National Advisory Committee

Members of our National Advisory Committee have been drawn from most of the identified stakeholder groups in order to help us identify new strategies for expanding access to health insurance and coverage, identify research priorities and tailor technical assistance and dissemination activities to different audiences.

Chair: Josie Thomas, Executive Director
The Parents’ Place of Maryland

Suzanne Bronheim, Ph.D, Senior Policy Associate
National Center for Cultural Competence

Stephen Fitton, Director
Bureau of Medicaid Policy and Actuarial Services in the Medical Services Administration, Michigan Department of Community Health

V. Fan Tait, MD, FAAP, Director
Department of Community and Special Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics

Patti Hackett, ME.d, Co-Director
Healthy and Ready to Work National Center

Carol Hassler, M.D., Director
Children with Special Health Needs, Division of Health Improvement, Vermont Department of Health

Charles Homer, MD, MPH, CEO
National Initiative for Children’s Health Care Quality

Brendan Krause, Senior Policy Analyst
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices

Cindy Mann, JD, Research Professor
Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University

Carol Pryor, Senior Policy Analyst
The Access Project, Boston, Massachusetts

Richard Roberts, Ph.D., Director
Champions for Progress National Center

Nancy Turnbull, President
Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of MA; former MA Associate Commissioner of Insurance

Alan Weil, J.D.,Executive Director
National Academy for State Health Policy

Nora Wells, Ph.D, Executive Director
Family Voices