Appendix C

Committee and Staff Biosketches

COMMITTEE

Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D., (cochair) is a professor of environmental medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School and was dean for research, chair of environmental medicine, and principal investigator of the department’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grant. Her research, including both animal models and human studies, is focused on the consequences of exposures to environmental chemicals on the brain and their relationship to neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders. These studies have focused on the impact of air pollution, including ambient air and inhaled metals in air pollution. She has received sustained funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over her career for this research. She has served on advisory panels of NIH; Food and Drug Administration; Environmental Protection Agency; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies); and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In February 2025, she was appointed a member of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program programmatic panel for the Toxic Exposures Research Program. In 2017, she received the Distinguished Neurotoxicologist Award from the Neurotoxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology, and in 2021, she received the Distinguished Toxicology Scholar Award from the Society of Toxicology. In 2022 she received the Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Rochester. She has served on several National Academies consensus study committees on military

and veterans’ health, including as chair of the Committee on Gulf War and Health, Volume 10.

Jeannette E. South-Paul, M.D., (cochair) joined Meharry Medical College as the executive vice president and provost in December 2021; she is provost of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Graduate Studies, Applied Computational Sciences, and Global Health. She was the Andrew W. Mathieson UPMC Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPMC) 2001–2020 before retiring in 2020. She served 22 years on active duty in the U.S. Army, retiring in 2001 while chair of family medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and vice president for minority affairs. Dr. South-Paul has served in leadership positions in the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), Association of American Medical Colleges, and Association of Departments of Family Medicine, including as president of the Uniformed Services Academy of AAFP and STFM. Dr. South-Paul left the Meharry Board of Trustees to begin her new leadership role. She is excited to lead the deans of the four Meharry schools as she continues to serve in academia. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, Gold Humanism Society, and Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honorary Society. Dr. South-Paul has served the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the Committee on Transforming Health Care to Create Whole Health, Committee to Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Mental Health Services, and planning committee for the Workshop on Current Practices and Challenges for Identifying and Managing Suicide Risk among Veterans in Non-VA Healthcare Systems.

Carl Castro, Ph.D., is professor and director of the Military and Veteran Programs at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California (USC) and director of the USC-RAND Epstein Family Foundation Center for Veterans Policy Research. He served in the U.S. Army for more than 30 years, retiring at the rank of colonel. Dr. Castro participated in the Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo Campaigns, Operation Northern Watch, and the Iraq War. Dr. Castro has chaired numerous North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and international research groups and is cochair of a NATO group exploring military and veteran radicalization. He serves in an uncompensated capacity on the Cohen Veterans Network Scientific Advisory Board and as treasurer and secretary on the Board of Directors of the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation. Dr. Castro was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Evaluating the Effects of Opioids and Benzodiazepines on All-Cause Mortality in Veterans, and he

previously served on the Committee on Evaluation of Research Management by Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. Dr. Castro is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. His current research efforts are broad and include (1) exploring the military culture that leads to acceptance and integration of diverse groups; (2) understanding and ameliorating the effects of military trauma and stress, especially combat and deployment, on service members and their family; (3) preventing suicides and violence, such as sexual assault and bullying; and (4) evaluating the process of transitioning into the military and from service back to civilian life.

R. Yates Coley, Ph.D., M.S., is an associate investigator in the Biostatistics Division of Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and affiliate associate professor with the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics. Dr. Coley’s statistical expertise includes collection and analysis of clinical records and administrative health data. Their research program focuses on developing statistical methods that enable rapid evidence generation and synthesis from electronic health record data to inform and improve health care delivery. They collaborate in many content areas including mental health, aging, cancer, health services, and health equity. Dr. Coley was recently recognized with the Emerging Leader Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies for their leadership in advancing statistical methods for learning health systems and clinical prediction models and promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in the profession and practice of statistics. Dr. Coley received a Ph.D. and an M.S. in biostatistics from the University of Washington and an A.B. in environmental science and policy from Duke University.

