SCHIP AND MEDICAID RESOURCES

• DATA/REPORTS
• EXPERTS
• ACADEMIC/RESEARCH EXPERTS
• ADVOCACY/NONPROFIT EXPERTS
• FEDERAL/STATE EXPERTS

Tooth decay is one of the most common infectious diseases among U.S. children, reports this center, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Kids Count Data Center, Annie E. Casey Foundation
The nonprofit foundation's Kids Count Data Center is an outgrowth of the child well-being report released by the foundation each summer. It contains national, state and city-level data for over 100 measures of child well-being, including health.

Health Insurance Data and Information, U.S. Census Bureau
Data from Census Bureau surveys is available on historical and current health insurance information. It includes reports, definitions, data and links. Facts from 2009 are available here. 

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
CMS, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, administers the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. SCHIP was designed to provide $24 billion in federal matching funds to help states expand health care coverage to more than 5 million uninsured U.S. children.
Contact: Peter Ashkenaz, deputy director of media affairs, 202.690.6145; OEABox@CMS.HHS.GOV

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on education, family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, behavior, physical environment and safety. It releases the "America's Children" report each July. Federal statistics on a range of issues are available here. 

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
CBPP conducts research and analysis to inform debates on fiscal policy and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered.

“Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act One Year Later: Connecting Kids to Coverage,"  2010
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The federal study reviews how new health care funds and options provided in CHIPRA have affected coverage for children in Medicaid and CHIP.According to the study, Medicaid and CHIP enrolled a total of nearly 40 million children from 2008 to 2009, including 2.6 million more children than during the prior year. However, while the rate of uninsured children is the lowest in more than two decades, an estimated 5 million eligible children remain uninsured.

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Columbia University 
"Making Maternal and Child Health Care a Priority," released in March 2009, takes a closer look at state policy choices that promote access to high-quality health care for mothers and children, to help inform the national and state-level debate on how to improve the health care system.

Statehealthfacts.org, Kaiser Family Foundation
Statehealthfacts.org provides health and health policy data on all 50 states. It includes data on more than 450 health topics including Medicaid, Medicare, health insurance coverage, health costs and budgets, providers, minority health, women's health and HIV/AIDS.

ACADEMIC/RESEARCH EXPERTS

Morris Ardoin, Director of Communications and Public Affairs 
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
National Center for Children in Poverty
215 W. 125th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
646.284.9616; ardoin@nccp.org
A division of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the nonpartisan research organization promotes the economic security, health and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. It pushes family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels, producing reports and fact sheets that highlight strategies to end child poverty. The site has a basic-needs budget calculator, plus demographics and policy tools to create custom tables of national- and state-level statistics about low-income or poor children. Founded in 1989 at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the nonprofit research center promotes the economic security, health and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. It pushes family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels, producing reports and fact sheets that highlight strategies to end child poverty. (See its fact sheet, “Basic Facts About Low-Income Children in the United States.”) 

Alan Barber, Communications Coordinator
Center for Economic and Policy Research
1611 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
202.293.5380 x115; barber@cepr.net
Through research and public education, the nonprofit center promotes democratic debate on economic and social issues. Shawn Fremstad co-directs its Inclusion initiative, which develops policy ideas to foster social and economic inclusion. It focuses on improving job quality, wages and benefits.

Michelle Bazie, Deputy Director of Communications
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
820 1st St. NE, Suite 510
Washington, DC 20002
202.408.1080; bazie@cbpp.org
CBPP conducts research and analysis to inform debates on fiscal policy and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered. It supports increasing access to supports such as Medicaid, children’s health insurance, food stamps and housing assistance. Senior researcher Arloc Sherman studies the causes and consequences of family and child poverty, trends in income inequality, policies that improve child well-being, and welfare reform. The center publishes state-by-state data on fiscal policies.

Barbara Blum, Senior Advisor
National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health, 154 Haven Ave.
New York, NY 10032
bbb10@columbia.edu
Blum is the former director of the Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism, whose mission is to help develop rigorous, policy relevant research about the effects of the new federalism on poor and vulnerable populations.

Arthur Caplan, Head of Medical Ethics
Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
215.898.7136; caplan@mail.med.upenn.edu
Dr Caplan's research interests include: transplant research ethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, health policy and general bioethics. He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability, and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects. 

David Card Ph.D., Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
549 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
510.642.5222; card@econ.berkeley.edu
Cards' research focuses on economics, education and immigration, such as labor market competition between immigrants and natives and inequalities between the earnings of blacks and whites. Card has published widely on issues regarding welfare reform; the effects of Medicaid programs; pension and retirement; labor supply; school financing and the distribution of education resources; wage structure; unions and strikes; and unemployment.

Janice Cooper, Interim Director
National Center for Children in Poverty
215 W. 125th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
646.284.9600; info@nccp.org
NCCP is dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and wellbeing of America’s low-income families and children. It seeks to advance family-oriented solutions and the strategic use of public resources at the state and national levels to ensure positive outcomes for the next generation.

Rosemary Chalk, Director
Board on Children, Youth and Families, The National Academies
500 Fifth St. N.W., 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20001
202.334.1935; rchalk@nas.edu
Created by the National Academies in 1993, the nonpartisan board addresses policy-relevant issues involving the health and development of children, youth and families and convenes experts to analyze and evaluate research.

Amy Cox Ph.D., Social Scientist
The Pardee Rand Graduate School, RAND Corporation
1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
310.393.0411, Ext. 6718; cox@rand.org
Cox's research focuses on the relationships among social inequalities, labor markets/social systems, and demographic phenomena such as economic well being, welfare use and family processes. Cox's other ongoing research includes studies of racial-ethnic differences in social support and exchange among family members, the relationship between declines in childbearing and declines in welfare participation. 

Peter Cunningham Ph.D., Senior Fellow
Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)
600 Maryland Ave. S.W., Suite 550
Washington, DC 20024
202.484.4242; pcunningham@hschange.org
Cunningham has had primary responsibility for overseeing the design and implementation of the Community Tracking Study household survey and a survey of health insurance plans. Cunningham's research has been primarily concerned with the uninsured. His work has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals, including JAMA, Health Affairs, Inquiry, Health Services Research and various HSC Data Bulletins and Issue Briefs. Earlier Cunningham was a researcher at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). 

Greg Duncan Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Education
Department of Education, University of California, Irvine
Berkeley Place 2062
Irvine, CA 92697-5500
949.824.7831; gduncan@uci.edu
Duncan is an expert on family and neighborhood poverty and child development. He formerly worked at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Dunca's research focuses on the effects of poverty on families and neighborhoods, and the intergenerational consequences of welfare use. He has investigated the concentration of persistent poverty among certain population subgroups, in particular African-Americans. Duncan and colleagues also have examined the life consequences for adolescents in families that receive at least partial income from welfare. He has written extensively about income distribution, child poverty and welfare dependence and is the co-author or co-editor of several books. A former principal investigator of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Duncan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. He was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2008 and president of the Society for Research in Child Development for 2009-2011.

Helen DuPlessis M.D., MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities (CHCFC)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90024-6946
310.312.9213; hduplessis@verizon.net
Dr. DuPlessis, a pediatrician, works for the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities at the University of California, Los Angeles. She serves as an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine and as an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Public Health, developing health policy for women and children. Before joining UCLA in 2002, DuPlessis was the chief medical officer of L.A. Care Health Plan, which serves the county’s Medicaid and other low-income beneficiaries. Earlier, she directed student medical services for the Los Angeles Unified School District. 

Burton Edelstein M.D., Professor of Clinical Dentistry
College of Dental Medicine - Community Health, Columbia University
601 West 168th Street, Suite 21
New York, NY 10032
212.342.3550; ble22@columbia.edu
Dr. Edelstein is founding director of Children's Dental Health Project, a Washington based research and advocacy organization committed to improving children's oral health and dental care. He is professor and chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, where he is also Clinical Professor of health policy and management in the Mailman School of Public Health. He practiced pediatric dentistry in Connecticut and taught at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine for 21 years before committing to full time health policy practice. As a 1996-97 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, he served as health aide to U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle during development of the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Dr. Edelstein was dental consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on its oral health initiatives from 1998-2001, chaired the US Surgeon General's Workshop on Children and Oral Health and authored the child section of the U.S. Surgeon General's Report "Oral Health in America."

Norman Fost M.D., Director
Program in Medical Ethics, University of Wisconsin
1300 University Ave. Room 1430
Madison, WI 53706
608.263.8562; ncfost@pediatrics.wisc.edu
Fost is a professor of pediatrics and the former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics National Committee on Bioethics. His current research interests include regulation of human subjects research and the use of so-called "enhancing" medical technologies such as growth hormone and anabolic steroids. He also has spoken on the issue of a federal law that allows doctors to use approved drugs and devices for unapproved procedures and patients, including kids. 

Ted Gayer, Co-Director
Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20036-2118
202.797.6105, tgayer@brookings.edu
Gayer conducts research on a variety of economic issues. He focuses on public finance, environmental and energy economics, housing and regulatory policy.

