Joan Miles, JD (Chair)
Former Director, Montana Department of Health & Human Services – State Health Official

Lillian Shirley, RN, MPH, MPA (Vice-Chair)
Director, Multnomah County Health Department

Hans Schmalzried, Ph.D. (Secretary/Treasurer)
Associate Professor of Public Health
Bowling Green State University

Kim E. Barnhill, MS, MPH
Administrator
Jefferson/Madison County (FL) Health Department

Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN (Chair)
Alumni Endowed Professor of Nursing
Dept. of Psychosocial and Community Health
University of Washington School of Nursing
Seattle, Washington

Paul Campbell Erwin, MD, DrPH
Professor and Director
University of Tennessee @Knoxville
Center for Public Health

Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH
Professor and Associate Dean for Health Policy
Emory School of Medicine

Tom Mosgaller
Director of Change Management/NIATx
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rachel H Stevens, EDd, RN
(Retired) Clinical Professor and Senior Advisor to the Director
The North Carolina Institute for Public Health

Kathy Vincent, MSW
Staff Assistant to the State Health Officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health

Harvey Wallace, Ph.D.
Head
Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
Northern Michigan University

Joan Miles
Joan Miles was appointed by Governor Brian Schweitzer in September 2005 to oversee the Department of Public Health and Human Services and its 3,000 employees, 2,500 contracts, 5 state institutions and 150 major programs. DPHHS is the largest agency of state government in Montana, with a biennial budget of approximately $4 billion.

Prior to her appointment, Miles served for 18 years in the Lewis and Clark City-County Health Department in Helena, the last 11 as director of the department. Earlier in her career, she worked as a law clerk for the Montana Supreme Court and served two terms in the Montana Legislature as a representative of central Helena.

Miles has a bachelor's degree in medical technology from State University of New York at Albany, a master's degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana in Missoula, and a law degree from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. She is licensed to practice law in Montana and California.

Prior to this Cabinet appointment, Miles served for several years on Montana’s Public Health Improvement Task Force and Public Health Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council. She was also past chair of the Tobacco and Chronic Disease Advisory Committee for the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) and currently works with several Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) policy committees. Miles is a faculty member for Montana’s annual Summer Public Health Institute (Public Health Law and Policy Class) and is a frequent presenter on topics such as legal roles and responsibilities of local boards of health, tobacco control policy, and legal issues pertaining to isolation and quarantine. In 2003, Miles received distinguished service awards from both the Montana Public Health Association and the Montana Environmental Health Association.

When not in her office on the Capitol complex, you will find her hiking in the mountains or fly fishing on Montana’s rivers.

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Lillian Shirley provides public health leadership in collaboration with community partners to address the county’s health needs, and offers health policy leadership on both a county and state level. Early in her career, Ms. Shirley served as the executive director for Medical Aid for Indochina, a non-profit medical relief organization. Following completion of her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Ms. Shirley worked for the City of Boston Division of Public Health. Shirley served as Director of Joint Maternity Programs for Boston University Medical Center and the City of Boston’s Department of Health and Hospitals. As Director of Public Health, Ms. Shirley was responsible for all preventive and community-based health services. After participating in the merger of Boston’s public hospital with Boston University’s medical center, Ms. Shirley became the interim Commissioner of the newly formed Boston Public Health Commission. In this role, she had executive responsibility for the establishment, design, and organization of the new public health authority in Boston. Shirley received a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Medicine and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Community and professional activities include, member of the Board of CareOregon, the Managed Care Medicaid Plan for Oregon, Community Health Partnerships, National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Center for Women’s Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Public Health Foundation, OHSU School of Medicine Dept of Community Medicine Adjunct Faculty and OHSU School of Nursing, Adjunct Faculty.

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Dr. Hans Schmalzried received his Bachelor of Education from the University of Toledo in 1978. He received a Masters Degree of Science and Education in Public Health in 1982. Dr. Schmalzried earned his doctoral degree in public health administration from the University of Toledo in 1990. He is a 1996 – 1997 graduate of the Centers for Disease Control and University of California Public Health Leadership Institute.

