Appendix A

Committee and Staff Biosketches

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Marcella Alsan, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. (CoChair), is Angelopulos Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Dr. Alsan received a B.A. from Harvard University (1999), an M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health (2005), an M.D. from Loyola University (2005), and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard (2012). She trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency Fellowship and combined her Ph.D. with an infectious disease fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital (2013). Before returning to Harvard, she was on faculty at Stanford University. She is an applied microeconomist studying health inequality. Some of her recent papers include “Does Diversity Matter for Health: Experimental Evidence from Oakland” and “Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men,” published in the American Economic Review and Quarterly Journal of Economics, respectively. These papers have been cited in the New York Times and other major media outlets, and findings have been presented to the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is on the board of editors for Science Magazine, coeditor of the Journal of Health Economics, and cochair of the Health Care Delivery Initiative of Poverty Action Lab based out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the corecipient of the 2019 Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics. She served as a member on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) consensus study team that authored Improving Representation in Clinical Trials and Research: Building Research

Equity for Women and Underrepresented Groups and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Marthe R. Gold, M.D., M.P.H. (CoChair), is a senior scholar at the New York Academy of Medicine and the Logan Professor Emeritus in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine at the City University of New York Medical School. A graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine and Columbia School of Public Health, she received her clinical training in family medicine. Dr. Gold has been a primary care provider in urban and rural underserved settings. She served as senior policy advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1990–1996, where her focus was on financing of clinical preventive services, the economics and outcomes of public health programs, and health care reform. She directed the work of the expert Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, whose report remains an influential guide to cost-effectiveness methodology for academic and policy uses. Her work focuses on patient, public, and decision maker views on using economic and comparative effectiveness information to inform health policy. Dr. Gold served as chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study team that authored For the Public’s Health: The Role of Measurement in Action and Accountability, For the Public’s Health: Revitalizing Law and Policy to Meet New Challenges, and For the Public’s Health: Investing in a Healthier Future and a member of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement between 2013 and 2018. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Rinad S. Beidas, Ph.D., is chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Dr. Beidas is an internationally recognized implementation scientist leading a department that is ranked first in the nation for public health in medical schools. Using innovative methods from implementation science to advocate and amplify the needs of various communities in pursuit of achieving population health and social justice at scale, she has done work to close the research-to-practice gap in firearm injury prevention, mental health (MH), cancer care, HIV, and cardiovascular disease. Her work with the MH system in Philadelphia directly informed how the Department of Behavioral Health supports implementing evidence-based practice. She is at the forefront of integrating approaches from behavioral economics and IS, has published more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and has led to two National Institutes of Health (NIH) center grants. She is an associate editor for Implementation Science and has served on numerous scientific advisory boards. She is on the NIH National Advisory Mental Health Council. She earned the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies President’s

New Researcher Award, American Psychological Foundation Diane J. Willis Early Career Award, and Acenda Institute Research Pioneer Award. Dr. Beidas holds a B.A. in psychology from Colgate University and a Ph.D. in psychology from Temple University. She served on the Optum Behavioral Health Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board and is completing a consultation for Optum Behavioral Health. She is a senior advisor to the University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics and an advisory board member for the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic-Expansion Evaluation Advisory Panel, ETUDES NIMH P50 Center (University of Pittsburgh), and NCHATS NIMH P50 Center (Michigan State University). She is an active researcher in the field.

Camille C. Cioffi, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor at the University of Oregon and research scientist at Oregon Research Institute and Influents Innovations. Her research focuses on supporting families impacted by substance use disorders (SUDs) to improve health outcomes and prevent the intergenerational transmission of SUDs. She is particularly interested in identifying evidence-based programs developed by communities most impacted by disparities in substance use and preventing harms associated with substance use among individuals at risk for overdose. Dr. Cioffi is a member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and Society for Implementation Research Collaboration and has provided overall and domain-specific leadership on more than 10 National Institutes of Health grants. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in prevention science in 2020 and has experience as a K–12 administrator and educator.

Joseph P. Gone, Ph.D., M.A., is faculty director of the Harvard University Native American Program, professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and professor of global health and social medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard. He taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for 16 years, where he directed the Native American Studies program before joining the faculty at Harvard. An enrolled member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre Tribal Nation of Montana, he also served briefly as the chief administrative officer for the Fort Belknap Indian reservation. An international expert in the psychology and mental health of American Indians and other Indigenous peoples, Dr. Gone has collaborated with tribal communities for nearly 30 years to re-envision conventional mental health services for advancing Indigenous well-being. As a clinical-community psychologist and action researcher, he has published more than 100 scientific articles. Honored with more than 20 fellowships and career awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, he was the recipient of the 2021 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research, and 2023 American Psychological Foundation

Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Illinois, and he also trained at Dartmouth College and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gone is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Kyle Lynn Grazier, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., M.S., is Richard Carl Jelinek Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan (UM), professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, and recent director of the UM Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center. Prior academic positions include Cornell University (J. Thomas Clark Chair in Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise), University of California (UC)—Berkeley (King Sweesy and Robert Womack Chair in Medical Research and Public Health), and Yale University. Dr. Grazier received a Dr.P.H. and M.P.H. from UC Berkeley, an M.S. in engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and a B.S. from Valparaiso University. Her research seeks to understand and improve access to behavioral health care services by vulnerable populations. She conducts research on systems approaches to equitable, high-quality, culturally appropriate services through alternative models of delivery, payment, and workforce. Dr. Grazier studies and tests strategies for structural changes, coordination and integration with primary care, housing, and support services and estimates the costs of processes and outcomes. She has conducted international research in Croatia as a Fulbright Scholar and nationally with support from National Institutes of Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has served on grant reviews committees for National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, John A. Hartford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Nuffield Trust, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and California, New York, and Michigan. Dr. Grazier is on the board of directors for the Indiana University Health System. She is an active researcher in the field.

Jeffrey Hom, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.H.P., is the director of population behavioral health in the Behavioral Health Services division of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, which uses population-level and equity-driven approaches to advance the well-being of San Franciscans. A board-certified internist, Dr. Hom oversees the Office of Overdose Prevention, focusing on reducing overdoses and the harms associated with substance use. He most recently served as the medical director of the Division of Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, where he helped lead the city’s response to addiction and overdose.

He was also a board member of Mental Health Partnerships and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson College of Population Health. He has been selected as a Zuckerman Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership and a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, received an AcademyHealth Presidential Scholarship, and awarded the Common Good Award by Bowdoin College’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Hom received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his internal medicine residency at University of California, San Francisco and his fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his M.S. in health policy research. He is pursuing a Dr.P.H. as a Bloomberg Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Margaret Kuklinski, Ph.D., is the director of the Social Development Research Group (SDRG), acting director of the Center for Communities That Care (CTC), and endowed associate professor of prevention in social work in the School of Social Work, University of Washington. At SDRG and CTC, she oversees multidisciplinary staff dedicated to promoting healthy development and preventing substance misuse and other problem behaviors in young people through rigorous prevention science and dissemination of effective preventive interventions. Dr. Kuklinski is a prevention scientist and health economist whose National Institutes of Health– and foundation-funded research focuses on demonstrating the long-term impact of effective family-focused and community-based preventive interventions; partnering with communities, agencies, and services systems to implement and scale them; and building policy support for them by demonstrating their benefits and costs. She is a member of the Board on Children Youth and Families in the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies and former member of the board of the Society for Prevention Research. She received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California—Berkeley and an A.B. in economics from Harvard University.

David S. Mandell, Sc.D., is the Kenneth E. Appel Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is trained as a psychiatric epidemiologist and mental health services researcher. The goal of his research is to improve the quality of care that individuals with and at risk for psychiatric and developmental disabilities receive in their communities. Dr. Mandell’s research is of two types: the first examines, at the state and national level, the effects of different strategies to organize, finance, and deliver services on service use patterns and outcomes. The second consists of experimental studies designed to determine the best

strategies to successfully implement proven-efficacious practices in community settings. Dr. Mandell holds a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and an Sc.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Velma McBride Murry, Ph.D., is the Lois Autrey Betts Endowed Chair and associate provost, Office of Research and Innovation and University Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Health Policy at Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Human and Organizational Development at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. Her research focuses on examining the significance of context to everyday life experiences of African American families and youth with specific consideration to processes through which racism, and other social structural stressors, cascade through families to influence parenting and family functioning, quality of life, and youth developmental outcomes and adjustment, including mental and physical health. She is associate director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Community Engagement Research Core, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, past president of the Society for Research on Adolescence, and president of the International Consortium of Developmental Science Societies. She was a member of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and serves on numerous other boards and governing councils, including the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)’s Culture of Health, Foundation for Child Development, and Society for Research in Child Development. She earned her Ph.D. in human development and family studies from the University of Missouri–Columbia and was appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services to serve a 4-year term to the National Institutes of Health National Advisory Mental Health Council. Dr. McBride Murry is an elected member of NAM.

Anand Parekh, M.D., M.P.H., is chief medical advisor at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), where he provides clinical and public health expertise across the organization, including on behavioral health issues. His health care expertise has been recognized by The Washingtonian in its listing of Washington, DC’s 500 Most Influential People. Before BPC, he completed a decade of service at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As an HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the Senior Executive Service (2008–2015), he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management. Specifically, he played instrumental roles in implementing the Recovery Act’s Prevention and Wellness Fund, Affordable Care Act’s prevention initiatives, and HHS’ Multiple Chronic Conditions Initiative. He received the Surgeon General’s Outstanding Service Award for his efforts. Dr. Parekh is a board-certified internal medicine physician, a fellow of the American College of Physicians,

and an adjunct professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan (UM) School of Public Health. He serves on the National Academies Board of Population Health and Public Health Practice. His book Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America argues that prevention must be our nation’s top health policy priority. A native of Michigan, he received a B.A. in political science and an M.D. and M.P.H. in health management and policy from UM.

