National Advisory Committee

The National Advisory Committee (NAC), which consists of distinguished representatives from academia, government agencies and public policy, guides program policy, reviews scholar applications, participates in annual meetings and assists in monitoring site performance.

Jonathan M. Samet, M.D., M.S. (Chair)
Professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair
Department of Preventive Medicine
Keck School of Medicine
Director, Institute for Global Health
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Ph.D.

Associate Provost for Faculty

Frances Willard Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

Mark D. Hayward, Ph.D.
Director, Population Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

George Isham, M.D., M.S.

Senior Advisor

HealthPartners

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sherman James, Ph.D.

Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

Tené T. Lewis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Mark Andrew Nichter, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor, School of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

José A. Pagán, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Health Innovations
The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM)
New York, New York

Amelie Ramirez, Ph.D.

Director, Institute for Health Promotion Research

Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dielmann Chair in Health Disparities Research and Community Outreach

Director and Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Endowed Chair in

Cancer Healthcare Disparities and Outreach

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

Lisa Simpson, M.B, B.Ch., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.

President and Chief Executive Officer
Academy Health

Washington, District of Columbia

David T. Takeuchi, Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Dorothy Book Scholar Graduate School of Social Work
Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Steven Teutsch, M.D., M.P.H.

Independant Consultant

Los Angeles, California

Keith Wailoo, Ph.D.
Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs
Vice Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Department of History
Program in the History of Science
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey

Former NAC Members of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars

Melissa Austin, University of Washington

Christine Bachrach, University of Maryland

Martha Bruce, Weill Cornell Medical College

Robert Croyle, National Cancer Institute

Jonathan Fielding, UCLA School of Public Health

Harvey V. Fineberg, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies

David Fraser, Independent Consultant

M.R.C. Greenwood, University of Hawaii

Sherman James, Duke University

Raynard S. Kington, Grinnell College

Ruth J. Katz, Aspen Institute

James Knickman, New York State Health Foundation

Muin Khoury, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Thomas LaVeist, The Johns Hopkins University

James S. Marks, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Sarah S. McLanahan, Princeton University

David Mechanic, Rutgers University

Kenneth Olden, Hunter College

Alonzo Plough, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Susan Scrimshaw, The Sage Colleges

Teresa Seeman, University of California, Los Angeles

Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University

Alvin Tarlov, Tufts Medical Center