Appendix B

Committee Member and Staff Biographies

COMMITTEE

Sheila P. Burke, M.P.A., R.N., FAAN (Cochair), is an adjunct lecturer at the J. F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she was executive dean. Ms. Burke is vice chair of the Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors. She also serves as a senior public policy advisor and chair of the Government Relations and Policy Group at Baker Donelson. Ms. Burke had been chief of staff to the Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and deputy staff director of the Senate Committee on Finance and the Secretary of the Senate, the chief administrative officer of the body. She has served as a commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and chair of the Kaiser Foundation Board. Early in her career, she was a staff nurse in California. Ms. Burke was the deputy secretary and chief operating officer of the Smithsonian Institution, where she received the Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service. Ms. Burke is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), where she was a member of the NAM Council and received the David Rall Award. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and member of the National Academy of Public Administration. She has honorary degrees from Marymount University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and Harvard University.

Daniel E. Polsky, Ph.D. (Cochair), is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Policy at Johns Hopkins University. He holds primary appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management,

Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Carey Business School. As the director of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative and former executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, Dr. Polsky has extensive experience in leading interdisciplinary teams advancing research to inform U.S. health policy to address challenges of access, affordability, value, and equity. He was the Robert D. Eilers Professor at the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, where he was faculty (1996–2019). Dr. Polsky is a member of NAM and on the HMD Committee for the National Academies. He was the senior economist on health issues at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He received his MPP from the University of Michigan in 1989 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996.

Madina Agénor, Sc.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is also adjunct faculty at the Fenway Institute and leads the Sexual Health and Reproductive Experiences Lab at Brown University. As a social epidemiologist, Dr. Agénor investigates health inequities in relation to multiple social positions and power relations—especially sexual orientation and heterosexism, gender and (cis)sexism, and race/ethnicity and racism—using an intersectional lens and a mixed-methods research approach. Specifically, she uses quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the structural and social determinants of sexual and reproductive health and cancer screening and prevention among marginalized populations, especially sexual minority women, transgender and gender diverse young adults, Black women, and Black and other LGBTQ+ racially and ethnically minoritized people. Her current research seeks to elucidate how multiple, intersecting forms of structural and interpersonal discrimination, including racism, heterosexism, and (cis)sexism, independently and jointly influence access to and use of these preventive services and related health outcomes among multiply marginalized groups. Her research has been published in leading public health and medical peer-reviewed journals, including American Journal of Public Health, Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Agénor completed postdoctoral research training in cancer prevention equity as part of the Harvard Educational Program in Cancer Prevention and was visiting research faculty at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Before joining Brown University, she was the Gerald R. Gill Assistant Professor of Race, Culture, and Society at Tufts University and an assistant professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She holds an Sc.D. in social and behavioral sciences with a concentration

in women, gender, and health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, an M.P.H. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and an A.B. in community health and gender studies from Brown University.

Camille M. Busette, Ph.D., is a senior fellow in governance studies with affiliated appointments in economic studies and the metropolitan policy programs at the Brookings Institution. She is the director of the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative, focusing on issues of equity, racial justice, and economic mobility for low-income and racially and ethnically minoritized communities. Earlier, Dr. Busette was an executive at the World Bank, where she led its financial inclusion innovation arm. She was the inaugural CEO of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Financial Education, where she was a member of the policy and executive Management teams. Dr. Busette has held executive positions at PayPal, Intuit, and NextCard and is a public governor of FINRA, the self-regulatory agency for the broker-dealer industry. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and is former Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow.

Mario Cardona, J.D., is professor of practice and director of policy at the Children’s Equity Project based out of Arizona State University. He served as Child Care Aware of America’s chief of policy and practice, where he provided leadership and outreach to the government, its members, and the general public on issues relating to the early childhood education (ECE) system. He also led its policy, advocacy, and practice strategy. In December 2021, Mr. Cardona was selected for a Pahara Fellowship, a 1-year program that identifies exceptional leaders in the educational excellence and equity movement, facilitates their dynamic growth, and strengthens their collective efforts to dramatically improve public education, especially those programs serving low-income children and communities. He was in the Obama Administration as a senior policy advisor on the White House Domestic Policy Council and held senior roles in the Senate, including as a principal advisor to the chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. While in Congress, he wrote and led staff negotiations to pass the Child Care & Development Block Grant Act of 2014, which comprehensively updated the quality and safety standards in federally subsidized child care for the first time in nearly 20 years. He earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and a J.D., with honors, from the George Washington University Law School. Resigned from the committee on October 5, 2022.

