Hero Award for addressing the health consequences of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast. In 2016 the San Francisco Business Times recognized his philanthropic contributions with its first Legacy Award.

Seth Berkowitz, M.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology. He is a general internist and primary care doctor. Dr. Berkowitz studies the relationship between health-related social needs, such as food insecurity, and health outcomes. His current work emphasizes interventions that address these needs as part of clinical care and the health effects of policies that affect the distribution of unmet health related social needs.

Kim DiGioia, Dr.P.H., M.S., is a recent graduate of the public health doctoral program in health policy and management at The George Washington University. She currently works as a program officer at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) in Washington, D.C. Before joining PCORI, Dr. DiGioia was a health care delivery system fellow at the Lown Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit that seeks to catalyze a grassroots movement for transforming health care systems and improving the health of communities. Her work at the Lown Institute and in other previous roles at Kaiser Permanente and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has been focused on the nexus of health care and population health. Dr. DiGioia earned a B.A. in health psychology from Smith College and an M.S. in social and behavioral sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Kristin Giantris, M.P.A., is the interim chief client services officer of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). Ms. Giantris leads NFF’s national client services practice, which delivers a wide variety of financing and consulting services to NFF’s community-centered clients, funders, and investors across the United States. She leads a team of 50 who bring grounded perspectives along with innovative capital and capacity to organizational, sector, and systems-levels challenges. Ms. Giantris oversees a financing portfolio of over $429 million, and she brings 30 years of experience in the nonprofit and finance sectors to her work. Throughout her career, she has focused on strategic and management support for frontline organizations and financing for both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises. Prior to joining NFF, Ms. Giantris was a vice president at Citigroup Global Markets, where she managed bond financings for various financial institutions and governmental clients, both domestic and international. She came to Citigroup after an initial career in the nonprofit sector, where she worked for more than 8 years for the international nonprofit organiza-

tion, Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance. While working in international development, Giantris served as a multi-country program officer in Washington, D.C., and as a country director in Albania, managing technical assistance programs for small businesses and nonprofit associations. Ms. Giantris earned a master’s degree in public affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a B.A. in political science from Kenyon College. She brings her experience to various boards, including board chair of The Access Challenge, a pan-Africa public health organization, and as an independent member of the American Bank of Investments, a private bank in Albania.

Marc N. Gourevitch, M.D., M.P.H., is the Muriel and George Singer Professor and founding chair of the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center. The focus of Dr. Gourevitch’s work is on developing approaches that use both health care delivery and policy- and community-level interventions to advance the health of populations. Dr. Gourevitch leads the City Health Dashboard initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to equip city and community leaders with an accurate understanding of the health of their populations, including their social, economic, and environmental drivers, to support population health improvement. He directs the National Institute on Drug Abuse–supported Substance Abuse Research Education and Training program, as well as NYU Langone’s participation in the New York City Clinical Data Research Network funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Dr. Gourevitch previously served as founding director of NYU Langone’s Division of General Internal Medicine, and led NYU Langone’s Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Janet Heinrich, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., R.N., FAAN, has more than 50 years working and teaching in public health. Most recently, she has been teaching and conducting research in health policy in the School of Public Health at The George Washington University, focusing on aligning health care, public health, and the social determinants of health through the lens of health equity. Dr. Heinrich worked in the Obama Administration at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services advising on workforce issues, accountable health communities, and state innovation models. She directed the Bureau of Health Professions at the Health Resources and Services Administration as it implemented new workforce programs in the Affordable Care Act and established the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. Dr. Heinrich was the director of health care and public health issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office for 7 years with many con-

gressional requests on topics related to nursing shortages, workforce distribution issues, and mental health services for children, among other issues. Dr. Heinrich lobbied for and was part of the new team that established the National Center for Nursing Research, now an institute at the National Institutes of Health.

