Appendix C

Speaker and Planning Committee Member Biosketches

Dawn Alley, Ph.D., is the chief strategy officer at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). She previously served as the deputy senior advisor for Value-based Transformation in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as the director of the Prevention and Population Health Group at CMMI, which is responsible for innovative payment and service delivery models including the Accountable Health Communities model, the Million Hearts Cardiovascular Risk Reduction model, and the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program. Prior to joining CMMI, Dr. Alley served as the senior advisor in the Office of the Surgeon General, where she oversaw implementation of the National Prevention Strategy. She has extensive expertise in population health and aging, with more than 50 publications in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Dr. Alley holds a Ph.D. in gerontology from the University of Southern California and received postdoctoral training in population health through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Philip Alberti, Ph.D., is the senior director for health equity research and policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). He supports the efforts of academic medical centers to build an evidence base for effective programs, protocols, and partnerships aimed at ameliorating inequalities in health and health care through research. Dr. Alberti is responsible for working with AAMC’s constituents to elevate the status of community-partnered and health equity–related research efforts, iden-

tifying emerging funding sources and policy implications for such projects, and disseminating findings to achieve the broadest possible impact. Prior to joining AAMC in 2012, Dr. Alberti led research, evaluation, and planning efforts for a bureau within the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that works to promote health equity between disadvantaged and advantaged neighborhoods. Dr. Alberti holds a Ph.D. in sociomedical sciences from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and was a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow in the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training program.

John Auerbach, M.B.A., is the president and the chief executive officer of Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority. TFAH conducts science-based research, issues policy-oriented reports addressing key health issues, shares best practices from communities large and small across the nation, and brings diverse groups together to effectively respond to current and emerging health threats of all kinds.

Mr. Auerbach was formerly the associate director for policy and the acting director of the Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As such, he managed CDC’s Policy Office, which focused on strengthening the collaboration between the public health and health care sectors, and he oversaw key activities and technical assistance that supported the nation’s health departments and the public health system. Prior to his appointment at CDC, he was a Distinguished Professor of Practice in Health Sciences and the director of the Institute on Urban Health Research and Practice at Northeastern University from 2012 to 2014.

He was the commissioner of public health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2012. He participated in the implementation of the state’s innovative health care reform law and developed public health programs that promoted health equity, emergency preparedness, and chronic and infectious disease prevention. Prior to his appointment as commissioner, Mr. Auerbach had been the executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission for 9 years. In this position he oversaw a wide range of city services including those addressing substance abuse, homelessness, and emergency medical services. He had previously worked at the State Health Department for a decade, first as the chief of staff and later as an assistant commissioner overseeing the HIV/AIDS Bureau during the early years of the epidemic.

Cathy Baase, M.D., serves as the board chair of the Michigan Health Improvement Alliance (MIHIA), a multistakeholder collaborative dedi-

cated to improving the health of people in 14 counties of central Michigan. In a related role, she is the senior fellow serving MIHIA and the transformational Transforming Health Regionally in a Vibrant Economy initiative. She is a member of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and she served as the initial chair of the Business Collaborative. Dr. Baase is a member of the Stewardship Council of Raising the Bar, an initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to set bold new principles for the role that health care systems and institutions should play in achieving optimal health and well-being, and practical guidance for applying them. Additionally, she is a member of the National Alliance to Impact Social Determinants of Health and serves as a senior advisor to HealthBegins, which is focused on upstream efforts in health care. Dr. Baase is a member of the Advisory Council for the RWJF Culture of Health for Business project with the Global Reporting Index. She is also on the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences Advisory Board at the University of California, Irvine.

Oxiris Barbot, M.D., has more than 25 years of experience in public health and health care delivery and has dedicated her career to achieving health equity. When she was the commissioner of health for New York City, she led the nation’s premier health department in centering an equity agenda on communities, bridging public health and health care delivery, and leveraging data for action and policy. She successfully navigated the city’s responses to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and to New York City’s largest measles outbreak in 30 years.

