Health Equity Workgroup

The Health Equity Workgroup (HEW) provides input to the ACD, CDC on agency-wide activities related to the scope and implementation of CDC’s CORE strategy (an acronym for C-cultivate comprehensive health equity science, O-optimize interventions, R-reinforce and expand robust partnerships, and E-enhance capacity and workforce diversity and inclusion). The HEW is composed of both ACD members and those selected through an open application process. The members are subject matter experts in public health science and practice and policy development, analysis and implementation, as well as health equity. As such, the HEW assists the ACD, CDC in its development of advice and recommendations to CDC regarding the effective execution of its health equity strategy, ultimately influencing the agency’s internal operations as well as its work with state, local, tribal and territorial public health agencies and other constituents and partners.

Health Equity Workgroup Members
Name	Organization	Title
Daniel Dawes, JD HEW Co-Chair	Meharry Medical College	Senior Vice President, Global Health Executive Director, Global Health Equity Institute Founding Dean, School of Global Public Health
Monica Valdes Lupi, JD, MPH HEW Co-Chair	The Kresge Foundation	Managing Director of Health Program
Adaora Alise Adimora, MD, MPH	University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine	Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor
Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA	University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine	Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor in Medicine
David Fleming, MD	University of Washington School of Public Health	Clinical Associate Professor
Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH	University of Minnesota School of Public Health	Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management
Rhonda Medows, MD	Providence Population Health	President of Population Health Management
Julie Morita, MD	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)	Executive Vice President
Octavio Martinez Jr., MD, MPH, MBA, FAPA	Hogg Foundation for Mental Health/University of Texas (Austin)	Executive Director
Philip Alberti, PhD	Association of American Medical Colleges	Founding Director
David Brown, MBA	YMCA	President and CEO
Nafissa Cisse Egbuonye, PhD, MPH	Molina Healthcare	Associate Vice President of Growth and Community Engagement
Cary Fremin, BS	Dot Lake Village Council, Dot Lake Village	Director of Health and Social Services
Delmonte Jefferson, BS	Center for Black Health & Equity	Executive Director
Maria Lemus, BA	Visión y Compromiso and Network of Promotoras Community Health Workers	Founding Executive Director
Mysheika Roberts, MD, MPH	Department of Public Health - Columbus, Ohio	Public Health Commissioner
Bonnielin K. Swenor, PhD, MPH	Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center	Founder and Director
Paula Tran, MPH	Wisconsin Department of Health Services	State Public Health Officer
G. Robert Watts, MPH, MS	National Health Care for the Homeless Council	Chief Executive Officer