Contemporary Public Health: Principles, Practice, and Policy

Contributors

Contributors Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN, is president and CEO of the Public Health Accreditation Board. She currently serves as chair of the American Public Health Association’s Education Board and is past chair of the Public Health Leadership Society. She spent more than twenty years with the Mississippi State Department of Health, including five years as the deputy state health officer. She also served as dean of the University of Mississippi School of Nursing. Dr. Scutchfield is a member of the Public Health Accreditation Board. Kevin T. Brady, MPH, is a health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is the associate director for programs at the CDC Foundation in Atlanta. Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, is director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health and professor of family and community medicine at the School of Medicine, University of California–San Francisco. Dr. Braveman focuses on documenting and understanding socioeconomic and racial or ethnic disparities in health, particularly maternal and infant health. Dr. Scutchfield has long admired her pioneering work on the social determinants of health. Julia F. Costich, JD, PhD, is professor and associate chair of the Department of Health Services Management at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. She served as department chair from 2005 to 2012 and was director of graduate studies for the master’s of health administration degree program from 2010 to 2012. Before joining the faculty she practiced law in the public and private sectors and administered clinical programs. Dr. Scutchfield was responsible for Dr. Costich’s first academic appointment in the Center for Healthcare Management and Research, a precursor of the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. Connie J. Evashwick, ScD, FACHE, CPH, CAE, works at the nexus of health care delivery systems and public health. She was formerly the senior director of academic programs for the Association of Schools of Public Health. She has 278  Contributors also held positions at federal, state, and local health departments; two major regional health care delivery systems; and four universities. Dr. Evashwick has been a colleague of Dr. Scutchfield’s since their days in California in the 1980s; more recently they collaborated on work pertaining to hospital community benefit programming. Paul K. Halverson, DrPH, MHSA, FACHE, is director of the Arkansas Department of Health and the state health officer, as well as the executive officer of the Arkansas State Board of Health. He is a past president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Dr. Halverson served for nearly seven years as a member of the Senior Biomedical Research Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Drs. Scutchfield and Halverson worked together on developing the National Public Health Performance Standards Program, and both serve on the Public Health Accreditation Board. Rachel Hogg, MA, is a DrPH student in health services management at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health and currently serves as a research assistant for the Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research. James W. Holsinger Jr., MD, PhD, holds the Charles T. Wethington Jr. Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences and serves as professor of preventive medicine and health services management at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. He previously served as undersecretary of health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (1990–1993), chancellor of the University of Kentucky Medical Center (1994–2003), and Kentucky secretary for health and family services (2003–2005). Drs. Scutchfield and Holsinger are jointly responsible for the creation of the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. Richard Ingram, DrPH, MEd, is a research assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. He received his doctor of public health degree in 2010 and has been mentored by Dr. Scutchfield, serving as a graduate assistant and postdoctoral fellow in his research programs. C. William Keck, MD, MPH, is professor emeritus and past chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Northeastern Ohio Medical University and former director of health for the city of Akron. He is past president of the American Public Health Association, the Council on Education for Public Health, the Ohio Public Health Association, the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners, and the Summit County Medical Society; Contributors  279 he currently chairs the Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice. Drs. Keck and Scutchfield have been close friends for...