OUR TEAM
DANIELLE PARSONS
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Danielle serves as APMG’s Managing Director, and is a co-owner of APMG along with Dave and Lou. She has been working with APMG for a decade - first as an implementing partner, then as a consultant, and since 2016, as Director. Danielle has worked on HIV and related issues since 2005, when she conducted graduate work on antiretroviral drug trials at Boston University. She continued her work on HIV internationally, living and working in Uganda, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. Her work in has focused almost entirely with key populations, including people who use drugs, sex workers, gay men and other men who have sex with men, and transgender folks. Danielle has worked across a full spectrum of project management and technical assistance, from implementing projects for PEPFAR in Central Asia, to leading global assessment and evaluation efforts for the Global Fund, to providing organizational development and monitoring and evaluation for learning expertise for key populations networks and their donors.
Danielle is well regarded for strong analytical skills, writing style, and ability to facilitate participatory and collaborative events. Danielle holds a Master of Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health, and also has a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She is a native English speaker, and has working proficiency in Russian and an elementary knowledge of French. Danielle is currently based in Washington, DC with her partner, two children, and a very loud dog who enjoys interrupting Zoom calls.
LOU MCCALLUM
DIRECTOR
Lou is a Director of APMG based in Bermagui on the South Coast of New South Wales in Australia. Lou originally trained as a paediatric nurse, and has worked on HIV in various roles since 1983. He has worked in home-based care and community HIV programs, in the New South Wales state government health bureaucracy and as Executive Director of Australia’s peak HIV NGO - the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO). Lou has worked in public health and development since 1996 and his work in APMG focuses primarily on access to health for people from marginalized and criminalized populations. Lou has an Honours Degree in Public Policy and works primarily on building strong relationships between government and civil society health service providers, and community-led organisations. His current practice focuses mainly on Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines. Lou is a native English speaker and with basic level proficiency in French.
DAVE BURROWS
DIRECTOR
Dave is a Director of APMG based in Sydney, Australia. Starting in the HIV field in 1987, Dave worked with an NGO and then a government department providing drug education including HIV prevention among drug users. He joined the drug users organisation NUAA, becoming its Coordinator for three years, then joining AFAO as Policy Officer and then Deputy Director. Working internationally since 1995, Dave has now worked in 71 countries on HIV among key populations. He is the HIV Lead for the Global Fund Focused Countries evaluation project and is currently also carrying out a range of projects for UNAIDS globally and in Asia and Jamaica.
HALEY FALKENBERRY
deputy director of program management
Haley is the Deputy Director of Program Management with APMG and is based in New York City. She has worked on issues related to HIV in varying capacities since 2012, when she worked in mobile medical clinics outside of Cape Town, South Africa, providing HIV testing and counseling services. Since starting her work at APMG, Haley has managed two large Global Fund-funded projects: a 65-country assessment of HIV service packages for key populations and a 50-country evaluation of Global Fund’s investments in HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria programs, as well as working on other projects. Haley has lived in South Africa and Thailand, has field experience in Indonesia, Tanzania, Jamaica, Albania and Kosovo, and has conducted work remotely all over the world. With APMG, Haley’s technical areas of expertise include HIV and sexual and reproductive health, gender justice, and mental health. She has presented work on behalf of the APMG team at the 2019 Harm Reduction International Conference in Porto, Portugal, and at the 2019 International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. Haley holds a Master of Public Health and a Master of Social Work from Boston Unversity; she is a licensed clinical social worker in Massachusetts and New York, and her clinical work experience is primarily with women who inject drugs and female sex workers. Haley is a native English speaker and has elementary knowledge of French.
DANNIA Almodovar
program manager.
Dannia is a Program Manager with APMG and is based in Washington, DC. She has been working in the field of HIV and sexual reproductive health since 2015. With APMG, Dannia managed the implementation of the HIV, tuberculosis and malaria Focused Country Evaluations in the Africa & the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean Regions. She is passionate about youth sexual health education and spent three years working with Hispanic youth in her community in the United States-Mexico border region. Dannia is a return Peace Corps volunteer; she served in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique as a Community Health Outreach Educator, where she formed youth groups focused on health education, linkage between traditional medicine healers and the MoH, worked on CSS, and prevention and control of HIV and Malaria. Dannia holds a bachelor’s degree in microbiology from University of Texas at El Paso and currently working toward a Master of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dannia is trilingual in Spanish (her first language), English, and Portuguese.
VALERIE Diaz
Deputy director of Operations & development
Valerie is the Deputy Director of Operations & Development with APMG, and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. She has worked in public health and human services in different capacities - from direct service to international grants management - since 2001. With APMG, Valerie has managed projects related to social contracting of HIV- and TB-serving civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC); evaluations of Global Fund’s investments in HIV, TB, and malaria programs in LAC, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Cabo Verde; as well as managing and authoring new business proposals, and development of human resource systems company-wide. Previously, Valerie served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Panama working with youth and indiegenous women on HIV prevention, nutrition and leadership development, as well as in Antigua and Barbuda in the Eastern Caribbean working directly with the AIDS Secretariat on development of prevention and treatment campaigns for Spanish-speaking immigrants to the islands. She has also worked with Planned Parenthood Global in Central America to increase access to reproductive and sexual health services through capacity build of CSOs, with the Canadian Red Cross and the IFRC in transversal violence prevention projects for HIV and youth serving programs, institutional capacity development and volunteering. Locally, she served two Public Charter Schools for Latino immigrant students in Washington, DC, in counseling roles. She is well-known to be a strong facilitator, youth advocate, champion of immigrants’ rights, and believer in the power of communities to implement change. Valerie has field experience throughout the Americas and the Caribbean, with substantial work in: Antigua and Barbuda, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Panama. Valerie holds a Master of International Training and Education from American University, and is currently enrolled in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. Valerie is a native English speaker with fluent Spanish and proficient French.
MIKE FICKLING
Program Coordinator
Mike serves as the Program Coordinator with APMG and is based in Philadelphia, PA. Mike primarily supports our network of over 150 consultants and APMG Staff with both field and office work across a wide variety of projects. Mike is responsible for producing project budgets, ensuring that all work is adequately funded, and acting as the liaison between the programmatic and managerial departments. Mike is a native English speaker with proficiency in written and spoken French and an intermediate level of American Sign Language use and comprehension. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University in classical languages and international affairs. Currently, Mike is pursuing a Master of Public Health and frequently volunteers for the Medical Reserve Corp and local nonprofits working with underserved communities. Mike has a particular interest in community outreach and engagement, LGBTQ+ health, women’s health and reproductive rights, mental health, health systems and epidemiology - particularly as they impact communities of color.
THOMAS Iwasawa
FINANCE Manager
Thomas serves as Finance Manager with APMG and is based in Washington, DC. He has worked in accounting and project coordination since 2014, and currently supports the APMG team in the areas of accounting and financial compliance. Thomas holds a Master of Arts in History from American University, with research interests in eugenics, medical ethics, and the influence of religious and social movements on medicine and public health.
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