Board Of Directors & Officers

Sudip S. Parikh, PhD*
Chair

Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals

Georges C. Benjamin, MD*
Vice Chair

Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Mary Woolley*
President

CEO, Research!America

Nancy Brown*
Treasurer

Chief Executive Officer, American Heart Association

Harold L. Paz, MD, MS*
Secretary

Professor of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine,
Former Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and CEO, Stony Brook University Medicine, Stony Brook University

Deborah Deas, MD, MPH

Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences,  University of California, Riverside

Mikael Dolsten, MD, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer and President of Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Pfizer Inc

Victor J. Dzau, MD *

President, National Academy of Medicine

Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD

A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor, Duke University Medical Center

Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCh, MD, MPH, FAAP

Dean, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Arthur C. Evans Jr., PhD

Chief Executive Officer, American Psychological Association

Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH

President and CEO, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002-2009

Hon. Bart Gordon

Partner, K&L Gates LLP
U.S. Representative, 1985-2011

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM

Medical Contributor, CBS News
Senior Fellow and Editor-at-Large for Public Health, KFF

Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD

President, Shepherd University

Hon. Rush D. Holt, PhD

U.S. Representative, 1999-2015

Karen Knudsen, MBA, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN)

Laura Magaña, PhD

President & CEO, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, MPA

Director, Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University
Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2004-2006; Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, 2002-2004

Michelle McMurry-Heath, MD, PhD

Jessica L. Mega, MD, MPH

Cardiologist, Stanford Health Care, Stanford University
Co-Founder, Verily, an Alphabet Company

Mary Pittman, DrPH

President and Chief Executive Officer Emerita, Public Health Institute

Claire Pomeroy, MD

President, Mary and Albert Lasker Foundation

Derek K. Rapp

Managing Director, RiverVest Venture Partners

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA

Dean Emeritus and Former University Executive Vice President;
Endowed Professor and Director, Center for Advanced Research Training and Innovation (CARTI);
Senior Scientist, Center for Birth Defects Research,
University of Maryland School of Medicine 

John Reed, MD, PhD

Executive Vice President, Pharmaceuticals, R&D, Johnson and Johnson

David Reese, MD

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Amgen

Amy Comstock Rick, JD

Principal, Leavitt Partners, LLC

Lewis G. Sandy, MD, FACP

Principal and Co-Founder, Sulu Coaching

Hon. Donna E. Shalala, PhD

Interim President, The New School
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993-2001
U.S. Representative, 2019-2021

Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH

Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Executive Director, Woodruff Health Sciences Center

Deborah Trautman, PhD, RN, FAAN

President & Chief Executive Officer, American Association of Colleges of Nursing

M. Roy Wilson, MD

President Emeritus, Wayne State University; Chancellor Emeritus, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center; Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Keith Yamamoto, PhD

Professor Emeritus; Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy; Director, UCSF Precision Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Cynthia Zagieboylo *

President and Chief Executive Officer, National MS Society

Elias A. Zerhouni, MD

Professor Emeritus Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Director, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2008

Herbert Pardes, MD
Director 1991-2004

Executive Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital