Public Health Accreditation Board

Board of Directors

Chair: William Riley, PhD
Associate Dean, University of Minnesota School of Public Health (Minneapolis, MN)

Vice Chair: currently vacant.

Secretary/Treasurer: Edward A. Harrison, MBA
President, National Commission on Correctional Health Care (Chicago, IL)

Past President: Paul K. Halverson, DrPH, MHSA, FACHE
Director & State Health Officer, Arkansas Department of Health (Little Rock, AK)

Rex Archer, MD, MPH
Director, City of Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department (Kansas City, MO)

Les Beitsch, MD, JD
Director, Center for Medicine/Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine (Tallahassee, FL)

Shepard N. Cohen, MPA
Chair, Wellesley Board of Health (Wellesley, MA)

Leah Devlin, DDS, MPH
University of North Carolina School of Public Health (Raleigh, NC)

Fernando A. Guerra, MD, MPH
Director, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (San Antonio, TX)

Kenneth W. Kerik, MPH, RS
Ohio Public Health Council (Columbus, OH)

Carol Moehrle
District Director, North Central District Health Department (Lewiston, ID)

Bud Nicola, MD, MHSA, FACPM
Director, University of Washington School of Public Health (Seattle, WA)

Alonzo Louis Plough, PhD, MPH
Director , County of Los Angeles Public Health, Emergency Preparedness, and Response Program (Los Angeles, CA)

H. Sally Smith
Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation (Dillingham, AK)

Hugh Tilson, MD, MPH, DrPH
Epidemiologist and former Director of North Carolina’s Division of Health Services (Raleigh, NC)

F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD
Professor of Health Services Research & Policy, University of Kentucky College of Public Health (Lexington, KY)

Harvey Wallace, PhD
Professor and Department Head, Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI)

Kaye Bender, RN, PhD, FAAN
President and CEO, PHAB


Organizational Representatives to the PHAB Board of Directors

Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (Emeritus)
Executive Director, APHA

Marie Fallon, MHSA
Executive Director, NALBOH

Paul Jarris, MD, MBA
Executive Director, ASTHO

Bobby M. Pestronk, MPH
Executive Director, NACCHO