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Speaker and Planning Committee Biosketches

Jean Accius, Ph.D., is senior vice president of Global Thought Leadership at AARP. He leads a team in positioning AARP as a global thought leader by identifying emerging trends around the world, cultivating and elevating new ideas, forging global strategic alliances that become the foundation for collaboration, and sparking bold solutions to change systems and improve the lives of the global population as it ages. Dr. Accius is an Executive Leadership Council Fellow and a member of G100’s Transformational Leadership Network. He holds a bachelor’s degree in hospitality administration and a master’s degree in aging studies from the Claude Pepper Institute at Florida State University. He also holds a Ph.D. in public administration from American University. Dr. Accius is a graduate of Leadership Maryland’s Class of 2014, the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health program on health reform, and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Corporate Innovation program.

Colonel David James Adam, M.D., began his military career in August 1988 with the 40th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron McChord Air Force Base, Washington, where he served as an aeromedical evacuation medic in the Air Force Reserves. His first deployment was to Saudi Arabia in support of Desert Shield/Storm. He received a direct commission as an aeromedical operations officer in the Air Force Reserves in 1997. Col. Adam transferred his commission to the United States Army in 2000 and finished medical school in 2004 under the Health Professions Scholarship Program. He completed a residency in family medicine at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2007. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the 4/6 Air Cavalry Squadron Fort

Lewis, Washington, as the unit flight surgeon and deployed in support of (ISO) Operation Iraqi Freedom from August 2007 to August 2008. He became the assistant program director for the Madigan Army Medical Center Family Medicine residency in 2010 and deployed in 2011 with the 86th Combat Support Hospital ISO Operation New Dawn.

In 2013, Col. Adam completed Command General and Staff College in residence at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His follow-on assignment was with 2nd Battalion, 5th Group Special Forces (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Kentucky. While at 5SFG, Col. Adam deployed as the Special Operations Task Force 52 surgeon, RC-West, Afghanistan, in 2013 and the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force—Syria surgeon in 2015. Col. Adam joined the Washington Army National Guard in late 2015, where he served as the 66th Theater Aviation Command flight surgeon. Col. Adam deployed as the NATO Special Operations Combatant Command—Special Operations Joint Task Force—Afghanistan command surgeon in 2019. Col. Adam graduated, Superior Graduate, U.S. Army War College, Distant Education, 2020.

John H. Armstrong, M.D, F.A.C.S., F.C.C.P., is a trauma surgeon, medical educator, and national health leader. He is professor of surgery, University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, Florida, and adjunct professor of surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; executive committee member, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma; and member, American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Long-Range Planning and Development. He serves as a member of the Defense Health Board and chairs its Trauma and Injury Subcommittee. He is a past AMA secretary and young physician trustee.

From 2012 to 2016, Dr. Armstrong served as Florida’s surgeon general and secretary of health. He was the first chief medical officer of the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, Tampa, Florida; trauma medical director at the University of Florida, Gainesville; and director of the award-winning U.S. Army Trauma Training Center, Miami, Florida. He completed his army career as a colonel in 2005.

Dr. Armstrong is a graduate of Princeton University, the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Jessica A. Bell serves as a senior director on Nuclear Threat Initiative’s (NTI’s) Global Biological Policy and Programs team (NTI | bio). In this role, she works on projects to strengthen global health security, primarily focusing NTI’s Global Health Security Index and broader advocacy efforts. Prior to joining NTI, Jessica served as a senior advisor to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, where

she helped to shape CTR’s strategic messaging; engage key stakeholders across the nuclear, chemical, and biological threat reduction communities; and coordinate congressional and departmental requirements. She also served in a leadership role supporting the Biological Threat Reduction Program, where she assisted in the development of programmatic guidance, threat-reduction metrics, and requirements documentation while also managing a large team of global health specialists.

Ms. Bell has consulted for multiple offices within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Health Affairs. She also served as an operational research and development team member of Project Argus, a disease-prevention initiative at Georgetown University focused on detecting catastrophic biological events on an international scale. She holds an M.S. in biohazardous threat agents and emerging infectious diseases from Georgetown University and a B.S. in forensic biology from West Virginia University.

Jeanne Benincasa Thorpe is undersecretary of homeland security and homeland security advisor to the governor of Massachusetts. She is an accomplished senior government leader and advisor with more than 20 years of executive leadership and public policy experience in homeland security, public safety, emergency management, and public health preparedness. She leads the commonwealth’s public safety system response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic while overseeing statewide fire services, emergency management, homeland security grants, fusion center (antiterrorism intelligence) and National Guard agencies and operations. Undersecretary Benincasa Thorpe is the appointed homeland security advisor to Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker. She has high-level expertise in emergency preparedness and response planning, exercises, evaluations and trainings, emergency operations, crisis communication, and program management and development for federal, state, and local governments. Undersecretary Benincasa Thorpe authored and implemented the Statewide Medical Surge Plan, the Ambulance Task Force Mutual Aid Plan, the Statewide Mass Casualty Plan, and the State EMS Communications Plan.

David Bibo is deputy associate administrator for response and recovery and serves as the senior career official supporting Associate Administrator Anne Bink in leading Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (FEMA’s) response, recovery, logistics, and field operations nationwide. From January 2020 to November 2021, Mr. Bibo served as the acting associate administrator for response and recovery, spearheading FEMA’s leadership of COVID-19 pandemic response operations. A career member

of the Senior Executive Service since 2012, Mr. Bibo first joined FEMA in 2009 and has served in roles including deputy associate administrator for response and recovery, deputy associate administrator and associate administrator for policy, program analysis and international affairs, and acting FEMA chief of staff.

Mr. Bibo served as director and then senior director for preparedness on the staff of the White House National Security Council from November 2011 to December 2013. In these roles, he oversaw development and implementation of policy on national preparedness, national security and emergency preparedness communications, and medical and public health preparedness for natural and manmade biological incidents. Mr. Bibo also served previously as a special advisor to the director of the United States Secret Service. He holds a master’s in public policy with a concentration in international security and political economy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor of arts from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

Deborah Birx, M.D., is ActivePure’s chief scientific and medical advisor. Formerly, Dr. Birx was appointed to the office of the vice president under the Trump administration to aid in the whole of government response to COVID-19 as the coronavirus response coordinator. Ambassador Birx is a world-renowned medical expert and leader in the field of HIV/AIDS. From 2005 to 2014, Ambassador Birx served successfully as the director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC’s) Division of Global HIV/AIDS, which is part of the agency’s Center for Global Health. Recognized for her distinguished and dedicated commitment to building local capacity and strengthening quality laboratory health services and systems in Africa, in 2011, Ambassador Birx received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the African Society for Laboratory Medicine. In 2014, CDC honored her leadership in advancing the agency’s HIV/AIDS response with the highly prestigious William C. Watson, Jr., Medal of Excellence. She received her medical degree from the Hershey School of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, and beginning in 1980 she trained in internal medicine and basic and clinical immunology at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health. Ambassador Birx is board certified in internal medicine, allergy and immunology, and diagnostic and clinical laboratory immunology.

