The National Advisory Committee (NAC) provides policy guidance and advice to the National Program Office, Training Sites and Scholars to assure consistency with the purposes of the Program and to further the achievement of Program goals. The NAC also selects Program applicants for the final round of the selection process.
- Kaytura Felix Aaron, Health Resources and Services Administration
- Katherine Alaimo, Michigan State University
- Alex J. Allen III, Butzel Family Center
- Ronald L. Braithwaite, Emory University
- Thomas Allen Bruce, Little Rock, AR
- Denice Cora-Bramble, Children's National Medical Center
- June E. Eichner, Association of Schools of Public Health
- Stephanie Farquhar, Portland State University
- Nicholas Freudenberg, CUNY - Hunter College School of Health Sciences
- Emmanuel Price, Community Building in Partnership, Inc.
- Jesus Ramirez-Valles, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Linda A. Randolph, DC Developing Families Center
- Sarena D. Seifer, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
- Lucille Webb, Strengthening the Black Family, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
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Kaytura Felix Aaron, MD (Cornell University Medical College, 1993) is Chief of the Clinical Quality Data Branch in the Division of Clinical Quality at the Bureau of Primary Health Care. She trained in Internal Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital of NY, 1993-1996. From 1997 to 2000 she was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and W.K.Kellogg Community Health Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. As a Salzburg fellow (July 2000), she participated in a working group on"Critical Issues in Global Health." She is a 2001 US Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow. In March of 2003, Dr. Felix Aaron served as faculty for the Salzburg Seminar on "The Role of NGOs in the Health of Communities: Creative Partnerships."
Dr. Felix Aaron assisted in the development and launching of the first National Healthcare Disparities Report to the US Congress. Her research interests include improving the quality of health services and reducing health disparities for racial and ethnic minority and low-income populations. She developed an instrument for clients to evaluate community-based outreach services to manage cardiovascular diseases. She is interested in activities that develop the capacity for community-based providers and local community leader to use research to improve community health. She has worked with several low-income communities/community empowerment zones to develop their capacity to use research. Her work also focuses on community-campus partnerships and community-health services provider partnerships to promote health. She edited a special issue on community-based participatory research. She maintains a small primary care practice serving uninsured and immigrant patients.
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Dr. Katherine Alaimo is Assistant Professor, Community Nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University. She was a W.K. Kellogg Community Health Scholar at the University of Michigan - School of Public Health from 2000 to 2002. Her research interests are: U.S. hunger and its consequences for children; community food security; benefits of community gardens and beautification for public health, neighborhood social capital, and urban redevelopment; and community-based participatory research. She has published several papers on the prevalence of food insufficiency in the U.S. and consequences of food insufficiency for American children, and served as Managing Editor and Project Director for From Seeds to Stories: The Community Garden Storytelling Project of Flint, a book featuring photos and stories from community gardeners in Flint, MI. Dr. Alaimo holds a Ph.D. in Community Nutrition from Cornell University. While in Ithaca, NY, she was the founder and coordinator of the Cornell Food Project, a student organization that works with Cornell Dining to increase the use of local foods in the dining halls, and educated about the importance of a local and sustainable food system. Prior to attending graduate school, she worked as a Nutritionist for the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Alex J. Allen III has been involved in various aspects of community development and related work for the past seventeen years. Since 1990 , Mr. Allen has worked as an appointee of the mayor of the city of Detroit at the Butzel Family Center (BFC), first as the service coordinator/deputy director and since 1997, as the center's director. BFC is a multi-purpose service center housing more than a dozen family serving agencies and organizations. Mr. Allen spends a good portion of his time leveraging community resources and support, particularly in the area of community health (both medical and non-medical) and partnering where appropriate on community well-being projects. In an effort to keep the community surrounding BFC in line for needed services, Mr. Allen often acts as facilitator, bringing groups to the table who may not otherwise come together to collaborate and address community issues and maximize resources. This requires working with community groups; local, state and federal government/agencies; institutions of higher learning; public and private health care providers; faith based groups; and other community stakeholders in an effort to build sustainable and systemic progress towards addressing community issues. Mr. Allen holds a master's degree in administration.
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Lee Bone, R.N., M.P.H. is the director of the training site at Johns Hopkins University. She is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Health Policy & Management. Her current research interests include evaluation strategies and tool development in broad-based urban health initiatives which incorporate multidisciplinary approaches involving all sectors of the city (e.g., health, police, schools, housing, and employment) and community-based research. Her research is focused on adult health in African-American communities, particularly as it pertains to cardiovascular disease and related risk factors( e.g., high blood pressure smoking, obesity, substance abuse). As part of her efforts, she works with a group of faculty members from Baltimore City high schools and Johns Hopkins University Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing as well as the Johns Hopkins Hospital to provide work experience opportunities as well as to mentor high school students in health careers. With the goal of linking the two distinctly separate sections of east and west Baltimore, Ms. Bone has been part of a group that initiated a Baltimore Schweitzer Fellows Program. The Program provides volunteer service opportunities and support for health and human service graduate students through volunteer work in community-based organizations.
