Courage to Love Commissioners

Joint Center Health Policy Institute
Commission on The Courage To Love: Implications for Care,
Research, and Public Policy to Reduce Infant Mortality Rates

Co-Chairs
Ronald David, M.D., M.Div.
Visiting Lecturer
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Affairs

   Co-Chair:       
Barbara Nelson, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Affairs
 
     

Commission Members:
Sister Byllye Avery
Founder
National Black Women’s Health Network

Richardean Benjamin, RN, MPH, PhD
Chair
Old Dominion University
School of Nursing

Ms. Cathleen Crain
Managing Partner
LTG Associates

Richard Joseph David, MD, FAAP
Division of Neonatology
University of Illinois at Chicago

Avram Goldstein
Communications Director
Children’s Defense Fund

Peter Gorski, M.D.
Professor and Director
Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies
University of South Florida

Brenda N. Henry, MSW
University of Pittsburgh

Ms Linda J. Holmes
Executive Director
Office of Minority and Multicultural Health
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services

Loretta Jones, MA
Healthy African American Families

Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D.
Author of The Space Between Us: Exploring the Dimensions of Human Relationships

 


Arlene Katz, Ph.D.
Instructor in Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Dr. P.H.
Vice President
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Michael Lu, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Obstetrics and Gynecology
UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities

Dr. Ruth Lubic
Founder and Director Emeritus
The District of Columbia Birthing Center

Edward D. Miller, M.D.
Fellow
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Board of Holistic Medicine

Barbara L. Philipp, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.B.M.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Boston University School of Medicine

Linda Powell Pruitt, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Research Center for Leadership in Action
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Services
New York University

Nathaniel Tashima, Ph.D.
Managing Partner
LTG Associates

Robin Wilcox
Public Health & Community Health Development