on gun violence, intimate partner violence, health disparities in minority populations, and forensic psychiatry. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, and he has written books about healthcare reform and firearms violence.

John W. Bluford III, M.B.A., L.F.A.C.H.E., is the president and founder of the Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute, a didactic and experiential program for undergraduate scholars aimed at reducing healthcare disparities for vulnerable and ethnic patient populations over the next generation. The institute is now in its seventh year and has worked with more than 130 scholars. Previously, he served as president and CEO of Truman Medical Centers (TMC) for 15 years. Prior to TMC, he served for 21 years in various leadership capacities at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), including the last 6 years as its CEO. His tenure at TMC and HCMC is part of a distinguished career in hospital and health system administration that has spanned more than four decades. He is a nationally known healthcare innovator who has been recognized by Modern Healthcare and Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the Most Influential People in Healthcare. From 2005 to 2012 he served as the board chairman for the American Hospital Association, the National Association for Public Hospitals, and Missouri Hospital Association.

Rev. Brendolyn Lovette Jenkins Boseman is the pastor and lead servant of Hudson Memorial CME Church in Augusta, Georgia. She is also founder and executive director of the Imani Group, Inc., a community based nonprofit organization. She works in the areas of criminal justice, environmental justice, social justice, and youth leadership development. As the first female national co-chair of the African American Ministers Leadership Council and African American Ministers in Action, she brings to the consciousness of other faith leaders their duty to be prophetic voices not only speaking “truth to power” but in speaking “truth with Power.” Additionally, she is the vice president of the Concerned Ministers Fellowship in Aiken, South Carolina. She is an instructor for the Basics World of Work and EMERGE re-entry programs within the Pre-Release, Diversion, and Transitional Correctional Centers in Georgia and South Carolina. A member of Healing Community – Station of Hope through Georgia’s Prison Re-Entry Initiative. She is recognized for her expertise in environmental justice, having attended three United Nations Climate Change Conferences as a delegate (COP 15 – Copenhagen, COP 16 – Cancun, COP 17 – Durban). In

2022, she again served as a delegate to COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Under her leadership, the Imani Group serves as a community partner for the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency. In that role she has spearheaded two very successful Superfund Job Training Initiatives and Workforce Development focusing on environmental remediation certifications. She is a life member of the NAACP having served two terms as past president of the Aiken Branch and as an Executive Committee member of the South Carolina Conference.

Cheryl Anne Boyce, Ph.D., is the assistant director for Re-engineering the Research Enterprise, Office of Strategic Coordination – the Common Fund, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this role, she leads programs focused on transforming health equity, community-driven research, health communications, and the biomedical workforce. Before joining the Common Fund, she developed and served as the first permanent chief of the Implementation Science Branch, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, within the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Over her two decades of public service at NIH, she held scientific leadership positions at the National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Mental Health. She has received awards from the White House Office of National Drug Control Police and the NIH Office of the Director, where she served on special leadership detail assignments. After doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and clinical and research fellowships at the Children’s National Medical Center and University of Maryland School of Medicine, she began her federal career as a Society for Research in Child Development/American Association for the Advancement of Science Executive Branch policy fellow. In 2011, she was a co-editor of an e-book on grantsmanship entitled, “How to Write a Successful Research Grant Application: A Guide for Social and Behavioral Scientists.” She is a recognized expert on implementation science, health equity, traumatic stress, and increasing and diversifying the biomedical research workforce and community-partnered research. In her local community, she is a former president and Board member of Safe Shores: The DC Children’s Advocacy Center. By appointment, she has served for over a decade as a commissioner and chair of the D.C. Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Robert Bullard, Ph.D. is the former dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University (TSU;

2011–2016). He is currently distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy. Prior to TSU, he was founding director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. He has been described as the father of environmental justice. He received his Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University. He is the author of 17 books that address sustainable development, environmental racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, climate justice, emergency response, smart growth, and regional equity. Prof. Bullard was featured in the July 2007 CNN Special Report People You Should Know, “Bullard: Green Issue is Black and White.” In 2008, Newsweek named him one of 13 Environmental Leaders of the Century. And that same year, Co-op America honored him with its Building Economic Alternatives Award. In 2010, the Grio named him one of the 100 Black History Makers in the Making and Planet Harmony named him one of Ten African American Green Heroes. He has authored many books, including Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, which is a standard text in the environmental justice field. Dr. Bullard is also co-author of In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster and Race After Katrina and Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987–2007. In 2014, the Sierra Club named its new Environmental Justice Award after Dr. Bullard. And in 2015, the Iowa State University Alumni Association named him its Alumni Merit Award recipient—an award also given to George Washington Carver in 1937.

