At a glance
The Health Equity Workgroup makes recommendations on CDC's CORE strategy to the Advisory Committee to the Director.
About the Health Equity Workgroup
The Health Equity Workgroup (HEW) provides input to the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), CDC, on agency-wide activities related to the scope and implementation of CDC's CORE strategy.
CORE is an acronym for:
- Cultivate comprehensive health equity science,
- Optimize interventions,
- Reinforce and expand robust partnerships, and
- Enhance capacity and workforce diversity and inclusion
The HEW is composed of both ACD members and those selected through an open application process. The members are subject matter experts in public health science and practice and policy development, analysis and implementation, as well as health equity. As such, the HEW assists the ACD, CDC in its development of advice and recommendations to CDC regarding the effective execution of its health equity strategy, ultimately influencing the agency's internal operations as well as its work with state, local, tribal and territorial public health agencies and other constituents and partners.
Health Equity Workgroup Full Report - Task Areas 1, 2, 3
Health Equity Workgroup Members
Name
Organization
Title
Daniel Dawes, JD
HEW Co-Chair
Meharry Medical College
Senior Vice President, Global Health
Executive Director, Global Health Equity Institute
Founding Dean, School of Global Public Health
Monica Valdes Lupi, JD, MPH
HEW Co-Chair
The Kresge Foundation
Managing Director of Health Program
Adaora Alise Adimora, MD, MPH
University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine
Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor
Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor in Medicine
David Fleming, MD
University of Washington School of Public Health
Clinical Associate Professor
Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management
Rhonda Medows, MD
Providence Population Health
President of Population Health Management
Julie Morita, MD
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Executive Vice President
Octavio Martinez Jr., MD, MPH, MBA, FAPA
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health/University of Texas (Austin)
Executive Director
Philip Alberti, PhD
Association of American Medical Colleges
Founding Director
David Brown, MBA
YMCA
President and CEO
Nafissa Cisse Egbuonye, PhD, MPH
Molina Healthcare
Associate Vice President of Growth and Community Engagement
Cary Fremin, BS
Dot Lake Village Council, Dot Lake Village
Director of Health and Social Services
Delmonte Jefferson, BS
Center for Black Health & Equity
Executive Director
Maria Lemus, BA
Visión y Compromiso and Network of Promotoras Community Health Workers
Founding Executive Director
Mysheika Roberts, MD, MPH
Department of Public Health – Columbus, Ohio
Public Health Commissioner
Bonnielin K. Swenor, PhD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center
Founder and Director
Paula Tran, MPH
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
State Public Health Officer
G. Robert Watts, MPH, MS
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Chief Executive Officer