Executive Producer and Project Director:  Larry Adelman
Co-Executive Producer and Series Producer:  Llew Smith
Director of Outreach:  Rachel Poulain, MPH
Director of Communications: Gwen McKinney, McKinney & Assoc.


Scholarly Advisors
  • Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard University School of Public Health
  • Nancy Adler, Chair, MacArthur Network on Socio-Economic Status and Health; Director, Center for Health and Community, University of California, San Francisco
  • Gail Christopher, DN, Vice President for Health, Women and Families, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Director, Health Policy Institute
  • Troy Duster, former President, American Sociological Association;  Professor of Sociology, New York University
  • Harold Freeman, MD,  Associate Director, National Cancer Institute;  Director, NCI’s Center to Reduce Health Disparities
  • Camara Jones, MD,  Research Director, Social Determinants of Health, Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  • Ichiro Kawachi, MD, Director, Harvard Center for Society and Health, Harvard University School of Public Health
  • Brian Smedley, Project Director, Opportunity Agenda;  lead author, Institute of Medicine’s “Unequal Treatment”
  • S. Leonard Syme, Professor of Epidemiology (emeritus), School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley
  • Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director, The Praxis Project
  • David Williams, Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard University

Strategic Outreach Partners
  • Gail Christopher, DN, Director, Health Policy Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economics Studies
  • Richard Hofrichter, Senior Analyst, Health Equity, National Association of County and City Health Directors (NACCHO)
  • Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director, The Praxis Project
  • Brian Smedley, Project Director, Opportunity Agenda
  • Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association (APHA)