Dr. Schmalzried was recently appointed as a full-time Associate Professor of Public Health at Bowling Green State University. For the past 19 years, he served concurrently as Health Commissioner for two county health districts (Fulton County and Henry County, Ohio). While there, he led a staff of more than 90 providing both traditional public health services and innovative programs including Home Health, Hospice, a regional dental center, and a mobile migrant medical services project. Between the two health districts he managed an annual budget worth over six million dollars. Prior to being a health commissioner, he spent seven years with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA), at first as an Environmental Scientist and then as a Certified Environmental Engineer.

Dr. Schmalzried had an appointment as part-time Assistant Professor of Public Health at Bowling Green State University since 1997. In that capacity he taught classes for the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health Master of Public Health Degree Program. He also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment with the Medical University of Ohio School of Nursing.

For the past seven years he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Henry County Hospital Board. He also served as chairman of the same hospital’s strategic planning committee. He was elected and served as a board of director for the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners.

He is a member of the American Public Health Association and National Association of City and County Health Officials. He has been a Registered Sanitarian in the State of Ohio for over 20 years.

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Kim E. Barnhill is the Administrator of the Jefferson and Madison County Health Departments in North Florida. In this role, she has focused on increasing access to dental care; linking Smart Growth principles to public health initiatives; enhancing health care career opportunities for local high school students; and increasing the availability of indoor and outdoor physical activity opportunities. Prior to this position, she served as the Director of Statewide Services in Florida’s State Health Office helping to oversee all 67 county health departments and the Institutional Review Board. Her past experience includes directing the statewide Office of Volunteer Services and promoting dental health and fluoridation in the Public Health Dental Program of the Florida Department of Health.

Ms. Barnhill serves on the Board of Directors for NACCHO as well as the Partnership for Prevention’s National Commission on Prevention Priorities. She is a liaison to CDC’s U.S. Taskforce on Community Preventive Services. Additionally, she is the Past President of the Florida Association of County Health Officials and past Chair of the Big Bend Rural Health Network. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Health Education, a Master’s degree in Adult Education and Gerontology and a Master’s of Public Health.

Being the Health Officer in the only county in Florida without a stop light has allowed Barnhill to focus her Public Health efforts in a true rural setting. The Health Disparity Task Forces that she helped to create in both counties have worked to address the numerous disparate health issues that confront many rural communities across the country.

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Dr. Berkowitz, a distinguished leader in nursing and public health, comes to us from the University of Washington, where she is the Alumni Endowed Professor of Nursing, adjunct professor in the School of Public Health and previously served as chair of the Department of Psychosocial and Community Health. Dr. Berkowitz led the National Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Turning Point Initiative as director and principal investigator. Prior to joining the University of Washington, Dr. Berkowitz held leadership positions in both state and local government, as deputy secretary in the Washington State Department of Health, and as chief of nursing for the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health.

“Dr. Berkowitz received her PhD in nursing science from Case Western Reserve University and her Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in nursing from the University of Washington. She is an elected member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine, a member of the board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, as well as a member of the Academy’s Board of Directors. Dr. Berkowitz currently chairs the board of trustees of Group Health Cooperative. In addition to serving on the board for several journals, she also is the author of books on public health nursing leadership, nursing management, and communications in health care organizations.

“Dr. Berkowitz’s research focuses on health policy and public health system reform, primarily at the state level, as well as systems-level efforts to eliminate health disparities. Her scholarship is directly informed by her rich firsthand knowledge of the politics of policy creation and implementation, as well as by her experience in building public health systems.

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Dr. Paul Erwin is Professor and Director of the Center for Public Health at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The Center’s mission is “to bring together resources related to public health across the University that expand capacity for teaching, research, and outreach collaborations and encourage partnerships with local, regional, and state public health systems”. In addition to directing the Center, Dr. Erwin teaches epidemiology and health policy in the University of Tennessee’s nationally accredited MPH Program.

Before joining the University of Tennessee, Dr. Paul Erwin worked with the Tennessee Department of Health for 16 years, the last 12 years as Director of the East Tennessee Regional Health Office. During that time Dr. Erwin focused extensively on community-based health assessment and planning, engaging local County Health Councils, and faculty and students at the University of Tennessee. He was a member (and later Chair) of the national work group which produced MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships), including the Local Tool of the National Public Health Performance Standards Program. Prior to serving with the Tennessee Department of Health Dr. Erwin spent two years as a Fellow in International Health at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. Dr. Erwin completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the South (Sewanee), his M.D. at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, M.P.H. at the Johns Hopkins University, and DrPH at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill.. He is boarded in internal medicine and public health and preventive medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Erwin serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice; the Scientific Advisory Committee for America’s Health Rankings; the Research and Evaluation Committee of the Public Health Accreditation Board; and the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Institute of Public Health. His research interests are in the emerging field of public health systems and services, focusing on local and state health departments and population health outcomes.