Eric C. Blank, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., is the chief program officer at the Association of Public Health Laboratories. He received his B.S. degree from Utah State University (1973), and his MPH (1980) and Dr.P.H. (1982) from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He has spent his entire career in public health focusing on public health laboratory practice and leadership.

He was the director of the Missouri State Public Health Laboratory for 21 years and retired from that position in 2008. He served on the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Senior Deputies Committee from 2002 to 2008 and the national Exploring Public Health Accreditation Task Force (2006–2007). He has participated in numerous consultations domestically and internationally, advising on public health laboratory science, practice, and policy. He has been in his present position since 2011.

Eileen Bulger, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a University of Washington professor of surgery and chief of trauma for Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Bulger enjoys caring for injured patients and their families from the time of injury and throughout their hospital stay. Her aim is to optimize the trauma system to get the right patient to the right place at the right time. Dr. Bulger specializes in trauma, critical care, and acute surgical emergencies. Her research focus involves advancements in prehospital care, the early resuscitation of injured patients, and the management of necrotizing soft tissue infections. She also enjoys instructing surgical residents and medical students.

Brian C. Castrucci, Dr.P.H., M.A., is the president and chief executive officer of the de Beaumont Foundation. He has built the Foundation into a leading voice in health philanthropy and public health practice. An award-winning epidemiologist with 10 years of experience working in the health departments of Philadelphia, Texas, and Georgia, Brian brings a unique perspective to the philanthropic sector that allows him to shape and implement visionary and practical initiatives and partnerships and bring together research and practice to improve public health. Under his leadership, the de Beaumont Foundation is advancing policy, building partnerships, and strengthening the public health system to create communities where people can achieve their best possible health. Among the projects he has spearheaded are CityHealth, the BUILD Health Challenge, and the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey.

Brian earned his doctorate in public health leadership at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in political science from North Carolina State University and a master of arts degree in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University.

Daniel Dodgen, Ph.D., is the senior advisor for strategy, policy, planning, and requirements at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Dodgen served as the executive director of the White House–directed national advisory group on disaster mental health and led

the nation’s mental health response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Katrina, Sandy, and others; the H1N1 epidemic; the BP oil spill; the Boston Marathon bombing; multiple mass shootings; and other natural and manmade disasters.

Before joining HHS, Dr. Dodgen was senior federal affairs officer at the American Psychological Association (APA) following a fellowship with the U.S. House of Representatives. With the Red Cross, he responded to the Los Angeles riots, the Northridge earthquake, the Oklahoma City bombings, and the September 11 Pentagon attack. He received the American Psychological Association 2005 Early Career Award and was elected a fellow of APA in 2012. He is on the board of directors of the International Association of Applied Psychology and is a Harvard Senior Executive Fellow. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist in Washington, D.C.

Bill Driscoll, Jr., has served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since January 2017. He currently serves as cochair of the Joint Committee on COVID-19 and Emergency Preparedness and Management. This newly formed committee is devoted to oversight of the Commonwealth’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as broader emergency management issues. For more than a decade, he provided leadership in the U.S. disaster response arena, organizing volunteers and coordinating across organizations, emergency management professionals, and all levels of government to help families and communities rebuild following natural disasters. Mr. Driscoll has served in executive leadership roles for three nonprofit organizations, including as interim president and CEO of National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), the nonprofit industry’s association for organizations active in disaster response.

Jeffrey Duchin, M.D., is the health officer and the chief of the Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization Section for Public Health–Seattle & King County, professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Duchin currently serves on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Board of Scientific Counselors (Office of Infectious Diseases) and the Board of Directors for the Infectious Disease Society of America where he is the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) liaison to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats and a past member of NAM’s Forum on Microbial Threats and Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness. Dr. Duchin received his medical degree from Rutgers Medical School and trained in internal medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, com-

pleted a fellowship in general internal medicine and emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and did his infectious disease subspecialty training at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a graduate of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service officer training, where he was assigned to the National Center for Infectious Diseases and where he also completed the CDC’s Preventive Medicine Residency program. He worked for the CDC as a medical epidemiologist in the Divisions of Tuberculosis Elimination and HIV/AIDS Special Studies Branch before assuming his current position.

Christina Farrell serves as the first deputy commissioner of the New York City Emergency Management Department. Farrell joined the City of New York in 1994 as a coordinator in the mayor’s Office of the Criminal Justice Coordinator. She has also served as the deputy director of the NYC High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and the deputy director and director of the mayor’s Office of Grants Administration. She worked on the creation of the Twin Towers Fund after 9/11. She joined NYC Emergency Management in 2003 as the agency’s first director of grants. She created the agency’s external affairs division, first serving as the assistant commissioner of the division and then the deputy commissioner. During her tenure in external affairs, she oversaw various programs and initiatives used to bolster the agency’s mission to educate the public, including the agency’s emergency preparedness campaign with the Ad Council. She expanded elected official outreach, the use of social media to keep New Yorkers informed, and working with the private sector. She has responded to many major New York City disasters over the past 20 years, including the citywide blackout of 2003, Hurricane Sandy, severe heat, snowstorms, power outages, steam pipe and building explosions, and coastal storms.

Ms. Farrell holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and economics from Colgate University and a master of public administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a graduate of the executive leaders program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Michael Fraser, Ph.D., M.S., C.A.E., F.C.P.P., serves as the chief executive officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Prior to joining ASTHO, he served as the executive vice president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Medical Society in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He served as CEO of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) from 2007 to 2013, where his leadership was recognized nationally by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s Director’s Award in 2014. Prior to joining AMCHP, he was the deputy executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials from 2002

to 2007 and served in several capacities at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including positions at the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Spring 2015, he was admitted as a fellow in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Dr. Fraser received his doctorate and master’s degrees in sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master of science in management with a concentration in management, strategy, and leadership from the Eli Broad School of Management at Michigan State University. He received his B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College in 1991.

