Board and Leaders
Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, RN
Dean & Patricia M. Davidson Health Equity and Social Justice Endowed Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
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Garth Graham, MD, MPH
Global Head of Healthcare & Public Health, Google / YouTube
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS
Editor in Chief, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network
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Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH
Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Chief Medical Officer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Health System
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Laura Magaña, PhD
President & CEO, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health
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John Reed, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President, Innovative Medicine, R&D, Johnson and Johnson
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Céline Gounder, MD, ScM
CBS News Medical ContributorEditor-at-Large for Public Health at KFF Health News, KFF
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Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH
President and CEO, Foundation for the National Institutes of HealthDirector, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002-2009
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Deborah Deas, MD, MPH
Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, University of California, Riverside
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Keith Yamamoto, PhD
Special Advisor to the Chancellor, Science Policy & Strategy; Vice Chancellor for Research, Emeritus; Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, Emeritus University of California, San Francisco
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Sheila Murphy is Research!America’s Vice President of Advocacy Programs and Initiatives. Sheila comes to Research!America following a 25-year career as chief legislative and policy adviser to Senators Kerrey (D-NE), Nelson […]
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Anne Mandeville is Chief Development and Membership Officer. An accomplished fundraising professional, Anne previously worked at The Children’s Inn at NIH where she led corporate, foundation and special events fundraising […]
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Senior Vice President of Strategy and Public Engagement Jenny is the Senior Vice President for Strategy and Public Engagement at Research!America, the national nonprofit medical and health research advocacy alliance. […]
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Ellie Dehoney is the Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at the nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy alliance, Research!America. Previously, she served as legislative director for Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and […]
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Michael Coburn is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Throughout his more than 30 years serving the nonprofit sector, his focus on optimizing organizational performance through strong governance, sound […]
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Cynthia Zagieboylo
Cyndi Zagieboylo is the former president and CEO of the National MS Society. Starting her career with the Society in 1985, she considers the mission to be her life’s work: […]
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Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCh, MD, MPH, FAAP
Dean, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
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Hon. Donna E. Shalala, PhD
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993-2001U.S. Representative, 2019-2021
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Michelle McMurry-Heath, MD, PhD
Founder and CEO, BioTechquity Clinical
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Jessica L. Mega, MD, MPH
Cardiologist, Stanford Health Care, Stanford University Co-Founder, Verily, an Alphabet Company
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Arthur C. Evans Jr., PhD
Chief Executive Officer, American Psychological Association
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Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD
A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor, Duke University Medical Center
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Georges C. Benjamin, MD
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
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Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, MPA
Director and Robert J. Margolis, MD, Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy, Margolis Institute for Health Policy at Duke University;Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2004-2006; Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, 2002-2004
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Sudip S. Parikh, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals
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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
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Elias A. Zerhouni, MD
Professor Emeritus Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Director, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2008
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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
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