As an innovative public health leader, Dr. Barbot has championed addressing health inequities in major cities along the East Coast. In 2010, Dr. Barbot was appointed the commissioner of health for the City of Baltimore. During her tenure in Baltimore, she led the development of Healthy Baltimore 2015, a robust health agenda dedicated to ensuring that all Baltimore residents realize their full health potential. Under her leadership, the City of Baltimore achieved a record reduction in the rate of infant deaths, among many achievements in health. From 2003 to 2010, Dr. Barbot served as the medical director of New York City’s public schools. In this capacity, she spearheaded development and implementation of an electronic health record system that improved delivery of health services for more than 1 million children. Prior to her work in New York City, Dr. Barbot served as the chief of pediatrics and community medicine at Unity Health Care, Inc., a federally qualified health center in Washington, DC. Dr. Barbot holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and an M.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She completed her pediatric residency at The George Washington University’s Children’s National Medical Center.

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D., M.A.S., is a professor and the chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman, M.D., Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (USCF). She is the inaugural vice dean for population health and health equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. She co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that focuses on actionable research to increase health equity and reduce health disparities in at-risk communities. She is one of the Principal Investigators for the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and she leads the newly launched UCSF COVID Community Public Health Initiative.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is a general internist and cardiovascular epidemiologist whose scholarship includes observational epidemiology, pragmatic trials, and simulation modeling to examine clinical and public health approaches to prevention in the United States and globally. She previously served on and led the United States Preventive Services Task Force from 2010 to 2017. She is an inducted member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine.

William Buster, M.A., is the executive vice president of community investments at the St. David’s Foundation. He leads and oversees the Foundation’s grantmaking and community programs, including the St. David’s Dental Program. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2016, Mr. Buster was the owner and lead consultant for Common-Unity Philanthropic and Nonprofit Advisors. He also worked with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where he served as the director of Mississippi and New Orleans Programs as well as an advisor to the president on Men and Boys of Color, and as a program officer with the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, with a focus on Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and parts of Appalachia. Earlier in his career, he was the program director for community development for the Greensboro Education and Development Council. Mr. Buster has an M.A. in policy and practice of development from the University of New Hampshire, and a B.A. from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University.

Nupur Chaudhury, M.P.H., M.U.P., is the program officer of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth). She focuses on NYSHealth’s priority area on building healthy communities, which leads neighborhood-level and policy interventions to increase residents’ access to healthy, affordable food options; improve the built environment; and link communities with healthy lifestyle programming. Ms. Chaudhury has a background in community-based health, urban planning, and community organizing.

Prior to joining NYSHealth, Ms. Chaudhury was the director of neighborhood health development at the Center for Health Equity, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In her role there, she led the expansion of the Shop Healthy program, aimed at changing the food retail environment in the city’s poorest neighborhoods, and she was also part of the planning team developing the city’s Neighborhood Health Action Centers. She has also worked with Rebuild by Design as a resiliency planner after Hurricane Sandy by building and strengthening neighborhood coalitions in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Prior to that, Ms. Chaudhury was the first health coordinator for the Brownsville Partnership, developing its agenda linking the built environment, health, and violence to its work on active living and healthy eating. Ms. Chaudhury holds a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, an M.U.P. from New York University, and an M.P.H. from Columbia University. She is a member of the American Public Health Association and the American Planning Association and also serves on the boards of Made in Brownsville and University of Orange.

Susan N. Dreyfus is the president and the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, a strategic action network of social-sector organizations that has a national reach in thousands of communities across America. Prior to joining the Alliance in 2012, Ms. Dreyfus was the secretary for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. She was appointed by Governor Chris Gregoire in May 2009 and approved by the senate, and she served as a member of the Governor’s Executive Cabinet. She had responsibility for Medicaid, aging and long-term care, child welfare, behavioral health care, juvenile justice, economic assistance, and other human services. Before her work in Washington state, Ms. Dreyfus served as the senior vice president and the chief operating officer for the Alliance.

