Place Matters National Conference

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
CommonHealth Action
Kaiser Permanente
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC)
Questions?
Please contact
Barbara Kershaw at
bkershaw@commonhealthaction.org

Presenters (Confirmed)

Special Guest Moderator
  • Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Opinion Writer, Washington Post
Guest Speakers
  • Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Ph.D, MPA, Associate Professor, Bouve College of Health Sciences
  • Natalie S. Burke, President of CommonHealth ACTION
  • Donna Christensen, U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Gail C. Christopher, DN, Vice President for Program Strategy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Dow Constantine, King County Executive
  • Ralph B. Everett, Esq, President and Chief Executive Officer, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
  • Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D, MPH, M.Ed, Executive Director, Boston Public Health Commission
  • Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Health Economics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Deputy Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions
  • Alan Jenkins, JD, Executive Director and Co-Founder, The Opportunity Agenda
  • Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Thomas A. Laveist, Ph.D, William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy, Founding Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Professor of Health Policy and Management
  • Ngozi T. Oleru, Ph.D, Director, Environmental Health Services Division, Public Health - Seattle/King County
  • Manuel Pastor, Ph.D, Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity, the University of Southern California
  • Meghan E.T. Patterson, MPH, Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity and Social Justice at the Boston Public Health Commission, the health department for the city of Boston
  • Rolf Pendall, Director of the Metropolitan Housing & Communities Policy Center, the Urban Institute
  • Brian D. Smedley, Ph.D, Vice-President and Director Health Policy Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
  • Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director, The Praxis Project
  • Lawrence Wallack, Ph.D, Dean, College of Urban and Public Affairs Portland State University, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
  • Tim Wise, Author and Activist