Rev. Ambrose Carroll Sr., M.Div., D.Min., M.B.A., senior pastor at Renewal Worship Center in Oakland, California, is one of the nation’s premiere practical theologians. After graduating from Oakland High School in 1987, he completed his undergraduate work at Florida Memorial College. He further received an M.Div. from Morehouse School of Religion, a D.Min. from United Theological Seminary, and an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University. Dr. Carroll was licensed to the Gospel ministry at Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in 1989 and ordained at the Beth Eden Baptist Church in 1994. He has served as the youth and young adult pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, interim pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church of Oakland, senior pastor of the St. Paul Tabernacle Baptist Church of San Francisco, senior pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church of Denver, and the founding pastor of the Renewal Worship Center Christian Church of Denver. At the time, Renewal Worship Center was one of the first foundationally environmentally friendly “Green” Churches in the country.

This church was listed in the May edition of Fast Company Magazine and on CNN as one of the most innovative business ideas of 2011. Using that momentum, Dr. Carroll expanded his work to California’s Bay Area by creating a national campaign to “Green the Church,” a national nonprofit charged to educate the Black Church and lead in the creation of sustainable programs to undergird the work of creating green and efficient church buildings. Dr. Carroll and the Green the Church initiative were profiled in a CNN.com piece in 2019 detailing how Black churches are mobilizing nationwide to combat climate change and pollution for a more sustainable future. This forward-thinking movement has also received coverage from Jet Magazine; he is also a signature contributor to HuffPost.com. Dr. Carroll was selected by Cong. Maxine Waters to be in the Senate Chambers during the January 2017 confirmation hearing for the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States. Dr. Carroll also oversees the Home & Foreign Mission District Association serving approximately 15 churches of the Berkeley Black Ecumenical Ministers Alliance. He is also connected to the California State Baptist Convention, and he serves on the Steering Committee of California Interfaith Power and Light. Dr. Carroll served as a commissioned lieutenant in the United States Navy.

Yvonne Collins, M.D., is a gynecologic oncologist and current chief medical officer of CountyCare within Cook County Health Hospitals System. She is board certified in obstetrics, gynecology, and gynecologic oncology. She is a graduate of Xavier University and the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed a residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Cook County Hospital and received fellowship training in gynecologic oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Dr. Collins has devoted her career to educating underserved women on the importance of routine health maintenance, including Pap tests. Her research interest includes community outreach and education on the causes, prevention, screening, and early detection of cervical cancer. She works with community organizations, area churches, beauty salons, task forces, and the American Cancer Society on developing ways to decrease racial disparities related to cervical cancer diagnosis, treatment, and mortality. She has provided health care not only in the United States but also in Central America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa, and she lectures nationally and internationally on disease prevention. She was honored as an Outstanding Teacher and Humanitarian of the Year. Dr. Collins has published in various scientific journals, including Gynecologic Oncology and

the Journal of the Lower Genital Tract Disease. In addition, she has served on the editorial board of Yearbook in Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) Cervical Education Committee, previous chair of the SGO Health Care Disparities Task Force, and previous president of the Prairie State Medical Society. She is currently Region IV chair for the National Medical Association and a member the Cook County Physicians Association.

Victor Dzau, M.D., is the president of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly the Institute of Medicine. In addition, he serves as vice chair of the National Research Council. Dr. Dzau is chancellor emeritus and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Duke University and the past president and CEO of the Duke University Health System. Previously, Dr. Dzau was the Hershey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and chairman of medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as Bloomfield Professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Dzau’s seminal work in cardiovascular medicine and genetics laid the foundation for the development of the class of lifesaving drugs known as ACE inhibitors. He serves as the inaugural president of NAM and led its transition from the Institute of Medicine. Under his tenure, the NAM has advanced efforts to improve health equity and address racism throughout its programmatic activities, especially within the Culture of Health Program. He also led scientific and communications efforts to address COVID-19 misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, particularly within communities of color.