Juliet K. Choi, J.D., is the president and CEO of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, a national health justice organization that influences policy, mobilizes communities, and strengthens programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) people. She is an accomplished cross-sector leader and coalition builder who specializes in change management, system reform, and stakeholder relations, particularly in the areas of immigration, civil rights, health care and disaster relief. She served in the Obama administration as the chief of staff and senior advisor of two federal agencies: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services. Before that, she led disaster relief operations and strategic partnerships at the American Red Cross as a member of the disaster leadership team. She has worked at the Partnership for Public Service, Asian American Justice Center, Mental Health America, and a Fortune 500 corporation. Ms. Juliet received her law school’s Alumni Association Award for Leadership and Character and Rising Star Alumnus Award. The proud daughter of South Korean immigrants, she is on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission on Data Modernization, Office of Minority Health Subject Matter Experts Group on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, and boards of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation and national YWCA USA. She received her J.D. from University of Maryland School of Law and clerked for the Hon. Dennis M. Sweeney (ret.) of the Circuit Court for Howard County, Maryland. She received her B.A. in economics from University of Virginia.

Juan De Lara, Ph.D., M.A., is associate professor of American studies and ethnicity at University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. He is a human geographer who studies race, space, and power. Dr. De Lara is the inaugural director of the Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies. His research focuses on three broad themes: urban political economy, racialization, and the politics of space; the use of data science and technology to reorganize how various state agencies are restructuring the social relations of race, immigration, and labor; and research that supports community-based organizations in their efforts to resolve social disparities. Dr. De Lara authored the book Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Inland Southern California, which uses logistics and commodity chains to unpack the black box of globalization by showing how the scientific management of bodies, space, and time produced new racialized labor regimes inside modern warehouses. He received his B.A. in sociology and labor studies from Pitzer College, an M.A. in urban planning

from University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in geography from University of California, Berkeley.

Thomas Dobbs III, M.D., M.P.H., is dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He also teaches epidemiology for the School of Population Health and School of Health-Related Professions and has a clinical position within the Division of Infectious Disease, working specifically on HIV and sexually transmitted infections with a focus on the intersection of disease and the social determinants of health. He was the state health officer for Mississippi from 2018 through July 2022. Dr. Dobbs served in other public health roles at Mississippi State Department of Health, including district health officer and state epidemiologist. He is a board-certified internal medicine and infectious diseases physician, working at the intersection of public health and patient care, both domestically and internationally, with specific expertise in HIV, tuberculosis, public health, and health equity. He has won numerous awards for work in public health and education, including Mississippi Senate and House resolutions for his work through the COVID pandemic. He received his M.D. and M.P.H. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Megan D. Douglas, J.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and director of research and policy in the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is a licensed attorney, and her research focuses on studying how laws and other policies improve population health and advance health equity. She has expertise in legal epidemiology, which uses scientific methods to study the effects of laws on health outcomes, and has applied this approach for policies related to primary care, behavioral health, developmental disabilities, digital health tools, and structural racism. Ms. Douglas has been awarded funding from OMH, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health. She received her B.S. in biology from Virginia Tech and her J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law. She was the first attorney to complete the Health Policy Leadership Fellowship in the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse.

Abigail Echo-Hawk, M.A., is the executive vice president of Seattle Indian Health Board and director of its data and research division, Urban Indian Health Institute. She serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Public Health Data National Commission, University of Washington Population Health Initiative External Advisory Board, Data for Indigenous Justice Board, and

many other boards and committees related to data justice and health equity. She also served on the National Academies committee A Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus in 2020. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Ms. Echo-Hawk’s voice has been front and center on a national level, ensuring that the urban Native community is represented in data collection. The Seattle Indian Health Board has been a leader in the COVID-19 response directly because of her leadership and vision. She has coauthored numerous peer-reviewed articles, including two for CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on COVID-19 among AIAN people, and was lead author on a report about their data genocide in COVID-19 data. Ms. Echo-Hawk has also led the way in bringing the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls to the forefront, leading directly to federal, state, and local legislation working to protect Native women. She is on the Washington State Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Taskforce, which she was instrumental in creating. She is a researcher and policy professional specializing in tribal government and urban Indian relations. She successfully leads teams of public health professionals to develop culturally competent and culturally relevant NIH-, CDC-, and HHS-funded health and policy interventions with tribal and urban communities across the country. She earned a B.A. in American Studies with a minor in human rights and M.A. in policy studies from the University of Washington.

Hedwig (Hedy) Lee, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and holds a courtesy joint appointment at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. She is also the associate director of the university’s new Center on the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity and Scholar in Residence of Sociology, Duke University. Earlier, she was a professor at the University of Washington Department of Sociology in Seattle. Her research focuses on the SDOH and consequences of population health and health disparities, with a particular focus on the role of structural racism (e.g., mass incarceration) in racial/ethnic health disparities. She serves on the board of the Population Association of America and the research advisory board for the Vera Institute for Justice. She is also a member of the General Social Survey Board of Overseers and the National Academies, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on Population. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a Carolina Population Center Predoctoral Trainee and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Michigan.

