In the newly created role, she will lead and grow Orbis’s portfolio of in-country programming, including monitoring, evaluation and learning, and quality assurance. She will also join the organization’s Executive Leadership Team.
“We are thrilled to welcome Doris to Orbis,” said Derek Hodkey, President and Chief Executive Officer of Orbis International. “She has successfully implemented critical health programs in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. Her expertise will be a tremendous strength for our global teams, the people we treat and train, and the fight against avoidable blindness.”
Orbis runs long-term in-country programs in 14 countries across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. These range from vision centers that provide primary eye care for rural communities to vision screening programs for children to mass administration of antibiotics that fight trachoma, an infectious cause of blindness.