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EDWARD W. AHART I ELLA DAVILA AUCHINCLOSS I DONALD M. BERWICK I CLAUDIA A. BRINK I JOHN D. CAMPBELL
ELIZABETH G. CHRISTOPHERSON I RYAN CONWAY I JOY CUSHMAN I VANESSA DILLEN I ELLIOTT S. FISHER
CHANA FITTON I MARSHALL GANZ I DAN GRANDONE I HAHRIE HAN I KATE B. HILTON I GARY HIRSCH I JACK HOMER
C. SHERRY IMMEDIATO I CHRISTINA INGERSOLL I TERRI JOWERS I LAURA K. LANDY I CARRIE ANN LAWRENCE
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BOBBY MILSTEIN I KAREN MINYARDI MEREDITH MIRA I ALBERT MULLEY JR. I JAY OGLIVY I ABBY O’NEILL
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JUSTIN TROGDON I RICHARD TURNER I RUTH WAGEMAN

Dan Grandone is a Campaign Coach in South Carolina with Organizing for Health, a project of ReThink Health. Mr. Grandone is also the Organizing Director for the Leading Change Project at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. He specializes in the practice of community organizing and has built grassroots organizations throughout America. In 2008, he played an integral role in Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign and was also the Wisconsin State Director with Organizing for America. He received his bachelor’s degree from Marquette University, MSW from St. Louis University and MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Mr. Grandone was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University with Dr. Marshall Ganz, with whom he taught community organizing.

Hahrie Han, PhD, is a member of the faculty of ReThink Health Research, a project of ReThink Health. Dr. Han is the Sidney Knafel Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and was a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in Health Politics at Harvard University in 2009-2011. She specializes in American politics, focusing particularly on the role civic organizations play in mobilizing participation in politics and policy advocacy. Her first book, Moved to Action: Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics (Stanford University Press, 2009) examined the way people become motivated to participate in politics. She currently sits on the Volunteer Leadership Advisory Committee for the National Sierra Club Board and acted as co-convenor of a Policy Advisory Committee for the 2008 Obama campaign. Dr. Han received her PhD in American Politics from Stanford University in 2005 and her BA in American History and Literature from Harvard University in 1997.

Kate B. Hilton, JD, MTS, is the Director of Organizing for Health, a project of ReThink Health, and a Principal in Practice for Leading Change at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. She designs campaigns, teaches organizing and leadership skills, and strategizes with leadership teams to take action. In 2010-11, Ms. Hilton served as the lead coach for a campaign to improve quality and lower costs in the National Health Service in England. She has led organizing and leadership training for a multitude of organizations including the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, the South Carolina Hospital Association, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, and many others. Ms. Hilton taught in Dr. Marshall Ganz’s organizing course at Harvard Kennedy School in 2004 and 2009 and co-designed and led the distance learning version of the course in 2010. Ms. Hilton received a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2008, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School in 2004 and an AB from Dartmouth College in 1999. She is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin and Massachusetts.

Gary Hirsch, SB, SM, is a system modeler for the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game, a project of ReThink Health. Mr. Hirsch specializes in applying System Dynamics and Systems Thinking. In health care, he has focused on population health and treatment of chronic illness, improving the performance of health care delivery systems, creating the capacity to respond to health emergencies, and improving oral health and delivering dental care. Mr. Hirsch is the co-developer of several simulation-based learning environments including HealthBound, created for the CDC to enable users to try their hand at health reform. Mr. Hirsch is the author of three books and numerous journal articles and conference presentations. He is President of the Metrowest Free Medical Program, an organization that provides care to people without health insurance. Mr. Hirsch holds SB and SM degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management with concentrations in System Dynamics and Public Sector Management.

Jack Homer, PhD, is a system modeler for the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game, a project of ReThink Health. Dr. Homer is a management consultant and System Dynamics simulation modeling expert. In 1997, he received the Jay W. Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society for best contribution to the field in the preceding five years. As part of a nine-person team, he received the 2008 inaugural Applied Systems Thinking Prize of the ASysT Institute for collaborative work on a problem of national significance (chronic disease and health policy). Since 1989, Dr. Homer has developed original models for a wide range of companies and public agencies including AT&T, Campbell Soup, CIGNA, Eastman Chemical, Ford Motor Co., Harley-Davidson, Mars, and Standard & Poor’s, the National Institute of Justice, the Departments of Health of Minnesota and Texas, the CDC, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

C. Sherry Immediato, MPP, MBA, is Director of Leading for Health, a project of ReThink Health, and Chief Learning Officer of ReThink Health. Ms. Immediato is the founder and president of Heaven & Earth Incorporated, an organization dedicated to increasing performance, health and well-being in complex systems. She is a former Trustee and President of SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning (2001-2010), where she developed her longtime partnership with Peter Senge, PhD, SoL founder, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, and a major force in modern management and leadership. Ms. Immediato is the co-author of Creating Integrated Care and Healthier Communities, a computer simulation and learning experience for health care leaders; served as the lead faculty member of the national Public Health Education Leadership Institute from 1998-2006; and currently serves on the faculty of the CDC sponsored national Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute. She holds a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Christina Ingersoll, MBA, is a system modeler for the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game, a project of ReThink Health. Ms. Ingersoll is a graduate of the MIT Sloan MBA program where she was the first MBA recipient of the Sustainability Certificate in its inaugural year. Since graduating in 2010, Ms. Ingersoll has been working in curriculum development at MIT and also at the Harvard Kennedy School where she is on the teaching staff for the multi-institute sustainability science doctoral seminar. She is the co-developer of the Cool Farm Tool, a model for greenhouse gas emissions quantification at the farm level which is used as a decision support tool around the world.

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