ReThink Health
Who’s Involved
LAURA K. LANDY I KATE B. HILTON I C. SHERRY IMMEDIATO I MICHAEL D. MCGINNIS I BOBBY MILSTEIN
RUTH WAGEMAN I ELLIOTT S. FISHER I ELINOR OSTROM I PETER M. SENGE I JOHN D. STERMAN I DAVID SURRENDA
Founder and Chair:
Laura K. Landy, MBA, was named President and CEO of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation in 2006 and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees (About Us – Board of Trustees) since 1998. She is also the founder and chair of ReThink Health (ReThink Health – About ReThink Health), a core initiative of the Rippel Foundation which seeks to foster the thinking, understanding, leadership, tools and models that will lead to a sustainable health system for all Americans. Throughout her career, Ms. Landy has brought sound business and strategic thinking to creating sustainable solutions to pressing social issues. As President of Applied Concepts, a consulting firm she established in 1983, her efforts focused on the changing dynamics in health, higher education, finance, social services and culture. Among her health-related activities have been relationships with Pfizer; the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, AT&T and urban health systems. Ms. Landy’s expertise in entrepreneurship and corporate venturing led her to create and direct the Institute for Nonprofit Entrepreneurship at NYU’s Stern School of Business where she also taught and served as Associate Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. She has also been a member of the adjunct faculty of Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon, the New School, and Fairleigh Dickinson. Ms. Landy received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis. After graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, she received her MBA from New York University. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Project Directors:
Kate B. Hilton, JD, MTS, is the Director of Organizing for Health (Organizing for Health – About OfH), a project of ReThink Health (ReThink Health – About 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.
C. Sherry Immediato, MPP, MBA, is Director of Leading for Health (Leading for Health – About LfH), a project of ReThink Health (ReThink Health – About 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.
Michael D. McGinnis, PhD (Political Science), is Principal Investigator and Director of Managing the Health Commons (Managing the Commons – About Managing the Commons), a project of ReThink Health (ReThink Health – About ReThink Health). A Professor of Political Science, he is Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, an inter-disciplinary research and teaching center focused on the study of institutions, development, and governance. A globally recognized center for institutional analysis, the Workshop was initially established in 1973 by Vincent and Elinor Ostrom. Its continuing importance was dramatically recognized when Elinor Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Professor McGinnis’ current research focuses on the ways in which health care policy in the U.S. can be improved through increased collaboration among stakeholders at the community or regional level, rather than relying on reforms at national or state levels. Professor McGinnis received a BS in mathematics from The Ohio State University in 1980 and a PhD in Political Science from The University of Minnesota in 1985 and has worked at IU ever since.
Bobby Milstein, PhD, MPH, is Director of ReThink Health Dynamics (ReThink Health Dynamics – About ReThink Health Dynamics), a project of ReThink Health (ReThink Health – About ReThink Health), and Director of Systems Strategy and Programs for the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation. Dr. Milstein leads the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game project that is working with regions and leaders across the country to develop interactive simulations that explore the likely impact of policy interventions on health outcomes and costs. He created the Hygeia Dynamics Policy Studio to provide a forum for diverse actors to acquire the foresight and motivation needed to craft powerful responses to pressing priorities and is also a visiting scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. From 1991 to 2011, Dr. Milstein worked at the CDC where he founded the Syndemics Prevention Network, chaired the agency’s Behavioral and Social Science Working Group, and was coordinator for a wide range of new initiatives. He was the principal architect of the CDC’s framework for program evaluation and published a monograph entitled, Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World, recommended as “required reading for all health professionals.” Dr. Milstein is a co-founder of the annual NIH-CDC Institute on Systems Science and Health, and a co-developer of the HealthBound Policy Simulation Game as well as the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model.
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