Members
Chair
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Washington School of Public Health
Seattle, Washington
Term: 10-01-2021 – 06-30-2025
Dr. Fleming is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington, School of Public Health. He has served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for PATH, the Director and Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle and King County, the Director of Global Health Strategies at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Deputy Director for Science and Public Health at CDC, and the State Epidemiologist for the Oregon Health Division. Currently, he provides public health expertise to a number of organizations, including the Group Health Foundation, the Low Income Investment Fund, the Ruckelshaus Center, and the Trust for America’s Health.
Members
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Term: 09-27-2021 – 06-30-2025
Adaora Alise Adimora, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Adimora is a Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is Principal Investigator of the UNC site of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study-Women’s Interagency HIV Study Combined Cohort Study (MACS/WIHS CCS) and Co-Director of the UNC Center For AIDS Research. She has served on the NIAID Advisory Council, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, the DHHS Antiretroviral Guidelines Panel, the International AIDS Society’s Governing Council, and as Chair of the HIV Medicine Association. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Senior Vice President, Global Health
Executive Director, Global Health Equity Institute
Founding Dean, School of Global Public Health
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, TN
Term: 09-28-2021 – 06-30-2024
Currently, Daniel Dawes, J.D., serves as the senior vice president of Global Health; executive director of Global Health Equity Institute; and the founding dean of the School of Global Public Health at Meharry Medical College in Nashville. Previously, Professor Dawes served as the executive director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and a professor of health law, policy, and management. He is a health equity scholar, health policy expert, educator, and researcher whose work focuses on health reform, health equity, mental/behavioral health inequities, social and political determinants of health, and health system transformation. He is the author of two groundbreaking health policy books, 150 Years of ObamaCare and The Political Determinants of Health, both published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Professor Dawes is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and an elected fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity
Founding Director
Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity
Division of Health Policy and Management,
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Term: 09-28-2021 – 06-30-2025
Dr. Hardeman is a tenured Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, the Blue Cross Endowed Professor in Health and Racial Equity, and the Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity. A reproductive health equity researcher, she applies the tools of population health science and health services research to elucidate a critical and complex determinant of health inequity—racism. Her work aims to link structural racism to health, identify opportunities for intervention, and dismantle the systems that allow inequities to persist.
Executive Director
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Senior Associate Vice President, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement
Clinical Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
Professor of Psychiatry, Dell Medical School
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
Term: 09-28-2021 – 06-30-2025
Dr. Martinez is the executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. He is also Senior Associate Vice-President in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at UT-Austin, professor of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School, and clinical professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. Martinez served on the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force and is on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Health and Medicine Division’s Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity.
President
Providence Population Health
Renton, Washington
Term: 09-27-2021 – 06-30-2024
Dr. Medows is President of Population Health Management at Providence, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States, and CEO of Ayin Health Solutions, a population health management company launched by Providence. Dr. Medows has extensive healthcare industry background in both the private sector and government health programs. Dr. Medows served as Commissioner for the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH), as the State Health Officer for Georgia, as Secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administrative (AHCA), and the chief medical officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Southeast Region. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Executive Vice President
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Princeton, New Jersey
Term: 09-29-2021 – 06-30-2024
Dr. Morita is Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she has overseen programming, policy, research and communications activities since 2019. Dr. Morita began her medical career as a pediatrician in Tucson, Ariz., before moving into public health as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the CDC. Later, she helped lead the Chicago Department of Public Health for nearly two decades, first as the Immunization Program medical director, then as chief medical officer. In 2015, she was appointed commissioner.
Chief Medical Officer
Sharecare
Palo Alto, California
Term: 09-27-2021 – 06-30-2025
Dr. Shah is the Chief Medical Officer at Sharecare and a Senior Scholar at Stanford University. He is an internist and leader in digital health and innovation, care transformation, and public health. His expertise spans health and healthcare as an independent director of public and private companies and foundations, with prior service as a member of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee (Healthy People 2030) and the Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland
Term: 03-31-2022 – 06-30-2026
Dr. Sharfstein is Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he also serves as Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and as Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. A pediatrician by training, he is a former health commissioner of Baltimore, Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. FDA, and health secretary of Maryland. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Senior Advisor for Scientific Affairs
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
Silver Spring, Maryland
Term: 09-28-2021 – 06-30-2025
Dr. Taylor has spent her scientific career serving multiple roles in public health, most recently as Director of the Wadsworth Center, New York State’s Public Health Laboratory, from which she retired in September 2020. Currently, at the Association of Public Health Laboratories, she is working to increase the breadth and effectiveness of the public health laboratory response, within a re-imagined national laboratory system.
Managing Director for the Health Program
The Kresge Foundation
Troy, Michigan
Term: 09-27-2021 – 06-30-2024
Ms. Valdes Lupi is the Managing Director for the Health Program at The Kresge Foundation where she leads efforts to build equity-focused systems of health that create opportunities for all people to achieve optimal health. She partners with other Kresge teams on efforts to lead with equity and expand access to safe and affordable housing, create equitable food policy systems, strengthen communities to be climate resilient, and increase economic mobility. She spent most of her career in governmental public health at local, state and national levels; most recently, she served as the Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission, the health department for the City of Boston.
Designated Federal Officer
Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is the chief medical officer and deputy director for program and science at CDC. She serves as the designated federal officer for the Advisory Committee to the Director. Prior to this role, Dr. Houry served for nearly two years (2021-2023) as CDC’s acting principal deputy director and as director for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (2014-2021).