Hector Balcazar, PhD, MS (Chair)
	Hector Balcazar is dean of the College of Science and Health at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Dr Balcazar specializes in the study of public health problems of Latinos/Mexican Americans. He has conducted numerous studies of Latino birth outcomes, acculturation and health-related behaviors, cardiovascular disease prevention programs in Latinos, and border health issues. He served as an editorial board member for several journals and served as chair of the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health.
	Ana F. Abraido-Lanza, PhD (Co-Chair)
	Ana Abraido-Lanza is professor of sociomedicine and director of the doctor of public health program at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. In addition, Dr Abraido-Lanza serves as the director of the Initiative for Minority Student Development. Her research focuses on cultural, psychological, and socioeconomic processes that affect psychological well-being, adjustment to chronic illness, and mortality among Latinos. Dr Abraido-Lanza is an associate editor at the journal Health Education & Behavior and a member of the editorial board at the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
	Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, PhD, MPH
	Collins Airhihenbuwa is former professor and dean of the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University (SLU). He was also the director of the Global Health Institute at SLU. Dr Airhihenbuwa is an internationally recognized expert on behavioral health and a pioneer in centralizing culture in health behaviors. He has served on editorial boards for several peer-reviewed journals: the American Journal of Health Behavior, AIDS Education and Prevention, Health Education & Behavior, the Journal of Health Communication, and the Journal of Medical Anthropology.
	Melissa Grim, PhD
	Melissa Grim serves as chair and professor at Radford University in the Department of Health and Human Performance. Dr Grim’s expertise and interests include planning and evaluating public health interventions to increase physical activity and investigating differences in health behavior in urban, rural, and suburban settings. She currently serves as the deputy editor for Health Promotion Practice, a journal dedicated to linking research and practice.
	Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH
	Shiriki Kumanyika is a research professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Dr Kumanyika retains an appointment as an emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. She was vice-chair of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Healthy People 2020 objectives, is a past president of the American Public Health Association and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine). She is currently a member of the CDC Task Force on Community Preventive Services, co-chair of the Policy and Prevention Section of the World Obesity Federation, and a member of The Lancet Commission on Obesity.
	William L. Lanier Jr, MD
	William L. Lanier is professor of anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic. His research interests involve neurosurgical anesthesiology and ischemic brain disease, and he has been engaged in both laboratory and clinical research. He was a founding section editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and founding editorial board member for Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. Dr Lanier served as a faculty member for the Council of Science Editors (CSE) for its 2-day Short Course for Editors and director of the CSE’s Short Course. He served as editor in chief of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the world’s third-largest circulation scholarly medical journal. He is emeritus editor in chief of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
	Sarah Patrick, PhD, MPH
	Sarah Patrick is director of the Jackson County (Illinois) Department of Health. She directs and manages 3 major divisions of the Department of Public Health: Communicable Disease Control, Health Promotion and Public Health Research, and Environmental Health. Dr Patrick has extensive experience developing and supporting collaborative public health practice partnerships between local health departments, academic institutions, and hospital systems. In 2015, she served on a project led by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to identify scientific writing needs among applied epidemiologists.