Robinsue Frohboese, J.D., Ph.D., is the senior career official and principal deputy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). She has more than 40 years of federal government leadership experience in federal health care and human services policy and enforcement. During her tenure with OCR, Dr. Frohboese has served in a variety of leadership positions, including acting as OCR director during four administration transitions. She has been integral to many OCR civil rights initiatives over the years and OCR implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule. She has also led a number of special projects for the HHS Office of the Secretary on behalf of OCR, including reports to the president on the Olmstead community integration federal blueprint and a report to the president on preventing another Virginia Tech tragedy, and has represented HHS on key initiatives, including serving for 10 years on the U.S. Disability Treaty Delegation to the United Nations and the secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society.

Prior to joining OCR in 2000 as the principal deputy, Dr. Frohboese worked for 17 years in the Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, at the U.S. Department of Justice, first as a senior trial attorney and then as a deputy chief, overseeing major pattern or practice civil rights litigation against states. She began her federal career as counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee following a congressional science fellowship sponsored by the American Psychological Association and American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition to her law degree, she has a Ph.D. in psychology and has received a number of high commendations during her federal tenure, including a Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award and various awards for outstanding service by multiple HHS secretaries and attorneys general.

Peter T. Gaynor is the senior vice president of The LiRo Group and director of National Resilience Response and Recovery Programs. In leading LiRo’s national disaster response, Mr. Gaynor oversees recovery programs that

help clients prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters by delivering outcome-based innovative practical solutions. On January 11, 2021, Mr. Gaynor was designated as the acting secretary of homeland security where he oversaw the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (FEMA’s) first ever operational response to a nationwide pandemic while simultaneously responding to a record number of disasters. As a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Mr. Gaynor directed FEMA’s operational coordination for the whole-of-government response to COVID-19.

Prior to coming to FEMA, Gaynor served as the director of Rhode Island’s Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA) in 2015. During that time, RIEMA responded to numerous small and large disasters, including one presidentially declared disaster and at least seven preexisting active federal disasters. Gaynor oversaw response and recovery efforts to blizzards, floods, tropical storms, and public health emergencies. He also coordinated evacuations, mass care, special events, and school safety. Prior to his experience as an emergency manager, Gaynor served for 26 years as an enlisted marine and infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. Gaynor received a bachelor’s degree in history from Rhode Island College and a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He is also a graduate of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security’s Executive Leaders Program.

Jarrod Goentzel, Ph.D., M.A., M.S., is founder and director of the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab in the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. His research focuses on meeting human needs in resource-constrained settings through better supply chain management, information systems, and decision support technology. Dr. Goentzel leads fieldwork in a range of contexts to develop insights that improve response efforts during emergencies and strengthen supply chains in vulnerable communities. Research involves direct engagement with the private sector, government agencies, humanitarian, international development, and community organizations on several continents. Dr. Goentzel has created residential and online courses in humanitarian logistics, international operations, and supply chain finance, and has extensive experience using simulation games to build intuition and leadership skills.

Previously, Dr. Goentzel was executive director of the MIT Supply Chain Management Program, a 9-month master’s degree program. He joined MIT in 2003 to establish the Zaragoza Logistics Center in Spain, which was the first node in the MIT Global SCALE Network. He received a Ph.D. from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jacque Gray, Ph.D., is a Choctaw/Cherokee research associate professor emerita in the Department of Population Health at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences. She also serves as director of the National Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative, a national resource center to address elder abuse in Indian Country. In addition, Gray is the lead for the Strong Heart Study Psychosocial Work Group, a longitudinal study of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders in American Indians that began in 1988. Gray also leads the Tribal Elder Abuse Services Survey funded by AARP to determine the types and locations of elder abuse services available. She is a consultant with the National Center for Native Behavioral Health with the University of Iowa, where she works with tribes developing crisis and resilience teams to address emergency situations. Gray has worked to address health, mental health, and health disparities across Indian Country for 40 years and internationally, working with Māori suicide prevention. She participated in the White House Conference on Aging in 2015 to address elder justice issues. Gray received a doctorate from Oklahoma State University in 1998 and has been at UND since 1999. Gray is a member of the Society of Indian Psychologists; she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Gigi Gronvall, Ph.D., is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an immunologist by training. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led the Center’s ongoing efforts to track the development and marketing of molecular and antigen tests and serology tests, as well as the development of national strategies for COVID-19 serology (antibody) tests and SARS-CoV-2 serosurveys in the United States. She has also written about the scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the contested origin of SARS-CoV-2, and the implications for national and international security.

Dr. Gronvall is a member of the Novel and Exceptional Technology and Research Advisory Committee, which provides recommendations to the director of the National Institutes of Health and is a public forum for the discussion of the scientific, safety, and ethical issues associated with emerging biotechnologies. From 2010 to 2020, Dr. Gronvall was a member of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, which provided the Secretary of Defense with independent advice and recommendations on reducing the risk to the United States, its military forces, and its allies and partners posed by nuclear, biological, chemical, and conventional threats. During 2014–2015, she led a preparatory group that examined the U.S. government response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as a case study for the Department of Defense’s strategic role in health security and made recom-

mendations for future Department of Defense actions in response to disease outbreaks. Dr. Gronvall received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University for work on T-cell receptor/MHC I interactions and worked as a protein chemist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She received a B.S. in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Janet Hamilton, M.P.H., assumed the role of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ (CSTE’s) executive director in April 2020. As executive director, she works directly with the executive board and senior management team to lead and shape CSTE’s mission of advancing the field of applied public health epidemiology in the United States. Ms. Hamilton received her master of public health in epidemiology from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of the American Medical Informatics Association 10 X 10 program. She was a member of CSTE’s executive board, serving from 2011 to 2015 as the Surveillance and Informatics Steering Committee chair and was CSTE president from 2017 to 2018.

Ms. Hamilton is an epidemiologist with more than 15 years of public health work experience at the national, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels overseeing policy development and liaising with CSTE members and strategic partners. She started her career as a fellow in the Florida-based Epidemic Intelligence Service with the Florida Department of Health in 2003, where she focused primarily on conducting outbreak investigations. Prior to her selection as executive director, she served as CSTE’s senior director of science and policy, leading organizational efforts to strategically combine applied epidemiology science with policy efforts to advance public health and applied epidemiologic public health practice.

