, focus-group sessions, etc. Senior Public Health Investigator, Counselor/Health Educator, 1991 through 1997: Worked for the City of Houston (Department of Health and Human Services) and Harris County (Health Department). Provided preventative counseling, testing, referrals, and HIV/AIDS related services at community health fairs. Conducted Health Education classes using culturally competent approaches for adults and adolescents in Health Centers. Supervised HIV/AIDS related activities and materials for appropriateness. Maintained client records and prepared monthly management reports. Accomplishments " Member, Review Panel on HIV/AIDS, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Ryan White. Member, the Mayor's (Houston) Task Force on HIV/AIDS State of Emergency Committee. Serve on variety of Boards, including the Houston HIV/AIDS Coordinating Committee (HACC), Rapid Assessment Response and Evaluation Project (RARE), Serving Out of Unselfish Love (SOUL), Houston Women's Advisory Council, Houston Immigration Policy Team and Africa Action. Guest Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, Virginia, University of Houston, and Texas Southern University Recent Publications: Co-authored Assessing the HIV/AIDS Health Services Needs of African Immigrants to Houston, AIDS Education and Prevention, December 2003. HIV/AIDS-Related Social Skills and Knowledge Among Adolescents in Sierra Leone, West Africa , African Journal of Reproductive Health, 1997.

	MATTHEW MOMOH Program Manager; Matthew Momoh is Co-founder of Saving Lives Through Alternate Options (SLAO), a community based non profit agency whose mission is to advocate for the reduction of health disparities in communities of color and emerging populations in Houston and Harris County. He currently serves as program manager with responsibilities for grant acquisition and management, program development and implementation and staff development. Matthew has more than 20 years of community mobilization and public health experience with special emphasis on HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. He co-authored a scientific article with his wife and others on Assessing the HIV/AIDS Health Services Needs of African Immigrants to Houston. AIDS Education and Prevention: Dec., 2003.
	Prior to founding Saving Lives Through Alternate Options (SLAO), Matthew worked for various departments within the City of Houston government. He served as administrative assistant to the bureau chief of the HIV division in the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), worked as a Senior Health Educator at the DHHS, worked as an administrative assistant grade II in the Economic Development & Revitalization Division of the Planning and Development Department of the City of Houston. He joined the Solid Waste Management Department, City of Houston as the Assistant Public Information Officer in the Directors Office, a post he held until he left city government to found Saving Lives Through Alternate Options in 1995. He earned his BA in Journalism (Cum Laude) from Texas Southern University in Houston, and is currently pursuing his MSPH/PhD in Public and Community Health at Walden University. Phil Maanulwa Phil MAANULWA is the Coordinator of SLAO’s Humanitarian Program. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Political Science from the University of Houston-Downtown and a Post Graduate Diploma, the prestigious International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from Fordham University of New York and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He is also a candidate for a Masters degree in International Studies and Diplomacy Washington Int.University Prior to joining SLAO, Phil served as the Executive Director of the Multi-Ethnic Community Center and Hurricane Program Manager with The Alliance after Katrina Hurricane devastated the Gulf Coast. While working the Alliance, PHIL MAANULWA coordinated Relief Operations in collaboration with FEMA, American Red Cross, Vietnamese Community, and the African Disaster Relief Funds to name just a few. He is a volunteer with the American Red Cross Houston Chapter. Phil has over 14 years combined experience in Project Management, Rural Development, Humanitarian, Human Rights, and Management with agencies such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where he worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) to assist refugees from Rwanda. In his native Congo, PHIL MAANULWA co-founded Actions Paysanne pour la Reconstruction et le Developpement Communautaire Integral (APREDECI) in earlier 1993 to assist Internally Displaced People in Eastern Congo. He moved on to work with GEAD, a lead Congolese NGO based in Goma known Action Group for a Well-Defined Development (GEAD). Among other qualities, PHIL MAANULWA is an effective negotiator and consensus builder with diverse stakeholders in the government, donors, and development community. Mr. MAANULWA is fluent in French, English, Swahili, and Lingala.He is very good at multitasking with a strong ability to work independently as well as a higher capacity of interaction harmoniously with people from diverse background and cultures.

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