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Ronald L. Braithwaite, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. He received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from Southern Illinois University in sociology and rehabilitation, respectively, and received his Ph.D. degree in education psychology from Michigan State University in 1974. He has done postdoctoral studies at Howard University, Yale University, and the University of Michigan's School of Public Health and Institute for Social Research. Currently he serves as principal investigator for a community-based public health practice partnership grant funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration; an HIV intervention grant project for juvenile detainees in the Georgia boot camps funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; an HIV intervention project in adult correctional facilities funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse; and a HRSA/CDC-funded project to establish a Support and Program Evaluation Center to work with grantees for new services to HIV-positive individuals in correctional settings. Dr. Braithwaite was recently awarded a Soros Senior Justice Fellowship by the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture to conduct a national and international study on health care issues in correctional facilities.
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Thomas Allen Bruce, M.D., is a physician, educator, and philanthropist who lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. His professional career was as a professor of medicine at Wayne State University, Detroit; head of Cardiology at the University of Oklahoma; and dean of the College of Medicine, University of Arkansas. From 1985 to 1997 he served as a program director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, planning new initiatives, reviewing proposals, and monitoring projects in health, leadership, and rural development. He provided direction for the national Community-Based Public Health initiative beginning in 1990. His research covers intermediary cardiac metabolism, rural health manpower studies, primary health care, and community-driven health promotion/disease prevention. Dr. Bruce has received numerous tributes, including the Governor's Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Citizenship (Arkansas) and Special Appreciation (Kaohsiung Medical College, Republic of China). In 1995, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Since retirement in 1997, he has helped the Heifer Project International expand their programming; assisted the Arkansas Community Foundation in expanding philanthropy throughout the state by developing a set of new local community foundations; coordinated the building of a new botanical garden/arboretum; and assisted two community development corporations in expanding their human services. In 2001 he left retirement to assume the position as Dean pro tem of a new College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas.
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Professor Citrin pursued a dual career as attorney/business executive and public health activist after receiving his J.D. degree from Harvard in 1959. He has held numerous positions on state and local public health planning, policy, and advisory bodies, and chaired the Governor's Commission which developed Michigan's first Public Health Code. Professor Citrin serves as the Director of the school's Office of Community-Based Public Health, which develops and sustains community-academic partnerships to strengthen research, teaching and practice. He is a member of the School's faculty group in public health genetics, specializing in the ethical, legal and social issues arising from the incorporation of genetics in public health policy and practice.
Professor Citrin has played significant roles in developing and coordinating school-wide community-based public health programs to broaden and deepen the interchanges between SPH faculty and students and leaders and workers in community-based public health and social service organizations. These programs funded by foundation and governmental sources involve a variety of school-based and community-based activities in which students, faculty, and community members work in partnerships to identify and solve health-related problems.
Professor Citrin is the Director of the Michigan Public Health Training Center, which is engaged in strengthening the competency of Michigan's public health workforce to address current public health challenges, and is also the Director of the Michigan Center for Genomics and Public Health, whose mission is the effective integration of genetics into public health practice.
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Denice Cora-Bramble, MD, MBA is the Executive Director of the Diana L. and Stephen A. Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. The Goldberg Center is one of the six Centers of Excellence at Children’s Hospital and includes the Divisions of General Pediatrics, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Pediatric Rheumatology, Pediatric Dentistry, Child Protection, Mobile Health, seven health centers and multiple related programs. The Goldberg Center is the largest non-governmental provider of pediatric primary care in the District of Columbia, delivering 70,000 visits per year and serving an urban, multicultural population. In her role as Executive Director, Dr. Cora-Bramble leads the clinical, research, education and advocacy activities of the Goldberg Center. She manages a multi-site staff of over 140, to include more than 27 medical and dental faculty members.
A native of Puerto Rico, Dr. Cora-Bramble has been a resident of the Washington area for nearly 30 years. She attended George Washington University as an undergraduate and completed her medical training and residency at Howard University College of Medicine. As a bicultural and bilingual pediatrician, Dr. Cora-Bramble has developed successful programs to increase access to healthcare for underserved populations. Her 19 years of community-based and public health experience has facilitated her role in establishing partnerships between academic health centers and communities.