Dan Hanfling, M.D., serves as a vice president on the technical staff at In-Q-Tel (IQT), a nongovernmental, not-for-profit strategic investment firm whose mission is to bring innovative and disruptive technologies to support the national security interests of the U.S. government. The team he works with, B.Next, is specifically focused on illuminating the national security implications of infectious disease outbreaks. Dr. Hanfling has more than 2 decades of experience as a practicing emergency medicine physician with the unique vantage point of being a national leader who bridges crisis operational response with the development of emergency management and policy strategies. He practices emergency medicine at Inova Fairfax Hospital, northern Virginia’s Level I trauma center, and recently completed 7 years as cochair of the National Academy of Medicine’s Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness.

Melissa Harvey, M.S.P.H., B.S.N., R.N., is the assistant vice president for Enterprise Emergency Operations for HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest

health system, comprising 185 hospitals and more than 2,000 sites of care in 20 states and the United Kingdom. She is responsible for advancing health care system preparedness across the organization and developing next-generation response capabilities to ensure a more resilient health care enterprise.

Previously, Ms. Harvey served as the director of strategic projects at the Global Center for Health Security at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine, where she developed public–private partnerships to advance the nation’s health security. She has more than a decade of federal health care experience, most recently at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where she served as the director of health systems. In this role, she oversaw the department’s emergency care, electronic health records, and health security portfolios. During the COVID-19 response, she was detailed to the Federal Emergency Management Administration/Department of Health and Human Services (FEMA-HHS) Healthcare Resilience Task Force, where she led the Hospital Team.

Until 2019, Ms. Harvey served as the director of National Healthcare Preparedness Programs in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she developed and advanced the implementation of policies, capabilities, and performance metrics that aimed to improve the nation’s overall health care emergency readiness. Previously, she served at the Central Intelligence Agency, and was the manager of Emergency Management for Northwell Health in New York. Ms. Harvey as clinical experience as an RN and an EMT. She attended Harvard University (M.S.P.H.), Boston College (B.A.), and George Mason University (B.S.N.).

Robert Kadlec, M.D., is the former assistant secretary in what was formerly the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Dr. Kadlec spent more than 20 years as a career officer and physician in the U.S. Air Force before retiring as a colonel. Over the course of his career, he has held senior positions in the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the Department of Defense. Most recently, he served as the deputy staff director to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Dr. Kadlec previously served as staff director for Senator Richard Burr’s subcommittee on bioterrorism and public health in the 109th Congress. In that capacity, he was instrumental in drafting the Pandemic and All-Hazard Preparedness Bill, which was signed into law to improve the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response capabilities for emergencies, whether deliberate, accidental, or natural.

Dr. Kadlec also served at the White House from 2002 to 2005 as director for biodefense on the Homeland Security Council, where he was responsible for conducting the biodefense end-to-end assessment, which

culminated in drafting the National Biodefense Policy for the 21st Century. He served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush for Biodefense Policy from 2007 to 2009. Earlier in his career, he served as the special advisor for counterproliferation policy at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he assisted DoD efforts to counter chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats in the wake of 9/11 and contributed to the FBI investigation of the anthrax letter attacks. He began his career as a flight surgeon for the 16th Special Operations Wing and subsequently served as a surgeon for the 24th Special Tactics Squadron and as special assistant to J-2 for Chemical and Biological Warfare at the Joint Special Operations Command.

Dr. Kadlec holds a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a doctorate of medicine and a master’s degree in tropical medicine and hygiene from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and a master’s degree in national security studies from Georgetown University.

Pinar Keskinocak, Ph.D., is the William W. George Chair and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is also cofounder and director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems. Previously, she served as the College of Engineering ADVANCE professor and as interim associate dean for faculty development and scholarship. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She received her Ph.D. in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University, and her M.S. and B.S. in industrial engineering from Bilkent University.

Joneigh S. Khaldun, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP, is the vice president and chief health equity officer for CVS Health. She leads the CVS Health strategy to advance health equity for patients, members, providers, customers, and the communities served across all lines of the CVS Health business. Prior to this role, she served as the chief medical executive for the State of Michigan and chief deputy director for health in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), where she was responsible for public health and aging programs, Medicaid, and behavioral health. She led Michigan’s COVID-19 response and is credited for Michigan’s early identification of and strategy to address disparities in COVID-19 outcomes. In 2021, she was named by President Biden to the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

Prior to her role at MDHHS, Dr. Khaldun was the director and health officer for the Detroit Health Department. Previously, Dr. Khaldun was the Baltimore City Health Department’s chief medical officer, where she expanded and modernized the department’s clinical services. She has held previous positions as the director of the Center for Injury Prevention and

Control at George Washington University, founder and director of the Fellowship in Health Policy in the University of Maryland Department of Emergency Medicine, and fellow in the Obama-Biden administration’s Office of Health Reform in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She currently serves on the National Advisory Board for the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan, the board of directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit, and on the Health and Medicine Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Dr. Khaldun obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and M.P.H. in health policy from George Washington University, and completed a residency in emergency medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center/Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, where she was elected chief resident in her final year. She practices emergency medicine part-time at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Ali S. Khan, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and a former assistant surgeon general with the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. Khan’s professional career has focused on health security, global health, and emerging infectious diseases. He completed a 23-year career as a senior director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which he joined as a disease detective, and where he led and responded to numerous high-profile domestic and international public health responses. Dr. Khan was one of the main architects of CDC’s national health security program and continues this work at UNMC. He also continues to actively support global outbreak responses, such as the response for the West Africa Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh as a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN).

Dr. Khan received his medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and has a master of public health from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. He completed his pediatrics and internal medicine training at the University of Michigan. He has authored numerous papers and publications and has consulted extensively for multiple U.S. organizations, ministries of health, and WHO, where he serves on the steering committee for GOARN.

Howard K. Koh is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

and the Harvard Kennedy School as well as faculty cochair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He also serves as the inaugural chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Initiative on Health and Homelessness and codirector of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion at Harvard University. Previously at Harvard School of Public Health (2003–2009), he was associate dean for Public Health Practice and director of the School’s Center for Public Health Preparedness.

From 2009 to 2014, Dr. Koh was the 14th assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), after being nominated by President Barack Obama and being confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He served as senior public health advisor to the HHS secretary and in that capacity oversaw Healthy People 2020 (the nation’s public health agenda), promoted the disease prevention and public health dimensions of the Affordable Care Act, advanced outreach to enroll underserved and minority populations into health insurance coverage, helped to coordinate federal response during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, and was the primary architect of landmark HHS strategic plans for tobacco control, health disparities, and chronic hepatitis. He led interdisciplinary implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy as well as initiatives in nutrition and physical activity, cancer control, adult immunization, environmental health and climate change, women’s health, adolescent health, behavioral health and substance use disorders, health literacy, multiple chronic conditions, organ donation, and epilepsy.

