It’s once again time to see where your contacts in the world of health philanthropy have come and where they have gone and “meet” some new staffers!
The United Hospital Fund has elected Lori Evans Bernstein to its board. She is cofounder and chief operating officer of HealthReveal, a new digital health company that aims to reinvent “the way chronic disease is diagnosed and treated,” according to a press release. Bernstein is a former deputy commissioner of the New York State Department of Health and a former senior adviser at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She also worked for Manatt Health Solutions, where her title was founding managing director.
Kelly Dunkin has resigned from the Colorado Health Foundation, where she most recently served as vice president, philanthropy. She left the foundation in late May to move with her family to Lima, Peru. Dunkin had been with the foundation in various positions since 2004, according to her LinkedIn page. Amy Latham is serving as interim vice president, philanthropy, at the Denver-based funder.
Mark Gibson retired in June from the Milbank Memorial Fund, where he had been a program officer since 2003. He has also retired as codirector of the Center for Evidence-Based Policy at Oregon Health and Science University; he is now director emeritus and serves in an advisory capacity. Gibson was a founding member and cochair of the Reforming States Group.
Read a 2006 Health Affairs article coauthored by Mark Gibson: The Drug Effectiveness Review Project: An Important Step Forward.
I caught up with Shelley Hearne, whom you may remember from her days at the Pew Charitable Trusts. She has been executive director of the Forsythia Foundation for some eighteen months. On a part-time basis, she also directs a program called the Big Cities Health Coalition, which is funded by the de Beaumont Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And Hearne continues to be a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Whew—she is a busy person.
Read a Health Affairs GrantWatch article by Shelley Hearne and Laura Segal, which appeared in the July/August 2003 issue: Leveraging the Nation’s Anti-Bioterrorism Investments: Foundation Efforts to Ensure a Revitalized Public Health System.
The Colorado Trust has named Kristin Jones as its assistant director of communications. Previously, she was the health reporter at Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Other previous positions she has held include being a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Mark B. McClellan was appointed to the boards of both the West Health Institute, in La Jolla, California, and the West Health Policy Center, in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. The institute is funded by the Gary and Mary West Foundation, along with personal contributions from the Wests. The center is funded solely by the foundation, according to its website. McClellan, who is also on the Health Affairs editorial board, is now with the Brookings Institution, where he is director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative and is a senior fellow in economics. McClellan is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
Marta McKenzie was among those appointed to the board of directors of the California Endowment. An independent consultant who works with Kemper Consulting Group and other health-related groups, McKenzie worked for the Shasta County (California) Public Health Department for twenty-five years. Her positions there included director of health and human services from 2006 to 2012. She holds a master’s in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.
Walker Ray has been elected president of the board of directors of the Physicians Foundation, which is based in Boston. Ray is a retired pediatrician with more than four decades of experience practicing medicine in Georgia and is a former president of the Medical Association of Georgia. The mission of the Physicians Foundation is “to empower physicians to lead in the delivery of high-quality, cost-efficient healthcare,” according to its website. It pursues its mission through various activities, including grant making, research, and policy studies.
Nohemi Rubio, an associate program officer at the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, in El Paso, Texas, has been selected to participate in the US–Mexico Border Health Commission’s 2015 Leaders Across Borders program. She is one of eleven people across the country who were chosen for this advanced leadership program. Aims include gaining “an in-depth understanding of public health systems” and dynamics characterizing the border region, the foundation’s website said.
Jocelyn Sargent has been named the new evaluation program officer at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, located in Austin, Texas. She was previously a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she focused her work on statewide (across Michigan) programs “targeting the elimination of racial disparities and improving conditions for marginalized communities,” according to the Hogg Foundation’s website. Sargent holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan.
Speaking of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, I see that Patrick Simpson has received a promotion at the foundation. He is now director of its Food, Health, and Well-being grants portfolio. Previously, he was a program officer who led the foundation’s Maternal and Child Health program work.
Natalia Valenzuela Swanson joined the staff of the Mary Black Foundation as the program specialist for the foundation’s focus area called Healthy Eating/Active Living. The foundation is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Swanson is a native of Ecuador.
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