Deborah Fraser-Howze is the founder of Choose Healthy Life, a nonprofit organization focused on establishing a sustainable, scalable, and transferable approach to address public health disparities through the Black Church. She founded Choose Healthy Life in October 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic after seeing the disproportionate death and inequitable health impact it was having on the Black community. To guide Choose Healthy Life, she established the National Black Clergy Health Leadership Council co-chaired by Rev. Al Sharpton (National Action Network) and Rev. Calvin O. Butts III (Abyssinian Baptist Church). On January 18, 2021, Choose Healthy Life launched with 50 churches across five major U.S. cities at a conclave that hosted more than 200 Black clergy and public health leaders. Through its implementation partner United Way

of New York City, Choose Healthy Life secured grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration totaling $10.9 million in 2021 to expand Choose Healthy Life to 120 churches across 13 states. Prior to Choose Healthy Life, Ms. Fraser-Howze served for a decade as the senior vice president of government and external affairs at OraSure Technologies. While at OraSure, Ms. Fraser-Howze played a critical role in launching the Company’s OraQuick In-Home HIV Test (2012) and the OraQuick Rapid HCV Test (2010). She was also instrumental in securing government funding for the clinical development of the Company’s OraQuick Rapid Ebola Test (2015) and the OraQuick Rapid Zika Test (2016). Prior to joining OraSure, Ms. Fraser-Howze served as the president/CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA), an organization she founded in 1987. While at NBLCA, she was an author of the federally funded Minority AIDS Initiative, which was created in 1998 in response to growing concern about the impact of HIV/AIDS on racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Recognized for more than three decades of global leadership to communities of color regarding teenage pregnancy, social welfare, and HIV and AIDS, Ms. Fraser-Howze advised two U.S. presidents while serving on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995 to 2001. In 2009, she was the recipient of the National Medical Association’s highest honor, the Scroll of Merit, and in 2010 she was inducted into the Hunter College Hall of Fame for distinguished achievement. Ms. Fraser-Howze is a member of the board of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She has a master’s degree in public health administration from Hunter College.

Gary Gibbons, M.D., is director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NHLBI provides global leadership for research, training, and education programs to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives. Prior to being named director of the NHLBI, Dr. Gibbons served as a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council (NHLBAC). He was also a member of the NHLBI Board of Extramural Experts, a working group of the NHLBAC. Before joining the NHLBI, he served as the founding director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, chairperson of the Department of Physiology, and professor of physiology and medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Under his leadership of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, he directed

NIH-funded research in the fields of vascular biology, genomic medicine, and the pathogenesis of vascular diseases. During his tenure, the Cardiovascular Research Institute emerged as a center of excellence, leading the way in discoveries related to the cardiovascular health of minority populations. He received several patents for innovations derived from his research in the fields of vascular biology and the pathogenesis of vascular diseases. Dr. Gibbons earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency and cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to joining the Morehouse School of Medicine in 1999, he was a member of the faculty at Stanford University (1990–1996), and at Harvard Medical School (1996–1999). Throughout his career, he has received numerous honors, including election to the Institute of Medicine, selection as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Faculty Development Awardee, selection as a Pew Foundation Biomedical Scholar, receipt of the American Heart Association Research Achievement Award, and receipt of a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (Sammie).

Cheryl L. Holder, M.D., is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. She completed undergraduate education at Princeton University, medical education at the George Washington University School of Medicine, and internal medicine training at Columbia University/Harlem Hospital. She has dedicated her medical career to caring for low-wealth populations. She has served as a National Health Service Corps scholar, as medical director of Jackson Memorial Hospital’s North Dade Health, as a participant on NIH and CDC’s health advisory and programmatic review panels, and on the National Academy of Medicine’s Decarbonizing the Health Sector Action Collaborative. In 2009, she joined the faculty of Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University and currently serves as associate dean of diversity, equity, inclusivity, and community initiatives. She focuses on teaching the impact of social determinants of health, addressing diversity in health professions, increasing awareness of HIV prevention and health effects of climate change. In March 2020, she gave a TED Talk, “The Link between Climate Change, Health and Poverty.”

Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D., is deputy director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). She works closely with the director to oversee all aspects of the institute and to support critical scientific initiatives and recommendations to improve minority health,

reduce health disparities, and promote health equity. Dr. Webb Hooper also co-leads Working Groups for NIH-wide initiatives to understand and address the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 among populations with health disparities. She is an internationally recognized translational behavioral scientist and licensed clinical health psychologist and has dedicated her career to the scientific study of minority health and racial/ethnic disparities, focusing on chronic illness prevention and health behavior change. Before joining NIMHD, Dr. Webb Hooper was a professor of oncology, family medicine and community health, and psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve University. She was also associate director for cancer disparities research and director of the Office of Cancer Disparities Research in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. During her time as a professor, Dr. Webb Hooper directed the Tobacco, Obesity, and Oncology Laboratory, was principal investigator of multiple federal and foundation grants, and trained dozens of underrepresented trainees at all levels. To date, she has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of South Florida, internship in medical psychology from the University of Florida Health Sciences Center, and bachelor of science from the University of Miami.

Chitra Kumar is a public policy and planning expert at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Throughout her nearly 20-year federal career, she has held various roles creating partnerships with federal, state, and local organizations to develop more equitable strategies for environmental protection, land use, and infrastructure, particularly in economically distressed small towns, rural areas, and urban neighborhoods. Currently, she is on the senior leadership team in EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice. From March 2020 to 2021, Ms. Kumar was senior fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Community Strategies Group and Thrive Rural, focused on bridging the fields of health, environment, and economic development to improve rural well-being. From 2015 to 2019, she directed the Federal and State Division of EPA’s Office of Community Revitalization. From 2013 to 2014, she served at the White House Council on Environmental Quality as the deputy associate director for water, where she contributed to high-profile water-related federal policies, including implementation strategies for clean water, water infrastructure finance, green infrastructure, and freshwater climate change resilience. Ms. Kumar holds a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor of arts degree from Boston University.

and 2008, and he has been named one of the 200 best physicians by San Francisco and by Oakland Magazine. He co-founded the Ethnic Health Institute at Alta Bates Hospital and served as the president for more than 20 years. In 2006 he was awarded the Community Physician of the Year Award by the Residents at the Oakland Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, the Community Service Award from the Ethnic Health Institute, and the Lydia Smiley Award from the California School Nurses Association. In 2001, he was awarded the Public Service Award by Alameda County and was also honored for public service by 100 Black Men of America. He is also a recipient of the Burbidge Award for Community Service from the University of California, San Francisco, and served as the president of the National Association of Physician Broadcasters. Dr. LeNoir spent 10 years in the U.S. military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, receiving the Army Commendation Medal, and serving as the allergy consultant to the Sixth Army Area. From 1981 to 1993, he served as the medical editor for KCBS radio, hosting a 2-hour weekly talk show. He was also the CEO of the Ethnic Health America Network that produced the Telly award-winning Ethnic Health America Program and hosted and executive produced the KPFA About Health Program. His popular 1-minute feature About Health Time airs several times per week on KBLX radio. He also served as the executive producer of the video Clinical Trials in the African American Community, which won top honors in the Health Video awards in 2005 and was a finalist in the Community Service Video category, International Health and Video Awards in 2006.

Mark Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.M., is a senior member of the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication Program on Climate and Health. A preventive medicine physician trained in environmental health and health policy, for more than two decades Dr. Mitchell has worked in the public health sector, including as director of the Hartford, Connecticut, Health Department, and with environmental justice communities to prevent and reduce environmentally related disease and change policies that are detrimental to environmental health. Dr. Mitchell chairs the National Medical Association’s Council on Medical Legislation and co-chairs the NMA’s Commission on Environmental Health. He has also served on several Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration advisory committees and has received awards for his community and environmental health leadership. He earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and his master’s of pub-

lic health from Johns Hopkins University, and is the principal of Mitchell Environmental Health Associates, a consulting firm on environmental health and environmental justice issues.

