Health & Wellness
Policy & Reform
Policy & Reform:
17th Surgeon General & CEO, Canyon Ranch Health
Having gone from high school dropout to serving as our nation’s top doctor, Carmona instills in audiences that anything is possible through commitment and determination.
18th U.S. Surgeon General & Healthcare Disparity Expert
A leader in fighting health disparities and developing innovative community-based health strategies and systems for low-income communities, Regina Benjamin is best known for her service as U.S. Surgeon General from 2009-2013.
Senior Vice President, Global Health & Executive Director of the Global Health Equity Institute
Attorney Daniel E. Dawes J.D. is a nationally recognized leader in the health equity movement. Dawes is the future Founding Dean of the School of Global Public Health at Meharry Medical College, the first school of public health at an historically black institution.
Former Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Michael Botticelli was most recently the inaugural director of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center and a Distinguished Policy Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Former Mayor of New York City
Managing a crisis is never easy. But trying to handle one of the worst to hit a major city in a century is almost unimaginable—unless you’re former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Award-Winning Reporter, Former Physician & Author
Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal is the editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News and the author of An American Sickness , a shocking investigation into America's healthcare system.
The 20th Surgeon General of the United States & Executive Director of Health Equity Initiatives at Purdue
After growing up poor and Black in a Southern rural community, Jerome Adams went on to lead the 6,000 person U.S. Public Health Service as “America’s Doctor” during a worldwide pandemic.
Physician & Healthcare Executive
Dr. Leana Wen is a practicing physician, healthcare executive, and one of America’s leading public health experts. She is a columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes a twice-weekly column on medicine and public health.