Lynn Karoly Ph.D., Senior Economist
RAND Corporation
1200 South Hayes St.
Arlington, VA 22202
703.413.1100, Ext. 5359; karoly@rand.org
Karoly's research has focused on early childhood investments, social welfare policy and U.S. labor markets. She has investigated the costs and benefits of early childhood intervention programs. Other recent research includes: the impact of welfare reform on child and family well-being, and the implications of demographic trends, technological change and globalization for the future U.S. workforce and workplace.

Jacob Klerman, Director
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy, RAND Corporation
1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
310.393.0411, Ext. 6289; klerman@rand.org
Klerman led the official evaluation of welfare reform in California. His other research interests include: the determinants of recruiting into the armed forces, women's work behavior and fertility. 

Anna Mastroianni, Associate Professor of Law
School of Law, University of Washington
206.616.3482; amastroi@uw.edu
Mastroianni teaches health law and bioethics in the School of Law, the Institute for Public Health Genetics. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine and in the Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine. She is a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and does research on policy gaps and conflicts in the use of stem cells, human embryos and reproductive technologies. 

Lolita McDavid M.D., Medical Director of Child Advocacy and Protection
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, University Hospitals Health System
11100 Euclid Ave., Mailstop RBC 6003
Cleveland, OH 44106
216.844.3886; lolita.mcdavid@UHhospitals.org
Dr. McDavid, a pediatrician, is the medical director of child advocacy and protection at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, part of University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She oversees community outreach and programming and coordinates medical services for at-risk children and families in northeast Ohio. Her research interests include health disparities, teen pregnancy and abuse.

Sara McLanahan Ph.D., Director
Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW)
William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
265 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
609.258.5894; mclanaha@princeton.edu
CRCW researchers have studied the relationship between earnings, socioeconomic status and child health status, and the effects of child health on parents’ relationship status and ability to work. McLanahan is an expert on single parent families. Her research interests include family demography, poverty and inequality, and social policy. 

Sam Odom, Director
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#8180
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-818
919.966.4250; slodom@unc.edu
FPG consists of more than 200 researchers, students and staff working on projects dealing with parent and family support; early care and education; child health and development; early identification and intervention; equity, access and inclusion; and early childhood policy. They publish “Snapshots,” which provides an overview of recently published research. FPG distributes a monthly e-newsletter that highlights their latest research and resources.

Shawn Marie Pelak, Program Manager
National Poverty Center, University of Michigan
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, Suite 5100
735 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
734.615.3890; spelak@umich.edu
The center promotes high-quality research on the causes and consequences of poverty, evaluating and analyzing policies to alleviate poverty, and training the next generation of poverty researchers. Based at the University of Michigan, it has a network of roughly 40 scholars nationwide.

James Perrin M.D., Director, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
50 Staniford St., Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114
617.726.8716; perrin.james@mgh.harvard.edu
Dr. Perrin's research has examined asthma, middle ear disease, children’s hospitalization and childhood chronic illness and disabilities, with a recent emphasis on studies of the Supplemental Security Income Program for children and adolescents. For the American Academy of Pediatrics, he also co-chairs a committee to develop a practice guideline for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committees on Maternal and Child Health under Health Care Reform and on Quality of Long-Term-Care Services in Home and Community-Based Settings, the National Commission on Childhood Disability, and the Disability Policy Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance (Chair, Children’s Committee). He chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Children with Disabilities and is past president of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. A graduate of Harvard College and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, he trained in pediatrics at the University of Rochester and has been on the pediatric faculties of the University of Rochester and Vanderbilt University, with an additional appointment at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the latter institution.

Cheryl Pedersen, Director of Communications
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
PO Box 2393
600 Alexander Park
Princeton, NJ 08543
609.275.2258; cpedersen@mathematica-mpr.com
Mathematica conducts public policy research and surveys on health care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, child development, and other policy issues. The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is an affiliate research organization that designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system.

Irwin Redlener M.D., President and Co-Founder
The Children's Health Fund
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
317 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10021
212.535.9400; iredlener@chfund.org
Dr. Redlener has researched, published and spoken widely on indigent children's access to preventive, hospital and specialized medical care. The Children's Health Fund initiates and supports pediatric programs that provide health care to underserved children in a variety of urban and rural communities. Redlener is also Associate Dean of the Columbia University Mailman School Of Public Health and directs its National Center For Disaster Preparedness.

Helaine Ross M.D.
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago
773.702.1234; lross@uchicago.edu
Dr. Ross serves on both the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Bioethics and the American Philosophical Association Section on Medicine and Philosophy. Her research interests are research ethics, genetics and ethics, transplant ethics, and pediatric ethics. She is currently working on an NIH funded grant on newborn screening.

