National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine - Framing the Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity to Advance Health Equity: Proceedings of a Workshop

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PHYLLIS D. MEADOWS (Co-Chair), Associate Dean for Practice, Office of Public Health Practice, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, and Senior Fellow, Health Program, The Kresge Foundation

LOURDES RODRGUEZ (Co-Chair), Program Officer, New York State Health Foundation

GILLIAN BARCLAY, former Vice President, Aetna Foundation

MARTHE R. GOLD, Visiting Scholar, New York Academy of Medicine

SARAH R. LINDE, Rear Admiral, U.S. Public Health Service, Chief Public Health Officer, Health Resources and Services Administration

SANNE MAGNAN, former President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

KASISOMAYAJULA VISH VISWANATH, Professor of Health Communication, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Health Communication, McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Member of the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities.

GEORGE ISHAM (Co-Chair), Senior Advisor, HealthPartners, and Senior Fellow, HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research

SANNE MAGNAN (Co-Chair), former President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

DAVID A. KINDIG (Co-Chair emeritus), Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

TERRY ALLAN, Health Commissioner, Cuyahoga County Board of Health

JOHN AUERBACH, Associate Director for Policy, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Acting Director, Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support

CATHERINE BAASE, Global Director of Health Services, The Dow Chemical Company

RAYMOND J. BAXTER, Senior Vice President, Community Benefit, Research and Health Policy, Kaiser Permanente, and President, Kaiser Permanente International

RAPHAEL BOSTIC, Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and Public Enterprise, Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California

DEBBIE I. CHANG, Vice President, Policy and Prevention, Nemours

CHARLES FAZIO, Medical Director, HealthPartners

GEORGE R. FLORES, Program Manager, The California Endowment

ALAN GILBERT, Director, Global Government and NGO Strategy, GE healthymagination

MARY LOU GOEKE, Executive Director, United Way of Santa Cruz County

MARTHE R. GOLD, Emeritus Professor, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College of New York

GARTH GRAHAM, President, Aetna Foundation

GARY GUNDERSON, Vice President for Faith and Health, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Professor of Faith and Health of the Public, Wake Forest University School of Divinity

ROBERT M. KAPLAN, Chief Science Officer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

JAMES KNICKMAN, President and Chief Executive Officer, New York State Health Foundation

PAULA LANTZ, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan