Appendix E

Speaker Biographies

Maya Brennan is vice president, Housing, of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI’s) Terwilliger Center for Housing. Ms. Brennan joined ULI in 2014 and leads the center’s research efforts, including the dissemination of interdisciplinary research through the How Housing Matters portal. Ms. Brennan joined ULI from the National Housing Conference’s Center for Housing Policy, where for 7 years she wrote and spoke extensively about affordable housing issues, including how developers and policy makers can use housing to improve outcomes in education, health, aging, and economic self-sufficiency. Ms. Brennan has authored or co-authored numerous publications, including Veterans Permanent Supportive Housing: Policy and Practice; Comparing the Costs of New Construction and Acquisition-Rehab in Affordable Multifamily Rental Housing; The Impacts of Affordable Housing on Education; and Strengthening Economic Self-Sufficiency Programs: How Housing Authorities Can Use Behavioral and Cognitive Science to Improve Programs. Ms. Brennan holds a master’s of science in urban policy analysis and management from the Milano Graduate School at the New School in New York. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in liberal arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Linda Elam, Ph.D., M.P.H., serves as the deputy assistant secretary directing the office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). DALTCP provides leadership on HHS policies that support the inde-

pendence, health, and productivity of elderly individuals and people with disabilities, including issues related to integrated care, rehabilitative services, mental health parity, postacute and long-term care, employment of people with disabilities, and the direct care workforce. ASPE is home to and supports the congressionally established National Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services. Prior to joining ASPE, Dr. Elam was senior deputy director and state Medicaid director at the District of Columbia’s Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF). During her time at DHCF, Dr. Elam had key responsibility for implementing critical programmatic changes related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including Medicaid expansion and the initial work that established the District’s health benefits exchange. In addition, she spearheaded Medicaid long-term care reform activities designed to both right-size the program and improve the quality of benefits delivered to eligible residents. Before she began government service, Dr. Elam was a principal policy analyst with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, where her areas of focus included Medicaid, prescription drug policy, racial and ethnic disparities in health care, and mental health. Dr. Elam received her B.S. in zoology with honors from Howard University, her M.P.H. in Health Policy and Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

LaMar Hasbrouck, M.D., M.P.H., is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Medicine (Charles R. Drew-UCLA Program); and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Hasbrouck is currently the executive director of the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO), the national nonprofit organization that represents the country’s nearly 2,800 local health departments. As the executive director, Dr. Hasbrouck leads the association’s mission to be a leader, partner, catalyst, and voice for local health departments to ensure the conditions that promote health and equity, combat disease, and improve the quality and length of all lives. Prior to joining NACCHO, Dr. Hasbrouck was the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. Among Dr. Hasbrouck’s achievements as director, he developed a 5-year strategy, implemented various aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, applied for national accreditation by the Public Health Accreditation Board, and built successful partnerships to pass a state cigarette tax increase. Dr. Hasbrouck also led the development of the statewide blueprints for health workforce expansion and population health–health care integration, two key initiatives of the Governor’s Office for Health Innovation and Transformation.

Prior to his appointment as the “Top Doc” for Illinois, Dr. Hasbrouck was the public health director of Ulster County, and the only county official in New York State to simultaneously lead both the public health and mental health departments. Before that, he spent 11 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nation’s premier public health agency, where his impressive record of service included coauthoring the first Surgeon General’s Report on Youth Violence (2001) and the active engagement in two of the largest global health initiatives in history: polio eradication with the World Health Organization and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), where he served in a diplomatic assignment as the CDC Director in Guyana, South America. Formerly, Dr. Hasbrouck served on faculties of medicine and public health at Emory University, Morehouse College, New York Medical College, and the University of Illinois in Chicago. He is a diplomat with the American Board of Internal Medicine, a former Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at CDC, and a primary care health policy fellow at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration. He has received numerous awards for his governmental and nongovernmental work. His knack for making health make sense has made him a much sought after speaker and change agent for healthy living.

