Luke Allen
Luke co-leads LSHTM’s PHC Group. He has broad mixed methods-training from Harvard, Oxford, Bristol, and MIT and currently leads international trials alongside his part-time GP work. Luke contributed to the Astana Declaration background documents, co-wrote the G7 PHC report, and has around 100 publications on primary care policy and the population-level prevention of non-communicable diseases. Luke regularly consults for WHO and the World Bank and has supported multiple health ministries in low, middle, and high-income countries. He is a board member at the British Journal of General Practice and the RCGP Thames Valley Faculty. Luke has spoken at two UN General Assembly health side events, and his work has been featured across multiple international media platforms including BBC News, NPR, Wired, Politico, China Global TV, Independent, New Scientist, Times, Economist, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Jarbos Barbosa
Dr. Jarbos Barbosa, a national of Brazil, was elected Director of the Pan American Health Organization by Member States during the 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference on 28 September 2022. Dr. Barbosa begins his five-year term on 1 February 2023, succeeding Dr. Carissa F. Etienne of Dominica, who led PAHO from 2012 to January of 2023.
From July 2017 until his appointment as Director, he served as PAHO Assistant Director, leading five technical departments and PAHO’s Revolving Fund – a special program to increase equitable access to vaccines in the region.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Barbosa led the Organization’s efforts to support Member States in reducing the impact of the emergency on priority public health programs. He also led the PAHO Task Force for COVID-19 Vaccination in the Americas and launched a platform to expand production of mRNA vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean to reduce the region’s dependency on imports during future health emergencies.
Dr. Barbosa obtained his medical degree from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. He specialized in public health and epidemiology at the National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation-FIOCRUZ in Rio de Janeiro, and holds a master’s degree in medical sciences and a PhD in public health from the University of Campinas-UNICAMP in São Paulo, Brazil. He began his professional career in 1982, working for the State Department of Health in Pernambuco, where he was later appointed Program Coordinator for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS. From 1997 to 2003, Dr.Barbosa served as Director of the National Center for Epidemiology (CENEPI) in Brasilia, Brazil, within the Ministry of Health. In 2003, he was appointed Secretary for Health Surveillance and in 2006, became Deputy Minister.
Dr. Barbosa joined PAHO in 2007 as Area Manager for Health Surveillance and Disease Management, responsible for coordinating regional activities related to the surveillance, prevention, and control of communicable and noncommunicable diseases; veterinary public health; and health analysis and statistics. He served in this capacity until his return to Brazil in April 2010. In 2011, Dr. Barbosa was appointed for the second time as Secretary for Health Surveillance and in 2015 he served as Secretary of Science, Technology and Strategic Supplies for the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
From July 2015 until 19 July 2018, Dr. Barbosa served as the Director-President of the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA), where he modernized the regulation of medicines and health products and strengthened cooperation and integration with other regional and global regulatory mechanisms. Under his management, ANVISA became the first agency in Latin America to join the International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH).
Dr. Barbosa participated as a member of the Brazilian delegation in both PAHO and WHO Governing Bodies meetings and was President of PAHO’s Executive Committee in 2013-2014 and Vice-Chair of WHO`s Executive Board in 2014-2015. Dr. Barbosa was also a senior member of several international committees and working groups, such as the United Nations Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG UN) and the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework Advisory Group (PIP Framework AD), where he served as a member and chair in 2016.
Dr. Barbosa has published numerous articles on global health, health systems management, disease surveillance, and on the prevention and response to outbreaks and epidemics. He has spoken in over 250 lectures, conferences and seminars and was a key PAHO spokesperson during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH
Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH has served as the Senior Vice President of Research and Policy for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and co-director of the Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care in Washington, DC., since 2019. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies, where he directed policy research with special interests in access to primary care, underserved populations, health workforce and training, and spatial analysis. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed publications. He also led the Graham Center’s emphasis on developing geospatial data tools intended to empower primary care providers, leaders, and policymakers and inform policy, such as HealthLandscape and the UDS Mapper, which currently helps to guides funding for all the nation’s Federally Qualified Health Centers.
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Dr. Bazemore sees patients and teaches at the VCU-Fairfax Medicine residency program, is an elected member of the National Academies of Medicine and serves on the faculties of the Departments of Family Medicine at Georgetown University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Toronto.
Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH
Asaf Bitton, M.D., M.P.H., is the executive director of Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at both the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He leads Ariadne Labs’ efforts to design, test, and spread scalable systems-level solutions that improve health care processes, enhance purposeful interactions between patients and their providers, and impact populations at scale.
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He is a core founder and current vice chair of the steering committee for the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative, a partnership that includes more than 30 countries and the World Bank, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The Global Fund, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and others, dedicated to improving the global provision of primary health care. He has also served as a senior advisor for primary care policy at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation since 2012. There, he has helped design and test three major primary care initiatives, representing the largest tests of combined primary care payment and clinical practice transformation work in the United States.
Dr. Bitton practices primary care at Brigham and Women’s South Huntington clinic, a team-based community primary care practice in Boston that he helped found in 2011. He currently serves on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Bipartisan Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the U.S., and is an elected member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety.
Frederick Chen, MD, MPH
Dr. Frederick Chen is the Chief Health and Science Officer for the American Medical Association. In this role, he leads the AMA’s work in public health, science and ethics. He is a family physician and Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, recently serving as Vice Chair and Chief of Family Medicine at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
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Dr. Chen’s teaching and research focuses on health policy and primary care education and training. At the University of Washington, he directed one of the largest family medicine residency networks, spanning five states and more than 30 programs. He also served as senior advisor in the Bureau of Health Professions at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), helping to establish HRSA’s Teaching Health Center program. He serves on several journal editorial boards and was President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
His health policy experience includes work with health insurers and state and federal government. He has been medical director for the Washington State Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative, the state employees’ Uniform Medical Plan, and medical director for physician engagement and training at UW Medicine. He recently served as consulting medical director for Hawaiian Airlines.
Dr. Chen earned a B.S. in biology from Emory University, an M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Chen completed both his residency in family medicine, as well as the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, at the University of Washington. He was also a Kerr White Visiting Scholar in the Center for Primary Care Research at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and completed a fellowship in public health policy at the University College London’s School of Public Policy.
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH
Dr. Tom Frieden is a physician trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology. He is former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. Dr. Frieden is currently President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives.
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Dr. Frieden began his public health career in New York City leading efforts that documented and ended the largest outbreak of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis to occur in the US. He was then assigned to India, on loan from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he helped scale up a program for effective tuberculosis diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring that saved millions of lives. Asked to return to New York City to become Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s Health Commissioner, he directed efforts to reduce smoking and other leading causes of death that increased life expectancy by 3 years. As Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Frieden oversaw the work that helped end the 2014 West Africa Ebola epidemic.
Dr. Frieden founded Resolve to Save Lives in 2017 and leads the organization’s efforts to partner with countries to prevent 100 million deaths from cardiovascular disease and to make the world safer from epidemics. In just five years, these efforts had prevented more than 5 million deaths.
Dr. Frieden is also Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. His essays and scientific articles provide insights on a wide range of health problems—and how to address them—in the United States and around the world.
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH
Dr. Atul Gawande is the Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the United States Agency for International Development. Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, he was a practicing surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit making surgery safer globally. From 2018-2020, he was also CEO of Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare venture. In addition, Dr. Gawande was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times best-selling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal.
Michael Kidd
Professor Michael Kidd AO is Professor of Global Primary Care and Future Health Systems at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and Foundation Director of the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales in Australia. He served as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Australia throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with responsibility for the development and implementation of the national primary care response to COVID-19. He is a past president of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a former Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Foundation Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care.
Christopher Koller, MA
Christopher F. Koller is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund and Publisher of the Milbank Quarterly. The Fund is a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health andhealth equityby connecting leaders with evidence and sound experience. Before joining the Fund in 2013, Mr. Koller served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. He has served on four National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine report committees and in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities. Mr. Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University.