Lisa Saldana, Ph.D., M.A., is a senior research scientist and associate director of the Chestnut Health Systems, Lighthouse Institute. She has expertise in measuring implementation process and resource use and has collaborated to operationalize the implementation process of more than 85 prevention and intervention programs in more than 2,500 sites. This repository of data has generated knowledge regarding optimal implementation of evidence-based practice. Dr. Saldana also is an intervention developer and has produced an evidence-based integrated behavioral preventive program for parental opioid/methamphetamine use, parenting deficits, mental health symptoms, and identified social determinants of health needs. Combined with her implementation expertise, she has worked with state and Medicaid systems to create sustainable funding models to support implementation of the program in her own and other dually licensed behavioral health clinics. Dr. Saldana has been fully funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse and/ or National Institute of Mental Health since 2002 and, in 2023, received the National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative Director’s Award for Excellence in Research for her prevention program for families involved in the child welfare and self-sufficiency systems. She is a clinical psychologist by training and received her doctorate from the University of Missouri—Columbia. She was a 2011–2012 Implementation Research Institute fellow and now serves as core faculty. Dr. Saldana co-owns a small consulting LLC, Western Implementation Research and Evaluation.

Paula Smith, Ph.D., M.A., is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy at the University of Utah. She is a developmental psychologist with expertise in school-based prevention in middle and high schools. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of schools and juvenile justice systems—the school-to-prison pipeline, juvenile justice, restorative justice, and access to mental health resources. Her currently funded research projects are concerned with maximizing youth potential via evidence-based research. She is the evaluator of a 5-year suicide prevention intervention in three Utah school districts, and her most recently funded research project is a collaborative effort to develop student-led coalitions on Utah’s public institutions of higher education to

improve mental health and decrease substance misuse among college students. She is a board member for the National Prevention Science Coalition and served two terms on the board of directors for the Society for Prevention Research, of which she is a member. Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a National Institute of Mental Health predoctoral fellow and National Institute on Drugs and Addiction postdoctoral fellow.

Lonnie Snowden, Ph.D., M.A.,¹ was professor of the Graduate School in the Health Policy and Management Division in the School of Public Health, University of California (UC), Berkeley. He held affiliated appointments in Berkeley’s Psychology Department and the UC, Berkeley–UC, San Francisco Joint Medical Program. Past appointments included Berkeley’s Institute for Personality and Social Research, at the Brown School, Washington University, St. Louis and at RAND. His research focused on mental health and other health care disparities approached from treatment systems and health policy perspectives. Dr. Snowden published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed research literature. He served as principal investigator on seven National Institute of Mental Health grants and coinvestigator on many others. His awards included the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, Division 27 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Theory and Research in Community Psychology, and Presidential Citation; American Public Health Association Carl Taube Award for Lifetime Contributions to Mental Health Services Research and Steve Banks Mentoring Award; Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Award; and Berkeley Citation.

Emily Wang, M.D., M.A.S., is a professor in the Yale School of Medicine and School of Public Health and directs the new SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, a collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School working to stimulate community transformation by identifying the legal, policy, and practice levers that can improve the health of individuals and communities impacted by mass incarceration. Dr. Wang leads the Health Justice Lab research program, which receives National Institutes of Health funding to investigate how incarceration influences chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and opioid use disorder, and uses a participatory approach to study interventions that mitigate the impacts of incarceration. As an internist, she has cared for thousands of individuals with a history of incarceration and is cofounder

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¹ Deceased January 25, 2025.

of the Transitions Clinic Network, a consortium of 45 community health centers nationwide dedicated to caring for individuals recently released from correctional facilities by employing community health workers with histories of incarceration. Dr. Wang served as cochair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) consensus study team that authored Decarcerating Correctional Facilities During COVID-19 and the planning committee for a National Academies workshop on improving the collection of indicators of criminal justice system involvement in population health data programs and has presented at National Academies workshops on health and incarceration and the means of violence. Her work been published in Lancet, JAMA, American Journal of Public Health, and Health Affairs and showcased in national outlets, such as the New York Times, NPR, and CNN. She has an A.B. from Harvard University, an M.D. from Duke University, and an M.A.S. from the University of California—San Francisco. Dr. Wang is an elected member of National Academy of Medicine.

