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Appendix C

Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
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Valerie Agostino is the senior vice president of health care and housing for Mercy Housing, a national nonprofit affordable housing organization. She was recently promoted to her current position and is focused on affordable housing as a platform for improved health outcomes for residents. Ms. Agostino also currently serves as commissioner for the Housing Authority for the City of Berkeley, commissioner for the City of San Francisco’s Long Term Care Coordinating Council, and member of the City of San Francisco’s Dementia Task Force. Ms. Agostino began her career in affordable housing and community services in San Francisco in the late 1970s with Catholic Charities, developing opportunities for very low-income, frail elders to live independently in a service-enriched supportive community setting. In 1994 Ms. Agostino joined the staff of Mercy Housing California as the director of property management for the then nascent California organization. In 2001 she was named chief operating officer for Mercy Housing California and spent the following 12 years overseeing various community development, real estate, and resident service activities throughout the state of California. Ms. Agostino has a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts and completed the Achieving Excellence in Community Development Program at the Kennedy School of Government, a Program of Harvard University and Neighborworks.

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1Notes: Names appear in alphabetical order; * = member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement; = member of the workshop planning committee.

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Terry Allan, M.P.H.,* has been the health commissioner at the Cuyahoga County Board of Health since 2004, which serves as the local public health authority for 885,000 citizens in 57 Greater Cleveland communities. He holds a bachelor of science degree in biology from Bowling Green State University and a master of public health degree from the University of Hawaii. Mr. Allan is an adjunct faculty member at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine and was a Year 13 Scholar of the National Public Health Leadership Institute. He is the immediate past president of Ohio’s SACCHO, the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners, and has served as an at-large member of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) board of directors since 2007. In 2009 Mr. Allan was a member of NACCHO’s Structure and Governance Workgroup, which was charged with reviewing the association’s bylaws and making recommendations for improvement to the board of directors. He currently serves as a member of NACCHO’s marketing committee and is an active member of NACCHO’s Congressional Action Network. Mr. Allan served as a representative of NACCHO on the Standards Development Workgroup for the National Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) and chaired a local health department site visit team during the beta test of the PHAB standards. In May 2009, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Government Oversight and Reform Committee concerning public health pandemic influenza preparedness and resource needs, and he participated in a White House meeting on the national response to novel H1N1 influenza in September 2009. In June 2010, Mr. Allan participated on behalf of NACCHO in a Congressional briefing on local public health job losses. He presented in May 2010 before the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health on funding state and local public health systems.

Nancy O. Andrews, M.S., is the president and chief executive officer of the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF). LIIF is an approximately $800 million community development financial institution (CDFI) that has invested $1.4 billion in community projects. LIIF’s investments have leveraged $7.3 billion in private capital for poor communities in 31 states across the United States and have generated more than $32 billion in benefits for families and society. Established 30 years ago, LIIF has served 1.6 million low-income people by providing capital for 60,000 affordable homes for families and children, 241,000 spaces of child care, and 70,000 spaces in school facilities. LIIF is a national CDFI with staff and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, DC. Ms. Andrews’ career spans 30 years in the community development field. In addition to her work at LIIF, she serves on numerous boards and committees, including the Housing Partnership Network, Bank of America’s

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National Community Advisory Council, Morgan Stanley’s Community Development Advisory Committee, Capital One’s Community Advisory Council, and the National Housing Law Project. Ms. Andrews was also previously a member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council. She is a recognized expert on the challenges facing America’s neighborhoods and is frequently asked to testify before Congress and speak at conferences and events. Her most recent book, jointly edited with David Erickson, is titled Investing in What Works for America’s Communities: Essays on People, Place, and Purpose. It is available at http://whatworksforamerica.org. Previously, Ms. Andrews served as the deputy director of the Ford Foundation’s Office of Program Related Investments, where she assisted in the management of a $130 million social investment portfolio. She also designed and launched the foundation’s housing policy program. Ms. Andrews was the chief financial officer of the International Water Management Institute, a World Bank–supported international development organization. Additionally, Ms. Andrews has been an independent consultant on community development, social investment, financial analysis, and housing policy. In this capacity, she consulted for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the Clinton administration. Ms. Andrews received an M.S. in urban planning with a concentration in real estate finance from Columbia University.