Rachel L. Levine, M.D.
Admiral Rachel L. Levine serves as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She fights every day to improve the health and well-being of all Americans. She’s working to help our nation overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and build a stronger foundation for a healthier future – one in which every American can attain their full health potential. ADM Levine’s storied career, first, as a physician in academic medicine focused on the intersection between mental and physical health, treating children, adolescents, and young adults. Then as Pennsylvania’s Physician General and later as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health, she addressed COVID-19, the opioid crisis, behavioral health and other public health challenges.
Corinne Lewis, MSW
Corinne Lewis, M.S.W., currently serves as the program officer in the Commonwealth Fund’s Delivery System Reform Program. Prior to this role, she served as the senior research associate for the program, during which time she conducted research and authored publications on a variety of topics related to high-need, high-cost adults, from the impact of social isolation on the population to evidence-based models and policy solutions to better serve them. Before joining the Fund, Lewis was an analyst with Mathematica Policy Research, and held an internship at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ New York Regional Office. Lewis holds a B.A. in psychology from Boston University and an M.S.W. in social policy from Columbia University’s School of Social Work.
Roman Macaya, MBA, PhD
Roman Macaya has developed a multidisciplinary career as a biomedical scientist, businessman, diplomat, advocate, and public servant. Roman has held leadership roles in the fields of biomedical and clinical research, private equity, health care, and agribusiness. He currently serves in an advisory role to several health care initiatives and ventures.
Roman served as Executive President and Chairman of the Board of the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, the institution that provides all public healthcare services in Costa Rica. He led the country ́s health care response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to this, Roman served as Costa Rica ́s Ambassador to the United States. He was a Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow (Fall 2022) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Roman holds an MBA in Healthcare Management from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from UCLA, and a B.A. in Chemistry from Middlebury College.
James (Jim) Macrae, MA, MPP
Mr. Macrae has led the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) for more than 15 years. He manages a $5.8 billion budget supporting nearly 15,000 health center service delivery sites, which provide high-quality primary health care to more than 30 million people nationwide. He also served as the HRSA Acting Administrator from April 2015 to April 2017. Prior to his years in BPHC, Mr. Macrae served as Associate Administrator for HRSA’s Office of Performance Review from 2000 to 2006, where he oversaw the work of staff in regional divisions across the country, working to improve HRSA-supported programs in states and communities.
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Mr. Macrae has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service (2022), the Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service (2019), Hubert H. Humphrey Award for Service to America (2015), the HRSA Administrator’s Award for Equal Opportunity Achievement (2014), and the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award (2010). He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Masters of Arts in Sociology from Duke University, and a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University.
Bob Mash
Prof Bob Mash is a Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Primary Care at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is a family physician, established researcher and editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine. He is the President of the South African Academy of Family Physicians and co-ordinator of the PRIMAFAMED network in sub-Saharan Africa. He is editor of the “Handbook of Family Medicine” and the “South African Family Practice Manual” as well as the WONCA books “How to do Primary Care Research” and “International Perspectives on Primary Care Research”.
Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH
With three decades of experience in global, federal, state, association, and academic leadership roles, Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH consults with organizations to align Policy, Research, and Networking strategies to improve health, with a specific focus on public health and primary health care (PolicyPRN Consulting, LLC).
A former Peace Corps volunteer and public health researcher, Marci served as health legislative assistant for US Senator Bob Kerrey-NE, and later as health lobbyist and deputy director of legislation at the AFL-CIO in Washington DC. She taught graduate and medical students as a faculty member at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), later serving as Vice Chancellor of Public Affairs. Appointed by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Marci directed the Kansas Health Policy Authority (responsible for Medicaid, CHIP, the State Employee Health Plan, and health IT) for three years.