Dr. Koh graduated from Yale College and the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed postgraduate training at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, serving as chief resident in both hospitals. He has earned board certification in four medical fields: internal medicine, hematology, medical oncology, and dermatology, as well as a master of public health degree from Boston University. At Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, he was professor of dermatology, medicine, and public health as well as director of cancer prevention and control.

Lisa Koonin, Dr.P.H., M.N., M.P.H., is the founder of Health Preparedness Partners, LLC, a company that helps businesses, health departments, health care facilities, and other organizations prepare for a health emergency to protect their organization, workforce, customers, and communities. She previously served in a number of leadership positions during a 30-year career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During that time, she led the development of national preparedness plans and policies, led and conducted large-format exercises, and consulted with businesses, state and local governments, health care facilities, nongovernmental organizations, academia, and ministries of health around the world, to improve emergency preparedness. Dr. Koonin served as a leader in mul-

tiple national and international health emergency responses while at CDC, including the 2016 Zika response; 2014–2015 Ebola response; 2013 H7N9 avian influenza outbreak in China; 2009–2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic; 2005 Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma; and the 2005 Marburg virus outbreak in Africa. She earned her master of nursing and master of public health degrees from Emory University and a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Christine Kosmos, R.N., B.S.N., M.S., is the director of the Division of State and Local Readiness in the Center for Preparedness and Response. Ms. Kosmos has served in this role since 2009 and has directed several important initiatives designed to improve state and local readiness to respond to emergencies. Ms. Kosmos has more than 20 years of experience in emergency preparedness, planning, and response in a variety of settings.

Before joining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she spent 20 years with the City of Chicago Department of Public Health, where she held several leadership positions, including serving as the deputy commissioner. In that role, she managed both public health and health care system preparedness and response. She also served as the director of the Chicago Trauma System, a network of designated trauma centers, and deputy commissioner for Clinical Operations, a network of 23 public health clinics in Chicago. Ms. Kosmos is a registered nurse. She began her career as a staff nurse and later served as the senior manager of one of the busiest trauma centers in Chicago.

Stephen Kutz, M.P.H., B.S.N., LTC U.S. Army (RET), is the executive director of the Cowlitz Tribe Health and Human Services Department and has served as a Tribal Council member for approximately 20 years. He received his bachelor of science in nursing from Eastern Washington University and has worked as a nurse for 48 years. He received his master’s in public health and tropical medicine from Tulane University in 1992. He served 20 years on active duty as a nurse in the U.S. Army with 13 of those years spent in preventive medicine and community health. He also worked for over 12 years in a county health department in Washington State as director of public health nursing while also serving as the Health Department director for 7 years. He has been serving as the incident commander for the Cowlitz Tribes’ health response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has been serving as the public health official for that response.

James Lawler, M.D., M.P.H., is executive director for International Programs and Innovation for the Global Center for Health Security at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is also an associate professor of medicine in infectious disease and the deputy medical director for the

Nebraska Biocontainment Unit. In 21 years of active service in the U.S. Navy and subsequently at UNMC, Dr. Lawler’s work has spanned a broad array of research, policy, and field activities related to emerging and high-consequence infectious diseases, medical and public health preparedness, pandemic and outbreak response, and global health.

Dara Alpert Lieberman is Trust for America’s Health’s (TFAH’s) director of government relations, overseeing the development and implementation of federal government relations strategies and working to advance and ensure implementation of TFAH policy priorities. Prior to that, Ms. Lieberman served as TFAH’s senior government relations manager, leading the organization’s advocacy around infectious disease prevention and disease surveillance and strengthening the nation’s public health emergency preparedness and response capabilities. Ms. Lieberman previously served as a legislative representative for the American Counseling Association, where she advocated for mental health access issues. Ms. Lieberman has also served as a staff member for the Senate Committee on Armed Services.

She secured an M.P.P. from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in public policy studies from Duke University. Ms. Lieberman currently serves on the board of directors for Healthcare Ready, a nonprofit that works to protect patient access to health care in the face of disaster through collaboration with public health and health care. She also serves on the board of directors for the Coalition for Health Funding, a nonprofit alliance working to preserve and strengthen public health investments.

Onora Lien is the executive director of the Northwest Healthcare Response Network, a large nonprofit health care coalition and backbone organization that leads coordinated health care disaster preparedness and response across western Washington State and supports these initiatives throughout Washington and the greater Pacific Northwest region. Ms. Lien has led the network since it became a nonprofit organization in 2013. Prior to her tenure as executive director she spent 8 years as a program manager for the network’s predecessor coalition at Public Health–Seattle & King County.

Ms. Lien has more than 20 years of experience working on issues of health security in the nonprofit, government, and academic sectors, ranging from research and public policy to local practice, including nonprofit administration. As a research and policy analyst, she worked for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Biosecurity (now Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security). Ms. Lien has a master’s in sociology from Johns Hopkins University, where her research focused on the individual and organizational dimensions of preparedness and response to public health emergencies and disasters.

Kathy Lofy, M.D., is the program director at the Northwest Public Health and Primary Care Leadership Institute and a clinical professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health. During 2014–2020, she served as the state health officer/chief science officer at the Washington State Department of Health. In this role, she provided medical and scientific guidance to the governor, secretary of health, and agency programs on a broad range of health issues, including the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Monique K. Mansoura, Ph.D., joined the MITRE Corporation as the executive director for global health security and biotechnology in September 2017. She brings technical, policy, and business expertise from both the public and private sectors. Her current efforts focus on the sustainability of the biodefense industrial base and the public–private partnerships that are vital to national and global health security as well as the bioeconomy. These issues are especially relevant to the challenges our nation and the world faces in addressing threats such as COVID-19 and the surety and security of medical supply chains.

She led strategic policy, planning, and budgeting for a pioneering multibillion-dollar medical countermeasure development and acquisition program in the United States that still stands as a model for the world under the authorities of the Project BioShield Act of 2004 and the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006. She has been a successful senior leader in government and industry by building effective teams across diverse organizations and functions, developing talent, and leveraging multistakeholder networks through effective engagement with partners in biotech and multinational companies, academia, professional and patient advocacy organizations, and international governments through the Global Health Security Initiative. She served on the Board of the Alliance for Biosecurity from 2012 to 2016 and is currently on the Board of the International Cancer Expert Corps. She earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering and an M.S. in human genetics from the University of Michigan, a B.S. in chemical engineering from Wayne State University, and an M.B.A. in the Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Phil Maytubby is the deputy chief executive officer, Director Division for the Oklahoma City County Health Department. A 1986 graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma with a B.S. in biology, Mr. Maytubby has worked in Public Health for 27 years. His preparedness and response experience dates back to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He has been an incident commander for public health for numerous events in the Oklahoma City area, including tornado strikes, ice storms, 2008 hurricane evacuation shelters, 2009 H1N1 pandemic, 2012 West Nile virus

outbreak, 2014 Ebola outbreak and ricin cleanup, and the 2015/2106 Zika virus outbreak.

Mr. Maytubby presents frequently on preparedness and response issues and is an advocate for public health policy and funding at the national, state, and local levels. He is a member of many boards and organizations, including the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Preparedness Policy Advisory Group, NACCHO Big Cities Work Group, Harvard Chan Local Multi Agency Stakeholders Preparedness Committee, Oklahoma Senior Advisory Committee on Preparedness and Response, the Central Oklahoma Resiliency Project, and the Medical Reserve Corps for Oklahoma County.

Suzet McKinney, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., is a public health expert, medical executive, thought leader, strategic thinker, and nationally recognized expert in emergency preparedness and response. As principal and director of life sciences for Sterling Bay, Dr. McKinney oversees relationships with the scientific, academic, corporate, tech, and governmental sectors involved in the life sciences ecosystem. She also leads the strategy to expand Sterling Bay’s footprint in life sciences nationwide. She previously served as CEO and executive director of the Illinois Medical District (IMD), where she managed a 24/7/365 environment that included 560 acres of medical research facilities, labs, a biotech business incubator, universities, raw land development areas, four hospitals, and more than 40 health care–related facilities. In 2020, Dr. McKinney was appointed by Illinois governor JB Pritzker as operations lead for the State of Illinois’s Alternate Care Facilities, a network of alternate medical locations designed to decompress the hospital system during the COVID-19 pandemic. She worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and multiple construction, architecture, and project management teams to prepare five facilities to open for overflow patient care.

Prior to leading the IMD, Dr. McKinney served as the deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response at the Chicago Department of Public Health, where she oversaw the emergency preparedness efforts for the department and coordinated those efforts within the larger spectrum of the City of Chicago’s public safety activities, in addition to overseeing the department’s Division of Women and Children’s Health. She also provided support to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency, lending subject-matter expertise in biological terrorism preparedness to the country of Poland. In academia, Dr. McKinney serves as an instructor in the Division of Translational Policy and Leadership Development at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and as adjunct assistant professor of health policy administration at the University of Illinois at

Chicago School of Public Health. Additionally, she serves as a mentor for the Biomedical Sciences Careers Project, also at Harvard University.

Dr. McKinney holds her doctorate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, with a focus on preparedness planning, leadership, and workforce development. She received her bachelor of arts in biology from Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) where she was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow. She received her master of public health degree (health care administration) and certificates in Managed Care and Health Care Administration from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois.

Steven Mitchell, M.D., is an emergency physician and the medical director of the Emergency Department at Harborview Medical Center. For the COVID-19 pandemic, he is also serving as the Western Washington COVID Coordination Center (RC3) medical director. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he founded and is leading the coordination center, which manages the distribution and level loading of COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization across Washington State, and he has managed over 1,200 requests from Washington state hospitals seeking assistance in load leveling hospitals and gaining access to higher levels of care. Dr. Mitchell also assisted in the creation of the Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response medical operations coordination cell (MOCC) toolkit to guide the creation of MOCCs across the United States.

Jennifer Nuzzo, Dr.P.H., is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a professor of epidemiology and the inaugural director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. An epidemiologist by training, she focuses on global health security, public health preparedness and response, and health systems resilience. Together with colleagues from the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Economist Impact, she co-leads the development of the first-ever Global Health Security Index, which benchmarks 195 countries’ public health and health care capacities and capabilities, their commitment to international norms and global health security financing, and socioeconomic, political, and environmental risk environments. She also directs the Outbreak Observatory, which conducts, in partnership with frontline public health practitioners, operational research to improve outbreak preparedness and response. Prior to coming to Brown, Dr. Nuzzo was an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She was also a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

Andrew Pavia, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.I.D.S.A., is the George and Esther Gross Presidential Professor and chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah and director of Hospital Epidemiology at Primary Children’s Medical Center. His current research focuses on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of influenza and other respiratory and emerging infections. He is a member of the board of directors of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and chairs the Pandemic Influenza and Bio-emergencies Task Force. He is also a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the Director of the Office of Infectious Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and has served as a member of the National Biodefense Science Board and the National Vaccine Advisory Board. He has been an advisor to CDC on pandemic influenza- and anthrax-related issues. He has served on committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, exploring the distribution of antivirals during influenza pandemics and the prepositioning of countermeasures for anthrax. He received his B.A. and M.D. degrees at Brown University. He trained as a resident and chief resident at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer and Preventive Medicine Resident at the CDC, and as an infectious disease fellow at the University of Utah.

Winfred Rawls is the director of preparedness and evaluation at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) in Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Rawls is responsible for identifying opportunities for public health to strengthen connections and partnerships with emergency management, critical infrastructure, supply chain, and other applicable disciplines and specialties and providing ASTHO representation and expertise to the practice community.

Prior to joining ASTHO, Mr. Rawls served as deputy director for the Illinois Department of Public Health, Office of Preparedness and Response, and prior to state government, he served 20 years of distinguished military service. His military career culminated in preparedness roles at the Pentagon and the White House during September 11. After military service, Mr. Rawls joined private industry as an information technology executive, where he served as assistant chief information officer, vice president of information technology, in the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries.

Mr. Rawls’s formal education includes a master of business administration, an M.S. in telecommunications management, and a B.B.A. in business administration and accounting. He is also a graduate of the National Preparedness Leadership Institute at Harvard.

Brigadier General Carl T. Reese, M.D., is currently the deputy surgeon general for mobilization, readiness, and National Guard affairs, Office

of the Surgeon General, Headquarters, Department of the Army, and a member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. As deputy surgeon general, he assists in providing consultative services and strategic planning in all aspects of medical readiness, health care, medical personnel, medical operations, and training issues that make up the critical medical readiness indicators pertaining to the Army National Guard. BG Reese enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard as a private and served as a combat medic. Prior to his current assignment he served as the assistant surgeon general for mobilization, readiness, and National Guard affairs at the Office of the Surgeon General. BG Reese has also served as a physician on deployments during Stabilization Force 12 to Bosnia-Herzegovina 2002–2003, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005.