In 1996 she was appointed by the Governor Tommy G. Thompson administration in Wisconsin to be the first administrator of the Division of Children and Family Services. Her responsibilities included child welfare, child care quality and licensing, youth development, and an array of emergency assistance and other community programs. Ms. Dreyfus is a member of Leadership 18, a coalition of CEOs from the largest and most respected nonprofit organizations in America, and was previously the chair. She serves on the governing boards of the American Public Human Services Association and Generations United. Ms. Dreyfus is also on the advisory committees of the Social Intervention Research & Evaluation Network and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Systems for Action. She was appointed through the speaker’s office in the U.S. House of Representatives to serve on the National Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities from 2013 to 2015.

Sandro Galea, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., is a physician, epidemiologist, author, and the dean and the Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and The New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature, and is a regular contributor to a range of public media about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is the chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and the past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Dr. Galea holds an M.D. from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.

Marc N. Gourevitch, M.D., M.P.H., is the Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor and the founding chair of the Department of Population Health at the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center. The focus of Dr. Gourevitch’s work is on developing approaches that leverage both health care delivery and policy- and community-level interventions to advance the health of populations. Dr. Gourevitch leads the City Health Dashboard initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to equip city and community leaders with an accurate understanding of the health of their populations, including its social, economic, and environmental drivers, to support population health improvement. He directs NYU Langone’s participation in the New York City Clinical Data Research Network funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. In other research, he focuses on improving health outcomes among drug users and other underserved populations, including by integrating pharmacological treatments for opioid and alcohol dependence into primary care. Dr. Gourevitch previously served as the founding director of NYU Langone Health’s Division of General Internal Medicine, and led NYU Langone Health’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–funded Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he trained in primary care/internal medicine at NYU and Bellevue Hospital and received his M.P.H. from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Rose Green, M.N.P., is a program officer at the Colorado Health Foundation who works to bring health in reach for communities across northeastern Colorado. She is currently focused locally on Morgan County and the

East Colfax Corridor. Ms. Green is fueled by a lifelong passion for equity and nonprofit work, grounded in a desire to make nonprofits more effective and impactful. She is also the co-chair of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy—Colorado. Before starting at the Colorado Health Foundation, Ms. Green was a training specialist with the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. She attended Pomona College as an undergraduate in nonprofit organizational and economic development, and received an M.N.P. from Regis University.

Gary Gunderson, D.Min., D.Div., M.Div., is the vice president for faith and health, a professor of public health sciences, and a professor of religion and the health of the public (at the Divinity School), Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest University School of Divinity. His degrees, which hide as much as they illuminate, are an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in history, an M.Div. at Emory University (with an honors thesis on economics, faith, and the hungry) and a D.Min. from the Interdenominational Theology Centre in Atlanta (with a thesis on boundary leadership). However, his real qualifications are some 40 years of life in incredibly rich webs of relationships with people working seriously in the areas of hunger/poverty and community development, public health, and more recently health care, all of which are in the boundary zone between people moving out of their exclusive faith identities. Dr. Gunderson is interested in organizational and community change and how people influence complex human systems to morph in the direction of greater vitality, decency, and justice. He worked for about 8 years at the Carter Center, where many of these ideas were developed, and the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, then 7 years as a senior executive at Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare (a $1.5 billion faith-based hospital system in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the poorest cities in the United States). His current work focuses on helping this large system align its full institutional and human assets with its professed goal of advancing the health of the region.