Raphael Bostic, Ph.D., is the Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and the Public Enterprise at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California (USC). He recently returned to USC after serving for 3 years in the Obama Administration as the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research (PD&R) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In that Senate-confirmed position, Dr. Bostic was a principal advisor to the Secretary on policy and research, with the goal of helping the Secretary and other principal staff make informed decisions on HUD policies and programs as well as on budget and legislative proposals. Dr. Bostic led an interdisciplinary team of 150, which had expertise in all policy areas of importance to the department, including housing, housing finance, rental assistance, community development, economic development, sustainability, and homelessness, among others. During his tenure and with his leadership, PD&R funded more than $150 million in new research, became an important advisory voice on departmental budget and prioritization decisions, and reestablished its position as a thought leader on policies associated with housing and urban development. Dr. Bostic arrived at USC in 2001, where he served as a professor in USC’s School of Policy, Planning, and Development. His work spans many fields, including home ownership,

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housing finance, neighborhood change, and the role of institutions in shaping policy effectiveness. A particular emphasis has been on how the private, public, and nonprofit sectors interact to influence household access to economic and social amenities. His work has appeared in the leading economic, public policy, and planning journals. He was director of USC’s master of real estate development degree program and was the founding director of the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast. Prior to that, he worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where his work on the Community Reinvestment Act earned him a Special Achievement Award. In an earlier stint at HUD, Dr. Bostic served as a special assistant to Susan Wachter when she served as the Assistant Secretary for PD&R. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and his B.A. from Harvard University.

Rick Brush founded Collective Health in 2011 to address the underlying causes of poor health and sustainably reduce costs. He has led strategic innovation at large corporations and startups for more than 20 years, primarily in the health care and financial services sectors. Most recently, Mr. Brush was chief strategy and marketing officer for the large-employer segment at Cigna, the fourth-largest U.S. health insurer, where he served in a variety of executive roles from 2002 to 2011. While at Cigna, he co-founded the company’s Communities of Health venture, launched new business units and products, and led multi-stakeholder initiatives around the country to improve population health. He has held executive positions at Ford Motor Credit Company, Bank One, KPMG, and a marketing consulting firm and has worked extensively with communities and nonprofits to improve social and financial impact. Mr. Brush is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Debbie Chang, M.P.H.,* is vice president of policy and prevention at Nemours Foundation where she is leveraging expertise and innovating to spread what works through national policy and practice changes with the goal of impacting the health and well-being of children nationwide. She serves as a corporate officer of Nemours, an operating foundation focused on children’s health and health care. Previously at Nemours, Ms. Chang was the founding executive director of Nemours Health & Prevention Services, an operating division devoted to improving children’s health through a comprehensive multi-sector, place-based model in Delaware. Strategic initiatives include spreading and scaling Nemours’ early care and education learning collaborative approach to obesity prevention through an up to $20 million cooperative agreement with the Centers on Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); working with federal partners on integrating population health and clinical care and providing