Roger A. Mitchell Jr., M.D., F.C.A.P, is board certified in anatomic and forensic pathology by the American Board of Pathology and now serves as professor and chair of pathology at Howard University College of Medicine. He also serves as the chief medical officer for the Howard University Adult Ambulatory Care Center. He is the immediate past chief medical examiner (CME) for Washington, D.C., where he served from 2014 to 2021. Just before his tenure as CME ended, Dr. Mitchell was the only forensic pathologist in history to also serve in a dual role as interim deputy mayor for public safety and justice. He has performed approximately 2,000 forensic autopsy examinations and has testified as an expert witness in more than 60 cases. Prior to his role as CME for Washington D.C., he served as the assistant state medical examiner in-charge for New Jersey. In addition to operating as the CME of the Northern Regional Office, he also acted as the state medical examiner. As the highest-ranking medical examiner in the state, he worked as part of the statewide Shooting Response Team, responsible for investigating officer-involved fatalities. Before that, he served as the assistant deputy chief medical examiner of Harris County, Texas, and oversaw all medicolegal death investigations. Dr. Mitchell has been published in 13 peer-reviewed journals, provided nearly 100 lectures on a myriad of forensic topics, has written two book chapters, and serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the Center for Policy Analysis and Research at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. His recent academic research on gunshot wounds is highlighted in the Journal of Acute Care Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. He also serves as chair of the Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention for the National Medical Association. He co-authored the paper entitled The Violence Epidemic in the African American Community: A Call by the National Medical Association for Comprehensive Reform and led a national group of forensic pathologists in the paper entitled National Association of Medical Examiners Position Paper: Recommendations for the Definition, Investigation, Postmortem Examination, and Reporting of Deaths in Custody. His expertise on Death in Custody has recently been highlighted nationally on Dateline with Lester Holt and Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. Dr. Mitchell is the current speaker to the House of Delegates for the National Medical Association and sits on several additional boards, including Mentoring in Medicine and the Hip Hop Caucus.

He has lectured worldwide. Dr. Mitchell currently works with the CDC Foundation supporting the Medicolegal Death Investigation International Community of Practice, where he provides technical support to numerous international medical examiners and coroners.

Marc H. Morial, J.D., is an American political and civic leader and the current president of the National Urban League. He served as mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002 as the city’s youngest mayor, president of the United States Conference of Mayors in 2001, and as a Louisiana state senator from 1992 to 1994. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 and receiving his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1983, he began his career as a lawyer in New Orleans, and in 1985 he established a private law practice there. In 2021, Harvard University published a case study profiling Mr. Morial, called Embracing the Uphill Struggle: Marc Morial’s Quest for Corporate Diversity.

Marc Nivet, Ed.D., M.B.A., is the executive vice president for institutional advancement at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center, where he provides strategic vision and oversight in development and alumni relations; communications, marketing, and public affairs; government affairs; technology development; community and corporate relations; and institutional equity and access. He also serves as professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, lecturing on health equity, diversity and inclusion, underrepresented populations in academic medicine, and conducting research on the demographic and distribution of the physician workforce. He works collaboratively with faculty and key leadership in the UT Southwestern Medical School, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and School of Health Professions on these and other important issues. Prior to his role at UT Southwestern, Dr. Nivet served as a member of the executive leadership team of the Association of American Medical Colleges, where he provided leadership on issues of community engagement, diversity, and health equity at medical schools and teaching hospitals across the United States and Canada. He has spent more than 25 years in academic medicine developing creative program initiatives and innovative approaches to advance the mission of excellence in research, education, and patient care. Dr. Nivet earned his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from George Washington University’s School of Business. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a former president of the National Association of Medical Minority Educators.