Margaret P. Moss, Ph.D., J.D., R.N., FAAN, is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation and also Dakhóta. She is a professor and director at the First Nations House of Learning at the University of British Columbia. Previously she was also the interim associate vice president

of equity and inclusion. She has been a nurse for 32 years and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing since 2008 and was recently elected to its board of directors. Dr. Moss is the first and only American Indian to hold both nursing and juris doctorates. She was appointed to the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice at the National Academies. She was named on the inaugural Forbes 50 over 50 Impact List 2021, in part due to her editing and authoring the first nursing text on American Indian health, which won two book-of-the-year awards. Her second text, Health Equity and Nursing, was published in 2020. Dr. Moss has been a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, staff on the Senate Special Committee on Aging 2008; a Fulbright Research Chair at McGill University on Indigenous contexts since 2014; and on the British Columbia Minister of Health’s investigation team and report In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-Specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and her J.D. from Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

Sela V. Panapasa, Ph.D., is an associate research scientist at the Research Center on Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. As a social demographer, Dr. Panapasa studies population dynamics, family demography, and racial and ethnic health disparities and conducts mixed-methods research on the health and well-being of hard-to-survey populations. Specific areas of expertise include the life-course perspective on health outcomes and quality of life among NHPI populations. Dr. Panapasa received her Ph.D. in sociology and was a Population Studies and Training Center trainee at Brown University and postdoctoral scholar at the University of Michigan.

S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., is professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside and executive director of California 100, a transformative statewide initiative focused on building a shared vision and strategy for California’s next century that is innovative, sustainable, and equitable. Dr. Ramakrishnan also founded the Center for Social Innovation at Riverside and AAPI Data, a national publisher of demographic data and policy research. He has published many articles and seven books, most recently Citizenship Reimagined and Framing Immigrants. Dr. Ramakrishnan was named to the Frederick Douglass 200 and is working on projects related to racial equity in philanthropy and regional development. He serves on the Board of The California Endowment and Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, chairs the California Commission on APIA Affairs, and is on the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee. Dr. Ramakrishnan also founded Census Legacies, which builds on the foundation of census outreach coalitions to build more inclusive and equitable communities, and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, an official

section journal of the American Political Science Association. He holds a B.A. in international relations from Brown University and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University.

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is also the Margaret Walker Alexander Professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and research associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Dr. Schanzenbach is an economist who studies policies aimed at improving the lives of children in poverty, including education, health, and income support policies. Her work traces the impact of major public policies, such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, school finance reform, and ECE, on long-term outcomes. Dr. Schanzenbach was the director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College with a B.A. in economics and religion and received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

Lisa Servon, Ph.D., is the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor department chair in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Servon was professor of management and urban policy at the New School, where she also served as dean at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. She conducts research in the areas of urban poverty, community development, economic development, and issues of gender and race. Her specific areas of expertise include economic insecurity, consumer financial services, and financial justice. She holds a B.A. in political science from Bryn Mawr College, an M.A. in history of art from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in urban planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

Vivek Shandas, Ph.D., is a professor of climate adaptation and founder and director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research at Portland State University, where he brings a policy-relevant approach, including evaluating environmental stressors on human health, developing indicators and tools to improve decision making, and constructing frameworks to guide the growth of urban regions. He specializes in developing strategies for addressing the implications of climate change on cities. His teaching and research examine the intersection of exposure to climate-induced events, governance processes, planning mechanisms, and relevant implications on the public’s health. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Shandas studies the emergent characteristics that generate vulnerability among communities and infrastructure. He teaches

courses in environmental planning, urban ecology, health impact assessments, and climate adaptation. Funding for his research comes primarily from federal agencies, and he focuses on understanding the disparate health impacts emerging from the built environment, planning policies, and coping capacities of communities for the increasing effects of climate change. Dr. Shandas has written articles on water quality and use, climate justice, air quality, and interdisciplinary education for diverse publications, including Urban Geography, Journal of the American Planning Association, Landscape and Urban Planning, BioScience, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Urban Climate, and Journal of Environmental Management. Earlier, he was a school teacher in Oregon (Vernonia); curriculum developer in California (San Jose); and a health and environmental policy analyst for the governor of New York State (Albany). He serves on several national and local advisory boards and is an advisor to CAPA Strategies, a global consulting firm specializing in preparing communities for climate-induced extreme events. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington.

Melissa A. Simon, M.D., M.P.H., is the George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology and vice chair of Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also the founder and director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation and the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative. She serves as the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center’s associate director for community outreach and engagement. She is an expert in implementation science, women’s health across the life-span, minority health, community engagement and health equity. Dr. Simon has been recognized with numerous awards for her substantial contribution to excellence in health equity scholarship, women’s health, and mentorship, including her election to NAM and the Association of American Physicians. She has received the Presidential Award in Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentorship and is a Presidential Leadership Scholar. Dr. Simon is a former member of United States Preventive Services Task Force and on the NIH Office of Research in Women’s Health Advisory Committee. She is a member of the National Academies Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice and the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity.