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strategic direction on Nemours’ Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Health Care Innovation Challenge award that integrates population health and the medical home for children with asthma in three primary care pilot sites in Delaware; and collaborating with the First Lady’s Let’s Move! Campaign on Let’s Move Child Care, a website that Nemours created and hosts. Ms. Chang has more than 26 years of federal and state government and private-sector experience in the health field. She has worked on a range of key health programs and issues including Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Medicare, maternal and child health, national health care reform, and financing coverage for the uninsured. She has held the following federal and state positions: deputy secretary of health care financing at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, with oversight for the State of Maryland’s Medicaid program and the Maryland Children’s Health Program; national director of SCHIP when it was first implemented in 1997; director of the Office of Legislation and Policy for the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services); and senior health policy advisor to former U.S. Senator Donald W. Riegle, Jr., former chair of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured. She serves on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Children, Youth, and Families and the IOM Roundtables on Population Health and Improvement and Obesity Solutions; the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Health Care Innovation Exchange Board; the Winter Park Health Foundation Board; and the University of Michigan Griffith Leadership Center Board. She has published work on population health, child health systems transformation, Medicaid, SCHIP, and Nemours’ prevention-oriented health system, including its CDC Pioneering Innovation Award–winning statewide childhood obesity program. Nemours is a founding member of the Partnership for a Healthier America and the National Convergence Partnership, a unique collaboration of leading foundations focused on healthy people and healthy places. Ms. Chang holds a master’s degree in public health policy and administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Teresa Cutts, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Before this position, she served as director of research for innovation at the Center of Excellence in Faith and Health at Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee. At Wake Forest School of Medicine, she is the academic liaison to its international global faith health partners and leads the evaluation efforts of the Congregational Health Network, integrated

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health, community health assets mapping, and clergy/congregational training work. Dr. Cutts has a Ph.D. in psychology and holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and the University of Memphis School of Public Health and Memphis Theological Seminary as well as a visiting associate position at University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine.

Robert H. Dugger, Ph.D., is an expert on assessing the effects of government policy on domestic and global markets and financial institutions. He is the founder and managing partner of Hanover Investment Group, a firm specializing in helping business and government clients navigate significant changes in fiscal conditions. Prior to his work at Hanover, Dr. Dugger was a partner in Tudor Investment Corporation for 15 years. Tudor is a hedge fund active in currency, bond, equity, and commodity market trading and venture capital investment worldwide. Prior to his time at Tudor, Dr. Dugger served as policy director at the American Bankers Association, where he facilitated a panel of bank officials in developing a plan that became the Resolution Trust Corporation and the solution to the U.S. savings and loan problem. Dr. Dugger began his career at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the early 1970s and served as a senior staff member of both the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee in the 1980s. To improve the quality of economic research and analysis, he participated in founding the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), and he serves as vice chairman of INET’s governing board and as a member of the advisory board. Together with James Heckman, a University of Chicago professor and Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Dugger co-heads INET’s task force on human capital and economic development. To help achieve fiscal sustainability through U.S. workforce strengthening, Mr. Dugger co-founded the Partnership for America’s Economic Success, an organization dedicated to increasing business support for investing in early child development. He is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, a board member of the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, and chairman of the Alexandria/Arlington Smart Beginnings Leadership Council. Dr. Dugger helped establish Grumeti Reserves Ltd. and served as its board chairman for 8 years. Grumeti is a Tanzanian eco-tourism company organized to preserve the wildebeest migration route in a 450,000-acre game reserve adjacent to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Grumeti’s commercial tourism activities are done in partnership with the world’s number-one rated hospitality company, Singita Game Reserves. Dr. Dugger served as vice chairman of its nongovernmental affiliate, the Grumeti Community and Conservation Fund. Dr. Dugger received his B.A. from Davidson

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C--Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators." Institute of Medicine. 2015. Financing Population Health Improvement: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18835.
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College and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Federal Reserve Dissertation Fellowship.

Mary Lou Goeke, M.S.W.,* has held the position of executive director of United Way of Santa Cruz County from 1992 to the present. She is responsible for overall management and administration for the organization, including strategic planning, new program development, financial oversight, and liaison with funded community agencies, the business community, and government partners. She founded and staffs the Community Assessment Project, the internationally recognized, second oldest community progress report in the United States. From 1981 to 1992 she held positions of increasing responsibility with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest private human services and community development agency. Initially hired as director of aging services in the San Francisco County branch agency, she then became director of parish and community services in that agency and then executive director of the San Francisco County agency. She then held the position of general director and chief executive officer of the three county agencies in San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo counties. In addition, as general director she held two other related positions: archdiocesan director for Catholic relief services and archdiocesan director for the Campaign for Human Development. Prior to working for Catholic Charities, she served from 1979 to 1981 with the American Society for Aging as the policy and legislation coordinator. Before that, she worked from 1975 to 1979 for the State of Missouri Department of Aging, starting as a field representative and being promoted to the position of director of planning, research, and evaluation.

Megan Golden, J.D., is currently a fellow at the New York University (NYU) Wagner Innovation Labs and a consultant to nonprofit organizations and governments seeking to increase their impact. She specializes in performance management, innovation, and innovative financing mechanisms for scaling and sustaining effective interventions. She recently conducted a feasibility study for South Carolina on pay-for-success financing for early childhood interventions and served on the advisory group for McKinsey & Company’s work on social impact bonds. From 1999 to 2011, Ms. Golden was the director of planning and government innovation at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she worked in partnership with government to implement innovations in criminal justice, juvenile justice, child welfare, school safety, mental health, and elder care. In addition to creating and launching eight innovative programs, she led a major reform of New Orleans’s criminal justice system and helped Chinese academics and officials pilot criminal justice reforms. In addition to her work at

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Vera, Ms. Golden directed the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service at NYU Wagner from 2006 to 2009. Ms. Golden practiced law from 1992 to 1994 as a Skadden Fellow at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. In 1994 she was awarded a White House Fellowship. Ms. Golden began her career working for New York City government as an urban fellow. She has a B.A. in political science from Brown University and a J.D. magna cum laude from the NYU School of Law.

Rev. Gary Gunderson is the vice president of the Division of Faith and Health Ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and professor of faith and health of the public at the School of Divinity. Rev. Gunderson earned a B.A. in history from Wake Forest University and an M.Div., D.Min, and D.Div (Honorary) from Emory University. On graduation he initiated a ministry in the basement of Oakhurst Baptist Church called Seeds, which mobilized and equipped congregations and religious networks around hunger. That led his curiosity to focus on Africa and ways of generating socially relevant economic development. This led to the Carter Center and its Africa program of democratization. The center established the Interfaith Health Program in 1992, which under Rev. Gunderson’s leadership developed a new paradigm for religion and the health of the public. Rev. Gunderson was one of the three principals who in 2002 launched the Africa Religious Health Assets Program, which has developed a new language and logic finding traction among global organizations from World Health Organization (WHO) to the Gates Foundation. He served 7 years as senior vice president of Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee, and helped invent the “Memphis model” of very large scale congregational networks, which has attracted interest from the White House and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as it now serves as the secretariat for a network of health systems, including Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, seeking to serve the poor and transform their communities. He became vice president at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in July 2012. He has authored five books, most recently Religion and the Health of the Public: Shifting the Paradigm (Palgrave, 2012). He is a professor of public health science at the Medical Center and professor of faith and the health of the public in the School of Divinity.

James A. Hester, Ph.D., M.S., has been active in health reform and population health for almost four decades. His most recent position was the acting director of the Population Health Models Group at the Innovation Center of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) assisting in the development of delivery system transformation and payment reform initiatives such as Pioneer accountable care organizations (ACOs), medi-

