Mental Health Task Force and National Advisory Council

Task Force Members

• Rosalynn Carter, Chair
  


• Renato D. Alarcon, M.D., M.P.H., Emeritus, Mayo Clinic, Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine
  


• William R. Beardslee, M.D., Director, Baer Prevention Initiatives and Chairman Emeritus, Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
  


• Carl C. Bell, M.D., FAPA, FAC.Psych., President and CEO, Community Mental Health Council, University of Illinois
  
  
• Benjamin G. Druss, M.D., M.P.H., Rosalynn Carter Endowed Chair for Mental Health
  Professor of Health Policy & Management
  Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
  
  
• Leisa R. Easom, Ph.D., R.N., Director, Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving
  


• Mary Jane England, M.D., Visiting Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
  


• W. Rodney Hammond, Ph.D., (Retired) Director
  Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  


• Rosa Gil, D.S.W., President & CEO, Comunilife, Inc.
  


• Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, M.S., Porcupine, S.D.
  


• Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP Professor and Chief Psychologist
  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
  
  
• Ruth Perou, Ph.D., Child Development Studies Team Leader, Division of Human Development & Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  
• Sally Engelhard Pingree, President, The S. Engelhard Center;  Trustee, The Charles Engelhard Foundation; Member, The Carter Center Board of Trustees
  
• Leslie Scallet, J.D., Washington, DC
  


• Joel Slack, Slack Consulting, LLC

Ex-Officio Members

• Kathryn Cade, White House Projects Director for First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 1977-80;  Chair, Board of Trustees, Judge Baker Children's Center
  
  
• Gregory L. Fricchione, M.D., Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Director, The Carter Center Mental Health Program, 2000 – 2002
  


• John J. Gates, Ph.D., Director, The Carter Center Mental Health Program, 1993 - 1999
  
  
• Larke Huang, Ph.D., Senior Advisory on Children, Office of the Administrator, SAMHSA
  

Fellows

• William Foege, M.D., Director, Centers for Disease Control, 1977 83;
  Health Policy Fellow, The Carter Center
  

National Advisory Council

• William G. Baker, Jr.,  M.D., Founder, Chrysalis Farms, LLC
  


• Johnnetta B. Cole, Ph.D., President, Bennett College
  


• Jane Delgado, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer,
  National Alliance for Hispanic Health
  


• Jeffrey Houpt, M.D., Former Dean and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  
  
• Patrick Kennedy, Former U.S. Representative, D-R.I.
  


• Antonia Novello, M.D., Commissioner of Health for New York State Department of Health; Surgeon General of the United States, 1990-1993
  


• Robert D. Ray, Governor of Iowa, 1969-83; President Emeritus, Drake University
  
  
• David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Surgeon General of the United States, and Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services, 1994-2001; Director of The Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Poussaint/Satcher/Cosby Chair in Mental Health, Morehouse School of Medicine
  


• Richard Surles, Ph.D., Commissioner, New York State Office of Mental Health, 1987-1994; Head of Operations, Comprehensive NeuroScience, Inc.
  
  
• Beverly Tatum, Ph.D., President, Spellman College
  


• Cynthia Ann Telles, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, The University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine
  


• Joanne Woodward, Actress; Director
  

 Staff

• John Hardman, M.D., President and CEO, The Carter Center

• Thomas H. Bornemann, Ed.D., Director, The Carter Center Mental Health Program

• Lei Ellingson, M.P.P., Associate Director, The Carter Center Mental Health Program

• Yolonda M. Johnson, Program Administrative Assistant, The Carter Center Mental Health Program

• Lynne Randolph, Program Coordinator, The Carter Center Mental Health Program

• Rebecca G. Palpant, M.S., Assistant Director, The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism

• Tina Rezvani, Assistant Program Coordinator, The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism

Funded in part by: Charles Engelhard Foundation