Dora Hughes, M.D., M.P.H., is the associate research professor of health policy & management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University, where her work focuses on the intersection of clinical and community health, social determinants of health, health equity, health care quality, and workforce. Previously, Dr. Hughes was a senior policy advisor at Sidley Austin, where she advised on regulatory and legislative matters in the life science industry. Prior to that, she served for nearly 4 years in the Obama administration as the counselor for science & public health to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Her areas of responsibility included

implementation of public health and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as well as signature legislation for tobacco, Alzheimer’s disease, and FDA reform. She served in leadership roles for several White House initiatives, including the Childhood Obesity Task Force, the President’s Food Safety Working Group, the Committee on STEM Education, and Let’s Move. Dr. Hughes began her career in health policy as a senior program officer at The Commonwealth Fund, and subsequently as the deputy director for the HELP Committee under Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She then served as the health policy advisor to former Senator Barack Obama. Dr. Hughes received a B.S. from Washington University, an M.D. from Vanderbilt University, and an M.P.H. from Harvard University. She completed her internal medicine residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

Sheri Johnson, Ph.D., is the director of the Population Health Institute; an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences; and an associate director of community partnerships for the Prevention Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Johnson has dedicated her 25-year career to partnering with children, families, community organizations, and systems to advance health and well-being. Awed by the resilience of individuals and communities, she is motivated to remove unfair obstacles and conditions that create and perpetuate health inequities. Dr. Johnson completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University, earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Boston University, and served as a clinical fellow in psychology at Harvard Medical School. She was previously the director of behavioral health at Milwaukee Health Services, Inc., a federally qualified health center, and served as the administrator and state health officer for the Wisconsin Division of Public Health. Immediately prior to joining the Population Health Institute, she was the associate professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Advancement of Underserved Children, where she collaborated with diverse stakeholders to address a broad range of real-world problems.

Shreya Kangovi, M.D., M.S.H.P., is an internist, pediatrician, and health policy researcher. She is a leading national expert on the use of community health workers—trusted laypeople from local communities—to improve population health. Her research also sheds light on patient perspectives on health and health care utilization. Dr. Kangovi is the founding executive director of the Penn Center for Community Health Workers, a national center of excellence dedicated to advancing health in low-income populations through effective community health worker programs. The center is a hub for ongoing research and development of

best practices for community health workers. Dr. Kangovi led the team that designed IMPaCT, a standardized, scalable community health worker program that has been proven in three randomized controlled trials to improve chronic disease control, primary care access, mental health, and quality of care while reducing hospital admissions.

Joneigh S. Khaldun, M.D., M.P.H., is the chief medical executive and the chief deputy director for health for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). In these roles, she provides medical guidance for the State of Michigan and oversees the Public Health, Medical Services, Aging and Adult Services, and Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities administrations. Prior to her roles at MDHHS, she was the director and the health officer for the Detroit Health Department, where she oversaw a robust community-driven community health assessment, established a comprehensive reproductive health network, and led Detroit’s response to the hepatitis A outbreak. In 2018, Dr. Khaldun was selected for the 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health Award by the National Minority Quality Forum; she is also a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Previously, Dr. Khaldun was the Baltimore City Health Department’s chief medical officer, where she oversaw seven clinics and a laboratory and led efforts to address the opioid epidemic. She has held several local and national leadership positions, including as the director of the Center for Injury Prevention and Control at The George Washington University, the founder and the director of the Fellowship in Health Policy in the University of Maryland Department of Emergency Medicine, and as a fellow in the Obama administration’s Office of Health Reform.

Dr. Khaldun has served on several national and local boards and committees that include the Commission on Health in Montgomery County, Maryland; Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit; the Detroit Urban Research Collaborative; the governor-appointed Michigan Public Health Advisory Council; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Disparities Advisory Committee. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. in health policy from The George Washington University. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York, where she served as the chief resident. She practices emergency medicine part-time at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Milton J. Little, Jr., M.A., became the first African American president of United Way of Greater Atlanta, the second-largest in the national system, in July 2007. Altogether, Mr. Little has helped raise more than $500 mil-

lion for local community needs and priorities. Before joining United Way, he served as the chief operating officer and the interim president and the chief executive officer of the National Urban League. He graduated magna cum laude from Morehouse College with a B.A. in sociology and earned an M.A. in urban sociology and social policy from Columbia University.

He is a member of many boards and advisory committees, including the Center for Assessment and Policy Development. He also served as the past chair of the Southern Education Foundation, and the past vice chair of the board of directors for Ways to Work. He is a member of the Atlanta Mayoral Board of Service, the Commerce Club Operating Board, 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Leadership Atlanta Class of 2010, and the Rotary Club of Atlanta. He also serves on the Junior League of Atlanta Community Advisory Board, the University of Georgia Advisory Board for the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, the Atlanta Speech School Board of Advisors, the Woodruff Arts Center Board of Trustees, Central Atlanta Progress, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students, Georgia’s Older Adults Cabinet, Georgia’s Children’s Cabinet, the Hope Atlanta Advisory Council, the Get Georgia Ready Reading Cabinet, and Susan G. Komen of Greater Atlanta. In January 2018, he was selected to serve on Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’s Transition Team.

Sanne Magnan, M.D., Ph.D., is the co-chair of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is the former president and the chief executive officer of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (2006–2007, 2011–2016). In 2007, she was appointed the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health by Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. She served from 2007 to 2010 and had significant responsibility for the implementation of Minnesota’s 2008 health reform legislation, including the Statewide Health Improvement Program, standardized quality reporting, development of provider peer grouping, certification process for health care homes, and baskets of care.

Dr. Magnan was a staff physician at the Tuberculosis Clinic at St. Paul–Ramsey County Department of Public Health (2002–2015). She was a member of the Population-based Payment Model Workgroup of the Healthcare Payment Learning and Action Network (2015–2016) and a member of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Multisector Collaboration Measure Development Technical Expert Panel (2016). She is on Epic’s Population Health Steering Board and on the Healthy People 2030 Engagement Subcommittee.

She served on the board of Minnesota Community Measurement and the board of NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, a federally qualified

health center and part of Hennepin Health. Her previous experience also includes serving as the vice president and the medical director of consumer health at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Currently, she is a senior fellow with HealthPartners Institute, and adjunct assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Magnan holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the University of Minnesota, and is a board-certified internist.

Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, M.P.H., is the chief executive officer of the Latino Community Foundation (LCF). The mission of LCF is to unleash the power of Latinos in California. She has led LCF through a critical stage of growth and expansion. Today, LCF leads one of the largest networks of Latino philanthropists in the country and it is the only statewide foundation solely focused on investing in Latino leaders. She is driven by a sense of urgency, justice, and determination to create opportunities for Latinos to thrive economically and engage politically.

Previously, Ms. Martinez Garcel served as the vice president of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth). As a founding staff member, she was a key advisor to the president and helped establish the foundation as a resource for policy makers and community leaders across the state. She also played a central role in developing the foundation’s program areas and developing partnerships with national and local foundations. Prior to joining NYSHealth, she served as the executive director of community voices in New York City. During her tenure, she developed, evaluated, and expanded programs to improve the health and quality of care for vulnerable populations.

Ms. Martinez Garcel has also served as a National Institutes of Health fellow for the Merida Department of Public Health in Yucatan, Mexico, a faculty member for the Social Science Department of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and an adjunct professor at the New York University Global Institute of Public Health. She has been appointed to several boards, including the Institute for Civic Leadership, National Alliance on Mental Illness–NYC Metro, and Grantmakers in Health. She currently serves on the KQED Community Advisory Panel and co-chairs the National Latino Funds Alliance. Ms. Martinez Garcel has published extensively on issues related to health equity, vulnerable populations, and community health workers. She holds an M.P.H. from Columbia University and a B.S. from Cornell University.

Phyllis D. Meadows, Ph.D., R.N., M.S.N., is a senior fellow in the Health Program of The Kresge Foundation. She engages in all levels of grantmaking activity. Since joining The Kresge Foundation in 2009, she has advised the health team on the development of its overall strategic direction and

provided leadership in the design and implementation of grantmaking initiatives and projects. Dr. Meadows also has coached team members and created linkages to national organizations and experts in the health field. In addition, she regularly reviews grant proposals, aids prospective grantees in preparing funding requests, and provides health-related expertise.