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For five years she served as CEO of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a national multi-sector association advocating for advanced primary care. In 2017 she launched PolicyPRN Consulting and later joined one of her full-time clients as VP for Policy & Strategy, the Government Employee Health Association (GEHA). When COVID-19 hit, Marci returned to state government service working as chief advisor for COVID-19 coordination for Kansas Governor Laura Kelly. She led Kansas’ unified testing strategy, stakeholder engagement, and vaccine roll-out. She then joined a global civil society organization founded by former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden, to help lead US advocacy efforts to invest in global and US public health and primary health care, before returning to health policy consulting full time.
Marci has a PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, an MPH from George Washington University, a BS in biology and psychology from Briar Cliff College, and is a former enlisted US Army Reservist. She has served on several non-profit health boards and advisory committees and currently serves on the AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees.
Loyce Pace, MPH
In her current role, Ms. Pace is responsible for advancing the U.S. international health agenda through multilateral and bilateral forums. Reporting directly to the Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS), she is the Office of Global Affairs’ lead on setting priorities and policies that promote American public health agencies and interests worldwide.
Ms. Pace oversees HHS’ engagement with foreign governments and international institutions as well policymaking bodies such as the G7, G20, United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and World Health Assembly. She also serves as a government liaison to the O’Neill Institute-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination & Global Health. Previously, she served as President & Executive Director of Global Health Council (GHC) and was also a member of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. At GHC, she advocated for increased federal investments in global health, in the face of budget cuts to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, United States Agency for International Development, and World Health Organization (WHO).
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Prior to her role at GHC, Ms. Pace spent over a decade working with community-based organizations and grassroots leaders in countries across Africa and Asia on campaigns calling for person-centered access to health. Additionally, she has held positions on various global and regional advisory committees and boards that focus on equity and inclusion. Ms. Pace holds a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in human biology from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in international health & human rights with the distinction of Delta Omega from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH
Robert Phillips, MD MSPH currently directs the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care which aims to create space in which patients, health professionals, payers, and policymakers can work to renegotiate the social contract. Dr. Phillips is also responsible for overseeing the American Board of Family Medicine’s (ABFM) research and related collaborations, as well as the policy relationships related to family medicine and primary care. From 2004 – 2012, Dr. Phillips was the Director of the Robert Graham Center in Washington DC. In 2012, he moved to the ABFM as Vice President for Research and Policy and in 2018, Dr. Phillips was named the founding Executive Director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care.
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Dr. Phillips currently practices part-time in a community-based residency program and is a Professor of Family Medicine at Georgetown University and Virginia Commonwealth University. He also has faculty appointment at George Washington University and Harvard Medical School. He previously served on the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education, as president of the National Residency Matching Program, vice chair of the US Council on Graduate Medical Education, and co-chair of Population Health on the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics. He served as a Fulbright Specialist to the Netherlands in 2012 and New Zealand in 2016. A nationally recognized leader on primary care policy and health care reform, Dr. Phillips was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2010 and currently chairs the NAM Membership Committee. He is a graduate of the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Florida College of Medicine where he graduated with honors for special distinction. He trained in family medicine at the University of Missouri, followed by a fellowship in health services research and public health.
Salman Rawaf, MD, PhD, DCH, MPH, FRCP, FFPH, FFPHMI
Professor Rawaf is the Chair of Public Health, Director of WHO Collaborating Centre at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician in the NHS. His medical trainings are in paediatrics and public health, and spent the breadth of his career in leading roles in the British National Health Service (NHS); including 26 years as an Executive Director: County Medical Adviser, Medical Director, and Director of Public Health. In the latter 23 years of his service in the NHS, he served as the Executive Director of Health in South-West London with full responsibility for the population health and services in and outside the NHS, from which he then moved to Imperial College as Professor of Public Health, and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, which supports several World Health Organization’s Regions and their Member States.
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Salman is a globally recognised for his international work and contribution to global health, primary care, and health systems development in research and service delivery. His work is well documented in supporting countries to strengthen their health systems, service development and medical education.
