Health. She received her M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Hygiene and Public Health and her M.D. from Anton de Kom University of Suriname and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

David L. Albright, Ph.D., M.S.W., is a distinguished research professor and the Hill Crest Foundation endowed chair in mental health research at The University of Alabama. He is committed to public policy and administrative leadership aimed at improving the health, well-being, safety, and prosperity of vulnerable populations, rural and underserved communities, and our country’s military veterans. Dr. Albright holds multiple gubernatorial appointments in the state of Alabama, with the objective of advising strategies that address the social and community conditions that could improve health, life expectancy, and quality of life, while also reducing related health care costs and productivity losses. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Dr. Albright received his M.S.W. and Ph.D. in social work from Florida State University.

Richard A. Berman, M.P.H., is associate vice president for strategic initiatives for innovation and research at the University of South Florida, visiting social entrepreneurship professor in the Muma College of Business, and professor in the Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation. He is currently an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and is a board member for Emblem Health. He is also a member of the Seeds of Peace board of directors; a board member for the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development in Abuja, Nigeria; and a board member for CATAYS, Inc. Additionally, he is vice-chair of the board of directors for OIC in Florida. In 1995, Mr. Berman was selected by Manhattanville College to serve as its 10th president. He is credited with the turnaround of the college, where he served until 2009. Mr. Berman received his B.B.A., M.B.A., and M.P.H. from the University of Michigan and holds honorary doctorates from Manhattanville College and New York Medical College

Jane Owens Cage provides practical and extensive recovery experience as an experienced community leader and entrepreneur. She currently serves as principal for Insightfive22, a consulting firm focused on long-term community recovery and resilience. Ms. Cage is an adjunct instructor at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Management Institute, teaching courses about the roles of communities after disaster. She also serves on the External Assessment Panel for the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology) at Colorado State University and on the Resilient America Roundtable for the National Academy of Sciences. Before her role as a

consultant, Ms. Cage served as chairman of the Joplin Citizens Advisory Recovery Team, a citizen-led group of more than 100 community leaders tasked with developing long-term recovery efforts for Joplin, Missouri, after the 2011 tornado disaster. Acting as a liaison among federal, state, and local government representatives, Ms. Cage and her team developed a postdisaster recovery vision that brought national recognition. In 2016, she chaired the Joplin Disaster Recovery Summit, an event attended by more than 300 people from 30 states. Ms. Cage received the Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience from the Department of Homeland Security in 2012. She received her B.A. in both economics and Spanish from Wake Forest University. Ms. Cage attended the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University in 2014 and was named Meta-Leader of the Year in 2017 by that group.

Anita Chandra, Dr.P.H., is vice president and director of RAND Social and Economic Well-Being and a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. The division also manages RAND’s Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy. She leads studies on civic well-being and urban planning; community resilience and long-term disaster recovery; public health emergency preparedness; effects of military deployment; equity, health in all policies, and advancing a culture of health; and child health and development. Throughout her career, Dr. Chandra has engaged government and nongovernmental partners to consider cross-sector solutions for improving community well-being and building more robust systems and capacity for implementation and evaluation. This work has taken many forms, including engaging with federal and local government agencies on building systems for emergency preparedness and resilience both in the United States and globally; partnering with private-sector organizations to develop the science base around child systems; and collaborating with city governments and foundations to reform data systems and measure environmental sustainability, well-being, and civic transformation. Dr. Chandra has also partnered with community organizations to conduct broad-scale health and environmental needs assessments, to examine the integration of health and human service systems, and to determine how to integrate equity and address the needs of historically marginalized populations in human service systems. These projects have occurred in partnership with businesses, foundations, and other community organizations. She is a member of the Resilient America Roundtable of the National Academy of Sciences, was a contributing author for the National Academies consensus study on measuring community resilience, and most recently served on a rapid strategic committee on COVID-19 response and housing evictions. Dr. Chandra earned a Dr.P.H. in population and family health sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

on a National Academies systematic review of the public health disaster research literature, Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Dr. Eisenman earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and an M.S.H.S. from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Carlos E. Martín (he/él), Ph.D., is an incoming David Rubenstein fellow at the Brookings Institution, having served recently as senior fellow at the Urban Institute. He will also be director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University starting fully in 2023. Across his professional roles, Dr. Martín conducts research on the physical quality of housing and communities and the policies and programs that address them. A trained architect, construction engineer, and technological historian, he connects the bricks and mortar of housing to its social outcomes. Before joining the Urban Institute, Dr. Martín was assistant staff vice president at the National Association of Home Builders for Construction Codes and Standards, SRP professor for energy and the environment at Arizona State University’s Del E. Webb School of Construction and School of Architecture, and coordinator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing. He served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Resilient Roundtable and the advisory committees on measuring community resilience, deep decarbonization, and the U.S. global change research program, as well as the Human Health and Community Resilience in the Gulf consensus study committee. Dr. Martín received his B.S.A.D. in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.Eng. and Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University.

Robert A. Moffitt, Ph.D., is Krieger-Eisenhower professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University and holds a joint appointment with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Moffitt researches the economics of poverty and welfare programs for the poor and the economics of the labor market. He is a past Guggenheim fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a recipient of a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health; he is past Chief editor of the flagship journal of the American Economic Association, the American Economic Review. Dr. Moffitt received his B.A. in economics in 1970 from Rice University, and his M.A. in economics in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1975 from Brown University.