He received his bachelor of science degree in physician assistant studies from King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and holds a doctor of medicine from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in urology at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. BG Reese also received a master of science in health evaluation science from the Pennsylvania State University and a master’s in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Caitlin Rivers, Ph.D., serves as associate director in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA). Dr. Rivers holds a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and an M.P.H. and Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire. Before joining CFA, Dr. Rivers worked as a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Rivers participated as author or contributor in influential reports that are guiding the U.S. response to COVID-19, including National Coronavirus Response: A Roadmap to Reopening; A National COVID-19 Surveillance System: Achieving Containment; Filling in the Blanks: National Research Needs to Guide Decisions about Reopening Schools in the United States; and A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the U.S. She is the lead author on the report Public Health Principles for a Phased Reopening During COVID-19: Guidance for Governors, which is being used by the National Governors Association, the state of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to guide reopening plans. In May 2020, Dr. Rivers testified to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on the COVID-19 response. Before joining the Center for Health Security in 2017, Dr. Rivers worked as an epidemiologist for the United States Army Public Health Center as a

Department of Defense SMART Scholar. She also participated in a National Science and Technology Council’s pandemic prediction and forecasting science and technology working group. Dr. Rivers also serves as an associate editor of the journal Health Security.

Lt. Col. Carlo Rossi enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces under the Medical Officer Training Program in 2004 at McGill University (Montreal) prior to completing a family medicine residency at the University of British Columbia (Victoria). He served as the medical officer for the 1st Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment, where he deployed to Balkh Province, Afghanistan (2010), as the primary care and emergency medicine mentor to the Afghan National Army. He was promoted to Major in 2013 and was accepted for postgraduate training in preventive medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, where he also completed a master of tropical medicine and hygiene (2015). On return to Canada, he was assigned as staff officer Medical Intelligence (2015), deployed as the Joint Task Force Surgeon Operation UNIFIER (Ukraine), where he was awarded the Ukrainian Medal of Honor for Medicine and later the Canadian Meritorious Service Medal for advancing prehospital care training programs. He returned to Canada as the medical chief of staff Canadian Forces Health Services Centre Ottawa, a position he held until promoted to his current rank and assuming the duties of National Capital Region and Formation Europe surgeon. He deployed again (2018) as Joint Task Force Surgeon Op PRESENCE as part of the first Canadian Forward Air Evacuation operation in support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. Upon his return, he assumed responsibilities as senior staff officer Communicable Disease Control and Prevention (2019). He was the medical officer in charge of the initial COVID-19 pandemic response for Canada. Since 2015, he has been an ex-officio member of the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, which sets the clinical standards for tropical/travel medicine in Canada. He was appointed Canadian Defense Health Attaché (Washington) in July 2020.

Tara Kirk Sell, Ph.D., is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the center, she conducts, manages, and leads research projects to develop a greater understanding of potentially large-scale health events. She also serves as an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism). Dr. Sell codirects the health security Ph.D. track within the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Sell has worked on a range of projects to help improve the U.S. response to the outbreak. She has provided input on research around the reopening of K–12 schools, advised the design of safe sports bubbles, and analyzed emerging information on the use of nonpharmaceutical interventions in the control of COVID-19. She has also collaborated with the World Health Organization on the development of the field of infodemiology in response to overwhelming amounts of disinformation and misinformation during COVID-19 and is leading research to improve understanding of better risk communication and management of misinformation during the pandemic.

Dr. Sell completed her Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management, where she was a Sommer Scholar. She received a B.A. in human biology and an M.A. in anthropological sciences from Stanford University. In 2005, she was a Rhodes Scholar finalist.

Richard Serino is a distinguished senior fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, and a senior advisor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Urban Risk Lab. Mr. Serino was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s eighth deputy administrator in October 2009 and served until 2014. In this role, he also served as the chief operating officer of the agency with more than $25 billion budget. Prior to his appointment as deputy administrator, he spent 36 years at Boston Emergency Medical System (EMS) where he rose through the ranks to become chief. He also served as the assistant director of the Boston Public Health Commission.

During his tenure at Boston EMS, he transformed it to one of the best and nationally recognized EMS systems in the country. He bolstered the city’s response plans for major emergencies, including chemical, biological, and radiological attacks. He also led citywide planning for the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years. Mr. Serino served as an incident commander for over 35 mass casualty incidents and for all of Boston’s major planned events, including the Boston Marathon, Boston’s Fourth of July celebration, First Night, and the 2004 Democratic National Convention, a national special security event.

Mr. Serino attended Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government Senior Executives in State and Local Government program in 2000, completed the Kennedy School’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative in 2005, and graduated from the Executive Leadership Program, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Umair A. Shah, M.D., M.P.H., was appointed secretary of health for the State of Washington by Governor Jay Inslee in December 2020. His

appointment came at a difficult time with the winter wave of COVID-19 and the arrival of vaccines into the state. In assuming this leadership role at the Washington State Department of Health, Dr. Shah made the transition from fighting on the front lines of response as executive director and local health authority for Harris County Public Health (HCPH)—the nationally respected public health agency for the nation’s third largest community with nearly five million residents.

Dr. Shah earned his B.A. (philosophy) from Vanderbilt University and his M.D. from the University of Toledo Health Science Center. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency, Primary Care/General Medicine Fellowship, and MPH (management), at the University of Texas Health Science Center. He also completed an international health policy internship at World Health Organization headquarters in Switzerland. Upon completing training, Dr. Shah began a distinguished career as an emergency department physician at Houston’s Michael DeBakey VA Medical Center, where he provided clinical care for over 2 decades. He started his formal public health journey in 2003 as chief medical officer at Galveston County’s Health District before joining HCPH. Under his leadership, HCPH won numerous national awards, including recognition as Local Health Department of the Year in 2016.

Dr. Shah has held numerous leadership positions with respected entities like the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Trust for America’s Health; Network for Public Health Law; Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute; and the National Association of County and City Health Officials, where he served as president.

Vivian Singletary, M.B.A., serves as director of the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), a program of the Task Force for Global Health. In this role, Ms. Singletary guides PHII’s work to improve health outcomes worldwide by strengthening health practitioners’ abilities to use information effectively. Ms. Singletary has played an integral role in developing PHII’s global portfolio. As the unit’s director, Ms. Singletary played an essential part in managing informatics projects both in the United States and in developing countries. Key projects include her leadership role in developing the African Workforce Planning project—a tool that helps allocate health care practitioners to areas of greatest need in Mozambique and Tanzania—and acting as director of informatics practice for the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance initiative, which addresses the causes of childhood mortality in developing countries.

