Our Mission
The mission of CBIO Initiatives for Global Health is to expand awareness about and implementation of the Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach to working with communities to assist them in their efforts to improve their health.
Why do we need CBIO?
CBIO is a pioneering methodology to help communities improve their health. Enormous health problems still exist that communities themselves can help address. Below are causes of readily preventable death and health impairment, and the number of people throughout the world affected by them.
Each year, around the world, there are…
stillbirths
newborn deaths
deaths of children aged 1–59 months
maternal deaths
deaths from tuberculosis
deaths from HIV/AIDS
deaths from malaria
children who are undernourished
women with an unmet need for family planning
people with readily treatable vision impairment
Undernutrition alone is linked to more than 250,000 child deaths from stunting and over one million from wasting annually, along with poorer cognitive development and lower earnings in adulthood. The number of people with vision impairment includes 826 million people with presbyopia that could be corrected with reading glasses and 94 million with operable cataracts.
Communities + Data = Lives Saved
There is much that communities can do to prevent these tragedies from occurring — both by working collaboratively with local health programs and also by local action in the community. CBIO is an approach that can help guide communities in these efforts.
Dr. Henry Perry, President
CBIO Initiatives for Global Health
Dr. Perry is a widely recognized leader in primary health care for the past 50 years. He received the Distinguished Service Award for Lifelong Dedication to Primary Health Care at the 2025 International Conference for Primary Health Care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, “for his foundational contributions to community-based primary health care, improving equity and empowering communities worldwide.”
In 2026, the CORE Group, a global association of organizations and individuals working in community health, honored Dr. Perry by instituting an annual award named for him — the Dr. Henry Perry Global Champion in Community Health Award. He is a semi-retired faculty member in the Health Systems Program of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
His widely acclaimed course on Coursera, Health for All through Primary Health Care, has had more than 100,000 enrollees and runs monthly. He is the Co-Founder of Impact Global Health Alliance, the author of more than 250 publications, the most widely cited author in the domain of community health and community health workers, and, according to Clarivate, among the top 1% of authors in the field of social sciences ranked by citations for publications in the Web of Science.
Kerline T. Jules, Executive Director
CBIO Initiatives for Global Health
Kerline T. Jules has served as Executive Director of CBIO Initiatives for Global Health since 2025. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a certificate in project management. She has also pursued graduate studies in organizational leadership.
With extensive experience working with various organizations in Haiti, Kerline co-founded the Rescue One Foundation in 2004 and served as its Country Director for more than 19 years. Since 2023, she has also been serving as Liaison Director for Hearts and Hands for Haiti (HHH).
Board of Directors
Diverse, experienced, and collaborative — our Board of Directors steers strategy and provides trusted oversight.
Henry B. Perry, President
Co-founder of Impact Global Health Alliance, residing in Durham, North Carolina, USA
Andrew Herrera, Treasurer
Executive Director, Impact Global Health Alliance, residing in Wonder Lake, Illinois, USA
Mary DeCoster
International health consultant with expertise in social and behavioral change at the community level, residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Ira Stollak
Program Manager, Impact Global Health Alliance (2008–2022), residing in Manizales, Colombia
Eskinder Wolka
National Primary Health Care Program Lead, International Institute for Primary Health Care-Ethiopia (IPHC-E), residing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Thomas Davis, Secretary
International health consultant, residing in El Chaparral, Spain
Other Contributors
Krupa Patel, DHA
Research Associate
Krupa Patel is a Research Associate with a doctorate in healthcare administration and a background spanning global health, public health, research, education, and humanitarian service. She has contributed to numerous scholarly publications and presentations, and has spent many years in community-based work in India supporting access to preventive care and essential health services for communities facing geographic and socioeconomic barriers. She also founded an educational outreach program for underserved children in India that provides school supplies and educational resources.
Krupa has provided technical support to CBIO-IGH through assistance in publication of CBIO papers and website review.
Dan Peters
CBIO+ Collaborator
Dan Peters is a Global Community Health Development Volunteer and Advisor advocating for community development, global health, child welfare, and women’s health initiatives at the local level. He is a contributor to the CBIO website along with marketing, communications, design, and social media planning for the organization. Professionally, he is a Triangle North Carolina-based business consultant, program manager, and coach.