Donald Warne, M.D., M.P.H., is an acclaimed physician, one of the world’s preeminent scholars in Indigenous health, health education, policy, and equity, and a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. He is the codirector of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and Johns Hopkins Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy. He is an educational leader who created the first Indigenous health–focused M.P.H. and Ph.D. programs in the United States or Canada at the North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota, respectively. Dr. Warne served at the University of North Dakota as professor of Family and Community Medicine and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and director of the Indians Into Medicine and Public Health programs at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He served the Pima Indian population in Arizona as a primary care physician and later worked as a staff clinician with the National Institutes of Health. He has also been the health policy research director for the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, executive director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board, and faculty member at the Indian Legal Program of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Dr. Warne has received many awards recognizing his research accomplishments, educational leadership, and service work, including the American Public Health Association Helen Rodríguez-Trías Award for Social Justice and the Explorer’s Club 50 People Changing the World. He received a B.S. from Arizona State University, M.D. from Stanford University’s School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

NAM FELLOWS AND EMERGING LEADERS

NAM Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar

Lucinda Leung, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine. She is a general internal medicine physician at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System who teaches medical students and residents and cares for hospitalized and clinic patients. Dr. Leung was a first-generation college student who earned her A.B. at Dartmouth College, M.D. at Brown Medical School, M.P.H. at Harvard School of Public Health, and Ph.D. at UCLA School of Public Health. She completed fellowship through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation VA Clinical Scholars Program and was selected chief fellow for UCLA’s Specialty Training and Advanced Research Program. Dr. Leung is a board-certified clinical informatics subspecialist.

NAM Puffer/American Board of Family Medicine Fellow

Sebastian Tong, M.D., M.P.H., is a family physician, addiction medicine specialist, and primary care researcher. He is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also serves as the codirector of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho region Practice and Research Network. He practices both primary care and addiction medicine at an outpatient safety-net clinic in Seattle and conducts research in substance use, loneliness, and chronic pain. He is one of the NAM 2023–2025 James C. Puffer/American Board of Family Medicine Fellows. Dr. Tong completed medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, received an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health, and finished his residency training in family medicine at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center in Lawrence, MA.

STUDY STAFF

Alina B. Baciu, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a senior program officer in the Health and Medicine Division Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH). She has directed the activities of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement since 2013. After joining the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2001, Dr. Baciu staffed or directed several consensus study teams, including those that produced Leading Health Indicators 2030: Advancing Health, Equity, and Well-Being (2020) and the For the Public’s Health series of reports on measurement, law, and funding. She worked at the Orange County (California) Health Care Agency as a program evaluation specialist (1997–2000) and later at the Public Health Agency as a health

educator in maternal, child, and adolescent health. After earning her M.P.H. (international health) in 1996 from Loma Linda University School of Public Health, Dr. Baciu spent 1 year as training coordinator on a USAID-funded maternal and child health project in Zambia. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in human sciences (an interdisciplinary program in language, culture, and society) from George Washington University.

Alexis Wojtowicz, M.P.H., is a program officer for Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She has worked on several consensus studies and roundtables at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) on topics including improving clinical prevention research; promoting health literacy; preventing gun violence; building an infrastructure to improve wastewater-based disease surveillance; and the health effects of e-cigarettes, PFAS exposure, and social media use. Before the National Academies, Ms. Wojtowicz managed intake for a culinary job training program at DC Central Kitchen and coordinated an AmeriCorps VISTA summer associate program for Hunger-Free America. She earned a B.A. in art history from the University of Maryland and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow with a focus on adolescent health.

Madeleine Deye, B.A., is a research associate for Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH). Before BPH, she served as the editorial projects coordinator for the National Academy of Medicine, where she developed and edited discussion papers on a variety of public health topics, including systems thinking in public health, accountable communities for health, and women’s health research. She received a B.A. in English literature from Boston College, where her thesis on disability representation in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s plays won the 2021 Doherty Honors Project Award. She is pursuing an M.Sc. in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Ella Castanier, B.A., is a senior program assistant for Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She currently supports a study on women’s health in addition to this project. She received a B.A. in history from Georgetown University with a minor in medical humanities and completed an honors thesis on the intellectual history of Black psychiatry during the civil rights period. She has previously interned at Georgetown University Press on the acquisitions editorial and publicity teams and volunteered for the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, assisting with early planning for the center and reviewing inaugural fellowship applications.

Rose Marie Martinez, Sc.D., has served as senior director of the Health and Medicine Division (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice since 1999. Dr. Martinez was a senior health researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, where she conducted research on the impact of health system change on the public health infrastructure, access to care for vulnerable populations, managed care, and the health care workforce. She is a former assistant director for Health Financing and Policy with the Government Accountability Office and served for 6 years directing research studies for the Regional Health Ministry of Madrid, Spain.

Y. Crysti Park is a program coordinator for Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Before the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, she worked in marketing and sales management for more than 15 years, creating catalogs, merchandising, and production in the garment industry. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and Cornell University.