Aisha S. Dickerson, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an environmental neuroepidemiologist, is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Dickerson’s primary research focuses on joint environmental, occupational, and psychosocial exposures and risk of neuropsychiatric disorders across the life course. She served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee to Support Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Development of Human Health Assessments and Committee for the Review of EPA’s Draft 2022 Formaldehyde Assessment, and she has been a member of the Department of Health and Human Services Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee since 2021. Dr. Dickerson received her M.S.P.H. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science at Houston before completing postdoctoral training at EPA and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H., is the Edna L. Edison Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She directs the Division of Behavioral Health Services and Policy Research within the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Dixon is an internationally recognized health services researcher with more than 25 years of continuous funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and Department of Veterans Affairs. She oversees activities for the New York State Office of Mental Health in implementing evidence-based practices for persons diagnosed with serious mental illness. Dr. Dixon’s grants have focused on improving the quality of care for these individuals. Her work has joined individuals engaged in self-help, outpatient psychiatric care, and clinicians and policy makers in collaborative research endeavors. Dr. Dixon became editor-in-chief of the journal Psychiatric Services in January 2017. She has published more than 390 articles in peer-reviewed journals and received numerous awards including the 2009 American Psychiatric Association Health Services Senior Scholar Award and Wayne Fenton Award for Exceptional Clinical Care. In 2016, the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association recognized her work with the Carl A. Taube Award. She recently served on the Board of Directors for the National Alliance on Mental Illness and was on two previous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees.

Jaimie L. Gradus, D.M.Sc., D.Sc., M.P.H., is a professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Trauma and Mental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her research interests are in the epidemiology of trauma and trauma-related disorders, with a particular focus on suicide. She also conducts research at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and women’s health. Dr. Gradus has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, VA, Department of Defense, and various foundations. She has published more than 125 scientific articles within the field of psychiatric epidemiology. She also has roles as a board member for the Boston VA Research Institute and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, a scientific advisor to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and an editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology and Journal of Traumatic Stress. Dr. Gradus has a patent pending for a PTSD treatment. In 2022, she served as a paid consultant to perform a literature review and an expert assessment on the association between mefloquine and mental health. She received her B.A. in psychology from Stony Brook University, M.P.H. with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics and D.Sc. in epidemiology from Boston University, and D.M.Sc. from Aarhus University in Denmark. Previously, Dr. Gradus was a member of the National Academies of Sciences,

Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Identifying Disabling Medical Conditions Likely to Improve with Treatment.

Patricia Janulewicz Lloyd, D.Sc., M.P.H., is chair and professor in the Department of Urban Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is also the director and principal investigator of the Health Resources and Services Administration–funded New England Public Health Training Center. Dr. Janulewicz Lloyd combines her expertise in environmental health, neurotoxicology, and teratology to examine how environmental exposures impact the nervous system. Her work spans the life course and examines prenatal, early postnatal, childhood, and adult exposures. She has prioritized research on veterans’ health for over a decade with particular focus on Gulf War illness. She was an associate professor of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health and served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on the Review of Clinical Guidance for the Care of Health Conditions Identified by the Camp Lejeune Legislation.

Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Sc.D., is an environmental engineer and epidemiologist. As of July 1, 2025, she became a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society; she was an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her studies focus on characterizing exposure to environmental factors and investigating associations with adverse health outcomes, including neurological and mental health outcomes. She received her D.Sc. from the Environmental Health Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, her M.S. in public health from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and engineering degree from the Environmental Engineering Department at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee to Reassess the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry.

