The Northern Virginia Health Foundation's board has appointed three new directors. They are Gloria Addo-Ayensu, director of health for Fairfax County, Virginia (the "most populous county in both Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area," according to the county's website); Ilka Chavez, acting deputy regional health administrator, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Region III; and Marsha Lillie-Blanton, a senior policy adviser at the Children and Adults Health Program Group, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. Lillie-Blanton was a vice president at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation a number of years ago.
Lisa Aliferis is now the senior communications officer for the California Health Care Foundation's (CHCF's) High-Value Care team. She started at the foundation in September 2016. She had previously been a health journalist for twenty-five years—most recently, at KQED News (a service of KQED Public Radio, TV, and Interactive) in San Francisco. There, she was founding editor of a blog called State of Health.
Jandel Allen-Davis, vice president of government, external relations, and research at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, has been elected chair of Grantmakers In Health's (GIH's) board, effective in March 2017.
Another recent hire at the CHCF is Kara Carter, who joined the foundation as chief impact officer in October 2016. Carter "will focus on optimizing the use of CHCF assets to help the foundation make significant progress toward achieving its goals," according to a press release. Before this she worked for ten years at McKinsey & Co., a global management consulting firm. She most recently was a partner in the company's San Francisco office, where she worked in the areas of Medicaid, behavioral health, long-term care, and more. Read Carter's bio.
Joan Guzik joined the United Hospital Fund in January 2017 as director of quality improvement for its Quality Institute. Previously, she was regulatory coordinator at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, in Somerville, New Jersey.
Leila Heidari is the de Beaumont Foundation's first Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Public Health Philanthropy Fellow, according to the foundation's website. De Beaumont is funding these one-year fellowships for six years. Heidari started the fellowship in July 2016 after earning a master of public health (MPH) in environmental health in May 2016 at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health.
Eric M. Hilton, "one of [the] longest-serving and most dedicated board members" of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, passed away in his sleep in December 2016, according to a press release. He was Conrad Hilton's youngest son and held several management positions at Hilton Hotels Corporation during his forty-nine-year career.
Olivia Jefferson has been named program manager at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation. "She is responsible for leading the design, management and implementation of evaluation, communications and planning efforts that cut across all Foundation grant making programs," according to the funder's website. Previously, she was a program evaluator at the Center for Prevention. She was the lead evaluator on its health equity programming and policy initiatives. The foundation and the center are part of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, that state's largest health plan.
Michelle A. Larkin, associate vice president and associate chief of staff of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has been elected to GIH's board of directors. Before coming to the RWJF, she was a health policy analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Office on Smoking and Health. Larkin will begin her GIH board term in March 2017.
Sean Parnell has been hired as the new vice president for public policy at the Philanthropy Roundtable, according to a November 2016 press release. Previously, he was the president of the Center for Competitive Politics, an advocacy group. Parnell is the author of the book The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Healthcare Choices in the Age of Obamacare.
Elizabeth Ripley, executive director of Mat-Su Health Foundation, located in Wasilla, Alaska, has also been elected to GIH's board. She will begin her service in March 2017. Before becoming executive director of the foundation, Ripley was director of marketing and public relations at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center (formerly called Valley Hospital).
George Suttles has been named a new program officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF). He was previously vice president, senior philanthropic relationship manager, in the Philanthropic Solutions division of US Trust, said a January 3, 2017, JAHF press release. During his career, Suttles has also held positions at the Anthem Foundation and the New York State Health Foundation. He holds two graduate degrees: a master of public administration (MPA) from Baruch College's Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, City University of New York, and a master of arts (MA) in philanthropic studies from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Jennifer Vanore has been promoted to the new position of vice president of programs at UniHealth Foundation, in Los Angeles, California. She was previously a senior program officer at the foundation, and before that, she worked at the California Endowment.
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