PHAB Board of Directors
PHAB is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of public health leaders from around the country.
Executive Committee
Chair: Carol Moehrle
District Director, North Central District Health Department (Lewiston, ID)
Vice Chair: Leslie Beitsch, MD, JD
Director, Center for Medicine/Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine (Tallahassee, FL)
Secretary/Treasurer: Edward Harrison
President, National Commission on Correctional Health Care (Chicago, IL)
Immediate Past Chair: William Riley, PhD
Associate Dean, University of Minnesota School of Public Health (Minneapolis, MN)
Kaye Bender, RN, PhD, FAAN
President and CEO, PHAB
Directors
Rex Archer, MD, MPH
Director, Kansas City Missouri Health Department
(Kansas City, MO)
Terry Cline, PhD
Commissioner of Health, Oklahoma State Department of Health (Oklahoma City, OK)
Leah Devlin, DDS, MPH
University of North Carolina School of Public Health
(Raleigh, NC)
Joe Finkbonner
Executive Director, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (Portland, OR)
Fernando Guerra, MD, MPH
Public Health Consultant, City of San Antonio
(San Antonio, TX)
Paul K. Halverson, DrPH, MHSA, FACHE
Director & State Health Officer, Arkansas Department of Health (Little Rock, AK)
Bud Nicola, MD, MHSA, FACPM
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health (Seattle, WA)
Alonzo Louis Plough, PhD, MPH
Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response Program, County of Los Angeles Public Health (Los Angeles, CA)
F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD
Professor of Health Services Research & Policy, University of Kentucky Colleges of Public Health & Medicine (Lexington, KY)
Hugh Tilson, MD, MPH, DrPH
Epidemiologist and former Director of North Carolina’s Division of Health Services (Raleigh, NC)
Harvey Wallace, PhD
Interim Dean, College of Professional Studies, Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI)
Wilma Wooten, MD, MPH
Public Health Officer, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (San Diego, CA)
Organizational Representatives (Ex-Officio Members)
Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (Emeritus)
Executive Director,
APHA
Stacy A. Bohlen
Executive Director,
NIHB
Anne Drabczyk, PhD
Chief Executive Officer,
NALBOH
Paul Jarris, MD, MBA
Executive Director,
ASTHO
Bobby M. Pestronk, MPH
Executive Director,
NACCHO
