Table of contents:
Our MissionOur ReportsOur Advisory CommitteesAdvisory CouncilAnnual Report Advisory CommitteeSenior Report Advisory CommitteeHealth of Women and Children Report Advisory CommitteeHealth of Those Who Have Served Report Advisory CommitteeHealth Disparities Report Advisory Committee
Our Model and Methodology
IntroductionRanking MethodologyMeasures, Weights and DirectionMeasures Selection and ChangesData SourcesDisparity Measurement MethodologyDennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH
Senior Associate, Population Health Data and Research
Texas Health Institute
Soo Borson, MD
Co-Lead, BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Early Detection of Dementia
Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Keck USC School of Medicine
Professor Emerita of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Washington
Dementia Care Research and Consulting
Julie Bynum, MD, MPH
Margaret Terpenning Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor, Geriatric and Palliative Medicine; Associate Director, Health Policy & Research, Geriatric Center; Research Scientist, Institute of Gerontology; Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs
University of Michigan
Tom Eckstein, MBA
Retired Principal, Arundel Metrics, Inc.
Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA, MA
Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Reem Ghandour, DrPH, MPA
Director, Division of Epidemiology, Office of Epidemiology and Research, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration
Marjory Givens, PhD, MSPH
Associate Director, University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Marthe Gold, MD, MPH
Logan Professor Emerita, CUNY School of Medicine
David T. Huang, PhD, MPH, CPH
Chief, Health Promotion Statistics Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
J.T. Lane, MPH
Senior Vice President, Population Health & Innovation
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Alyssa Malinski Erickson
Vice President, United Health Foundation
Glen P. Mays, PhD, MPHF
Chair and Professor, Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy in the Colorado School of Public Health Colorado University Anschutz Medical Campus
Sarah Milder, MPH
Managing Partner, Arundel Metrics, Inc.
Jane M. Pennington, MPH
Vice President, Communications, Optum Customer Office
Celeste Phillip, MD, MPH
Public Health Advisor, Health & Medical Affairs, American Public Health Association
Professor of Public Health Practice, School of Global Health at Meharry Medical College
Rhonda Randall, DO
Senior Medical Advisor to the United Health Foundation
Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual
Patrick Remington, MD, MPH
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN., FAANP
Professor of Nursing, University of Maryland
Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology
Anna Schenck, PhD, MSPH
Professor Emeritus, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mary C. Selecky
Retired Secretary of Health, Washington State
Kristin Shaw, MPH
Managing Partner, Arundel Metrics, Inc.
Steven Teutsch, MD, MPH
Senior Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
Adjunct Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Mylynn Tufte, RN, MBA, MSIM
Senior Director for Population Health, Optum Advisory
Former State Health Official, North Dakota
John Wiesman, DrPH, MPH
Chair of America’s Health Rankings Advisory Council
Professor of the Practice and Associate Dean for Practice
Director, Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill