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Biodefense, Biological Warfare, Biosecurity, Global Health, Infectious Disease, International Affairs, National Security, Pandemic, Public Health, Terrorism

Dr. Parker is a senior fellow for the Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Programs at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service; associate dean for Global One Health, Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

Rolf Halden, PhD, PE

Center Director & Professor, Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering

Arizona State University (ASU)

Air Quality, Alternative Fuel, Biotechnology, natural resource management, Opiods, Public Health, Urban Development

Halden is director of the Center for Environmental Health Engineering at the Biodesign Institute, professor in the Ira A. Fulton School for Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and a senior sustainability scientist.

e-cigarretes, Epidemiologic, Public Health, Tobacco, Tobacco Control, tobacco policy, Vaping

Chair of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Cancer Institute Areas of expertise: Tobacco, tobacco control, tobacco policy, epidemiology, public health, e-cigarettes, vaping

Health Policy, Healthcare, Public Health

Michael D. Williams is a surgeon at the University of Virginia Health System and director of the UVA Center for Health Policy, which provides comprehensive, apolitical analysis of current and proposed health policies.

Williams has served as chief medical officer for the Washington, D.C. Fire and EMS Department and is now director of UVA鈥檚 Summer Medical Leadership Program, which helps prepare underrepresented minority students for medical school and to become leaders in the medical field.

Williams鈥檚 analysis is frequently featured in national and regional media outlets.

See Williams discuss the Summer Medical Leadership Program:
http://www.newsplex.com/content/news/UVA-working-to-increase-diversity-in-medicine-through-a-special-summer-program-434546913.html

Cheryl Healton, DrPH,

Dean, NYU College of Global Public Health

New York University

Addiction, AIDS, Gun Violence, Health Policy, HIV, Opioid Crisis, Opioids, Public Health, Public Health Education, Substance Abuse, Tobacco

Cheryl Healton, DrPH, is dean of the College of Global Public Health and professor of public health policy and management at New York University.  A public health leader and scholar, Healton has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and special reports on topics including HIV/AIDS, the opioid crisis, public health education, health policy, substance abuse, and tobacco. 

Healton was the founding president and CEO of Legacy (now Truth Initiative), a national foundation dedicated to tobacco control created by the tobacco industry鈥檚 Master Settlement Agreement. Healton worked to further the foundation鈥檚 mission: to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. During her time with Legacy, Healton guided the national youth tobacco prevention counter-marketing campaign, truth庐, which has been credited with reducing youth smoking prevalence to near record lows. 

Healton is currently focused on what lessons can be learned from the tobacco industry鈥檚 Master Settlement Agreement and applied to other public health issues, including opioids, gun violence, obesity, and global warming. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp1802633

Health Care, health care economics, Health Care Policy, Public Health

Dan Polsky is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Hopkins served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics from 2012 - 2019 and was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School of Business. His research seeks an advanced understanding of the cost and quality tradeoff of health care intervention that addresses care, access, coverage, and payment.

James Hodge

Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Arizona State University (ASU)

Health Law, Human Rights, Public Health

James Hodge is a national expert on emergency legal preparedness, obesity laws and policies, vaccination laws and public health information privacy. 
His work on these and other topics has been cited in various publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and additional regional newspapers, social media cites and journals.

Hodge is the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at ASU. Through scholarship, teaching, and applied projects, Professor Hodge delves into multiple areas of health law, public health law, global health law, ethics, and human rights.

Professor Hodge advises numerous federal, state, and local governments on public health law and policy issues and has lectured extensively on diverse topics in international locations including Sydney, Toronto and Barcelona. 

Shandy Dearth, MPH

Director, Center for Public Health Practice

Indiana University

contact tracing, Emergency Preparedness, Epidemiology, Infectious Disease, Public Health

Shandy Dearth has spent most of her career focusing on infectious disease surveillance, emergency preparedness planning and response, and public health informatics. Prior to joining the FSPH, she was the Director of an international public health association that brought together public health practitioners and public health researchers who focused on health data surveillance projects. Prior to her work with the non-profit, Ms. Dearth was the Administrator in the Epidemiology Department of a local health department. She is currently a member of her community's park advisory council and is a proponent of advocating for more public health resources in Indiana.

Physician, Public Health

Georges Benjamin is known as one of the nation鈥檚 most influential physician leaders because he speaks passionately and eloquently about the health issues having the most impact on our nation today. From his firsthand experience as a physician, he knows what happens when preventive care is not available, and when the healthy choice is not an easy choice. As executive director of APHA since 2002, he is leading the Association鈥檚 push to make America the healthiest nation in one generation.