Dr. Meadows’s 30-year career spans the nursing, public health, academic, and philanthropic sectors. She is an associate dean for practice at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and has lectured at the Wayne State University School of Nursing, the Oakland University School of Nursing, and Marygrove College. From 2004 to 2009, Dr. Meadows served as the deputy director, director, and public health officer at the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion. In the early 1990s, she traveled abroad as a Kellogg International Leadership Fellow and subsequently joined the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as a program director. She also served as the director of nursing for The Medical Team–Michigan.

José Montero, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., serves as the deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and as the director of CDC’s Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, and is responsible for overseeing support to U.S. health departments, tribal nations, and insular areas. He oversees key activities and technical assistance designed to improve the public health system’s capacity and performance in an era of health reform. Previously, Dr. Montero served as the vice president of population health and health system integration at Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene. In that capacity, he helped the health care system advance its Healthy Monadnock population health strategy. Key components of this process were improved partnerships with all organizations engaged in addressing social determinants of health for the population served and development of a sustainability pathway for the region’s population health strategy. For 7 years, Dr. Montero served as the director of the Division of Public Health Services at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. In that role, he led the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based services and prompt response to public health threats and emerging issues in the state. Dr. Montero holds an M.D. from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He specialized in family medicine and completed his residency at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. He also holds an epidemiology degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and a master’s degree in health care delivery science from Dartmouth College.

Von D. Nguyen, M.D., M.P.H., is the vice president of clinical operations and innovations at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.

Previously, Dr. Nguyen served as the acting associate director for policy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In that capacity, he supported the policy agenda across CDC and manages CDC’s efforts to promote collaboration between the public health and health care delivery systems. Prior to joining CDC, Dr. Nguyen worked at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation on the State Innovation Models, Prevention, and Population Health projects, as well as the larger Health Care Delivery System Reform agenda. He is a primary care provider who practiced at a federally qualified health center prior to entering federal service. In addition to his experience in public health and health care delivery, Dr. Nguyen has worked as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies, a medical underwriter for health insurance companies, and a medical director for Doctors Without Borders.

Ziad Obermeyer, M.D., M.Phil., is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health where he does research at the intersection of machine learning, medicine, and health policy. He was previously an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, where he received the Early Independence Award, the National Institutes of Health’s most prestigious award for exceptional junior scientists. Dr. Obermeyer continues to practice emergency medicine in underserved parts of the United States. Prior to his career in medicine, he worked as a consultant to pharmaceutical and global health clients at McKinsey & Co. in New Jersey, Geneva, and Tokyo.

Alison Omens, M.P.A., is the chief strategy officer at JUST Capital. She is responsible for setting and implementing strategy to achieve mission impact for the organization. Her work includes overseeing programs, revenue, partnerships, development, and strategic engagement with companies, investors, foundations, and nonprofits. She has orchestrated program collaborations with BlackRock, The Aspen Institute, Harvard Business School, and others.

Ms. Omens was most recently the advisor for private-sector engagement to U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, where she managed the inclusive capitalism strategy for the secretary and with the White House. She was also responsible for engagement on the department’s future-of-work efforts and its environmental, social, and governance investing guidance. Previously, she was the vice president at outreach strategies, an environmental strategic communications firm, and the director of media outreach for the AFL-CIO.

Ms. Omens is on the board of directors of JobsFirstNYC, which expands opportunities for out-of-work and out-of-school youth. She is

on the advisory councils of NextGen Chamber, a business organization for millennial business owners, and LitWorld, which promotes youth literacy through storytelling. She is also the co-founder of Smash Squad, a network for women focused on doing well by doing good. Ms. Omens received her M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School and her B.A. from Scripps College.

Chris Parker, M.P.H., M.B.B.S., is a research assistant professor in the dean’s Office of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and the director of global and population health at the Georgia Health Policy Center. He holds a leadership role in many of the center’s projects related to public health and program evaluation. His areas of expertise include strategic planning and evaluation, with a particular interest in projects that link population health and health care.

