Our Steering Committee provides core leadership, strategic direction, and resources for CHC decision-making, management, and operations.
AHIP
Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP)
American Hospital Association (AHA)
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Public Health Association (APHA)
Trust for America’s Health
Kaiser Permanente
Our Advisory Council provides strategic advice, acts as a check on operational feasibility, and ensures CHC’s accountability to public health principles.
Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
J. Nadine Gracia, President and CEO, Trust for America’s Health
Allison Arwady
Former Public Health Commissioner of Chicago
John Auerbach
Senior Vice President for Public Health
ICF
Scott Becker
Chief Executive Officer
Association of Public Health Laboratories
Monica Bharel
Personal capacity
Jay Bhatt
Personal capacity
Brian Castrucci
President & Chief Executive Officer
de Beaumont Foundation
Fred Cerise
President and Chief Executive Officer
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Alice Hm Chen
Chief Health Officer
Centene
Pramod Dwivedi, President
National Association of County and City Health Officials;
Health Director, Linn County Public Health
Victor Dzau
President
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Ayman El-Mohandes
Dean
CUNY School of Public Health
Marc Gourevitch
Personal capacity
Janet Hamilton
President and Chief Executive Officer
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Sejal Hathi
Personal capacity
Chrissie Juliano
Executive Director
Big Cities Health Coalition
Ruth Katz
Executive Director, Health, Medicine, and Society Program
Aspen Institute
Nicole Lurie
Former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mark McClellan
Director
Duke-Margolis Institute of Health Policy
Judy Monroe
President
CDC Foundation
Julie Morita
Executive Vice President
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Michelle Morse
Chief Medical Officer
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Anand Parekh
Director
Bipartisan Policy Center
Courtney Phillips
Former Health Commissioner
State of Louisiana
Marcus Plescia
Chief Medical Officer
Association for State and Territorial Health Officials
Megan Ranney
Dean
Yale School of Public Health
Kyu Rhee
President
National Association of Community Health Centers
Elena Rios
Director
National Hispanic Medical Association
Nicholas Stine
Executive-in-Residence
University of California, Berkeley
Hemi Tewarson
Executive Director
National Academy for State Health Policy
Tom Tsai
Co-Director, Healthcare Quality and Outcomes Lab
Harvard School of Public Health
Lindsay Weaver
Health Commissioner
State of Indiana
Victor Wu
Chief Medical Officer
TennCare
Anne Zink
Former Chief Medical Officer
State of Alaska
Rishi Manchanda
HealthBegins
Melissa Harvey
Personal capacity
Oscar Alleyne
MITRE
Melissa Stafford Jones
Public Health Institute
M. Norman Oliver
Former State Health Commissioner
Virginia Department of Health
Members are added on a rolling basis. Click here to learn more about joining.
America’s Essential Hospitals
ABIM Foundation
AHIP
Alliance of Community Health Plans
Altarum
America’s Physician Groups
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Medical Association
American Nurses Association
American Hospital Association
American Public Health Association
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Asé Analytics
Baylor Scott & White Health
Big Cities Health Coalition
CDC Foundation
CenterWell Home Health
Central Health
ChangeLab Solutions
Chicago Department of Public Health
City of Milwaukee Health Department
City of Stamford
City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation
Council of Medical Specialty Societies
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Dallas County Health and Human Services
Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
eHealth Exchange
Fordham University
Geisinger Health Plan
Global Health Corps
Granville Vance Public Health
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
Health Collaborative Cincinnati
Health Policy Institute of Ohio
HealthBegins
Hennepin Healthcare
Henry Schein, Inc.
Houston Health Department
Humana
Independence Blue Cross
Indiana Hospital Association
Institute for Public Health Innovation
Kaiser Permanente
LA Care Health Plan
Let’s Talk Public Health
MaineHealth
Mass General Brigham
Metopio
Michigan Public Health Advisory Council
Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium
Mount Sinai Health System / Center for Healthcare Readiness
National Academy for State Health Policy
National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
National Association of Community Health Workers
National Committee for Quality Assurance
National Indian Health Board
National Network of Public Health Institutes
National Association of County and City Health Officials
Nemours Children’s Health
Network for Public Health Law
New York City Health + Hospitals
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Northwell Health
Northwest Healthcare Response Network
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Ochsner Health
Oregon Health Authority
Parkland Health
Partners In Health
PGP
Pima County Health Department
Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center (P3RC) at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health
Priority Health
Project UNITY
Public Health Alliance of Southern California
Public Health Institute
Public Health — Seattle & King County
Regional Medical Response System (RMRS), OK R6/8
RockHealth.org
Ronald McDonald House New York
Salt Lake County Human Services Dept
Sanarai
SCAN Health Plan
Sharp Health Plan
South Carolina Community Health Worker Association
The National Hispanic Health Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The SCAN Foundation
Trinity Health
Trust for America’s Health
UCare
Virginia Community Health Worker Association
Vision y Compromiso
Washington State Department of Health
Yale School of Public Health
YMCA of South Florida
Dave A. Chokshi, M.D., MSc. (pronounced Chock-see) is chair of the Common Health Coalition, a not-for-profit organization created to help ensure the U.S. health system is prepared to confront the next crisis. Dr. Chokshi is currently a practicing physician at Bellevue Hospital and the inaugural Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership at the City College of New York. He previously served as the 43rd health commissioner of New York City.
From 2020 to 2022, Dr. Chokshi led the City’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its historic campaign to vaccinate over six million New Yorkers, saving tens of thousands of lives. Before that, he was the inaugural chief population health officer at NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest public health care system.
Dr. Chokshi has held successive senior leadership roles in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. A Rhodes Scholar and White House Fellow, he is nationally recognized as a transformational leader, clinical innovator, policy expert, and fierce advocate for a stronger and more equitable system.
Dr. Chokshi earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, a Master of Science degree in Global Health Sciences from Oxford University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and Public Policy Studies from Duke University.
Chelsea Cipriano, MPH serves as Managing Director of the Common Health Coalition, a not-for-profit organization created to help ensure the U.S. health system is prepared to confront the next crisis.
The seasoned public health practitioner leads the work with chair Dave A. Chokshi, M.D., MSc., and a group of health leaders across the country with the common goal of better health for all. The Coalition is working to improve partnerships between healthcare and public health organizations so the health system can better handle the threats of both today and tomorrow.
Prior to this role, Chelsea served as Executive Director of Government Affairs and Deputy Public Information Officer (for the COVID-19, mpox responses) for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Chelsea also served within the New York City Mayor’s Office – first as a Health Policy Advisor and then as Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of Management and Budget. She has held additional roles in public health at multiple levels of government focused on policy, emergency response, and partnerships, including with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Chelsea began her career at the intersection of health care and public health in the back of an ambulance as an Emergency Medical Technician, and earned her Master of Public Health and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Tulane University.
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