Hilary Heishman, M.P.H., is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). She has expertise in a variety of topics, with special attention to improving and connecting systems that enable people to be healthy. She has developed programs related to building communities’ capacities to improve health, helping health care organizations address patients’ social circumstances and play a strong role in improving community health, improving the use of health data and information systems, identifying health care payment methods that support community health, and helping people learn from one another in networks. Heishman has been involved with public health work and research at the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, the Washington State Department of Health’s Public Health Improvement Partnership, and the University of Washington Child Health Institute. She served in the Peace Corps in Ghana, where she taught biology and coordinated HIV/AIDS prevention programs. Heishman received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Virginia and a master of public health in community-oriented public health practice from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Carly Hood-Ronick, M.P.H., M.P.A., is the executive director of Project Access NOW (PANOW), a nonprofit in the Portland, Oregon, area working to provide culturally appropriate health care and social service navigation for the region’s uninsured. Prior to providing strategic leadership at PANOW, Hood-Ronick was a director at the Oregon Primary Care Association, where she oversaw health equity and Medicaid strategy efforts with community health centers around the state, strategically identifying ways to align payment and delivery system efforts. Hood-Ronick has worked with communities in multiple states and countries to develop upstream programs and has published work on best practices in financing social care efforts. With over a decade of experience in domestic and international work, she is called upon as a leader in systems-level equity efforts, including as past co-chair of the Oregon Health Policy Board’s Health Equity Committee, supporting Medicaid metric and measurement development, and advising on community and social health data sharing efforts as chair of the Health Information Technology’s Community Information Exchange workgroup. Hood-Ronick is deeply committed to health equity and comes at it from a lens that access to health care is a fundamental right. She received her master of public affairs in social policy

from the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and her master of Public Health from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

Dora Hughes, M.D., M.P.H., is the chief medical Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She leads the center’s work on health equity, provides clinical input on models, liaises with stakeholder groups, and directs CMMI’s clinician community. Previously, Dr. Hughes served as an associate research professor of health policy and management at The George Washington University, where her work focused on the intersection of clinical and community health, health equity, health care quality, and workforce. Prior to this role, Dr. Hughes was a senior policy advisor at Sidley Austin, where she advised on regulatory and legislative matters in the life science industry. Additionally, Dr. Hughes served as the counselor for science and public health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Obama Administration, helping to implement the Affordable Care Act and providing guidance to the Public Health Service Act–authorized agencies and the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Hughes began her career in health policy as a senior program officer at the Commonwealth Fund and subsequently was the deputy director for the HELP Committee for the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the health policy advisor to former Senator Barack Obama. Dr. Hughes received a B.S. from Washington University, an M.D. from Vanderbilt, and an M.P.H. from Harvard. She completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

Melissa Jones, M.P.A., is the executive director of the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BAHRII). Her experience includes work in municipal government and nonprofits in the Bay Area’s large and small cities. Ms. Jones is an active community member in Oakland and serves on the Association of Bay Area Government’s regional planning committee, which advises on regional planning issues. Before joining BARHII, Ms. Jones served as a senior program officer at the Boston Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), where she launched and ran Boston LISC’s Resilient Communities Resilient Families (RCRF) Initiative. The initiative works to ensure that residents of Boston’s Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan neighborhoods benefit from the rising tide of transit and other public investments. During her tenure, RCRF engaged several thousand residents and nonprofits in neighborhood planning. The program has invested millions of dollars to fund affordable housing, leadership development, Family Financial Opportunity Center programs, and a local entrepreneurship pipeline program to ensure that residents’ financial lives

are improving. She was awarded the LISC’s president’s award in 2014 for her work on comprehensive community development. Ms. Jones has additional experience funding and implementing programs focused on community economic development, family financial stability, education, and civic empowerment. Specifically, she has served in youth empowerment organizations, as a program specialist for the City of Alameda and as a program analyst for the City of Oakland’s Oakland Fund for Children and Youth. Early in her career, she served as the director of professional development for Partners in School Innovation, where she trained staff to support school reform efforts in San Francisco Unified, San Jose Unified, and Oak Grove Unified school districts.

Meshie Knight, M.A., is a program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). She joined the RWJF in 2015 as a program associate working to improve the value of the nation’s health care and public health systems. Ms. Knight views her role as an opportunity to use her background and education and a passion that is rooted in her deep personal experiences to shape a health system that is efficient, equitable, and committed to improving the health and well-being of all. Previously, Ms. Knight served as a program and development associate for the Universal Health Care Foundation, where her work included grant management, program development, and supporting policy initiatives designed to transform health care in Connecticut. As consultant with the Connecticut Choosing Wisely Collaborative, Ms. Knight helped establish a multi-stakeholder collective to promote shared decision making between patients and providers. She earlier served as a communications assistant with the Center for Children’s Advocacy, a nonprofit law and policy organization. There, she advocated for systemic changes in the education, juvenile justice, health, and child welfare systems on behalf of vulnerable children in Connecticut. Ms. Knight earned a B.A. from Howard University and an M.A. from Trinity College. She is a 2012 graduate of the Connecticut Health Foundation’s Health Leadership Fellows Program.

Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Dr.P.H., M.H.S., is an adjunct professor of health policy and management at The George Washington Milken Institute School of Public Health. She has more than 30 years of experience working on health and health care access issues facing vulnerable populations. Dr. Lillie-Blanton previously served as the chief quality officer and director of the Division of Quality and Health Outcomes at the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). With a budget of $500 million over 6 years, she had responsibility for establishing a health care quality measurement and

reporting program for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), oversight of state contracts for annual external quality reviews of Medicaid managed care organizations, developing the state–federal partnership in quality-improvement activities, and conducting the first-ever nationwide survey of Medicaid beneficiaries’ experiences of care. Prior to Dr. Lillie-Blanton’s position with CMS, she held senior-level positions with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). As a vice-president with the Kaiser Family Foundation, she supported the efforts of policy analysts, provider organizations, and communities in reducing racial/ethnic disparities in health care access and managed three health policy leadership development programs for students of color. In her role as an associate director of quality and public health at GAO, she managed health policy research and evaluation teams to support the Congress in its oversight of federal government agencies. Dr. Lillie-Blanton is active in her professional and civic community. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Guidance for Designing a National Healthcare Disparities Report, served on the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, chaired the D.C. Medicaid Medical Care Advisory Committee for several years, and was a member of the D.C. Health Coverage Advisory Panel. She is currently a member of the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Health Foundation. Dr. Lillie-Blanton holds a bachelor’s degree from Howard University and a master of health science and doctorate degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

John R. Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., has been the president of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation since April 2019. In addition to his role as foundation president, Dr. Lumpkin also serves as the vice president of drivers of health strategy for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Most recently, Dr. Lumpkin served as the senior vice president of programs for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and, for 12 years, as the first African American director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. Dr. Lumpkin is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has also served on, and advised, several federal-level committees and commissions to advance and improve health in the United States. His many distinctions and honors include the Arthur McCormack Excellence and Dedication in Public Health Award from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials as well as the Jonas Salk Health Leadership Award. He earned his medical degree and bachelor of medical sciences degree from Northwestern University

Medical School and his master of public health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He was the first African American trained in emergency medicine in the country after completing his residency at the University of Chicago and has served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago.

Karen Minyard, Ph.D., M.N., has been director of the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) since 2001 and is also a research professor with the Department of Public Management and Policy. Dr. Minyard connects the research, policy, and programmatic work of the center across issue areas including population health, health philanthropy, public and private health coverage, and the uninsured. Dr. Minyard has experience with the state Medicaid program, both with the design of program reforms and with external evaluation. Her research interests include financing and evaluation of health-related social policy programs; strategic alignment of public and private health policy through collective impact; the role of local health initiatives in access and health improvement; the role of targeted technical assistance in improving the sustainability, efficiency, and programmatic effectiveness of nonprofit health collaboratives; and health and health care financing. In addition to overseeing the center’s overall strategic vision, Dr. Minyard plays a leadership role in several center projects that weave together the key learnings, skill sets, and areas of expertise of the GHPC, including evaluation, technical assistance, policy and economic analysis, backbone and organizational support, health and health care financing, health system transformation, Health in All Policies, and rural health. She is currently co-principal investigator of Aligning Systems for Health by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She also serves on the executive trio of the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement, the Atlanta Regional Commission, and the United Way of Greater Atlanta.

