Ray Martin

Member Bio

As an advocate of closer collaboration between global developmental institutions and civil society, including the faith community, Ray Martin serves as the Executive Director of Christian Connections for International Health (www.ccih.org), a network of over five hundred organizational and individual members promoting international health and wholeness from a Christian perspective.

He has 45 years experience as an international development and public health specialist managing the design, implementation and evaluation of large health and population programs. In a 25-year career with USAID (1967-1992), he was chief of the Health, Population, and Nutrition offices in Zaire, Pakistan, and Cameroon. He also served in Ghana as Population Officer and in Morocco as Assistant Program Officer with USAID. From 1992 he worked several years on African programs as a public health specialist at the World Bank. He was recently the Chair of the 1500-member International Health Section of the American Public Health Association. His international career began as a Mennonite volunteer in community development in Somalia and in refugee development in Tanzania.

He has a B.A. in economics from Goshen College, an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and completed the course work for a Masters degree in economics from Vanderbilt University. He is fluent in French.