Population Health

Leadership

Over the course of the UW’s 25-year vision for the Population Health Initiative, the president and provost recognize the need to stay nimble with respect to the leadership of, and the individuals involved with, this effort.

The Initiative’s internal governance group, its executive council, draws from the expertise of senior leaders, faculty, students and staff representing a range of contributing colleges, schools, programs and stakeholder units. An external advisory board was also formed to offer strategic guidance to the initiative.

Population Health Initiative executive council

The Population Health Initiative is governed internally by a 30-member executive council responsible for developing, implementing and measuring progress toward the initiative’s goals.

Current members

The executive council represents all three UW campuses as well as the undergraduate and graduate student populations.

  • Robert J. Jones, president; chair
  • Tricia Serio, provost and executive vice president
  • Ali Mokdad, chief strategy officer for population health; professor of health metrics sciences (IHME); vice chair
  • José Alaniz, professor of Slavic Languages & Literature, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sylvia Bagley, assistant teaching professor, College of Education
  • Clara Berridge, associate professor, School of Social Work
  • Gregory Bratman, associate professor, College of the Environment
  • Joan Casey, associate professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health
  • Lydia Chwastiak, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Yonn Dierwechter, professor of Urban Studies, UW Tacoma
  • John Fortney, professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine
  • Sarah Gimbel, professor of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Ivy Lin, acting assistant professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry
  • Melanie Malone, associate professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell
  • Hamed Mamani, professor of Operations Management, Foster School of Business
  • Peggy Odegard, professor and vice dean, School of Pharmacy
  • Deborah Eniola Oladipo, graduate student representative, Schools of Medicine and Public Health
  • Elizabeth Pendo, professor and senior associate dean, School of Law
  • Afroditi Psarra, associate professor of DXARTS, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Suzie Pun, professor of Bioengineering, College of Engineering and School of Medicine
  • Marie Spiker, assistant professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
  • Dylan Stevenson, assistant professor of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments
  • David Suárez, Colleen Willoughby endowed professor in Philanthropy & Civil Society, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
  • Ava Vaughan, undergraduate representative, College of the Environment and Foster School of Business
  • Lucy Lu Wang, assistant professor, Information School
  • Joseph Zunt, professor of Global Health and Neurology, Schools of Medicine and Public Health
  • Mary Gresch, senior vice president, University Advancement
  • Ahmad Ezzeddine, vice provost, Office of Global Affairs
  • Derek Fulwiler, Initiative executive director, Executive Office

The Council thanks its emeritus members for their service to the initiative.

Population Health Initiative external advisory board

The initiative has recruited a distinguished body of external advisors from a range of sectors and disciplines to offer the initiative guidance in areas such as strategic planning and program development, furthering the university’s understanding of population health trends and helping to assess the effectiveness of the initiative.

This board was chaired by Bill Neukom, who was known for his decades-long leadership of Microsoft’s law and corporate affairs team and then at the American Bar Association, and his success as CEO of the San Francisco Giants and co-founder/CEO of the World Justice Project.

The board’s full membership is:

  • Bill Neukom, Co-founder and CEO, World Justice Project, Chair
  • Kendra Aga Khan
  • Sarah Barton, Founder, Barton Family Foundation
  • Abigail Echo-Hawk, Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, Chief Research Officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board
  • Chris Elias, President of Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Jessica Hellmann, Professor of Ecology and Director of the Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
  • Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Population Health and Health Equity, and Healthcare Management, University of Pennsylvania
  • Mary Snapp, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Microsoft
  • Samba Sow, Director, CVD-Mali
  • Brady Walkinshaw, CEO, Noisy Creek