David Satcher M.D., Director
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive S.W., NCPC Building, Room 301
Atlanta, GA 30310
404.752.8654; dsatcher@msm.edu
David Satcher, M.D., is director of the new National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Previously he was the U.S. surgeon general and assistant secretary for health. In that position, Satcher led the department’s effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health. He also released surgeon general’s reports on tobacco and health; mental health – including children’s mental health; and overweight and obesity. From 1993 to 1998, Satcher was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Prior to those jobs, he was president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He was also professor and chairman of the department of Community Medicine and Family Practice at Morehouse and a faculty member of the University of California – Los Angeles School of Medicine and Public Health. Satcher graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Morehouse in 1963. He received his medical and doctorate degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American College of Physicians.

Kristine Siefert Ph.D
Associate Director and Professor of Social Work
Center for Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
University of Michigan
1080 S. University, 2846 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734.763.6201; ksiefert@umich.edu
Siefert's research investigates social and environmental risk factors for poor health and mental health among low-income women and children in diverse racial and ethnic populations. Recent studies include the impact of household food insufficiency on the physical and mental health of low income women and social and environmental determinants of major depression in low-income women.

Timothy Smeeding, Director
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin-Madison
305 Observatory Hill Office Building
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1211
608.263.6633; smeeding@lafollette.wisc.edu
IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the U.S. One of three Area Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest. Smeeding is also the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs, in the La Follette School of Public Affairs. His research interests include public policy, especially social policy and at-risk populations; poverty and income distribution, income transfers, and tax policy; and health economics.

Nora Volkow M.D., Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NSC - Neuro Science Ctr, Room 5274
6001 Exec Blvd
Rockville, MD
301.443.6480; nv29q@nih.gov
Dr. Volkow is a recognized expert on the brain's dopamine system with her research focusing on the brains of the addicted, obese and aging. Her studies have documented changes in the dopamine system affecting the actions of frontal brain regions involved with motivation, drive, and pleasure and the decline of brain dopamine function with age. She has investigated the neurochemical mechanisms that influence the way individuals respond to drugs of abuse and the potential link to vulnerability to drug abuse, alcoholism, or other impulse behaviors.

Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
Contact: Assistant Carol Bateson, 617.496.2024; cbateson@law.harvard.edu 
Warren's areas of expertise includes: consumer debt, divorce and bankruptcy, families in bankruptcy for medical reasons, health care economics, and medical debt. Warren worked on a study released jointly by Harvard Law School and Harvard Medical School in 2/05 that found that nearly half of all Americans who file for bankruptcy do so because of medical expenses.
 
Julie Magno Zito Ph.D, Professor
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Lombard Building Room 252
Baltimore, MD
410.706.0524; jzito@rx.umaryland.edu
Zito is the lead author of several published studies on the use of psychotropic drugs on children. In a 2003 report, she and colleagues reported that the number of children receiving psychotropic drug treatment had tripled from 1987 to 1996, to 6 percent of U.S. children. In a 2000 report, they estimated that 150,000 preschoolers (10 percent of them 2-year-olds) were on psychotropic drugs in 1995, up from 100,000 in 1991. She has also looked at the use of such drugs in child welfare systems and Medicaid.

Diane Rowland, Executive Director
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
1330 G St., NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.347.5270; kcmu@kff.org
Rowland is the executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. She is also an adjunct professor in the department of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University. Rowland is a noted authority on health policy, Medicare and Medicaid, and health care for low-income, elderly and disadvantaged populations, and has published widely on these subjects.
 

Alina Salganicoff Ph.D., Vice President and Director
Women's Health Policy
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
2400 Sand Hill Road
San Mateo, CA 94025
650.854.9400, x244; alinas@kff.org
Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D., is vice president and director of women’s health policy for The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She focuses on health coverage and access to care for women and families, with an emphasis on challenges facing underserved populations, including low-income and uninsured women, and women of color. She also directs the KaiserEDU.org project, an online resource for students and faculty in health policy. Salganicoff was the director of the foundation’s California Health Policy Program and served as associate director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. She has written numerous book chapters, journal articles and reports on health care access and financing for low-income women and children. She has a doctorate in health policy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Rakesh Singh, Communications Officer
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
1300 G St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
202.347.5270; rsingh@kff.org
An independent philanthropy focused on major health care issues, the foundation runs research and communications programs. Its work includes health policy; media and public health, and health insurance.

