Dominique D. Calhoun is the managing shareholder of Calhoun Meredith, PLLC – a boutique law firm specializing in plaintiff tort-related issues. Calhoun represents hundreds of clients injured due to individual and corporate negligence. His work has recovered millions for his clients and, for consecutive years, has garnered him the distinction of being named one of …
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Paul J. Atkins
Paul Atkins is currently a Principal in the Life Sciences and Healthcare practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP within Human Capital for organizational transformation. For the first 10 years of his career at Deloitte he focused on strategy & operations for performance improvement for healthcare providers to help transform clinical operations, care delivery models, span of …
Adaeze Enekwechi, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Adaeze Enekwechi, Ph.D., M.P.P. is the CEO of Cayaba Care, a venture-backed, value-based, maternal health company focused on improving outcomes for moderate and high risk pregnant women covered by Medicaid and commercial insurance. Cayaba provides a full-suite, wrap-around services model in home, in person and virtually to supplement existing OB care with social, emotional, other …
Darrell Gaskin, Ph.D., M.S.
Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D., M.S. is the William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy and Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Gaskin is a health services researcher and health economist. He …
Keon L. Gilbert, Dr.P.H., M.A., M.P.A.
Keon L. Gilbert is a fellow at in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. He is an associate professor in the Department of Behavioral Science & Health Education at the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University and a co-founding director of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity, a center …
Joseph Salvador Palm
In 2022, Joseph Palm was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden as the Director for Region 7 of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which encompasses the states of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa and 9 federally recognized tribes. Recently, he was also appointed the Director for HHS Region 2, which …
Peggy Shepard
Peggy Shepard is co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice and has a long history of organizing and engaging Northern Manhattan residents in community-based planning and campaigns to address environmental protection and environmental health policy locally and nationally. She has successfully combined grassroots organizing, environmental advocacy, and environmental health community-based participatory research …
John Balbus, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Balbus is the Director of the new Office of Climate Change and Health Equity within OASH and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate Change and Health Equity. A physician and public health professional with over 25 years of experience working on the health implications of climate change, Dr. Balbus has served as HHS Principal …
Jeanne Conry, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Conry was President of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics from 2021 through 2023 and 64th President of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a membership organization representing over 57,000 practicing obstetricians and gynecologists. She has led guideline development and national policy on the important role of Reproductive Health and the Environment …
Franciscka Lucien
Franciscka Lucien is the Senior Director of Health Equity at the Clinton Global Initiative, where she leads the Initiative’s health work. She brings over 15 years of experience spanning global health and human rights, non-profit leadership and board governance, and advocacy and crisis management for clients across Fortune 500 companies and industries including finance, healthcare, …