U.S.-based Team
Amy G. Lehman, MD, MBA, Founder and CEO
Anderson Nkwayu, DRC Coordinator
Frans Moore, Project & Finance Manager
Amy G. Lehman, MD, MBA
Founder & CEO
Dr. Amy G. Lehman is the founder of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (LTFHC)/WAVE. The LTFHC is an international organization whose mission is to address the problem of health care access for millions of people who live in the isolated, but strategically critical Lake Tanganyika Basin/Great Lakes region of Central Africa.
The Lake Tanganyika Basin is not only Africa’s largest source of available fresh water (and the world’s second largest), but is home to enormous mineral resources vital to next generation technologies, newly discovered fossil fuels, and hundreds of endangered species and unique biodiversity. Dr. Lehman and WAVE have thus become recognized and sought after as key experts, advisers and partners to actors as diverse as regional governments and local tribes, through to donor governments, philanthropists, non-profit organizations and multi-national corporations increasingly coming to understand the magnitude of importance of the Lake Tanganyika Basin across health, energy, environment and economic development disciplines.
Dr. Lehman graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and was chosen as their 2014 Alumni Award recipient. She received both an MD and MBA from the University of Chicago, and additionally trained in General Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center and was a Senior Fellow with the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Lehman received the 2014 Distinguished Young Alumni Award from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She has been honored by Newsweek as one of the “150 Women Who Shake the World,” and by a number of other publications for her work in the Lake Tanganyika Basin.
Anderson Nkwayu
DRC Coordinator
Anderson Nkwayu Bwemere is a Congolese citizen born in Bukavu, South Kivu, who currently resides in Lincoln, Nebraska. He studied in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from primary school through his secondary diploma in Commercial Sciences. Anderson received his degree in International Relations/International Law from the University of Lubumbashi in 2012. Anderson has extensive experience in local logistics and transport, as well as local laws and regulations. He worked for various mining companies in ex-Katanga, DRC, including KAMINEX as the Technical Director’s Assistant, and ROQ Mining as the Assistant to the Operations Director. In 2014, he started his own import-export firm, Hurakan Logistics, where his position is General Director.
Anderson lived through the wars in Eastern Congo and was a refugee in Mozambique before returning to the DRC and then settling with his family in the United States. He is fluent in French, English, Portuguese, Lingala, Swahili, and other indigenous Congolese languages. He has been working with the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic since 2010.
Frans Moore
Project & Finance Manager
Frans holds a MSc in International Public Health: Planning & Management from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the U.K. Founded in 1898, it is the oldest institution in the world dedicated to research and teaching on tropical medicine. He holds a BSc. degree in Psychology, with a focus on Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Georgia in the U.S. He has worked in the international non-profit sector and has managed programs in Tanzania, Guinea, and Liberia.
Frans values unique solutions that are contextualized and made to address foundational problems that may be the result of a mesh of factors such as: a Health Systems’ structure, the social dynamics of a region, and stakeholder perspective.
Frans is passionate about community-driven solutions for complex humanitarian, health, and development challenges. He has experience and knowledge of how multi-team systems can be formed, managed, and leveraged to overcome grand challenges.
Frans joined LTFHC in January 2022.
Ravi Prakash
EHR Project Manager & Technical Advisor
Ravi Prakash is Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA where he has over 10 years experience designing a variety of spacecraft. Ravi started at JPL in 2005 where he was part of the team that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars. In 2013, Ravi left JPL to develop technology aimed at lifting people out of poverty. In this role, Ravi traveled to numerous countries designing tools such as more efficient planting devices for Ethiopian farmers, better sanitation for urban cities in India, and user-friendly data capture tools for health workers in the Lake Tanganyika basin. In 2017, Ravi returned to JPL where he led the design and operations for the InSight Mars Lander and is currently one of the lead engineers on a mission to explore the only metal asteroid in our solar system.
Ravi has a BS in Aerospace from the University of Texas at Austin and a MS in Aerospace from Georgia Tech. He is an author of more than 15 publications and the recipient of numerous awards including a NASA honor award for his role in landing the Curiosity rover on Mars, and is the youngest member to be inducted to his high school Hall of Honor. Ravi is very active in outreach, paying special attention to encouraging underserved minorities into STEM fields.
Ravi has been working with the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic since 2014.
Eric Sadur
Data Analytics and Visualization Advisor
Eric Sadur has a passion for building products and bringing modern data analytics practices to bear on critical development issues. He has partnered with a variety of aid and international development organizations, including Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic and Impl. Project. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eric demonstrated that reported health data differ significantly from actual cases among the population. Taking into account various sources of errors and biases, he created techniques to interpret reported data more accurately in order to enable aid groups to deploy their resources more effectively.
At Palantir, Eric’s projects focused on security and human rights issues in locations around the world vulnerable to violent extremism. He built a consortium of development non-profits to foster collaboration and strong data analytics practices. As part of the product team, Eric managed the construction, deployment, and adoption of large new technology platforms. Eric has a B.A. in Mathematics from Columbia University.
Eric has worked with the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic since 2018.
Kate McLean MD, MPH, FACOG
Women’s Health Consultant
Dr. Kate McLean oversaw LTFHC’s contraceptive outreach project, “Bringing Long-Lasting Contraception to Lake Tanganyika” funded by Hivos International. She received her undergraduate degree and MD from the University of Chicago, then went on complete residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as a Masters in Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a fellow in the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Dr. McLean has worked on behalf of ACOG advocating for improved women’s health care on both the state and federal levels and has been elected Secretary of the Washington State ACOG Executive Board. She is also a published researcher, having completed projects focusing on cervical cancer screening in developing nations.