She has held several faculty positions at the George Washington University Medical Center, including Faculty Advisor and Course Director at the School of Public Health and Health Services; Executive Medical Director for Medicaid Managed Care and Community Health in the Office of the Vice President for Health Affairs; and a member of the Pediatric Medical Faculty. Dr. Cora-Bramble also served at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the Director of the Quality Center in the Bureau of Primary Health Care. At HHS, Dr. Cora-Bramble also served as Chief of the Primary Care Medical Education Branch at the Bureau of Health Professions.
Dr. Cora-Bramble is a graduate of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Leadership Fellowship and recently completed a Master in Business Administration with a concentration in Medical Services Management at Johns Hopkins University. She has served as a consultant and has traveled extensively throughout the United States, South America, South Africa, Europe and the Caribbean.
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June E. Eichner, Ph.D., received her doctoral degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health (Houston, TX) in 1986. This was followed by postdoctoral work in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (Pittsburgh, PA). Currently, Dr. Eichner is a full professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health (Oklahoma City, OK). Dr. Eichner is Co-Director of the Native American Prevention Research Center. The Center has a number of community projects in the Southwest corner of Oklahoma which use the principles of public health participatory research.
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Eugenia Eng, Dr.P.H. is the director of the training site at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. A full professor, Dr.Eng received her Dr.P.H. in 1983 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Eng is interested in the integration of community development and health education interventions in the rural United States and developing countries. Her research currently focuses on the design and evaluation of lay health advisor interventions and the influence of sociocultural factors on reducing exposure to pesticides and STDs and early detection of breast cancer. Dr. Eng teaches community organization; cross-cultural aspects of health education practices; and health issues relevant to women, ethnic minorities, and developing nations. She has established academic partnerships with communities that have historically been denied resources with which to discover new knowledge about their strengths and assets; her goal has been to use these partnerships to further the development of interventions that promote individual wellness, community competence, and social change. These interventions have addressed specific public health problems by increasing breast cancer screening, reducing the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases, and curtailing pesticide exposure for vulnerable farmworkers.
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Stephanie Ann Farquhar is Assistant Professor of Community Health at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Farquhar draws primarily from the principles of community-based participatory research [CBPR] to address issues of social and environmental equity as it relates to health. She is currently working with community organizations and local agencies to examine environmental justice issues in Oregon. Additionally, in partnership with Multnomah County Health Department and several community organizations, Dr. Farquhar received a 3-year $1.5 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] grant to examine the role of Community Health Workers and popular education in Latino and African American communities in Portland, Oregon. Prior to arriving at the School of Community Health, Dr. Farquhar completed a one-year W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Health Scholars postdoctoral fellowship and worked with rural Eastern North Carolina community members to change discriminatory local and state-level natural disaster recovery policies. Additional interests include the effects of grassroots participation on health and the role of the university in academic-community public health partnerships.
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Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, is Distinguished Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York. From 1997-2003, he was Director of the Program in Urban Public Health, an MPH program that prepares public health professionals to promote health and prevent disease in diverse urban communities. From 1988 to 1997, he served as Executive Director of the Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health, a research and action center that assists low income communities in New York City to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to improve health and well-being. Dr. Freudenberg has worked with community organizations in New York City on a variety of health issues including asthma, lead poisoning, infant mortality, HIV infection, substance abuse and others. For many years he has worked with people in New York City jails to facilitate successful community reentry and currently serves as principal investigator for REAL MEN, a NIDA funded project to help young African American and Latino men leaving jail to consider healthy pathways to manhood, and the New York City Community Reintegration Project, a policy advocacy effort to re-direct public policy from incarceration to reintegration. Dr. Freudenberg has written or edited three books and many articles.
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Richard Lichtenstein, Ph.D. is director of the University of Michigan Training Site. Dr. Lichtenstein is an associate professor of Health Management and Policy. He received both his M.P.H. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in medical care organization, and a B.S. from Cornell University in industrial and labor relations. Dr. Lichtenstein is currently the co-principal investigator of the CDC-funded Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, which is working with several community-based groups in Detroit to conduct intervention research projects. He is leading an effort to enroll uninsured children in the Community Health Insurance Program or Medicaid and to study the effects of insurance on these children’s health status and utilization of services. In addition, he is also involved in a project studying the effects of organizational structure on the performance of staff in VA long-term psychiatric facilities. Dr. Lichtenstein is also the director of the University of Michigan’s Summer Enrichment Program in Health Management (for undergraduate minority students), whose goal is to increase diversity in the public health work force.
