Since its founding in 2009, Michael O'Neal has been part of OneWorld Health, an organization that exists to provide quality, accessible healthcare to communities in need. Central to his executive director role is overseeing the organization's international project development for facility-based medical centers in East Africa and Central America. These centers have provided medical care to nearly 800,000 patients, and each center is staffed by trained nationals and utilizes a revenue-generating business model for operational sustainability. In 2010, O'Neal moved to Masindi, Uganda, to implement the organization's pilot project. One year later, OneWorld Health opened a comprehensive medical campus that became financially self-sustaining within 13 months due to the organization's business model. During his time with OneWorld Health, O'Neal has helped the organization grow to include twenty two self-sustaining healthcare projects in Uganda, Nicaragua and Honduras. Named a 2015 "Healthcare Hero" by the Charleston Regional Business Journal, O'Neal was chosen alongside CEO Matt Alexander to represent OneWorld Health as a Praxis Fellow during the 2014 Accelerator program for the equipping of leaders of sustainable, high-impact organizations. O'Neal is actively involved in numerous socially driven organizations, and he provides strategic advice based on his international experience. He regularly speaks at universities and medical schools on the topic of how sustainable health impacts the developing world. O'Neal earned a master's degree in international development from Eastern University and a bachelor's degree in Spanish from the College of Charleston. He has lived and worked in both Central America and East Africa during the last 15 years and currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and their two children.