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About Us
Our History
TAGHI - Acronym for "Tet Ansanm Global Health Initiative" - became formally organized as a Not-for-Profit Organization when we incorporated our first Chapter in the State of New York on October 18, 2011. We then incorporated our Florida Chapter on December 18, 2020. TAGHI is classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) entity. Our headquarters is in Orlando, Florida.
Our movement started in February 2010 after the devasting January 12, 2010 Haitian earthquake that left hundreds of thousand dead. We volunteered then in various places in Haiti, including Cite Soleil, Kenscoff, Gressier, Miragoane. Our efforts continued to take shape in Haiti in the Fall of 2010 during the Cholera epidemic when we once again volunteered, this time in Saint Raphael, Haiti, saving countless lives. The movement was initially organized as an informal Non-Profit Organization on May 15, 2011 when we founded TAGHI in New York with the goal of converging efforts of different professionals, volunteers and benefactors with the common goal of taking on monumental tasks of restructuring and supporting failing health institutions in underserved areas. Our first such project was in Saint-Raphael, Haiti, where we were invited to support the only local hospital there that was on the verge of collapsing. With no external financial support or any type of grant, we took on the task of restructuring, financing and running that hospital. We ran the Saint Raphael hospital for several years until they became self sufficient and took over their own administration.
“Tèt Ansanm” is Haitian Créole for “Heads Together” or United Front.
Who We Are
Tèt Ansanm Global Health Initiative (TAGHI) is an Abrahamic 501(c)(3) Not-For-Profit Organization that is dedicated to significantly cut down preventable morbidities and mortalities in underserved areas by decreasing health disparities and improving health equity.
We are a grassroots movement that aims to make, not only tangible and visceral, but also statistically significant positive change in people's lives in underserved, underprivileged, and rural areas throughout the globe.
Help Our Cause
Help decrease health disparities in underserved communities locally and globally by supporting us. Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and improve conditions. Your generous donation will fund our mission and is tax deductible.
our founders
Garry B. Antoine, MD, RRT; Co-Founder, Chairman & Executive Director
Dr. Antoine is a general practitioner and entrepreneur who earned his Medical Degree at St. Matthew's University School of Medicine in Cayman Islands and completed his post-graduate training at Santa Rosa Hospital in Puerto Rico. He also received medical training at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York; Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, England; Southwest Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia; and Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor, Canada. Prior to medical school, he earned his Bachelor's degree in Biology and Chemistry at the State University of New York in Purchase, NY, and his Associate Degree in Respiratory Care at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York.
Dr. Antoine has great interest in preventive medicine, global health, medical research, and infectious disease. Some of his research and publications include: Measuring Serum Vancomycin Levels in C-Diff Patients Receiving Enteral Vancomycin at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY; Immune Response to Primary Vaccines in pre-term infants at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport England, in collaboration with the University of Manchester in Manchester, England; and Effects of Fatty Acids on Breast Cancer Cells at SUNY Purchase College in Purchase, NY. He is licensed to practice medicine in Florida and Puerto Rico and is a member of AMA, ACCP, AARC, and Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Antoine has volunteered numerous times in Haiti.
Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD; Co-Founder & Medical Director
Dr. Lindor is a Board Certified Family Physician. She obtained
Her Bachelor’s degree in Biology at Rutgers University in New
Jersey, and her MD degree at Hahnemann University School
of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, which is now Drexel University
School of Medicine. She successfully completed her residency
in Family Practice at Williamsport Hospital in Williamsport, PA.
She has been in medical practice for over 25 years and is
licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Dr. Lindor has volunteered numerous times in Haiti and Kenya.
our board of directors
Garry B. Antoine, MD
Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD
Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD
Chair and Executive Director
Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD
Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD
Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD
Medical Director
Dr. Rachelle Lehner, Ph.D.
Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD
Dr. Rachelle Lehner, Ph.D.
Executive Secretary
Mr. Caleb Macean
Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD
Dr. Rachelle Lehner, Ph.D.
Director of Planning and Marketing Committee
Ms. Guena Desfourneaux
Ms. Guena Desfourneaux
Ms. Guena Desfourneaux
Director of Budget and Finance Committee
Ms. Lutcharde Darius
Ms. Guena Desfourneaux
Ms. Guena Desfourneaux
Director of Program Committees
Ms. Nadine Debrosse
Ms. Guena Desfourneaux
Ms. Nadine Debrosse
Member at Large
Mr. Marx Gedeon
Mr. Stanley Josil
Mr. Stanley Josil
Director of Fundraising Committee
Mr. Stanley Josil
Mr. Stanley Josil
Mr. Stanley Josil
Director of PR / Community Affairs