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Emmanuel (Manny) Price is the Executive Director of Community Building in partnership Inc., in Baltimore, MD, where he oversees activities associated with building a viable working community in Sandtown Winchester. Previously he has served as the Interim Director of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, Mayor’s Center Director, Team Leader Mayor’s Special Operations Unit and Mayor’s special Assistant a position he currently holds. He has been a board member for over ten years at Threshold, Inc. a community work release facility and has served on the community advisory board of the Enterprise Foundation for the past four years. He is a product of Baltimore City Public schools and completed courses at Syracuse University, and Community College Of Baltimore.
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Jesus Ramirez-Valles, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in community health sciences in the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health. His research interests include HIV/AIDS prevention, community mobilization for health, youth health, and gender and race in health promotion. He conducts qualitative and quantitative research in both the United States and Latin America. Dr. Ramirez-Valles received his master’s in public health in May 1993 and his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received his bachelor of arts in December 1987 from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico.
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Linda A. Randolph, MD, MPH has worked to link making things happen at the community level that promote, protect and support the health and well-being of mothers, children and families with changes in public policy. She has used the vehicles of government at the federal, state, and local levels; academia; and private philanthropy to foster partnerships and institutional change that can sustain gains made for long-term positive outcomes. Dr. Randolph is a graduate of the Howard University College of Medicine and the University of California's School of Public Health at Berkeley. Her experience includes completing a pediatrics residency in Harlem; serving as the national director of health services for the Federal Head Start program; directing the New York State Department of Health's Office of Public Health; serving as executive director of the Carnegie Corporation of NY’s “Starting Points” initiative and as executive director of the National Women’s Resource Center for Substance Abuse and Mental Illness. Dr. Randolph currently serves as President and CEO of the D.C. Developing Families Center, an innovative, comprehensive, one-stop center for childbearing and childrearing families in northeast Washington. Dr. Randolph served as Clinical Professor of Community Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in NY and is currently adjunct research professor and senior health advisor at Georgetown University's Graduate Public Policy Institute. She was recently appointed to the board of directors of Children’s Futures, a multi-million dollar Robert Wood Johnson-funded citywide initiative in Trenton, NJ focusing on the healthy growth and development of children birth-three.
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Barbara J. Sabol is a program director in health at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. Ms. Sabol develops and reviews programming priorities and recommends proposals for funding. She also assists the vice president in implementing health goals and strategies. Before joining the Foundation, Ms. Sabol was president and CEO of NorthStar Group in Washington D.C. She also was commissioner for New York City's Human Resources Administration serving more than one million New Yorkers, managing a budget of more than $15 billion and over 15,000 employees. Ms. Sabol is a registered nurse with management skills in operation, budget, program, and policy development. She has held appointments in government as a policymaker, manager, and cabinet officer. She has served on the Board of Directors for the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, the largest public hospital system in the nation. Sabol gained national recognition for going underground as a welfare recipient to experience the system she administered from the client's point of view. She holds a master's degree in counseling and guidance and a bachelor's degree in psychology, both from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She received her registered nurse certification from Kansas City General Hospital and Medical Center.
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Sarena D. Seifer, M.D. is executive director of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering partnerships between communities and educational institutions that improve health professions education, civic responsibility, and the overall health of communities. She also directs two national demonstration programs of service-learning in health professions education, Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation, and Partners in Caring and Community: Service-Learning in Nursing Education. She holds a faculty appointment the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington. She is currently conducting a national study of the community involvement of academic health centers and their health professional schools. She is also working on a second study in examining the process and outcomes of a New York City-wide community service program involving medical students. In 1995, Dr. Seifer completed a postdoctoral fellowship program in health policy at the University of California-San Francisco’s Center for the Health Professions. She retains the title of senior fellow at the center and is an active collaborator on several center-sponsored projects. Dr. Seifer is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, and received her master’s degree in physiology and her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She was recently recognized for her work as a "Young Leader of the Academy" by the American Association of Higher Education.
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Lucille Webb has spent the last seventeen years as a communtiy health advocate volunteer devoting countless hours to helping others, working on boards, commissions, task forces and networking with organizations to plan, implement and monitor programs that impact health, family life and education. She is a founding member and president of Strengthening the Black Family, Incorporated, a 501 ©(3) nonprofit community-based networking organization and chairman of the Executive Committee of Project DIRECT (Diabetes Interventions Reaching and Educating Communities Together ), a CDC funded research demonstration project. She represented her community-based organization with the W.K.Kellogg Community-Based Public Health Initiative (CBPHI) and served as the first president of the North Carolina Consortium. Membership on the National Association of County and City Health Officials MAPP (Mobilizing for Action Through Planning and Partnerships) Work Group is a continuing opportunity to be a community voice for the community's health. Ms. Webb is a retired social studies teacher and personnel administrator of the Wake County North Carolina School System. Ms. Webb hold a master's degree in Education and is certified by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in Education Administration and Supervision.
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