Management Team
Dr. Anthony Salandy is a human development professional (specializing in mental and behavioral health of adolescents and young adults) with over 25 years of international and domestic experience in the Legislative and Executive branches of the U.S. Government, Academe, Philanthropy, and Non-Profit sectors. Most recently, he served as the Chief Program and Business Strategy Officer at National Harm Reduction Coalition (NHRC) where he directed all national harm reduction programming, business development, and policy and advocacy work. He has served as Director of the Clinical Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RME) Program at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center/ Mount Sinai Hospital System in NYC.
Internationally, he has worked on population-level Public Health, Humanitarian, and CDC and PEPFAR HIV/AIDS projects in East Africa, Eastern Europe, SE Asia, and the Caribbean. His efforts have led to the development of community-driven interventions for drug-involved youth and young adults, low-resourced families, and PLWHAs and LGBTQIA communities. He has worked in Congress under Rep. Charles Rangel and his efforts led to the establishment of the CDC Regional Office in the Caribbean. At the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), he worked on the Caribbean/US Substance Use Initiative under the Center on Drugs and Other Medical Consequences of Drugs Abuse. He has served on federal and state committees – most recently as a member of the SAMHSA Harm Reduction Steering Committee and the NYC Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee. Dr. Salandy is a 2001 and 2002, AAAS Legislative Branch Fellow and Executive Branch Policy Fellow respectively. He has a Ph.D. and MSc degree in Human Development from Auburn University and a B.S. in Biology from Rust College.
Contact Dr. Anthony Salandy :
718-585-8585, ext.212
AnthonySalandy@HealthPeople.org
Juanita Lopez-Kump, M.P.A., Ph.D., has been Director of Programs at Health People since 1994, providing overall supervision, management, program development and quality control for Health People programs.
Dr. Lopez-Kump has extensive experience working with other organizations linked to Health People and with government contract managers/monitors. She has chief responsibility for Health People’s quality control and data collection for evaluation and reporting to funders. She is an expert in the development of training curricula for peer and community programs.
In 2014, she was certified as a “Master Trainer” in the Stanford University Chronic Disease and Diabetes Self-Management Programs. She also is a Trained Lifestyle Coach for the CDC-recognized National Diabetes Prevention Program.
Dr. Lopez-Kump has been a New York State certified court mediator who mediated some 50 cases, in both English and Spanish. In 2004, she received an Outstanding Latina of the Year award by La Diario La Prensa, the oldest and largest Latina daily newspaper in the U.S.
Contact Dr. Juanita Lopez-Kump:
718-585-8585, ext.231
juanitalopez@HealthPeople.org
Hailu Assefa joined Health People’s Finance Department in 2004. Prior to that, he held positions in finance and operations at First Interstate Bank, Wells Fargo and SerEx Business Center, a company which he owned and managed. Hailu is originally from Ethiopia. Before emigrating to the U.S. in 1991, he was employed by the Development Bank of Ethiopia. He is fluent in English, French and Amharic.
Contact: Hailu Assefa
718-585-8585, ext.222
hailuassefa@HealthPeople.org