Speakers at the 2023 Public Health TechXpo and Futures Forum are some of the biggest names in public health and experts across the technology, professional services, financial, workforce, and related sectors.
Rachel Abbey, MPH
Public Health Analyst, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Snigdha Acharya, JD
General Counsel, Chicago Department of Public Health
Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH
Senior Executive Consultant, ASTHO
Abraham Anderson, PhD, MS
Emergency Manager, Louisiana Department of Health
Brian Anderson, MD
Chief Digital Health Physician, MITRE Corporation
Ryan Argentieri, MBA, MA
Deputy Director, Office of Technology, ONC
Noam H. Arzt, PhD, FHIMSS, FAMIA
President, HLN Consulting, LLC
Allison Arwady, MD, MPH
Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health
John Auerbach, MBA
Senior Vice President for Public Health, ICF International, Inc.
Lisa Bari, MBA, MPH
Chief Executive Officer, Civitas Networks for Health
Alicia Beckett
Deputy Director for Technology and Products, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology (CDC)
Craig Behm, MBA
Chief Executive Officer, CRISP
Monica Bharel, MD, MPH
Senior Public Health Advisor, Advanced Clinical, Assigned to Google
Cara Biddlecom, MPH
Deputy Public Health Director, Public Health Division, Oregon Health Authority
Phil Boone
Associate Director, Health, Guidehouse
Caroline Brazeel, MPH
Senior Director, Population Health and Innovation, ASTHO
Shannon Breitzman, MFT
Principal, Health Management Associates
Denise Chrysler, JD
Senior Advisor, Network for Public Health Law
Garfield Clunie, MD
President, National Medical Association
Brooke Cunningham, MD, PhD
Health Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health
Jim Daniel
State and Local Government Public Health Leader, Amazon Web Services
Nicholas E. Davidson, MS, MA, CPM
Senior Deputy for Public Health and the Director for Community Health Services, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Tiffany Dent, MPH
Chief Growth Officer, STChealth
Charles Elliott
SLED Practice Lead, Research, Google Public Sector
Jenny Epstein, MS
Deputy Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Statistics, Illinois Department of Public Health
Jeanene Fowler
Assistant Director, Maricopa County Department of Public Health
Michael Fraser, PhD, MS, CAE, FCPP
Chief Executive Officer, ASTHO
(2016 – 2024)
Kandi Fredere, PhD, FACHE
Regional Health Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Kyle Freese, PhD, MPH
Chief Scientific Officer, STChealth
Dylan George, PhD, MS
Director, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chris Hein, MS
Director of Customer Engineering, SLED, Google Public Sector
Dawn Heisey-Grove, PhD, MPH
State and Local Government Public Health Analytics Leader, Amazon Web Services
Sara Herdman
Vice President, Brand Strategy, Verato
Ted Hill
Senior Vice President Sales Marketing, SSG
Stacey Hoferka, MPH, MSIS
Special Projects Epidemiologist, Illinois Department of Public Health
Srini Iyer, MS
Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Health Group, Leidos
Hirsh Jain
Head of Public Health and Senior Vice President, Federal, Palantir Technologies
Chrissie Juliano, MPP
Executive Director, Big Cities Health Coalition
Manisha Juthani, MD
Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Health
William Kassler, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Palantir
Nicole Kelm, MPH
Senior Director of Strategy and Operations, Deloitte Health Equity Institute
Omar Khalid
Director, Workforce, ASTHO
Shannon Kolman, MBA
Policy Specialist, Health/Public Health, National Council of State Legislatures
JT Lane, MPH
Senior Vice President, Population Health & Innovation, ASTHO
Jennifer Layden, MD, PhD
Acting Director, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mark Levine, MD
Commissioner, Vermont Department of Health
Rashonda Lewis, JD, MHA
Data Governance and Privacy Specialist, RTI
Kathy Lofy, MD
Senior Consultant of Public Health, Resultant
Arnaldo Machado
Director of Public Health Workforce Development and Resilience, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Alison Maffey, MSW
Vice President, Social and Behavioral Health, ASTHO
John McClure
Vaccine Demand Strategist, Louisiana Department of Health
Julie McDougal
Diversity & Inclusion Global Women’s Community Leader, IBM
Sunaina Menawat, MS
Associate Partner, Health & Human Services and Public Health, State, Local, and Education Industry, IBM Consulting Public Health Group
Sarah Miller, MPH
Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey and Company
Praney Mittal
Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Healthcare
Kris Mork, PhD
Director, Public Health Informatics, Advanced Analytics and Intelligent Automation, Guidehouse
Jennifer Moss
Award-winning Writer, International Speaker, and workplace Culture Strategist
Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, MPA
Associate Dean for Health Equity, Office of Health Equity, University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School
Lindsey Myers, MPH
Vice President, Public Health Workforce and Infrastructure, ASTHO
Andrei Naeymi-Rad, MBA
Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Intelligent Medical Objects
Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA
Former Chief Medical Officer, Salesforce and AT&T
Von Nguyen, MD, MPH
Clinical Lead, Public and Population Health, Google
Philippa O'Hagan
Deployment Strategist, Palantir Technologies Inc.