National Hospital and a nongovernmental organization that runs the first HIV clinic in Tanzania. She is a graduate of Spelman College and Harvard Medical School. She completed residency training in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. In 2003, Dr. Prothrow-Stith was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine. She has received 10 honorary doctorates, including from Morehouse Medical School and Meharry Medical College. She is the recipient of the 1993 World Health Day Award, the 1989 Secretary of Health and Human Service Award, and a presidential appointment to the National Commission on Crime Control and Prevention. In 2015, she was inducted into the honor roll of women physicians in the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Wayne J. Riley, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., M.A.C.P., is the 17th president of the State University of New York (SUNY), Downstate Health Sciences University. He also holds tenured faculty appointments as professor of medicine and of health policy and management. Downstate is the only academic medical center serving Brooklyn, one of the most diverse communities in the nation. Since his appointment, he has worked to achieve high levels of excellence across Downstate’s multiple enterprises. Dr. Riley earned his doctor of medicine degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine, his bachelor of arts in anthropology with a concentration in medical anthropology from Yale University, a master of public health degree in health systems management from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and a master’s in business administration from Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. Immediately prior to joining Downstate, Dr. Riley served as clinical professor of medicine and adjunct professor of healthcare management and health policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He was the 10th president and chief executive officer at Meharry Medical College. He began his career at Baylor College of Medicine, where he completed residency training in internal medicine and rose to vice president and vice dean for health affairs and governmental relations. During that time, he also served as assistant chief of the medicine service at Ben Taub General Hospital. Dr. Riley is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, where he served as vice chair and chair of the section on Education and the Administration of Health Services. He also served as chair of the Board of the New York Academy of Medicine and president emeritus of the American College of Physicians; president of the Society of Medical Administrators; and mem-

ber of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, the Sullivan Alliance to Diversify the Health Professions, the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities and many other professional, civic, and community organizations. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the 2021 National Medical Humanism Medal from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, election to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Arnold P. Gold Medical Humanism Honor Society, and the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society. He was awarded the SUNY Downstate Ailanthus Award for Outstanding Public Health Leadership and holds honorary degrees from SUNY Downstate, Tuskegee University, and Mount Saint Joseph University. Since April 2020, Dr. Riley has served as a commissioner of the U.S. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. In February 2021, New York City Mayor Eric Adams appointed Dr. Riley as one of four co-chairs of the New York City COVID Recovery and Health Equity Task Force. His current corporate board service includes independent director of HCA Healthcare, Compass Pathways, and HeartFlow.

Brian Smedley, Ph.D., is among the inaugural class of equity scholars at the Urban Institute, where he conducts research and policy analysis to address structural and institutional forms of racism that affect the health and well-being of people of color. Previously, he was chief of psychology in the public interest at the American Psychological Association, where he led the organization’s efforts to apply the science and practice of psychology to the fundamental problems of human welfare and social justice. Among his other prior positions are co-founder and executive director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity, co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders program, and vice president and director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. He also was a senior program officer at the Institute of Medicine, where he served as study director for the IOM report Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, among other reports on diversity in the health professions and minority health policy. Dr. Smedley has been honored by the American Public Health Association, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and the American Psychological Association. He is the treasurer and a member of the board for the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, the chair of the advisory committee to the Maryland Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, and a member of and consultant to the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity at Saint Louis University.

throughout the world. Dr. Tuckson has been appointed to leadership roles at the National Institutes of Health, National Academy of Medicine, and numerous federal advisory committees. He has been recognized several times by Modern Healthcare magazine’s listing of the “50 Most Powerful Physician Executives” in health care. He is a graduate of Howard University, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Pennsylvania Hospital’s General Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship Programs, where he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar studying at the Wharton School of Business.

Rueben Warren, D.D.S., Dr.P.H., M.P.H., M.Div., is professor/director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University and adjunct professor at Meharry Medical College and Morehouse School of Medicine. Previously, he was associate director for minority health/associate director for environmental justice at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and part-time director of infrastructure development at the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Warren received the Distinguished Harvard Alumni Award, the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Medical Science and President’s Distinguished Service Award from Meharry Medical College. In 2003, his academic status at Meharry was elevated to dean emeritus. In 2013, he received the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letter from Meharry Medical College.

M. Roy Wilson, M.D., became president of Wayne State University in 2013. He is chancellor emeritus of the University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus and former deputy director for strategic scientific planning and program coordination at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Wilson received his B.S. from Allegheny College and an M.S. in epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed medical school, postgraduate residency in ophthalmology, and a glaucoma fellowship earning his Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School. He is past chair of the board of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and currently serves on the boards of Research!America, Alliance for Health Policy, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research focuses on glaucoma and blindness in populations from the Caribbean to West Africa. Dr. Wilson is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Additional honors include the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Senior Achievement

Award, the Distinguished Physician Award from the Minority Health Institute, the Herbert W. Nickens Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the NIH Director’s Award, the President’s Award from the American Glaucoma Society, the Lifetime Research Award from the W. Montague Cobb Institute, and the National Medical Foundation Excellence in Education Award.

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