Miriam U. Rittmeyer, MD, PhD, MPH - CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER and CO-FOUNDER

Dr. Rittmeyer is a native of Guatemala, where she received her medical degree (MD) from Francisco Marroquin University Medical School. In 1989, she obtained her Master's in Public Health in International Health from Johns Hopkins University. She pursued fellowship training in Maternal and Child Health at Johns Hopkins University and earned her PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health in 1996. She worked as a consultant for the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, assisting Dr. Reynaldo Martorell in one of the five longest-running birth cohorts in developing countries, specifically Guatemala, Delhi-India, the Philippines, Brazil, and South Africa. These longitudinal studies analyzed the relationship between early childhood growth, nutrition, and long-term biological, physiological, and human capital outcomes.

From 2005 to 2014, Dr. Rittmeyer served as the Executive Director for Community Health Mission, a medical non-profit organization that provided medical and public health services to uninsured adults in Chatham County, Georgia. She also served as a board member of Georgians for a Healthy Future. Dr. Rittmeyer is a grant reviewer for the Komen Foundation and a reviewer for the World Health Organization Bulletin in the areas of Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, and Epidemiology. Additionally, she holds the position of Assistant Clinical Professor in the Community Medicine Program at the School of Medicine, Mercer University.

Dr. Rittmeyer is currently the Chief Executive Director of Phalarope, a rotary member of the Southeast Rotary Club in Savannah, and a Board Member of the Rotary International Action Group for Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health. Throughout her career, she has received several academic honors, including a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Organization of American States (1988-1991). In 2010 and 2017, Dr. Rittmeyer was awarded the Georgia Medical Society Health Care Heroes award. Her areas of expertise encompass maternal and child nutrition, child growth and development, maternal health, and program design and evaluation, including longitudinal design and analysis evaluation systems. Rotary International Magazine