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ADVISORY BOARD Ruth Tebbetts Brousseau, Ph.D., is a philanthropy consultant formerly with The California Wellness Foundation, where she served as the Director of Evaluation and Organizational Learning. Ann E. Carlson, J.D. is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. Daniel A. Farber, J.D., is the Sho Sato Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Program at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law - Boalt Hall. Joseph M. Hafey, M.P.A., is special advisor to the Public Health Institute. In December of 2007, he retired from his position as president and chief executive officer of the Public Health Institute, having served in that capacity for 11 years. He is recognized for his knowledge of public health systems, policy and leadership, and brings to Public Health Trust his extensive experience in program development and collaborative approaches to public health problems. Anthony Iton, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., is the Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities for The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities: California Living 2.0 initiative. The goal of the 10-year effort is create communities where children are healthy, safe and ready to learn. Dr. Iton was formerly the Director and Health Officer for the Alameda County Public Health Department. David Nesmith is facilitator of the Environmental Water Caucus, based in Oakland and an avid white water guide. He was formerly Conservation Director for the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club. The Honorable William C. Pate retired from the Superior Court in San Diego County in 2006 after 20 years on the bench. He now serves as a mediator handling civil cases with Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. (JAMS). James Simpson, J.D., M.P.H., serves as General Counsel to the Public Health Institute and is responsible for a wide variety of legal and regulatory matters. He advises the president and CEO and the other members of the management team on major transactions, relationships with other institutions, policy development and new business initiatives. He has more than 20 years of experience advising nonprofit organizations. Robert Spear , Ph.D., is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health, University of California - Berkeley.
STAFF Kathryn Sáenz Duke, JD, MPH Kathryn Sáenz Duke was the founding program director for Medicine for People in Need (Medpin) at PHI. Medpin grew under her leadership from a statewide prescription drug and indigent care project funded solely by a major lawsuit settlement into a multi-pronged technical assistance, service and policy analysis program supported by a number of foundations and another considerable legal settlement. Duke earned her law and public health degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. She has held a number of key posts, including: senior staff consultant for health policy at the California Senate Office of Research, senior staff to both the bipartisan California Senate Select Committee on AIDS and the California Senate Nuclear Emergency Response Task Force, Assistant to the Director of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, and manager of public health and scientific affairs at the California Medical Association.
Mary Dalsin Mary Dalsin has extensive experience in grants administration and program administration. She earned a BA in International Relations, with a minor in Economics, at University of Pacific and an MS in International Agricultural Development, with a focus on Community Nutrition, from UC Davis. Before starting her graduate program, she lived in Russia and Uzbekistan for several years, working on environmental and health issues with non governmental organizations and activists. While at UC Davis, she worked with a research team looking at agricultural development after privatization in the Central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union. Her research specifically studied the nutritional status of rural livestock owning families in Kazakhstan and their food resources.
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