Meet our Board of Directors

Burris (Duke) Duncan, MD

Dr. Duncan has led an esteemed career in pediatrics.  He was Director of pediatics at the University of Colorado and visiting professor in Natal, Brazil.  While there, he was director of Project HOPE’s Land Based Program.  Since 1978, he has been professor of pediatrics and Public Health at the University of Arizona, where he retired in 2006.  He has consulted for Project HOPE in Foraleza, Brazil, Malawi, Africa, and the Dominican Republic in areas of maternal and infant survival from 1988-1991.  He has been Chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force for International Child Health, Chairman: Committee for International Child Health, Chairman: Section on International Child Health AAP, Chairman: Steering Committee of the AAP's Pediatric Division of Health Volunteers Overseas, US Coordinator for HVO's Program in Uganda, member of the Standing Committee of the International Pediatric Association, and Co-Editor Newsletter for the Section on International Child Health AAP.  Dr. Duncan joined our board in November of 2007 and brings a multinational depth of knowledge to our organization.

Robert N. Hansen, Ph.D.

Dr. Hansen has a doctorate from the University of Missouri in psychology and has a distinguished career in student advocacy.  He taught counseling at the University of Missouri from 1976-1986 where he also served as program director.  In the early eighties, he worked for the Catholic Charities of Kansas City as an adoption case worker, as a representative and as the assistant director of the National Leadership Conferences of the American Youth Foundation.  From 1986 to the present, he has served as the Director of Counseling and Health Services at Westminster College in Fulton, MO.  He has been involved with many regional, hospital, and leadership boards, including Habitat for Humanity for Callaway County and the Central Missouri Community Action.  He co-founded the Wakonse Foundation for College Teaching, the Ozark National Outdoor School, and Project Quest, a campus based outdoor adventure program.  In September 2007, Dr. Hansen joined the board of FFTC and with his daughter spent two months in Eastern Africa working as volunteers for FFTC furthering our future goals. In May 2008, Dr. Hansen led a group of four Westminster College students to Rwanda as goodwill ambassadors where they began laying the groundwork for the Kibungo Children's and Mothers' Health Center.

Ashley Hufft