Mr. Parker is a skilled facilitator who has guided a significant number of multisectoral, state, and local organizational strategic and evaluation plans. He is the co-principal investigator for Bridging for Health: Improving Community Health through Innovations in Financing, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He also leads the center’s growing health care workforce portfolio with a focus on Georgia’s primary care assets to address gaps in light of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as well as the center’s work on community health needs assessments. As a trained family physician who has worked with underserved populations and faith-based organizations, Mr. Parker brings his clinical and community linked experiences to addressing current and longstanding public health issues.

Mary A. Pittman, Dr.P.H., is the chief executive officer and president of the Public Health Institute (PHI), a U.S. and global nonprofit public health organization dedicated to improving health and equity through economic, social, and health care innovation. PHI has 700 employees around the globe working on critical public health issues. Dr. Pittman is a national leader in community health, addressing health inequities, promoting prevention, and quality of care. Her experience in public health and health care settings has made her an expert adviser in the field of population health and building healthier and more equitable communities and health systems.

During her tenure, PHI has been recognized three times as 1 of the 50 best nonprofit places to work in the nation. Dr. Pittman served for 6 years on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, and the Healthy People 2030 advisory committee to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Finally, she served as an expert advisor to

the Let’s Get Healthy California Task Force and numerous other advisory boards.

Jason Purnell, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the vice president of community health improvement for BJC HealthCare. He is responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of BJC’s community health programs, and oversees BJC’s connections with community-based programs that offer primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention for chronic conditions. Prior to joining BJC in August 2020, he spent more than a decade focused on health equity and social determinants of health as a faculty member in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, where he retains an appointment as an associate professor.

Dr. Purnell is the founding director of Health Equity Works (formerly For the Sake of All), a research-based initiative that translates data and research on the social determinants of health into engaging products to accelerate community action. He, his team, and collaborators have been responsible for raising awareness and facilitating action on issues ranging from school health to affordable housing in the St. Louis region and beyond.

A native of St. Louis, Dr. Purnell graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, with a bachelor’s degree in government and philosophy. His doctoral degree in counseling psychology is from The Ohio State University, and his M.P.H. is from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

He serves as a member of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; as the chair of the steering committee of the COVID-19 Regional Response Team, which he helped to establish; and on the board of the Show-Me School-Based Health Alliance, which grew out of a Health Equity Works working group on school-based health centers.

Soma Saha, M.D., M.S., is the founder and executive lead of well-being and equity in the World (WE in the World). Dr. Saha has dedicated her career to improving health, well-being, and equity through the development of thriving people, organizations, and communities. She has worked as a primary care internist and a pediatrician in the safety net and a global public health practitioner for more than 20 years. She has witnessed and demonstrated sustainable transformation in human and community flourishing around the world.

Dr. Saha is also the executive lead of the Well Being In the Nation (WIN) Network, which works to advance intergenerational well-being and equity. She continues to serve as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Over the past 5

years, as the vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Dr. Saha founded and led the 100 Million Healthier Lives (100MLives) initiative, which brought together more than 1,850 partners in more than 30 countries reaching more than 500 million people to improve health, well-being, and equity. She and her team at WE in the World continue to advance and scale the frameworks, tools, and outcomes from this initiative as a core implementation partner in 100MLives.

Previously, Dr. Saha served as the vice president of Patient-Centered Medical Home Development at the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), where she co-led a transformation that improved health outcomes for a safety net population above the national 90th percentile, improved joy and meaning of work for the workforce, and reduced medical expense by 10 percent. She served as the president of the medical staff of Cambridge Health Alliance, as well as the founding medical director of the CHA Revere Family Health Center and the Whidden Hospitalist Service, leading to substantial improvements in access, experience, quality, and cost for safety net patients.