Bhramar Mukherjee, Ph.D., is the senior associate dean of public health data science and data equity; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics; and professor of epidemiology (chronic diseases) and statistics and data science at the Yale School of Public Health since 2024. She holds a visiting faculty appointment at Ashoka University, India, and visiting honorary senior fellow appointment in MRC Biostatistics, University of Cambridge, U.K. She is an overseas fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

She was the John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor; Sioban D. Harlow Collegiate Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics; and professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Global Public Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. From 2023 to 2024, she was assistant vice president for research for research data services strategy. Her research interests include critical data studies, statistical methods for analysis of electronic health records, studies of gene–environment interaction, Bayesian methods, shrinkage estimation, and analysis of multiple pollutants. Collaborative areas are mainly in cancer, cardiovascular diseases, reproductive health, exposure science, and environmental epidemiology. Dr. Mukherjee and her team took an active role in modeling the SARS-CoV-2 virus trajectory in India, which has been covered by major media outlets, like Reuters, BBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, Australian National Radio, and The Times of India. She has co-authored more than 400 publications in statistics, biostatistics, medicine, and public health and is serving as principal investigator on methodology grants funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She is the founding director of the University of Michigan’s summer institute on big data and a new summer program at Yale. Dr. Mukherjee is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and American Association for the Advancement of Science and was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine in 2023. She has received many awards for her scholarship, service, and teaching at the University of Michigan and beyond, including the Janet Norwood Award, Sarah Goddard Power Award, Karl E. Peace Award for statistical contribution toward betterment of society awarded by the American Statistical Association, Sacks Award from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, and Marvin Zelen Award from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is the president-elect of the Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society. She serves on several advisory boards, including the World Health Organization and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment; Koita Centre for Digital Health External Advisory Board at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Ashoka University; Advisory Board of Khushi Baby; and HeartShare: Accelerating Medicines Partnership (Northwestern University, Observation and Safety Monitoring Board). She has received honoraria being on the Columbia University Northern Plains Superfund Research Program External Advisory Committee and the Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium External Advisory Board. She has served on several National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study committees, including the Committee on the Reassessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry.

Davin Quinn, M.D., is a tenured professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine, the vice chair for adult clinical services, the division chief of behavioral health consultation and integration, and the director of the UNM Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Service. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 2004 and completed residency in general psychiatry in 2008 and fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital. Dr. Quinn is board certified in adult psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, and brain injury medicine, and funded by the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health to conduct clinical trials of noninvasive brain stimulation for neuropsychiatric conditions. He served in an uncompensated capacity as a member of the Santa Fe Recovery Center Board of Directors.

Rajeev Ramchand, Ph.D., is codirector of the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND. He studies the prevalence, prevention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders in adolescents, service members and veterans, and minority populations. He has conducted many studies on suicide and prevention including environmental scans and evaluations of suicide prevention programs, epidemiologic studies on risk factors for suicide, and qualitative research with suicide loss survivors. He has also developed freely available tools to help organizations evaluate their suicide prevention programs. He has testified on suicide prevention before the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and California State Senate and recently served on the Department of Defense Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee. Other current areas of research include military and veteran caregivers; the role of firearm availability, storage, and policies on suicide; the impact of disasters on community health; and using public health approaches to study and prevent hate and violent extremism. Dr. Ramchand is on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline LGBTQ+ Advisory Board, for which he receives compensation. He also serves in an uncompensated capacity on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Research Advisory Council, Face the Fight Scientific Advisory Committee, National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Executive Committee, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Steering Committee, MindWell Advisory Board, and Cohen Veterans Network Scientific Advisory Board. He has a B.S. in economics from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was a panelist at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshops Health Approaches in Community-Level Strategies to Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization and Approaches to Improve the Measurement

of Suicide in Law Enforcement in the United States, and a planning committee member for the 2022 virtual symposium Community Interventions to Prevent Veteran Suicide: The Role of Social Determinants and Workshop on Identifying and Managing Veteran Suicide Risk in Non-VA Healthcare Settings.

Jack Tsai, Ph.D., M.S.C.P., serves as regional dean and professor of public health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and director of research in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Homeless Programs Office. In December 2024, he was appointed to serve in an uncompensated capacity on the VA National Research Advisory Council. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University and an additional M.S. in clinical psychopharmacology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Dr. Tsai served as a professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine where he was director of the Division of Mental Health Services Research. He has more than 20 years of experience providing clinical services and conducting federally funded research on severe mental illness and trauma among various populations, including veterans. Dr. Tsai has been elected as a fellow of American Psychological Association Divisions 18 and 56 and serves as editor-in-chief for Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness and npj Mental Health Research.