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE GREENWALL FELLOW IN BIOETHICS

Kavita Shah Arora, M.D., M.B.E., M.S., is an associate professor with tenure and the division director for general obstetrics, gynecology, and midwifery at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. Her clinical, research, and education interests center around reproductive justice and ensuring evidence-based and equitable reproductive health policy, with a

focus on sterilization disparities. She has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and been funded by the NIH, Health Resources and Service Administration, and Society for Family Planning. At the National Academies, she is the Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics. She has served as Chair of the national ethics committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on the national ethics committee of the American Medical Association, and on the board of directors of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities. She has served on the Governing Council for the Young Physicians Section of the American Medical Association. She was named as a 40 under 40 leader in minority health by the National Minority Quality Forum in 2022. She received her B.S. with a minor in philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University. In 2009, she graduated with both an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College and a master’s degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University and an M.S. in clinical research at Case Western Reserve University.

STAFF

Amy Geller, M.P.H., is a senior program officer in HMD on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. During her 20 years at the National Academies, she has staffed committees spanning many topics, including advancing health equity, reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, workforce resilience, vaccine safety, reducing tobacco use, drug safety, treating post-traumatic stress disorder, and prevention and control of STIs. She is the study director for the Committee on the Review of Federal Policies that Contribute to Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities. She also directs the DC Public Health Case Challenge, a joint activity of HMD and NAM that aims to promote interdisciplinary, problem-based learning for college students at universities in the DC area.

Alina B. Baciu, M.P.H., Ph.D., is a senior program officer in HMD and on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She has directed the activities of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement since 2013. After joining the National Academies in 2001, Dr. Baciu staffed or directed several consensus studies, including those that produced the reports Leading Health Indicators 2030: Advancing Health, Equity, and Well-Being (2020), the For the Public’s Health series of reports on measurement, law, and funding (2010–2012), and The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century (2003). From 1997 to early 2001, she worked at the Orange County (California) Health Care Agency; later, she served at the Public Health Agency as a health educator in maternal, child, and

adolescent health. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in human sciences (an interdisciplinary program in culture, language, and society) from George Washington University. After earning her M.P.H. (international health) in 1996 from Loma Linda University School of Public Health, she spent 1 year as training coordinator on a United States Agency for International Development-funded maternal and child health project in Zambia. She was born in Romania and emigrated as a child.

Aimee Mead, M.P.H., is an associate program officer in HMD and on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She has staffed National Academies 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 STIs, and reviewing the health effects and patterns of use of premium cigars. She has also supported the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine. Earlier, she worked at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She received her M.P.H. from the Yale School of Public Health and her B.S. from Cornell University.

L. Brielle Dojer, M.P.H., is a research associate in HMD and on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Earlier, she worked on health equity issues as an intern with the Access Challenge, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and as a volunteer with the student-founded organization ContraCOVID NYC. She also worked in research laboratories at NYU Langone and Mount Sinai Hospital before pursuing a career in public health. She holds an M.P.H. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a B.A. in biology from Boston University.

Maggie Anderson is an HMD research assistant and on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Earlier, Ms. Anderson 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.

G. Ekene Agu was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a recent graduate from Georgetown University. He majored in human science and graduated in May 2021. He served as an EMT for Georgetown EMS. He also worked at the Students of Georgetown Inc., which is the largest student-run nonprofit organization in the United States. He has a passion for biomedical sciences and music. He plays the violin and served as part of an orchestra for 4 years.

Grace Reading is a senior HMD program assistant on the Board of Population Health and Public Health Practice. Earlier, she was an activist in Missouri and Kansas. She founded the Strip Your Letters Campaign, a multicampus initiative to combat institutional violence in all forms on college campuses and in Greek letter organizations. Ms. Reading served on the KU Culture of Respect team to perform a comprehensive analysis on university policies to address institutional responses to sexual violence. For 3 years, she volunteered as an advocate for victim-survivors of sexual violence at the Sexual Trauma and Abuse CARE Center, where she logged over 3,000 hours of community service. She holds a B.S. in marketing from the University of Kansas School of Business and a minor in women, gender, and sexuality studies.

Rose Marie Martinez, Sc.D., has been the director of HMD (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice since 1999. 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 the public health infrastructure, access to care for vulnerable populations, managed care, and the health care workforce. She is a former assistant director for Health Financing and Policy with the Government Accountability Office and served for 6 years directing research studies for the Regional Health Ministry of Madrid, Spain.

Y. Crysti Park is a program coordinator on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Earlier, she was in marketing and sales management for over 15 years, working on creating catalogs, merchandising, and production in the garment industry. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and Cornell University.