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cal homes, and population health models. Prior to joining CMS, he was the director of the Health Care Reform Commission for the Vermont state legislature. The commission was charged with developing a comprehensive package of health reform legislation and recommending a long-term strategy to ensure that all Vermonters have access to affordable, quality health care. The delivery system reforms included a statewide enhanced medical home program and the development of pilot community health systems based on the ACO concept. Dr. Hester has held senior management positions with MVP Healthcare in Vermont, ChoiceCare in Cincinnati, Pilgrim Health Care in Boston, and Tufts Medical Center in Boston. He began his managed care career as director of applied research for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Los Angeles, California. His initial introduction to analyzing complex systems came in the aerospace industry through work on the Apollo project’s rocket engines and high-powered gas dynamic lasers. Dr. Hester earned his Ph.D. in urban studies and his M.S. and B.S. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a continuing interest in health services research and teaching, and he has held faculty appointments at the University of Vermont, the University of Cincinnati, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of Massachusetts. He has served on the boards of Vermont Information Technology Leaders, the Vermont Program for Quality Health Care, and the University of Vermont’s College of Nursing and Health Science.

George Isham, M.D., M.S.,* is senior advisor to HealthPartners, responsible for working with the board of directors and the senior management team on health and quality of care improvement for patients, members, and the community. Dr. Isham is also a senior fellow at the HealthPartners Research Foundation where he facilitates progress at the intersection of population health research and public policy. Dr. Isham is active nationally and currently co-chairs the National Quality Forum–convened Measurement Application Partnership, chairs the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA’s) clinical program committee, and is a member of NCQA’s committee on performance measurement. Dr. Isham is chair of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Roundtable on Health Literacy and has chaired three studies in addition to serving on a number of IOM studies related to health and quality of care. In 2003 Dr. Isham was appointed as a lifetime national associate of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his contributions to the work of the IOM. He is a former member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Task Force on Community Preventive Services and of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and he currently serves on the advisory committee to the director of CDC.

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His practice experience as a general internist was with the U.S. Navy at the Freeport Clinic in Freeport, Illinois, and as a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin.

Jeffrey Levi, Ph.D.,* is executive director of the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), where he leads the organization’s advocacy efforts on behalf of a modernized public health system. He oversees TFAH’s work on a range of public health policy issues, including implementation of the public health provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and annual reports assessing the nation’s public health preparedness, investment in public health infrastructure, and response to chronic diseases such as obesity. TFAH led the public health community’s efforts to enact—and now defend—the prevention provisions of the ACA, including the Prevention and Public Health Fund and the new Community Transformation Grants. In January 2011, President Obama appointed Dr. Levi to serve as a member of the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health. In April 2011, Surgeon General Benjamin appointed him chair of the Advisory Group. Dr. Levi is also a professor of health policy in George Washington University’s School of Public Health, where his research has focused on HIV/AIDS, Medicaid, and integrating public health with the health care delivery system. In the past he has also served as an associate editor of the American Journal of Public Health and deputy director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. Beginning in the early 1980s, he held various leadership positions in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual and the HIV communities, helping to frame the early response to the HIV epidemic. Dr. Levi received a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.A. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. from George Washington University.

Glen P. Mays, Ph.D., M.P.H., serves as the F. Douglas Scutchfield Endowed Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky in August 2011, he served as professor and chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), where he also directed the Ph.D. program in health systems research at UAMS. Dr. Mays’s research focuses on strategies for organizing and financing public health services, preventive care, and chronic disease management for underserved populations. Currently he directs the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), which brings together public health agencies and researchers from around the nation

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to study innovations in public health practice. Dr. Mays also serves as co-principal investigator of the RWJF-funded National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Mays is also co-principal investigator of the North Carolina Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and conducted in collaboration with the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Dr. Mays earned an undergraduate degree in political science from Brown University, earned M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in health policy and administration from UNC at Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health economics at Harvard Medical School

José Montero, M.D., MHDCS,* is director of the Division of Public Health Services at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, and he was elected president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials in September 2012. Dr. Montero began his medical and public health career in Colombia, where he served on several public health and academic positions and as Colombia’s public health director. He began his New Hampshire service in 1999 as chief of the New Hampshire Communicable Disease Section within the Division of Public Health. Before becoming director of the New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services, Dr. Montero held the position of state epidemiologist. Dr. Montero also has several national roles. He is the president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO). He serves on several committees, including the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (as ASTHO liaison), and he has been recently appointed to the board of scientific councilors for the Office of Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Montero served as a board member on the New Hampshire Foundation for Healthy Communities, was co-chair of the health promotion/disease prevention group of the New Hampshire Citizen Initiative, and was a member of the Dartmouth Medical School Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Advisory Committee. He received his M.D. from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He specialized in family medicine, receiving his degree from the Universidad del Valle in Cali Colombia, and he received a degree in epidemiology from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. Recently he completed his master’s degree in health care delivery science at Dartmouth University.