FELLOWS

National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar

Lucinda Leung, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. She receives support from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Systems Research Career Development Award and is an investigator based in the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She is also affiliated with VA Center for Integrated Healthcare. As a practicing staff physician at multiple VA clinics and hospitals for more than a decade, she has first-hand experience screening for and managing veterans with health complications from military exposures. She conducts health services research in partnership with VA Offices of Primary Care, Mental Health, and Connected Care to improve access to and quality of mental health care for VA primary care populations and has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications on this topic. Dr. Leung was invited by the Government Accountability Office to provide input as

a subject-matter expert, and her research was cited on its Report on PL 116-171—Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019. Dr. Leung’s active research portfolio includes R01-level funding from both VA and National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Mental Health to study mental health-related clinical trials, large-scale cohort and survival analyses, quality measure development, and qualitative research. She was recently recognized with the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Excellence in Clinician Investigation, a top honor for early-career general internists in California/Hawaii. In 2023, Dr. Leung was selected as one of 10 National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars.

National Academy of Medicine Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence

Margaret Chamberlain Wilmoth, Ph.D., M.S.S., R.N., F.A.A.N., is professor in the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, and a retired Major General, U.S. Army. Her current work is focused on the health of the military family and ensuring the care they receive in the civilian sector is culturally appropriate and leads to quality outcomes. An additional focus is on the military child, specifically reserve-connected children in civilian-centric schools and ensuring adequate and quality programs address their needs. She joined the faculty of the School of Nursing at UNC Chapel Hill in August 2017 as the inaugural executive vice dean and associate dean for academic affairs. She served as interim dean January–August 2022. She is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University of the Health Professions. She was the inaugural dean of the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions. She was an early leader in examining the impact of cancer and other chronic illnesses on intimacy and sexuality. Her more recent work has examined the well-being of reserve-connected military children, psychiatric evacuation from the theater of war, and deployment-related health policy. She is immediate past chair of the Health Affairs Committee of the Reserve Organization of America. She was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2008, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow 2009–2010, and the 2023–2024 National Academy of Medicine/American Academy of Nursing/American Nurses Association/American Nurses Foundation Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence. General Wilmoth had a concurrent career in the U.S. Army Reserve where she commanded units of various size and complexity, including serving as the first nurse and female commanding general of a medical brigade with responsibility for wartime readiness of all the U.S. Army Reserve medical assets in the Southeastern United States, including Puerto

Rico. In her final assignment, she was promoted to Major General and assigned to the Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army, where she served as the Deputy Surgeon General for the Army Reserve. Her prior assignment was in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs. She was appointed by the Secretary of the Army to serve two terms on the Army Reserve Forces Policy Committee. General Wilmoth is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, and Expert Field Medical Badge. She holds the 9A Proficiency Designator in Medical-Surgical Nursing awarded by the Surgeon General, U.S. Army, and is a member of the Order of Military Medical Merit.

STAFF

Leslie Y. Kwan, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a senior program officer in the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has supported a range of consensus studies on public health and health care issues, including on raising the minimum age for tobacco products, the health consequences of e-cigarettes, accounting for social risk factors in Medicare value-based payment programs, and health care scheduling and access. She worked in the international program at the Commonwealth Fund, a health care foundation, where she supported the Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and the fund’s annual international survey. Earlier, she taught English as a foreign language in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France, as a Fulbright Scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in public administration and public policy (health policy) from the George Washington University and an M.P.H. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Anne N. Styka, M.P.H., PMP, is a senior program officer in the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies). She has worked on more than 20 consensus studies (directing or codirecting 10 of them) on a broad range of topics related to the health of military and veteran populations and environmental and occupational health. Such studies include review of Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA’s) presumption decision process; mental health treatment offered in Department of Defense and VA; designing and evaluating epidemiologic research studies of deployment-related exposures, including burn pits, dioxin, airborne hazards, other chemical agents, and antimalarial drugs when used for prophylaxis; and a research program of fostering new research studies using data and biospecimens collected as part of the 20-year Air Force Health Study. Before the National Academies, Ms. Styka spent several years as an epidemiologist for the New

