Chris Tokpah, MBA, Ph.D
Dr. Chris Tokpah is the Associate Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness at Delaware County Community College in Pennsylvania; his responsibilities include supervising the Office of Institutional Research and the Institutional Review Board. The Office of Institutional Research oversees program evaluation, research design and implementation, federal and state compliance activities, marketing research, and external accreditors reports. The office also develops M&E frameworks, oversees the development and monitoring of the institution’s strategic plan, designs instruments, collects and analyzes data, prepares reports, and supports faculty in writing peer-reviewed articles and books. Dr. Tokpah is a Coach for Achieving the Dream (ATD) and a Peer Evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
As an ATD Coach, he provides technical advice to colleges to build capacity, lead systemic reform, and sustain continuous improvement. As a Peer Evaluator, he conducts on-site visits and/or reviews written reports and evidence by colleges and universities undergoing different types of accreditation reviews.
Chris holds a Ph.D. in Evaluation and Measurement (Kent State University, Ohio), an M.B.A., with an emphasis in Management Information Systems (Kent State University), and a B.Sc. in Mathematics (University of Liberia). He is an adjunct professor of Research Methods and Statistics in the doctoral program at Delaware Valley University (Pennsylvania) where his responsibilities include providing dissertation advice to students. He taught survey design and marketing research courses in the M.B.A. program at Indiana Tech University (Indiana), and a mixed-methods program evaluation course in the doctoral program at Walden University (online). In all his courses, students are exposed to both theory and fieldwork. Dr Tokpah also earned a certificate in Social-Behavioral Human Subjects Research from the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative. Chris is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for Refuge Place International- a Liberian non-governmental organization that provides health care to vulnerable Liberians. He is also the co-founder and Vice chairman of the Board of the Augustus Richardson Memorial Foundation. Chris founded and runs the Liberia Training and Volunteers Network.
Mosoka Fallah, MPH, Ph.D
Dr. Mosoka Fallah is the Program Manager of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods Project at the African Center for Disease Control (Ethiopia) and a part-time Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. He is a former director of the National Institute of Public Health and serves as a consultant for the Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Fallah was commissioned Grand Commander, Order of the Star of Africa for meritorious and distinguished services to Liberia during the Ebola crisis; he is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Liberian-U.S. Joint Clinical Research Partnership on Ebola survivors in Liberia. In 2012, Mosoka provided training for enumerators and designed the survey methodology for the final evaluation of the CARE Liberia Nutritional Intervention aimed at enhancing livelihood among poor women residing in the peri-urban slums around Monrovia.
Mosoka holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Research (University of Kentucky), an M.P.H. in Public Health (Harvard University), an M.A. in Program Evaluation (Kent State University), and a B.Sc. in Biology (University of Liberia). He also earned a certificate in Human Subjects Research from the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative. Mosoka is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Refuge Place International- a Liberian non-governmental organization that provides health care to vulnerable Liberians.