Suma Nair, Ph.D., M.S., R.D., is the director of the Office of Quality Improvement in the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC). The BPHC administers the Health Center Program which supports more than 1,400 health centers, including community health centers, migrant health centers, health care for the homeless centers, and public housing primary care centers. This network of health centers has created one of the largest safety net systems of primary and preventive care in the country, providing comprehensive, culturally competent, quality health care to more than 29 million people. The Office of Quality Improvement (OQI) serves as the organizational focus for program performance, including clinical and operational quality improvement, patient safety and risk manage-

ment, primary care innovation, data reporting, and program evaluation. OQI provides leadership for implementing BPHC clinical quality and performance improvement strategies/initiatives, including ambulatory care accreditation, patient-centered medical home recognition, and integration of behavioral health and oral health activities within primary care. In response to the COVID19 pandemic, OQI developed and implemented the Health Center COVID-19 vaccine, testing supply, therapeutics, and mask programs, directly allocating these critical resources to health centers to advance health equity in medically underserved communities. Prior to joining BPHC, Dr. Nair worked on program evaluation and performance improvement programs affecting more than 80 different grant programs across HRSA. Dr. Nair earned a bachelor of arts degree in nutrition and a master of science degree in public health nutrition from Case Western Reserve University and a doctor of philosophy degree in health services administration from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Ana Novais, Lic., serves as the Assistant Secretary for the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), the principal agency of the executive branch of state government responsible for managing the department of health; human services; children, youth and families; and behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities, and hospitals as well as the offices of healthy aging and veterans services. Novais started at the Rhode Island Department of Health in 1998 as an education and outreach coordinator focusing on children health issues and, later, as the minority health coordinator, charged with ensuring that the department addressed the health needs of the racial and ethnic minority communities of Rhode Island. In 2006, as executive director of health, Ms. Novais led the department efforts to achieve health equity by focusing in the areas of health disparities and access to care, chronic disease management and prevention, environmental health, and maternal and child health. In 2015, Ms. Novais was charged with implementing the department strategic priorities and ensuring the alignment of resources and operations with the strategic priorities. In 2016, Ms. Novais assumed the role of deputy director of health. She has developed and implemented various programs and initiatives that have received recognition both at the state and national level. Among them, Vaccinate Before You Graduate is an initiative aimed at improving vaccination rates among adolescents, and the Rhode Island Health Equity Framework is a plan of action for achieving health equity at the state and at local level through the Health Equity Zones initiative. Both programs have been recognized as a best practice and are currently being implemented in other cities and states. Ms. Novais holds a clinical psychology degree from UCLN, Belgium, and

is a graduate from the Northeastern Public Health Leadership Institute at the University of Albany, New York and Leadership RI. Her career in public health started in 1985 in Cape Verde and includes 5 years in Portugal; she has been working in the United States since 1995.

Barbie Robinson, J.D., M.P.P., CHC, is the executive director for Harris County Public Health (HCPH), the nationally accredited county public health agency for the nation’s third-largest county, which serves a population of approximately 5 million people. She came to Harris County with a vision of HCPH as the community health strategist for leading and enabling cross-sector partnerships that connect safety net services in an integrated way to ensure interventions, services, and programs address the social determinants of health holistically. In Harris County, she currently serves as the at-large representative on the steering committee of The Way Home Continuum of Care, the lead agency to prevent and end homelessness in the Greater Houston Area. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Robinson served as the director of the Sonoma County Department of Health Services (DHS) for 5 years while concurrently serving as the interim executive director of the Sonoma County Community Development Commission in California for the past year. Robinson’s leadership was instrumental in forming Sonoma County’s ACCESS Initiative, a nationally and internationally awarded integrated care coordination model that helps underserved and vulnerable individuals achieve self-sufficiency and well-being. This model is being replicated across the country. She led the county’s COVID-19 pandemic response and oversaw the public health responses during the wildfires of 2017, 2019, and 2020 and the response to the county’s largest homeless encampment in 2020. Robinson has more than 27 years of experience in health care administration, policy, and research. Before Sonoma County, she worked at the federal level at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for 15 years overseeing the administration of federal health care programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Medicare fee-for-service program, and the Affordable Care Act. She held numerous leadership positions at CMS, including the associate regional administrator of the San Francisco and Atlanta regional offices’ Division of Financial Management & Fee-for-Service Operations; her leadership earned her the Administrator’s Achievement Award in 2014. Robinson earned her bachelor of arts with a triple major (political science, Spanish, and international sociology) from Middlebury College; her master of public policy, health, and social policy from the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy; and her Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School.

community-based organizations, hospitals and health systems, public health departments, companies, and others to tackle a wide variety of issues, including improving substandard housing stock, eliminating food deserts, creating opportunities for exercise and active living, and ending the cycle of domestic and gang violence, among others. Ms. Yu earned an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a B.S. from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is a 2018 Terrance Keenan Institute fellow, a recognition created by Grantmakers in Health.

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