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

Muin J. Khoury, M.D., Ph.D.

Director

Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, Georgia

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