David Holtgrave, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also co-directs the Center for Implementation Research, and is the interim director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. Dr. Holtgrave’s research has focused on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a variety of HIV prevention and care interventions (including the provision of housing as a structural HIV/AIDS intervention), and the relationship of the findings of these studies to HIV prevention policy making. He served on an Institute of Medicine panel charged with recommending methods to improve the public financing and delivery of HIV care in the United States. He also previously served as the director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention—Intervention Research and Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, Dr. Holtgrave has investigated the relationship between social capital measures, infectious disease rates, and risk behavior prevalence. He has worked extensively on HIV prevention community planning, and served as a member of the Wisconsin HIV Prevention Community Planning group. He is currently a member and vice-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Dr. Holtgrave received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1988.

Nancy Krieger, Ph.D., is a professor of social epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and is director of the Harvard School of Public Health Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. She has been a member of the school’s faculty since 1995. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist (Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, 1989), with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, and history of public health, plus more than 30 years of activism involving social justice, science, and health. In 2004, she became an ISI (stands for the citation reference service Institute for Scientific Information, known as Thomson ISI since 1992) highly cited scientist, a group comprising “less than one-half of 1 percent of all publishing researchers.” In 2013, she received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association, and in 2015, she was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship. Dr. Krieger’s work addresses three topics: (1) conceptual frameworks to understand, analyze, and improve the people’s health, including the ecosocial theory of disease distribution she first proposed in 1994 and its focus on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequities; and (3) methodologic research on improving monitoring of health inequities. In April 2011, Dr. Krieger’s book, Epidemiology and the People’s Health: Theory and Context, was published by Oxford University Press. This book presents the argument for why epidemiologic theory matters. Tracing the history and contours of diverse epidemiologic theories of disease distribution from ancient societies on through the development of—and debates within—contemporary epidemiology worldwide, it considers their implications for improving population health and promoting health equity. She is editor of Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives (Baywood Press, 2004) and co-editor with Glen Margo of AIDS: The Politics of Survival (Baywood Publishers, 1994), and with Elizabeth Fee of Women’s Health, Politics, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health (Baywood Publishers, 1994). In 1994 she co-founded, and still chairs, the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association, which is concerned with the links between social justice and public health.

Jenelle Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D., is the executive director for U.S. Policy and Government Relations at Merck & Co., Inc., and is trained as a licensed clinical psychologist. Prior to joining Merck in January 2015, Dr. Krishnmoorthy was the health policy director for the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee in the U.S. Senate for Chairman Harkin. Dr. Krishnamoorthy first joined Chairman Harkin’s team as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow

in 2003 and 2004. During 2004 and 2005 Dr. Krishnamoorthy worked at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of South Asian Affairs on health, science, technology, and environment issues with India on an AAAS Diplomacy Fellowship. Dr. Krishnamoorthy rejoined the Harkin office in January 2006 as the senator’s lead health staffer and has been responsible for the HELP committee’s legislative agenda on health reform, public health and prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and mental health issues, U.S. Food and Drug Administration issues, National Institutes of Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research, workforce issues, and all programs at agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Early in her career, Dr. Krishnamoorthy completed her pediatric clinical psychology internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown Medical School where she conducted research in the areas of childhood obesity and tobacco issues. Dr. Krishnamoorthy received a B.S. from Randolph-Macon College, an M.S. from the University of Tennessee, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Paula Lantz, Ph.D., is the associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She most recently was professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. From 1994 to 2011, she was a faculty member at the University of Michigan with a primary appointment in the School of Public Health, and affiliations with the Ford School and the Institute for Social Research. Dr. Lantz, a social demographer, studies the role of public health in health care reform, clinical preventive services (such as cancer screening and prenatal care), and social inequalities in health. She is particularly interested in the role of health care versus broad social policy aimed at social determinants of health in reducing social disparities in health status. She is currently doing research regarding the potential of social impact bonds to reduce Medicaid expenditures. Dr. Lantz received an M.A. in sociology from Washington University, St. Louis, and an M.S. in epidemiology and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin.

