The Board of Directors is comprised of ASTHO members who provide the organization with vision and expertise that guides the organization in its endeavors.
Voting Members:
- President
- President-Elect
- Immediate Past President
- Past President
- Secretary-Treasurer
- One representative from each of the ten HHS regions
- Two elected territorial representatives
Non-Voting Members:
- The chair of the Senior Deputies Committee
- The chair of the Affiliate Council
- One representative from ASTHO’s Alumni Society
- ASTHO’s CEO
Officers
President
Anne Zink, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer, Alaska Department of Health & Social Services, Division of Public Health
President-Elect
Steven J. Stack, MD, MBA
Commissioner, Kentucky Department for Public Health
Immediate Past President
Nirav Shah, MD, JD
Director, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Past President
VACANT
Secretary-Treasurer
Scott Harris, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA
State Health Officer
Alabama Department of Public Health
Regional and Territorial Directors
Region I
Mark Levine, MD
Commissioner, Vermont Department of Health
Region II
Carlos Mellado López, MD, FACEP
Secretary of Health, Puerto Rico Department of Public Health
Region III
VACANT
Region IV
Scott Harris, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA
State Health Officer, Alabama Department of Public Health
Region V
VACANT
Region VI
VACANT
Region VII
Paula Nickelson
Acting Director, Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services
Region VIII
Alexia Harrist, MD, PhD
State Health Officer and State Epidemiologist, Wyoming Department of Health
Region IX
Ihsan Azzam, MD, PhD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health
Region X
Elke Shaw-Tulloch, MHS
Public Health Administrator, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
USAPI
Esther L. Muña, PhD, MHA, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer, Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation
Territory
Justa E. Encarnacion, RN, MBA, HCM
Health Commissioner & Chief Public Health Officer, U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Health
Ex-Officio Members
Michael R. Fraser, PhD, MS, CAE, FCPP
Chief Executive Officer, ASTHO
Nicolas E. Davidson
Chair, Senior Deputies Committee
Senior Deputy for Public Health, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Richard Hamburg, MPA
Chair, Affiliate Council
Executive Director, Safe States Alliance
Mylynn Tufte, MBA, MSIM, BSN
Alumni Society Representative