Title: Introducing Some of the New HAS Leaders
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Section/SPIG: Health Administration
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The Newsletter editor has asked new volunteers to send in a bio about themselves so that you can get to know them. These are the individuals the editor was able to get information from. If you are on the HAS Leadership Board/Governing Council and would like to be highlighted or interviewed for the Newsletter, please contact Laura Larsson at <larsson@u.washington.edu>.
Glen Mays, MPH, PhD, is co-Chair of the Program Committee. Glen is associate professor, vice chair, and director of research for the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Public Health. Mays' research focuses on strategies for organizing and financing public health services, health insurance, and medical care services for under-served populations. He has published more than 50 journal articles, books and chapters on these issues and serves on committees for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, APHA, the Institute of Medicine and AcademyHealth. He received PhD and MPH degrees in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was a postdoctoral fellow in health economics at Harvard Medical School.
The following are currently active on the HAS Newsletter Committee: Jasmine N. Hall, MHA, is the Program Officer for the Missouri Foundation for Health, St. Louis, Mo. Nathan Kellett, MHA, was formerly a consultant for a pharmacoeconomics firm out of Toronto Canada but has recently been given a commission to become an Air Force Medical Services Corps Administrator. He will be taking over Tricare administration at their treatment facility. Andrea Stephenson, MS, is the director of administration/health director of the Sussex County Division of Health.
Current members of the Web Site/Information Technology Committee (W/IT Committee) include: Vonna Henry, Bud Nicola, Nadim Haddad, Laurie Fitts and Laura Larsson (Chair). New members include Dana Friedman and Michael Hill. Hill is currently the administrator/health officer for the Okeechobee County Health Department in Florida. His interest in working with the W/IT Committee stems from having worked with, on or around computers since 1968 (punching little holes into cards). Prior to his promotion to county health officer, he was the information systems director and designed the county health department's internet and intranet Web sites; he still does most of the maintenance of these sites. He is a member of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Information Technology Committee and is on the Executive Committee of the National Association for Public Health Information Technology (NAPHIT). Hill also has been pretty active with the CDC Public Health Information Network project.
Other Board members will be profiled in future issues.