The Center for Public Health is housed in the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences in the Bailey Education Complex. The Center for Public Health reports to a Board of Deans, representing six Colleges/Institutions at the University of Tennessee, and is guided by an Advisory Committee that represents an even broader engagement with faculty, the public health practice community, and key community partners. The ultimate goal of the Center for Public Health is to assure the necessary capacities and capabilities that will allow for the establishment of a College of Public Health at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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Arthur L. Kellermann is Professor and Associate Dean for Health Policy at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Before becoming an Associate Dean, he was founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory School of Medicine and founding Director of the Emory Center for Injury Control, a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Injury Control and Emergency Health Services. He practices and teaches emergency medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta’s public hospital and the only level 1 trauma center serving a regional population of more than 5 million people.

Dr. Kellermann’s research focuses on injury prevention, emergency cardiac care, and health services for the poor and the uninsured. He holds career achievement awards from two disciplines: the John G Wigenstein and Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Awards from the American College of Emergency Physicians and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, respectively, and the Excellence in Science Award from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association. In 2001, he received Emory University’s Scholar/Teacher Award, and in 2005, he received the university’s Charles Hatcher Award for Excellence in Public Health.

Dr. Kellermann has published over 200 scientific and lay publications on topics ranging from emergency cardiac care to health policy. He has served as PI on grants or contracts from 5 different federal agencies, including the NIH, AHRQ, the CDC, NHTSA and the National Institute of Justice. He has received numerous honors, including “excellence in science” awards from two fields – emergency medicine and public health. Elected in 1999 to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, Dr. Kellermann co-Chaired the IOM Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, which issued 6 reports on this topic between 2001 and 2004. He has also served on other IOM Committees and an IOM Board. In 2007, while on sabbatical from Emory as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, he worked as a member of professional staff of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives. He returned to Emory in January of 2008 to assume his current role.

An alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Dr. Kellermann earned his M.P.H. degree from the University of Washington in 1985, his M.D. degree from Emory University in 1980, and his B.S. degree, with distinction, from Rhodes College in 1976. His is board certified in the specialties of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine.

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Tom Mosgaller has over 25 years of experience in organizational and community development as a manager, teacher, and consultant to the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Tom’s passion lies in assisting communities, organizations and individuals to come together to create great places to work, learn, and grow.

Mr. Mosgaller served as the City of Madison’s Director of Organizational Development and Training for thirteen years. During his tenure, the City of Madison’s Quality Management work received worldwide recognition as a pioneering effort and was recognized by the American Society for Quality. In 2000 he was recruited to join Marshall Erdman & Associates as Vice President of Organizational Development and Human Resources. At Erdman he provided leadership for human resources, quality management, organizational development and corporate training and development.

In 2006 Tom joined the staff of NIATx (The Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment Services) in the School of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin as Director of Change Management. The staff of NIATx works to improve the delivery of community based health services including drug/alcohol treatment, mental health, and other related services.

He is past President and Chairman of the Board of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and has served as a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner and Judge for the Wisconsin Forward Award. In addition Tom has served as adjunct faculty for the University of Wisconsin School of Business - Management Institute, Northwestern University’s Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, and the McLaren School of Business of the University of San Francisco.

Tom began his career as a community organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) Saul Alinsky Institute where he worked with local communities in building broad based citizen organizations in both urban and rural areas of the U.S. This experience, combined with his private and public sector leadership experience and academic credentials, make Tom Mosgaller uniquely qualified to address issues of organizational change.

Mr. Mosgaller has a master’s degree from Notre Dame School of Business specializing in the area of human and process management along with a Certificate in Strategic Human Resource Management from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). His undergraduate degree is from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Tom is an avid recreational athlete and conservationist focused on sustainable forestry. He has been married for 27 years and has two children.

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Rachel H. Stevens earned a bachelor's degree in Nursing and a master's degree in Nursing Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a doctorate in Education from North Carolina State University. Dr. Stevens has over twenty years of experience and leadership in public health practice at the state and local level. She has served as Assistant Chief of Public Health Nursing for the State of North Carolina, and as President of the North Carolina Association of Local Boards of Health. She is currently a member of a local board of health. At the UNC School of Public Health she has served as Chair of the Public Health Nursing Program, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Practice and Leadership, and Director of the Center for Public Health Practice. Most recently she has served as Deputy Director of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, where she managed public health continuing and outreach education, facilitated the School's technical assistance and consultation to public health practitioners, and directed public health research projects.

Dr. Stevens' primary areas of interest include public health and public health nursing practice and leadership, public health workforce development and training, and health care access and management.

The North Carolina Institute for Public Health has been fortunate to have leaders attentive to its purpose.

William Roper, then dean of the School of Public Health, launched the Institute in 1999 "to truly make a lasting impact on the state of health and health care in North Carolina." Of the Institute's beginnings, Dr. Janet Porter, former associate dean for executive education, says, "Of course, this was Bill Roper's idea but he really left Rachel Stevens to execute."

Stevens, the Institute's first deputy director and a clinical professor of nursing and public health leadership, called the Institute of Medicine's report on The Future of Public Health the motivator for Dr. Roper's vision with its emphasis on a closer relationship between schools of public health and practice. "He wanted the School to continue its relationship to the field while keeping abreast with academia. I am particularly proud of NCIPH maintaining a scholarly focus but relating it to the needs of those in practice," says Stevens.

Stevens points out that the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health was the first to have a practice institute as a structured part of the School. "Besides Bill Roper's national reputation, I think our leadership in the Hurricane Floyd disaster, really only a month after the Institute was named, helped establish us in North Carolina and within the School as an organization that got things done for our public health people in the field." The Institute actually "deployed" to the flooded counties in the eastern part of the state to help with assessments and environmental health control.

Stevens and Porter both recognize the current director Dr. Ed Baker for expanding the Institute and bringing it greater national and international attention while maintaining its service mission to North Carolina.

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Kathy C. Vincent has diverse staff duties as Staff Assistant to the State Health Officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health. She analyzes management/operational issues, assists in the development of agency directions, resolves agency/staff issues or questions, and analyzes and develops agency response to federal/state legislation - current and proposed. She has line responsibility for the Bureau of Home and Community Services; the Office of Professional and Support Services which includes Public Health Nursing, Nutrition, Social Work, Workforce Development, Management Support, Women’s Health and Pharmacy; and the Office of Children’s Health Insurance. She is active in the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and is the past chair of the Public Health Leadership Society. Ms. Vincent received her undergraduate degree from the University of Montevallo and holds an MSW from the University of Alabama. She is also a member of the National Academy of State Health Policy.

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Harvey Wallace, PhD, joined the faculty of Northern Michigan University as a professor of school and community health in August 1978. He was appointed Interim Department Head in 1999 and Department Head in 2000. In 2002, Dr. Wallace was recognized by the university with the Distinguished Faculty Award for his service to his profession.

In 1987, Dr. Wallace was appointed to the Marquette County Board of Health and has continued to this day. As a member of his local board of health, other opportunities to serve local public health soon appeared. Dr. Wallace was elected in 1995 to the board of directors of the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) and served as its president in 2001. He was elected to serve as president of the Michigan Association for Local Public Health (MALPH) in 2003 and continues as a member of its executive committee.

Dr. Wallace was elected commissioner to the Marquette County Board of Commissioners in 1999 and continues to serve as an elected official.

As a representative of NALBOH, Dr. Wallace has participated in the development of several important public health documents including the following: the National Public Performance Standards – Governance Tool (CDC-PHPPO); Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Toolkit (NICDR); Framework for Community Oral Health Programs (ASTDD); and the Operational Definition of a Functional Local Health Department (NACCHO). Dr. Wallace is a member of the Exploring Accreditation Steering Committee, which will prepare a model for a voluntary accreditation system of state and local public health departments (NACCHO/ASTHO). He has been a member of the Michigan Local Public Health Accreditation Commission since its inception in 1999.

Dr. Wallace is the recipient of the Victor M. Hawthorne New Investigator Research Grant Award in Health Promotion, the NALBOH 2001 Leadership Award, the Michigan Public Health Association 2002 Public Service Award, the CDC/Public Health Practice Program Office 2002 Exemplary Service Award, and the MALPH 2004 President's Award.

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