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.
Independant Consultant
Columbia, MD

Ruth J. Katz , J.D., M.P.H.
Chief Public Health Counsel
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC

Muin Khoury, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Office of Public Health Genomics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA

James R. Knickman, Ph.D.
President and CEO
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

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D., L.H.D. 
Founding Dean, School for Public Health 
Hunter College 
New York, New York

José A. Pagán, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Management and Policy School of Public Health
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth, Texas

Alonzo L. Plough, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response Program
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Los Angeles, California

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

Susan Scrimshaw, Ph.D.
President 
The Sage Colleges 
Troy, New York 

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