Mexico Department of Health and Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center, specializing in survey design and the analysis of behavioral risk factors and injury. She also spent several months in Zambia as the epidemiologist on a study of silicosis and other nonmalignant respiratory diseases among copper miners. She has several peer-reviewed publications and contributed to numerous state and national reports. She received her B.S. in cell and tissue bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Michigan and is a certified project management professional.

Aimee Mead, M.P.H., is a program officer in the Health and Medicine Division. She has staffed National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus reports on a variety of public health challenges, including eliminating hepatitis B and C in the United States, reducing alcohol-impaired driving, reviewing the public health consequences of e-cigarettes, preventing sexually transmitted infections, reviewing the health effects and patterns of use of premium cigars, reviewing federal policies that contribute to racial and ethnic health inequities, and assessing National Institutes of Health research on women’s health. Previously, she worked at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She received her M.P.H. in epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health and B.S. in biology from Cornell University.

Nicholas A. Murdock, M.P.H., is an associate program officer for the Health and Medicine Division on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. He worked at the University of California (UC), Berkeley’s School of Public Health managing projects on HIV drug development, regulatory policy consensus building, and clinical trial designs for HIV prevention and treatment. He holds an M.P.H. from UC Berkeley in epidemiology and biostatistics.

Maggie Anderson, M.P.H., is a Health and Medicine Division research assistant and is on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Previously, she worked at Program Savvy Consulting as an independent contractor and as an intern with the Food Policy Council of Buffalo and Erie County. She received a B.A. in biology with a minor in environmental studies from Mount Holyoke College and an M.P.H. from George Mason University.

Grace Reading was a senior program assistant for the Health and Medicine Division serving on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Ms. Reading graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. in marketing and a minor in women, gender, and sexuality studies.

Mia Saltrelli was a senior program assistant for the Health and Medicine Division serving on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Ms. Saltrelli graduated from Furman University with a B.S. in public health.

Y. Crysti Park is a program coordinator in the Health and Medicine Division (HMD) on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Prior to joining HMD in 2012, she was in marketing and sales management for more than 15 years, working on creating catalogs, merchandising, and production in the garment industry. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and Cornell University.

Rose Marie Martinez, Sc.D., has been the senior board director of the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) since 1999. BPH addresses the science base for population health and public health interventions and examines the capacity of the health system, particularly the public health infrastructure, to support disease prevention and health promotion activities, including the education and supply of health professionals necessary for carrying them out. BPH has examined such topics as the safety of childhood vaccines and other drugs, systems for evaluating and ensuring drug safety post-marketing, the health effects of cannabis and cannabinoids, the health effects of environmental exposures, population health improvement strategies, the integration of medical care and public health, women’s health services, health disparities, health literacy, tobacco control strategies, and chronic disease prevention, among others. Dr. Martinez was awarded the 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Research Cecil Award for significant contributions to IOM reports of exceptional quality and influence. Before joining the National Academies, Dr. Martinez was a senior health researcher at Mathematica Policy Research (1995–1999), where she conducted research on the impact of health system change on public health infrastructure, access to care for vulnerable populations, managed care, and the health care workforce. Dr. Martinez is a former assistant director for health financing and policy with the Government Accountability Office, where she directed evaluations and policy analysis in the area of national and public health issues (1988–1995). Her experience also includes 6 years directing research studies for the Regional Health Ministry of Madrid, Spain (1982–1988). Dr. Martinez is a member of the Council on Education for Public Health, the accreditation body for schools of public health and public health programs. She received a Sc.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.