Andrea Phillips, M.A., is the chief operating officer of 10,000 Small Businesses and a vice president in the Urban Investment Group of Goldman Sachs. She has more than 20 years of experience in developing small business, workforce, and community development programs. Most

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recently she was a consultant providing strategic and operational planning services to a variety of public- and private-sector clients. Previously, Ms. Phillips was interim president of Seedco Financial, a $54 million community development financial institution that provides affordable capital to small businesses and nonprofit organizations in disadvantaged communities. Prior to that she was executive vice president for programs at Seedco, where she was responsible for developing strategies for and overseeing the implementation of all Seedco programs, totaling nearly $50 million in funding annually. Prior to her time at Seedco, she served as deputy director for research and evaluation for New York City’s Victim Services Agency and as a program director at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Ms. Phillips holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.A. in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Andrew Webber* joined the Maine Health Management Coalition as chief executive officer in August 2013 and has been a long-time advocate for health care improvement. Before taking this position, he served the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) as president and chief executive officer from June 2003 to July 2013. NBCH is a national, not-for-profit membership organization of 56 purchaser-based coalitions on health that is dedicated to improving health and transforming health care, community by community. As president and chief executive officer of NBCH, Mr. Webber was responsible for overseeing all association activities, including value-based purchasing programs, government and external relations, educational programs, member communications, technical assistance, and research and evaluation. Mr. Webber currently is vice chair and a board member of the National Quality Forum. He sits on the board of directors for the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, the Alliance to Make US Healthiest, and the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute—the combined Bridges to Excellence and Prometheus Payment organizations. He is a principal of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, and NBCH is a member of the Ambulatory Quality Alliance. Mr. Webber is also a member of the purchaser/business advisory councils for the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the eHealth Initiative. Prior to joining NBCH, Mr. Webber was a vice president for external relations and public policy at the National Committee for Quality Assurance. In this role, he directed all government relation activities and outreach efforts to the employer and consumer communities. Previous positions also include senior associate for the Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care and executive vice president for the American Medical Peer Review Association (currently named the American Health

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Quality Association). Mr. Webber started his health policy career in 1978 as an employee of the Washington Business Group on Health (currently named the National Business Group on Health), rising to the position of vice president for public policy. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer on health policy issues. He is a graduate of Harvard University.

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Despite spending far more on medical care than any other nation and despite having seen a century of unparalleled improvement in population health and longevity, the United States has fallen behind many of its global counterparts and competitors in such health outcomes as overall life expectancy and rates of preventable diseases and injuries. A fundamental but often overlooked driver of the imbalance between spending and outcomes is the nation's inadequate investment in non-clinical strategies that promote health and prevent disease and injury population-wide, strategies that fall under the rubric of "population health." Given that it is unlikely that government funding for governmental public health agencies, whether at the local, state, or federal levels, will see significant and sustained increases, there is interest in finding creative sources of funding for initiatives to improve population health, both through the work of public health agencies and through the contributions of other sectors, including nonhealth entities.

Financing Population Health Improvement is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement in February 2014 to explore the range of resources that might be available to provide a secure funding stream for non-clinical actions to enhance health. Presenters and participants discussed the range of potential resources (e.g., financial, human, and community) explored topics related to financial resources. This report discusses return on investment, the value of investing in population-based interventions, and possible sources of funding to improve population health.

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