Cathi Ortiz, EdD
Manager Chicago Community Health Response Corps, Calumet Area Industrial Commission
Art Papier, MD
CEO, VisualDx
Laura Parajon, MD, MPH
Deputy Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Department of Health
Sarah Patterson, MA
Senior Advisor for Strategy and Programs, National Center for STLT Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Carrie Paykoc, MBA
Managing Director, Innsena
Russ Peal, CPRP, CMSR
Director, Workforce Recruitment & Retention Service, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs
AJ Pearlman, JD
Director, Public Health AmeriCorps
Joanne Pearsol, MA, MCHES
Director, Workforce Development, ASTHO
Jamie Pina, PhD, MSPH
Vice President, Public Health Data Modernization and Informatics, ASTHO
Marcus Plescia, MD
Chief Medical Officer, ASTHO
Pam Pontones, MA
Deputy Health Commissioner of Local Health Services, Indiana Department of Health
Tamyra Porter
Partner and State Health Leader, Guidehouse
Paritosh Prasad, MD, MBA, DTM&H
Director of Global and Public Health, VisualDx
Rhonda Randall, DO
United Health Foundation Board Member and Senior Advisor to America’s Health Rankings
Eric Reinhart
Political Anthropologist, Psychoanalyst, and Physician, Northwestern University
Valerie N. Rogers, MPH
Director, Government Relations, HIMSS
Brittney M. Roy, MPA
Program Director, Public Health, National Governors Association
Elizabeth Ruebush, MPH
Senior Director, Public Health Data Modernization and Informatics, ASTHO
Gabriel Seidman, DrPH
Director of Policy, Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine
Umair Shah, MD, MPH
Secretary of Health, Washington State Department of Health
Nicholas Soulakis, PhD, MS
Chair, Department of Health Informatics and Data Science, Loyola University Chicago
Steven J. Stack, MD, MBA
Commissioner, Kentucky Department for Public Health
Megan Tompkins, MPH
DMI Implementation Lead, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Lucas Tramontozzi, MPH
Consultant, Health Insights, Innovation Horizons
Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Asad Tufail
Vice President, Customer Success, STChealth
Elke Shaw-Tulloch, MHS
State Health Official, Administrator, Division of Public Health, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
Lisa Villarroel, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer for Public Health, Arizona Department of Health Services
Caryn Vincent, MPH
Organizational Advancement Officer, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Sameer Vohra, MD, JD, MA, FAAP
Director, Illinois Department of Public Health
Fikirte Wagaw, MPH
First Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health
Thomas Waites
Director, Together Mentorship Software
Jacqueline A. Watson, DO, MBA
Chief of Staff, DC Health
ClarLynda Williams-Devane, PhD
Senior Deputy Director, North Carolina Division of Public Health
Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, ASTHO
Grace Yunis, MBA, PMP
Director, Public Health, Guidehouse
Anne Zink, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer, Alaska Department of Health