Ronak B. Patel, M.D., M.P.H., is founder and director of the Urbanization and Resilience Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative of Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on exposing and disaggregating cumulative risks,

and developing tools and interventions to mitigate these risks to health and development. His recent work and publications include projects on disaster microinsurance for local market recovery in India, slum upgrading impacts, resilience to urban violence in Columbia, social cohesion and resilience in Haiti, indicators for vulnerability and early crisis in urban slums in Kenya, and a framework for measuring urban fragility and resilience with the United Nations University Center for Policy. Dr. Patel has led or participated in multiple expert working groups to develop policies and programs for reducing urban vulnerability, improving operational effectiveness and health outcomes, and building resilience. He currently serves on the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Health Cluster Task Force and leads the U.S. Naval War College working group on civil–military coordination in urban areas. Dr. Patel earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He earned his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he focused on international health and policy.

Deanna J. Wathington, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, is a public health practitioner and family physician. She currently serves as medical director of the Volusia Volunteers in Medicine free clinic. Dr. Wathington brings more than 30 years of practice and academic experience in the field with emphasis on collaboration across multiple sectors to address and optimize community health, equity, and diversity issues. Her work and scholarly efforts have centered on health equity, clinical–community linkages, women’s health, infant mortality disparities, equitable community development, community health initiatives, and expanding diversity within the health professions. Dr. Wathington previously served as dean of the College of Health Sciences (Bethune-Cookman University), associate dean for academic and student affairs (University of South Florida [USF] College of Public Health), and associate dean for academic enrichment (USF College of Medicine). She also served as director of the Office of Minority Health for the Florida Department of Health. She is currently an affiliate professor in the College of Public Health (USF Health) and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida. Dr. Wathington serves as executive director of the Consortium of African American Public Health Programs and is a member of the Council on Education for Public Health. She previously served on a number of national and regional committees and boards, including the National Partnership for Women and Families Listening to Mothers Advisory Group, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Partnership for Action Region IV Southeastern Health Equity Council, and the executive board of the American Public Health Association. She was awarded

the distinction of fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Wathington earned her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey—New Jersey Medical School (now known as Rutgers University—New Jersey Medical School), master of public health from Temple University, and baccalaureate in zoology and physiology from Rutgers University. She completed residency training in family medicine at JFK Medical Center, New Jersey, and Bayfront Medical Center, Florida.

Arlanda Jewell Williams, M.P.H., is a senior administrator for the Delgado Foundation in the areas of workforce development—which provides job training services and continuing education—and institutional advancement—which includes college-wide public relations, marketing, development, alumni affairs, and support services. Ms. Williams served three consecutive terms as elected representative of District 2 on the Terrebonne Parish Council, for which she has served four times as chair; she is the first female elected to that role. She is active in numerous local, state, and federal organizations; recently, Ms. Williams was appointed by Governor John Bel Edwards to serve on the Southern University Board of Supervisors and the Terrebonne Levee and Conservation Board. She is a graduate of Southern University at New Orleans, having earned a bachelor of arts in political science and a master’s in criminal justice; she is also 2014 graduate of Southern University at Baton Rouge with an executive master of public administration and is a current doctoral candidate of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Southern University.

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Scott H. Wollek, M.P.A., is a senior program officer with the Board of Health Sciences Policy at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where he serves as director of the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies. Since joining the National Academies staff in 2015, Mr. Wollek has worked on a range of projects focused on medical countermeasures, civilian biodefense, workforce resilience, health care capacity building, and other health security topics. Prior to joining the National Academies, Mr. Wollek served as senior disaster program manager at the American Red Cross in the National Capital Region (NCR). In that role he was responsible for the management of preparedness, response, and recovery programs throughout the National Capital Region, including the response to more than 500 local disasters each year. During 11 years with the Red Cross, Mr. Wollek held a variety of paid and volunteer staff positions involving local disaster response, training, exercises, plans, and operations. He served in leadership positions during

disasters and special events, including the 2009 and 2013 presidential inaugurations; the 2010 blizzard; and the NCR response to Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee, the 2012 derecho, Hurricane Sandy, and the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard. Mr. Wollek earned a bachelor’s degree in emergency health services from The George Washington University and a master’s degree in public administration, with a concentration in homeland security and emergency management, from George Mason University, where he currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the biodefense program.

Jennifer A. Cohen, M.P.H., is a senior program officer in the Gulf Research Program Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Ms. Cohen has worked on a number of projects at the National Academies, including Organ Procurement and Transplantation, Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000 and Update 2014, Post-Vietnam Exposure in Agent Orange-Contaminated C-123 Aircraft, Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids, Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities, and Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System. She was also the rapporteur for the workshop summary Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities. She received her undergraduate degree and M.P.H. from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Noel Walters, M.A., is a research associate for the Gulf Research Program (GRP), supporting the Gulf Environmental Protection and Stewardship (GEPS) Unit. Prior to joining the GRP, she worked as a data analyst improving the quality of electricity survey data for the Energy Information Administration. Previously, Ms. Walters volunteered as an “insect ambassador” in the National Museum of Natural History’s O. Orkin Insect Zoo and Butterfly Pavilion exhibits. Ms. Walters earned her B.A. in sociology, with a minor in studio art, from McDaniel College and her M.A. from The George Washington University, with concentrations in social inequality and urban sociology.

Thelma L. Cox is a program coordinator with the Gulf Research Program (GRP). She is currently providing administrative support for three consensus studies aimed to document progress toward ensuring an outcome of a safe, healthy, and resilient Gulf of Mexico over time in partial fulfillment of the charge of the GRP. Prior to joining the GRP, she was a program coordinator for the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. She also served as an administrative assistant for various boards within the formerly known Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the program unit of Health

and Medicine Division. Since joining the National Academy of Sciences in 1986, she has worked on a diversity of activities and provided administrative support on numerous committees, roundtables, and forums. She received the National Research Council Recognition Award and three IOM Staff Achievement Awards. She earned an associate of science in business administration degree from Averett University.

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