He is an adviser to the World Health Organisation and Governments; Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians London, Follow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, and a Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland. He is also involved in many national and international advisory committees. He supported many governments in strengthening their health systems through reviews and educational programmes and commissioned on many projects in the UK and abroad.
Professor Rawaf led on development of many educational and research programmes. He published over 350 scientific papers with h-Index over 75, five books and many international reports and received many awards and recognitions including in 2015 a Life Achievement Award for innovative works in shaping health services, research, and medical education. He is currently the President of the Arab Public Health Association, and President of the International Association of Medical Colleges.
Purva Rawal, PhD
Purva Rawal, PhD, is the Chief Strategy Officer at the CMS Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. As part of the Senior Leadership team, she provides guidance and leadership on the execution of the Innovation Center’s strategy.
Most recently, she was a principal at CapView Strategies, where she developed evidence-based public policy and business strategies and conducted policy research on health system transformation and sustainability issues. She was also an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University. In 2016, she published a book, The Affordable Care Act: Examining the Facts and has published book chapter, blogs, and papers on value-based care. Previously, Dr. Rawal served as professional staff on the Senate Budget Committee during the passage of the Affordable Care Act and as the health and social policy advisor to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT).
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She was also a director in the Health Insurance and Reform Practice at Avalere Health. She began her health policy career as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences and as a Congressional Fellow for the Society for Research on Child Development and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Rawal received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
Laura Sessums, JD, MD
Laura Sessums joined AHRQ as Chief Physician in August 2022 and is a practicing general internist. In the private sector, she was the Chief Care Transformation Medical Director at Anthem, focused on commercial value-based care programs, including primary care, ACOs, and episode-based payment models. Previously, she was the Director of the Division of Advanced Primary Care at the CMS Innovation Center where she developed and launched Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+), America’s largest multi-payer initiative to improve primary care. For many years, she was a clinician-educator at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (as a civilian) and served as the Chief of the General Medicine Section. She has been very active in health care policy and advocacy, and her research has focused on primary care, particularly transformation challenges, and ethical and legal domains. She is a former lawyer.
Mikel Severson
Mikel Severson serves as the Center Administrator for Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care. Mikel started her career in the Intellectual Property field, primarily focused on Patent Prosecution. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in History from Salisbury University. Aside from her work with the CPVHC, she is a mother of three, an avid runner, NFL fanatic, and a podcast enthusiast. Mikel resides in Annapolis, MD with her husband, three children and two giant Great Danes.
Dr. Anna Stavdal
Dr. Anna Stavdal is an esteemed Family Doctor based in Oslo, Norway, where she has been providing compassionate care to patients since 1989. In addition to her clinical practice, she holds the position of Associate Professor at Oslo University, where she actively contributes to the education and training of future healthcare professionals. With primary areas of interest in health systems and the core values of family medicine, she is a passionate advocate for family medicine and primary care and she actively engages in public debates, sharing her expertise through columns and speaking engagements.
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Dr. Stavdal’s leadership roles within family medicine organizations since 1994 demonstrate her commitment to advancing the field on various levels. She has held influential positions in Norwegian, Nordic, European, and global family medicine organizations. Notably, Dr. Stavdal has assumed the prestigious position of President of the World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA) since November 2021. Her role as the head of this global organization underscores her ability to shape and guide initiatives that promote family medicine worldwide.
Ian Williams, PhD, MS
Ian Williams, PhD, MS is Deputy Director for the Office of Readiness and Response (ORR).
Dr. Williams is a nationally and internationally recognized subject matter expert in the epidemiology, prevention, control, and public health emergency response to enteric diseases.
In his 30 years’ experience he has demonstrated the ability to lead, direct, and manage public health emergency responses. He has served in leadership roles in a number of major responses where the CDC Emergency Operation Center has been activated, including most recently as a Deputy Incident Manager for the COVID-19 response.
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Dr. Williams earned a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and a Master of Science degree in Preventive Medicine from the Ohio State University. Dr. Williams is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.