Stephen Somers Ph.D., President
The Center for Health Care Strategies
P.O. Box 3469
Princeton, NJ 08543
609.895.8101; HR@chcs.org
Stephen A. Somers, PhD, is the President of CHCS, which he founded in 1995 with a major grant on Medicaid managed care from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As CEO of CHCS, he is responsible for the organization's growth into a nationally recognized center of expertise on best practices in managed care for beneficiaries of this country's safety-net health coverage programs. CHCS now receives support from multiple philanthropies, including the Annie E. Casey, David and Lucile Packard, and California HealthCare Foundations, as well as The Commonwealth Fund. Prior to CHCS, Dr. Somers was an Associate Vice President and Program Officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, Dr. Somers was a staff member at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, and the Executive Secretary of the U.S. Commissioner of Education's Task Force on Urban High Schools in the former U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Dr. Somers serves as a Visiting Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He earned his PhD in the Politics of Education from Stanford University.

Marjorie Speers Ph.D., Executive Director
Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc.
915 15th Street, N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
202.783.1112; mspeers@aahrpp.org
Dr. Speers served as Acting Executive Director at the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where she oversaw the development of "Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants." AAHRPP offers accreditation to institutions that conduct or review research with human participants.
 
Alan Weil, Executive Director
National Academy for State Health Policy
50 Monument Square, Suite 502
Portland, ME 04101
207.874.6524; aweil@nashp.org
The National Academy for State Health Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to helping states achieve excellence in health policy and practice. NASHP conducts research into areas of vital importance to states and to those who depend on state governments for health coverage.
 
Maya Wiley, Founder and Director
Center for Social Inclusion (CSI)
50 Broad St., Suite 1820
New York, NY 10004
212.248.2785; mwiley@thecsi.org
The Center for Social Inclusion is a national policy advocacy organization that works to dismantle structural racism. Wiley previously was a senior adviser on race and poverty for the Open Society Institute’s U.S. programs. She also helped develop and implement the OSI’s criminal justice initiative in South Africa.
 
Marian Wright Edelman, President
Children's Defense Fund
25 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
202.662.3500 work or 202.244.9004 home; cdfinfo@childrensdefense.org
CDF advocates for the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves, paying particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF encourages preventive investment before children get sick, into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. CDF was founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman; it is supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm and the parent body of CDF. For two years, she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and, in l973, began the Children's Defense Fund.

Dara Blachman, Director
Federal Agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
idb0@cdc.gov
A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, physical environment and safety, behavior and education. It releases an annual report, “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being,” each July. For 2010 data, see this year's America's Children in Brief.

David Hansell, Acting Assistant Secretary
Administration for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
370 L'Enfant Plaza Promenade SW
Washington, DC 20201
202.401.5180; david.hansell@acf.hhs.gov
Hansell became acting assistant secretary in July 2010. ACF oversees programs that promote the social and economic well-being of America’s children, youth and families. Prior to his government experience, Hansell served in a range of positions at Gay Men's Health Crisis, including director of legal services and deputy director for government and public affairs. He has also been a consultant on health policy and social services issues to a wide range of governmental and non-profit organizations.

Jack Tweedie, Program Director, Children and Families Program
National Conference of State Legislatures
1560 Broadway, Suite 700
Denver, CO 80202
202.624.8667; press-room@ncsl.org
Tweedie directs the National Conference of State Legislature’s Children and Families Program. He oversees NCSL’s assistance to state legislatures on welfare and poverty, child welfare, early education and child care, and youth. His current efforts focus on state Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) flexibility and state strategies to reduce child and family poverty. He provides technical assistance to states considering policy changes in TANF and poverty programs. He has helped the states maintain successful programs and services, improve key outcomes such as job retention and advancement for parents leaving work for welfare, while meeting the higher federal work participation rates. He leads NCSL’s effort to help states develop broad-based strategies to reduce family poverty and reduce the effects of children growing up in poverty. He also works with state officials on strengthening supports for low-income working families, collaboration between human services and other agencies, the effects of tight state budgets on human service programs and efforts to strengthen marriage and fatherhood. Tweedie has written several articles in State Legislatures magazine on welfare reform, welfare to work, and states’ efforts to support healthy marriages. Before joining NCSL in 1995, he taught political science and public policy at the University of Denver and the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washington State University and a Ph.D. and a law degree from UC-Berkeley.

Kenneth Wolfe, Media Contact
Administration on Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, DC 20201
202.401.9215; kenneth.wolfe@acf.hhs.gov
ACF funds state, territory, local and tribal organizations to improve the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities. It oversees roughly 60 programs involving child welfare and child support, Head Start, child care, family violence, and fatherhood and marriage.