Ms. Singletary holds a master of business administration degree from Kennesaw State University and a juris master’s degree from Emory University School of Law, with a focus on global health. She also holds a

bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

David J. Smith, M.D., is the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Health Readiness Policy and Oversight. In this role he directs department-wide efforts to develop and implement policies and programs relating to Department of Defense (DoD) deployment medicine, force health protection, national disaster support, medical research and development, international health agreements and missions, and medical readiness for 2.3 million service members.

Prior to his present role, he performed the duties of the reform leader for health care management as part of an overall improvement to the quality and productivity of the business operations of the department, including using more enterprise services and reducing costs. Smith also served in the role of the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs from February to August 2017 and acting principal deputy secretary of defense during September and October 2017.

Smith received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Illinois in 1977 and completed his doctor of medicine degree at Northwestern University Medical School in 1981. He completed his Occupational Medicine Training at the University of Cincinnati Medical School in 1989, where he received a master of science in environmental health. Smith is a certified physician executive, a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and is board certified in occupational medicine with a certificate of added qualification in undersea medicine. He also has a certificate in medical management from the American College of Physician Executives at Tulane University.

Ronald M. Stewart, M.D., is a tenured professor of surgery and anesthesia, and chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Stewart has served as the board chair of the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council for Trauma since 1996. In May 2000, Governor George W. Bush appointed Dr. Stewart to the Governor’s Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Advisory Council, where he served until 2014. He was the chair of the South Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma for 6 years, and followed for another 6 years as the ACS COT Region VI Chief (Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas). He currently serves as the chair of the ACS Committee on Trauma. Dr. Stewart was a founding member and the first chair of the National Trauma Institute.

He is a member of the American Surgical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the Western Surgical Association, Immediate Past President of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, and the Secretary of the

Texas Surgical Society. He received a doctor of medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and a bachelor of science at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Andrea (Andi) Tenner, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP, is a board-certified physician in both emergency medicine and internal medicine. She completed a fellowship in international emergency medicine and an M.P.H. with a focus on forced migration and humanitarian crisis. She also holds a certificate of knowledge in clinical tropical medicine and travelers’ health from the American Society for Tropical Health and Hygiene. She is currently serving as the director for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response for the City and County of San Francisco. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is UCSF Global Health Sciences affiliate faculty. During the COVID response she served in various roles in the City and County of San Francisco COVID Command Center, culminating in her role at the Department of Public Health Incident Command.

Lisa Villarroel, M.D., M.P.H., serves as the medical director for the Division of Public Health Preparedness at the Arizona Department of Health Services. She received her bachelor’s in biology at Princeton University and her doctor of medicine at Northwestern University before getting her master’s in public health and becoming board certified in family medicine in Phoenix, Arizona.

At the department she has served as the medical director for the emergency response to the Ebola, Zika, opioid, vaping, and COVID-19 crises. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Villarroel has been the architect of the Arizona Surge Line (2020), the Arizona Surge Staffing Initiative (2020), and Arizona’s Post-Acute Care Capacity Tracker (2020). She is currently focusing on post-pandemic recovery and strategies to build back stronger public health and health care systems. In addition to her role at the department, she is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and a practicing locum tenens.

Marisa Voelkel, B.S.N., M.B.A., CHSP, CHEP, is an engineer in the Standards Interpretation Group at The Joint Commission. In this role, she provides standards interpretation, reviews and processes survey reports, consults and provides educational programs for health care organizations and Life Safety Code surveyors, and serves as faculty for educational programs throughout the United States. She also supports the Environment of Care, Emergency Management, and Life Safety chapters for all accreditation manuals for The Joint Commission. Ms. Voelkel has more than 13 years of health care experience, having held director-level roles in Safety, Security,

and Emergency Management in three multistate health care systems. Primarily, she was responsible for regulatory compliance and process improvement for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and clinics. Ms. Voelkel is a licensed registered nurse in Wisconsin. She is a member of the Wisconsin Healthcare Engineers Association, where she has been on the faculty of the Healthcare Construction Certification program and the American Society for Health Care Engineering. Ms. Voelkel attained a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas; a bachelor of science degree in nursing from St. John’s College of Nursing in Springfield, Illinois; a master of business administration from William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri; and a master of pastoral counseling from Liberty University.

John Wiesman, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., is a professor of the practice at University of North Carolina-Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. He teaches leadership, health policy, and advocacy and serves as the program director of the executive doctor of public health degree program. Prior to this, he served as the Washington State secretary of health for 7 years, where he led the nation’s response to the first case of COVID-19. He has worked in four local public health departments in Washington and Connecticut. He started his public health career in Connecticut in 1986 and was in its first group trained to provide HIV counseling and testing services.

Dr. Wiesman cochairs the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. He has also served as president of both the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the National Association of County and City Health Officials.

Anne Zink, M.D., FACEP, grew up in Colorado and moved through her training from college in Philadelphia to medical school at Stanford and then residency at the University of Utah. As a mountaineering guide she had fallen in love with Alaska, and after a residency in emergency medicine became lucky enough to call Alaska home. Not only does she love people and the place, but also the medicine. Alaska is a small, isolated microcosm of U.S. health care, where certain forces like the distance, lack of referral centers, and community involvement help create better systems of care that are directly related to bedside care. She quickly became involved in helping improve systems of care as the medical director of her group; then in her hospital and with state and federal legislation; including state legislation to improve care coordination, opioid addiction treatment options, and integration between private systems and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and Indian Health Service facilities; and more. Dr. Zink had the honor of becoming the State of Alaska chief medical officer in July 2019.

David Zonies, M.D., M.P.H., is the associate chief medical officer for Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Health System, where he oversees strategic, operational, quality, and safety practices for all critical care services. He is a professor of surgery in the OHSU School of Medicine and adjunct professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University. He is a practicing acute care surgeon and has additional specialty training in critical care and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Zonies retired from the Air Force last spring after 21 years of active and reserve service. He has a special interest in disaster management and is the incoming chair of the American College of Surgeons Disaster Committee. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been responsible for his health system’s critical care response, which included crisis care guideline development and implementation, the development of a multistate regional extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) consortium, and expansion of their virtual intensive care unit (ICU) platform to expand coverage to the region.

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