Phyllis D. Meadows, Ph.D., R.N., M.S.N., is a senior fellow in The Kresge Foundation Health Program and engages in all levels of grant-making activity. Since joining The Kresge Foundation in 2009, she has advised the health team on the development of its overall strategic direction and provided leadership in the design and implementation of grant-making initiatives and projects. Dr. Meadows has also coached team members and created linkages to national organizations and experts in the health

field. In addition, she regularly reviews grant proposals, aids prospective grantees in preparing funding requests, and provides health-related expertise. Dr. Meadows’s 30-year career spans the nursing, public health, academic, and philanthropic sectors. She is associate dean for practice at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and has lectured at Wayne State University’s School of Nursing, Oakland University’s School of Nursing, and Marygrove College. From 2004 to 2009, Dr. Meadows served as deputy director, director, and public health officer at the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion. In the early 1990s, she traveled abroad as a Kellogg International Leadership Fellow and subsequently joined the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as a program director. She also served as director of nursing for The Medical Team–Michigan.

Brendan Nyhan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. His research, which focuses on political scandal and misperceptions about politics and health care, has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Pediatrics, Medical Care, Vaccine, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Social Networks. He is a contributor to “The Upshot” at The New York Times (since March 2014), and previously served as a media critic for the Columbia Journalism Review (November 2011 to February 2014). He also blogs at www.brendan-nyhan.com and tweets at @BrendanNyhan. Previously, he was a marketing and fundraising consultant for Benetech, a Silicon Valley technology nonprofit, and was the deputy communications director of the Bernstein for U.S. Senate campaign in Nevada. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University in 2009 and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan from 2009 to 2011.

Ron Pollack is the founding executive director of Families USA, the national organization for health care consumers. Families USA’s mission is to achieve high-quality, affordable health coverage for everyone in the United States. Mr. Pollack’s work has been recognized through various honors. The Hill, a weekly newspaper covering members of Congress and their staffs, named Mr. Pollack one of the nine top nonprofit lobbyists. Modern Healthcare named Mr. Pollack 1 of the 100 Most Powerful People in Health Care. National Journal named him 1 of the top 25 players in Congress, the administration, and the lobbying community on Medicare prescription drug benefits. Mr. Pollack is the founding board chairman of Enroll America, an organization composed of very diverse stakeholders working together to secure optimal enrollment of uninsured people through effective implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable

Care Act. In 1997, Mr. Pollack was appointed by President Clinton as the sole consumer representative on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. In that capacity, Mr. Pollack helped prepare the Patients’ Bill of Rights that has been enacted by many state legislatures. Prior to his current position at Families USA, Mr. Pollack was the dean of the Antioch School of Law. Mr. Pollack was also the founding executive director of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), a leading national organization focused on eliminating hunger in the United States. Two of his notable accomplishment at FRAC include (1) arguing two successful cases on the same day in the U.S. Supreme Court to secure food aid for low-income Americans, and (2) the successful federal litigation that resulted in the creation of the [Special Supplemental Nutrition Program] Women, Infants, and Children program for malnourished mothers and infants. Mr. Pollack received his law degree from New York University where he was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow.

Lisa Simpson, M.D., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP, is the president and chief executive officer of AcademyHealth. A nationally recognized health policy researcher and pediatrician, she is a passionate advocate for the translation of research into policy and practice. Her research focuses on improving the performance of the health care system and includes studies of the quality and safety of care, health and health care disparities, and the health policy and system response to childhood obesity. Dr. Simpson has published more than 80 articles and commentaries in peer-reviewed journals. Before joining AcademyHealth, Dr. Simpson was director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and professor of pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati. She served as the deputy director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1996 to 2002. Dr. Simpson serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program National Advisory Council, and the editorial boards for the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research and Frontiers in Public Health Systems and Services Research. In October 2013, Dr. Simpson was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Simpson earned her undergraduate and medical degrees at Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) and a master’s in public health at the University of Hawaii, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health services research and health policy at the University of California, San Francisco. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies in 2013.

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