In 2012, Dr. Saha was recognized as 1 of 10 inaugural Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leaders for her contributions to improving the health of the nation. She has consulted with leaders from across the world, including Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Guyana, Singapore, Sweden, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom. She has appeared on a panel with the Dalai Lama, keynoted conferences around the world, had her work featured by Sanjay Gupta, and appeared on the Katie Couric Show, PBS, and CNN. In 2016 she was elected as a Leading Causes of Life Global Fellow.

Joshua M. Sharfstein, M.D., is the vice dean for public health practice and community engagement and a professor of the practice in health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. Previously, Dr. Sharfstein served as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the principal deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the health commissioner of the City of Baltimore. In these positions, he pursued creative solutions to long-standing challenges, including drug overdose deaths, infant mortality, unsafe consumer products, and school failure. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration.

Marion Standish, M.A., J.D., is the senior vice president of Enterprise Programs at The California Endowment (TCE). She joined TCE with an extensive legal and philanthropic background. As the senior vice president of Enterprise Programs, she is responsible for managing resources

that will support collaboration and alignment across all TCE departments to achieve TCE’s mission and Building Health Communities goals and outcomes. Dr. Standish leads multiple philanthropic partnerships, provides strategic guidance to Impact Investing activities, and works closely with TCE’s chief learning officer to achieve organizational goals. Dr. Standish serves as the lead officer for the Endowment with the Partnership for a Healthier America and the National Convergence Partnership, and she previously served as the lead officer for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Initiative and California’s Let’s Get Healthy effort.

Previously, Dr. Standish was the senior advisor to the president of TCE and the director of community health, where she oversaw multiple grantmaking initiatives focused on transforming communities to reduce inequities and improving health. She played a key role in developing and implementing many TCE signature initiatives, including the Partnership for the Public’s Health, Community Action to Fight Asthma, and Healthy Eating Active Communities. Before joining TCE, Dr. Standish was the founder and the director of California Food Policy Advocates (CFPA), a statewide nutrition and health research and advocacy organization focusing on access to nutritious food for low-income families. Before launching CFPA, she served as the director of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, a statewide advocacy organization focusing on health, education, and labor issues facing farmworkers and the rural poor. She began her career as a staff attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance, a federally funded legal services program. Dr. Standish received her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law and both her M.A. and undergraduate degrees from New York University.

Monica Valdes Lupi, J.D., M.P.H., joined The Kresge Foundation as the managing director for health programs in September 2020. With more than 20 years of experience in public health, Ms. Valdes Lupi leads the Health Team in building equity-focused systems of health that create opportunities for all people to achieve well-being. Prior to joining The Kresge Foundation, she was the senior fellow for the de Beaumont Foundation, where she served as an advisor to amplify and accelerate policy initiatives aimed at developing and advancing a health agenda on critical public health issues such as tobacco control, racial justice, and health equity. Ms. Valdes Lupi also worked as a senior advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation (CDCF) in its COVID-19 efforts. In this role, she helped guide activities aimed at quickly identifying and supporting gaps and needs among state and local health departments in their response and recovery activities. Working alongside CDCF’s leadership team, Ms. Valdes Lupi was particularly focused on building support for vulnerable populations such as the homeless, older

adults, and Black and Latinx communities. She has extensive governmental public health experience as the executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, the local health department for the City of Boston, and also as the deputy commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She has also led national efforts through her role as chief program officer for health systems transformation at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

Stella Whitney-West, M.B.A., is the chief executive officer of NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, a federally qualified health center that serves more than 25,000 residents in North Minneapolis and Hennepin County with comprehensive medical, dental, and behavioral health care. Prior to her appointment, she served as the chief operating officer for NorthPoint’s Human Services. Her background includes more than two decades of experience working with governance and policy boards of nonprofit organizations as well as extensive senior management experience in the Twin Cities nonprofit community.

She has an M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas and a B.S. in biology from the University of Minnesota. Ms. Whitney-West serves on the Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation Advisory Board and as a member of the board of directors for Stratis Health and Urban Home Works. She is currently the board president for the Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers.