Irfan Hasan

Irfan Hasan is Vice President, Programs and Grants at The New York Community Trust, the community foundation for New York City, Westchester, and Long Island. He has oversight for The Trust’s health, behavioral health, and biomedical research grants. He also manages more than $12 million of grants to organizations across the country designated through donor…

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Oanh H. Maroney-Omitade

Oanh H. Maroney-Omitade is the Vice President of Organizational Excellence at Methodist Healthcare Ministries where she supports the development of an overall strategic roadmap for the organization. She collaborates with leaders across the organization to prioritize and implement opportunities to improve, enhance and integrate organizational systems and helps implement its strategy for equity, diversity and…

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Tricia Neuman

As senior vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and Executive Director of the KFF’s Program on Medicare Policy, Tricia Neuman oversees KFF’s policy analysis and research pertaining to Medicare, and health coverage and care for aging Americans and people with disabilities. A widely cited Medicare policy expert, Dr. Neuman focuses on…

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Nikki Highsmith Vernick

As President and CEO, Nikki leads the Horizon Foundation in pursuing its mission to improve the health and wellness of people who live or work in Howard County. As the largest independent health foundation in Maryland, Nikki works with community partners to shape policy and to create programs so that everyone in Howard County can…

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Qiana Thomason

Qiana Thomason, a life-long Kansas Citian, has dedicated her career to the improvement of health and wellness across the region, with a special focus on communities experiencing significant health injustices and people living in marginalized conditions. Thomason serves as the president and CEO of Health Forward Foundation. Every day, Health Forward works to build and…

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Cara V. James, PhD

Cara James is President and CEO at Grantmakers In Health (GIH). Prior to joining GIH, she served as Director of the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) where she provided leadership, vision, and direction to advance the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CMS goals related…

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Patrick Simpson

Patrick Simpson

Patrick Simpson is Director of Food, Health and Well-Being at W.K. Kellogg Foundation, among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States, which works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work, and life. Mr. Simpson was named as the director of Food, Health & Well-being after…

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Jill Nowak

Jill Nowak

Jill Nowak, CPA, is Principal of The Nowak Consulting Group, LLC. In that role, she draws upon more than 30 years of experience as a nonprofit executive focused on finance, governance, and operations of organizations. Nowak was recently Chief Financial and Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President of Impact Investing at Missouri Foundation for Health….

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Winston Wong

Dr. Winston Wong is a Scholar-in-Residence at the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. Dr. Wong, a physician by training, received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and his baccalaureate and master’s degrees from UC Berkeley. His medical career of over thirty years has been dedicated to improving health equity…

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Maria Pesqueira

Maria del Socorro Pesqueira was appointed President of Healthy Communities Foundation in May 2017. As an award-winning visionary leader, she is a sought-after speaker addressing local, national, and hemispheric audiences on a wide variety of topics ranging from private/nonprofit partnerships, health disparities, immigration reform, women and family issues, violence prevention, and the future of philanthropy….

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