He came to APHA from his position as secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Benjamin became secretary of health in Maryland in April 1999, following four years as its deputy secretary for public health services. As secretary, Benjamin oversaw the expansion and improvement of the state鈥檚 Medicaid program.

Benjamin, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a fellow emeritus of the American College of Emergency Physicians and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.

An established administrator, author and orator, Benjamin started his medical career in 1981 in Tacoma, Wash., where he managed a 72,000-patient visit ambulatory care service as chief of the Acute Illness Clinic at the Madigan Army Medical Center and was an attending physician within the Department of Emergency Medicine. A few years later, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he served as chief of emergency medicine at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. After leaving the Army, he chaired the Department of Community Health and Ambulatory Care at the District of Columbia General Hospital. He was promoted to the acting commissioner for public health for the District of Columbia and later directed one of the busiest ambulance services in the nation as interim director of the Emergency Ambulance Bureau of the District of Columbia Fire Department.

At APHA, Benjamin also serves as publisher of the nonprofit's monthly publication, The Nation's Health, the association's official newspaper, and the American Journal of Public Health, the profession鈥檚 premier scientific publication. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters. His recent book The Quest for Health Reform: A Satirical History is an expos茅 of the nearly 100-year quest to ensure quality affordable health coverage for all through the use of political cartoons.

Benjamin is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (Formally the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and also serves on the boards for many organizations including Research! America and the Reagan-Udall Foundation. In 2008, 2014, and 2016 he was named one of the top 25 minority executives in health care by Modern Healthcare Magazine, in addition to being voted among the 100 most influential people in health care from 2007-2017.

In April 2016, President Obama appointed Benjamin to the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, a council that advises the president on how best to assure the security of the nation's critical infrastructure.

Mark Stibich, PhD, FIDSA

Epidemiologist - Chief Scientific Officer and founder of Xenex Disinfection Services

Xenex Disinfection Services

Epidemiology, Infection Control, protocol design, Public Health, UV disinfection

Dr. Stibich is an infectious diseases epidemiologist, founder and Chief Scientific Officer for Xenex Disinfection Services, the world leader in UV disinfection for healthcare facilities. Xenex's LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots are used by hundreds of healthcare facilities (and now office buildings, schools, professional sports teams, hotels, police stations, correctional facilities, airports and convention centers) to reduce the microbial contamination from "superbugs" such as MRSA, VRE and C. diff. The LightStrike robot is proven to deactivate SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in 2 minutes. More than 40 peer-reviewed studies documenting the robot's efficacy have been published in scientific journals. 

Dr. Stibich specializes in creating efficient solutions for public health problems. He received his doctoral training from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and has been involved in numerous international research and intervention projects. He is an inventor on over 125 patents relating to infection prevention, a principal investigator on an NIH grant, and was a visiting scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

A Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a Fellow with the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr. Stibich  is a frequent speaker and has presented for many organizations including TEDx, DENT and the Royal Society of Medicine.   

Bindu Mayi, PhD

Professor of Microbiology

Nova Southeastern University

antimicrobial stewardship, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Public Health

Bindu Mayi, M.Sc., Ph.D., is a professor of microbiology in NSU鈥檚 Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she teaches infectious diseases to students in the medical, public health, and other allied health fields. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Mayi is committed to promoting Infection Prevention as well as Antimicrobial Stewardship. 

She has been a spokesperson on various infections and has appeared on multiple panels attended by healthcare professionals and public officials, including representatives from the CDC. Dr. Mayi has provided comment and insight into a myriad of topics, including the Zika virus, the life threatening condition sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis (a.k.a. flesh eating disease). Most recently she has provided expert guidance and insight into the COVID-19 pandemic. She is well versed in working with the media (print and broadcast) and is comfortable on camera or, nowadays, via Zoom or Skype. She has also had several guest editorials published in newspapers across Florida.

Prior to her NSU affiliation, Dr. Mayi worked in antibiotic resistance research as well as cancer nanotechnology research. Dr. Mayi is passionate about medical education, especially prevention of infectious diseases. In 2008, Dr. Mayi was one of 80 women winners of the 鈥極-Whitehouse Leadership Project鈥, where her project was prevention of MRSA in U.S. hospitals. 

Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH

Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health Disparity Expert

University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine

Internal Medicine, Public Health

Dr. Carrasquillo is national expert in minority health, health disparities, community based participatory research, access to care and community health worker interventions. He has over twenty years of experience leading large NIH Center grants and randomized trials, totaling over $40 million in funding. His work includes research in cancer, diabetes, cardio-vascular disease, HIV, and most recently in precision medicine.

Dr. Carrasquillo is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami鈥檚 Miller School of Medicine.  He is a Puerto Rican born physician who was raised in the Bronx.  He graduated summa cum laude from the Sophie Davis School of Bio-Medical Education at City College and obtained his MD degree from the New York University School of Medicine.  He completed a three-year internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Harvard鈥檚 two-year General Medicine Fellowship and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.  Prior to UM, Dr. Carrasquillo was Director of the Center of Excellence in Health Disparities Research at Columbia University.

For the last nine years, he has been the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine.  He oversees a clinical, teaching and research enterprise of 44 full-time faculty including six primary care practices and an additional ambulatory hospital-based clinic at Jackson Health System (Miami Public Hospital system).  Dr. Carrasquillo is a national expert in minority health, health disparities, community-based participatory research, access to care and community health worker interventions.  He has over twenty years of experience leading large NIH Center grants and randomized trials, totaling over $60 million in funding.  His work includes research in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, HIV, cancer and most recently in precision medicine.  His research has been published in many of the nation鈥檚 top medical journals and he serves on numerous NIH grant review committees.  He is also active in various national organizations, including numerous current and past leadership roles in the Society of General Internal Medicine, Physicians for a National Health Program, National Hispanic Medical Association and Latinos for National Health Insurance.  In Miami, he is a Board Member of the Miami-Dade Area Health Education Center and the South Florida Health Council.  He is often called upon by the media to discuss his research as well as healthcare topics of particular relevance to the Hispanic community including being a frequent guest on most of the major Latinotelevision networks.

Andrew Maynard

Director of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab, Chair of the ASU Master of Science and Technology Policy program, and Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Arizona State University (ASU)

Communication, Emerging Technologies, Nanotechnologies, Public Health, Science Policy, technology policy

Andrew Maynard is a leading expert in the socially responsible development of emerging and converging technologies.

For over twenty years he has worked closely with experts and thought leaders from around the world on the challenges and opportunities presented by technologies ranging from nanotechnology and synthetic biology to geoengineering and artificial intelligence.

Maynard is a former physicist, a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He directs of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab, and chairs the ASU Master of Science and Technology Policy program.

He writes the blog 2020 Science, and produces the YouTube channel Risk Bites. He is widely published in the academic literature, including in leading journals such as Nature, and is internationally recognized for his work on the risks and benefits of nanotechnology.

David Hondula

Assistant Professor, School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning

Arizona State University (ASU)

Air Quality, Climate Change, Data Analytics, Public Health, Sustainability

David Hondula's research focuses on the societal effects of weather and climate with an emphasis on extreme weather and health.

As assistant professor in the School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, his recent projects include statistical analysis of health and environmental data sets to learn more about how high temperatures affect human morbidity and mortality, especially within urban areas, including Phoenix. 

His latest research considers how to facilitate effective governance and communication strategies for climate adaptation with the aim of reducing unnecessary weather-related illnesses and deaths.

Hondula is the director of the Association of American Geographers' Climate Specialty Group and is a member of the American Meteorological Society.

Victoria Steiner, PhD

Associate Professor, University of Toledo

Association of Rehabilitation Nurses

Aging, Preventative Medicine, Public Health

Victoria Steiner PhD is an Associate Professor in the Public Health and Health Education Programs, as well as the Administrative Director for the Center for Successful Aging at the University of Toledo. She did her graduate work in Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University with a focus on adult development and aging.  Dr. Steiner is interested in how individuals cope with the challenges they encounter in their lives as they age, including functional decline, chronic illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and stroke, and caregiving.

Charlie Foster, BEd Hons, MSc, PhD

Professor of Physical Activity & Public Health

University of Bristol

Exercise, Health, Mental Health, Physical Activity, Public Health, Sports and Recreation

Charlie Foster OBE is the Head of the Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences. He influences public guidance about the types and levels of physical activity needed to offset health concerns and has produced UK national guidelines on physical activity for every age group. Dr Foster's specialisms include communicating exercise guidelines to healthcare professionals, common measurements of public health improvements, the benefits of hi-intensity physical activity (HIT) sessions, the impact of regular exercise on the brain, and the relationship between accessing green spaces and positive mental health. Dr Foster is one of the UK's leading epidemiologists for physical activity and health and was awarded an OBE for his services to physical activity promotion in 2019. Outside of the UK, he has worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the USA, and the government of South Korea. He has also been the President of the International Society of Physical Activity and Health. He provided evidence and expert testimony to the House of Lords All Party Parliamentary COVID-19 Committee on the impact of Covid on physical activity and the impact of technology use on health.

Education
1989 - BEd Education, University of Exeter, 
1997 - MSc Health Promotion, Birmingham City University, 
2006 - PhD Medical Sciences, University of Warwick

Accomplishments
2016 - President of International Society for Physical Activity and Health, 
2017 - Elected Fellow by Distinction (FFPH), Faculty of Public Health, 
2019 - Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the promotion of physical activity

Mhairi Gibson, PhD

Professor in Anthropology

University of Bristol

Childcare, female genital mutilation, Public Health, Social attitudes, Tradition

Professor Mhairi Gibson's research explores parental decision-making in the context of cultural traditions, expectations and norms, on issues such as FGM (female genital mutilation). More specifically, she has been examining the causes and consequences of human population and health change in rural Ethiopia, and the social dynamics of 鈥榥ormative鈥 practices which are harmful to women. This work has led to the development of a detailed longitudinal picture of the population health of parts of the Ethiopian community over 70 years - including growth and demographic data, child activity patterns and social norms governing attitudes to health, education, marriage and reproduction. Professor Gibson is lead editor of 'Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues' and has been a guest editor of the Evolutionary Psychology journal.

Jay Schnitzer, M.D., PH.D.

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Medical Officer

MITRE

ARPA-H, Biodefense, COVID-19, Digital Health, EHR, ehr interoperability, FFRDC, Harvard Medical School, Life Sciences, pandemic response, Public Health, Quantum Computing, Veterans health, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Jay Schnitzer is senior vice president, chief technology officer, and chief medical officer at The MITRE Corporation. In this role, he directs the organization鈥檚 independent research and development (R&D) program and manages development of corporate technology strategy, which spans MITRE鈥檚 operating centers and sponsor community. He also leads corporate and national initiatives in health and life sciences, building coalitions leveraging the best talent across the nation in these communities.

Previously, as the director of biomedical sciences at MITRE, Schnitzer oversaw the organization鈥檚 health transformation R&D program. In that capacity, he identified opportunities for MITRE to make important, transformative, and impactful differences in healthcare for our sponsors and the nation. As part of this work, he led the writing and editing of the Integrated Report for the Independent Assessment performed in response to Section 201 of the Veterans Choice Act and organized and facilitated the Blue-Ribbon Panel. To support the Department of Veterans Affairs鈥 (VA) decision on its electronic health record (EHR) system, he facilitated a special Listening Forum for the VA Secretary in August 2017, at which industry experts on EHR implementation discussed leading practices. In January 2018, he organized a panel of EHR interoperability experts, which produced a report containing recommendations as input for the VA鈥檚 contract with a commercial EHR vendor.

Before joining MITRE, Schnitzer was the director of the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA, where he led a team of 20 program managers and 70 support staff overseeing R&D across multiple domains. In addition to life sciences, biomedical research, and quantum physics, these R&D areas included materials science, advanced mathematics, and engineering. 

Formerly, Schnitzer was chief medical officer and senior vice president at Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC). His responsibilities at BSC included medical and clinical oversight of the entire product lifecycle for all medical devices manufactured by four business divisions of the company: endoscopy, urology/women鈥檚 health, neurovascular, and neuromodulation.

Prior to BSC, Schnitzer was on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital as an attending pediatric surgeon, with a joint appointment at the Shriners Hospital for Children burn center and a faculty position at Harvard Medical School.

In recognition of his work on the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition and his leadership of the MITRE independent R&D program, WashingtonExec named Schnitzer its 2020 Healthcare Industry Executive of the Year. The award recognizes executives fostering innovation for the federal government.

Schnitzer received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He is board certified and re-certified in surgery and pediatric surgery.

Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH

Founding Dean of the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health

University of California, Irvine

Clinical Trials, Neurology, Public Health, public health and prevention, Social determinants of health, Stroke

Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH, is the Founding Dean of the UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health. A renowned researcher and academic administrator with more than 30 years of experience, she holds several leadership roles within the field of public health, at the UC Irvine campus, and at the UC-system level. Boden-Albala has dedicated her career to promoting health equity for all, defining and intervening on social determinants of disease, and leading community-level health assessments and solutions. She has expertise in cardiovascular disease and stroke, emerging infectious diseases, epidemiology as well as global health.

Nicole Ngo, PhD, MPA

Associate Professor, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management

University of Oregon

Air Pollution, Environmental Policy, Public Health, Sustainable Development

Nicole Ngo is an academic expert in public health, the impact of climate change on health, environmental policy and urban sustainability. At the University of Oregon, Nicole is an associate professor in the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management. Nicole鈥檚 research focuses on public health and transportation. Previous projects include evaluating the effects of vehicle emission standards on air pollution and health, measuring urban air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa, and examining the effects of climate change on health and transportation choices. 

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