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.

Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., M.P.P., Ph.D. (Chair)
President
Institute of Medicine of The National Academies
Washington, D.C.

Christine A. Bachrach, Ph.D.
Chief, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Bethesda, Maryland

David W. Fraser, M.D.
Independent Consultant
Yardley, Pennsylvania

Ruth J. Katz , J.D., M.P.H.
Dean, School of Public Health and Health Services
Walter G. Ross Professor of Health Policy
The George Washington University
Washington, DC

James R. Knickman, Ph.D.
President and CEO
The New York State Health Foundation
New York, New York

Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Health Disparities Solutions
The Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Sara S. McLanahan, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

David Mechanic, Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D., L.H.D.
Section Chief, Metastasis Group
Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Alonzo L. Plough, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Vice President, Program, Planning and Evaluation
The California Endowment
Los Angeles, California

Susan C. Scrimshaw, Ph.D.
President
Simmons College
Boston, Massachusetts

Teresa Seeman, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Alvin R. Tarlov, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Pritzker School of Medicine
Chicago, IL