Committees and Workgroups

Committees | Workgroups

Workgroups

Health Policy and Environmental Change Workgroup - develops action related to the recommendations in the Policy and Environmental Change: New Directions in Public Health report.
Chair: Nancy Berger (CT)
Neil Hann (OK)
Joanne Mitten (ID)
Donna Nichols, (TX)
Joan Stine, (MD)
Heidi Keller (WA)
Maxene Spolidoro (MA)
Ana P. Novais (RI)

Minority Health Workgroup – focuses efforts to provide leadership to national, state, local, and territorial health organization public health issues of racial and ethnic minority populations through health education and health promotion.
Chair: Chip Allen, (OH)
Co-chair Barry Sharp, MSHP, EMT, CHES, (TX)
Yolanda Randles, (CA)
Joyce Dantzler, (MD)
Victor Sutton, (MS)
Letitia Presley-Cantrell, CDC (GA)
Sara McNary, CDC, (GA)
Christina Carrillo, (NM)
L. Kaili McCray, (ID)
Kenis Williams, (IL)

Staff: Mariela Alarcon-Yohe

School Health Workgroup - builds the capacity of DHPE and state health agencies to support coordinated school health programs (CSHP) in school settings. Focuses primarily on physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco prevention among youth through the use of the CSHP model.
Chair: Tom Sims, (WV)
Katy Kupecz, (CO)
Jennifer Dunlap, (IN)
Chelsea Fagen, (MT)
Margie Tate, (AZ)
Patricia Owen (AK)
Kimberly Peabody (GA)
Nancy Berger (CT)
Anne Thurland (VI)

Staff: Sara Bowie

PA Collaborative – represents the physical activity interests of the public health community and exists for the purpose of establishing and promoting evidenced-based physical activity practice within and throughout public health agencies and institutions.
Chair: Donna Nichols (TX)
Don Bishop, PhD, (MN)
Joan Stine (MD)
Danette Wong Tomiyasu (HI)

Staff: Pam Eidson