The Health Equity Compact wishes to recognize founding supporters JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., and Foley Hoag LLP for their invaluable work: JSI for technical assistance and research from the very beginning of the Compact; and Foley Hoag for pro bono legal skill and expertise in developing and writing An Act to Advance Health Equity.
Allison Bryant, MD, MPH
Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Senior Medical Director for Health Equity at MGB
Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH
Commissioner of Public Health and Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission
Christopher Lathan, MD, MS, MPH
Chief Clinical Access and Equity Officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Craig Andrade, RN, MPH, DrPH
Associate Dean of Practice and Director of the Activist Lab at Boston University School of Public Health
Damian Archer, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Outer Cape Health Services; Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine
David R. Williams, PhD, MA, MPH, MDiv
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Eduardo da Silva Haddad, MD
President of Medical Staff and Chief of Medical Affairs, Lawrence General Hospital
Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH
Chief Community Health & Health Equity Officer at Mass General Brigham Executive Director at Kraft Center for Community Health at MGH Conrad Taff Professor at Harvard Medical School
Filaine Deronnette
Vice President-at-Large, 1199SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East and EVP, Massachusetts AFL-CIO
Gary Chu, OD, MPH, FAAO
Vice President, Professional Affairs at New England College of Optometry; AAPI Commission
Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA
President at Biomedical Science Careers Program Professor of Medicine, Dean of Diversity & Community Partnership, Director of Minority Faculty Development Program, and Director of Commonwealth Fund Mongan Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard Medical School
Lumas Joseph Helaire, MS, PhD
Assistant Dean for Population Health Management and Health Equity Education at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Manny Lopes, MBA
Executive VP of Public Markets and Government Relations at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
Director of the François Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Nancy E. Norman, MD, MPH
Medical Director of Integration for the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership
Nate Horwitz-Willis, DrPH, MPH, MPA
Executive Director of the Advocacy Fund and Executive Vice President of External Affairs, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
Paul Watanabe, PhD
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies, UMass Boston
Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA
President at Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Executive Vice President at Mass General Brigham
Rosa Colon-Kolacko, PhD, MBA, CDM, SHRM-SCP
President and Founder, Global Learning & Diversity Partners
Sandhya Rao, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Valerie Stone, MD
Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School