Health Programs

Mental Health Task Force and National Advisory Council


Task Force Members

• Rosalynn Carter, Chair
  


• Renato D. Alarcon, M.D., M.P.H., Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Medical School, Medical Director, Adult Psychiatry Teaching Unit, Psychiatry and Psychology Treatment Center, Mayo Medical Center
  


• William R. Beardslee, M.D., Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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• 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
  Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management
  Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
  


• Mary Jane England, M.D., President, Regis College
  


• W. Rodney Hammond, Ph.D., 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., Education Specialist, Bureau of Indian Education, Department of the Interior
  


• Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP Professor and Chief Psychologist
  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
  


• Sally Engelhard Pingree, Trustee, The Charles Engelhard Foundation; Member, The Carter Center Board of Trustees
  


• 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 Center of Excellence for Health Disparities, Poussaint/Satcher/Cosby Chair in Mental Health


• Leslie Scallet, J.D., Washington, DC
  


• Joel Slack, Executive Director, Respect International

Ex-Officio Members

• Thomas Bryant, M.D., J.D., Chairman, President's Commission on Mental Health, 1977 78; President, National Foundation for Mental Health
  


• Kathryn Cade, White House Projects Director for First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 1977-80
  
  
• 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
  

Fellows

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


• Julius Richmond, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States and
  Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1977 81; John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus, Harvard University
  
  

National Advisory Council

• William G. Baker, Jr.,  M.D., Past President, Atlanta Regional Health Forum
  


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


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


• Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Pressley Professor of Social Medicine and
  Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School,
  Department of Social Medicine
  


• Jeffrey Houpt, M.D., Former Dean and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  


• 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
  


• 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., Executive Director, The Carter Center
  


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


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


• Yolonda M. Johnson, Senior Program Secretary, The Carter Center Mental Health Program
  


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


• Rebecca G. Palpant, M.S., Senior Program Associate, The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
  


• Jane Bigham, Assistant Program Coordinator, The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
  

Funded in part by: The Annenberg Foundation, Boston Foundation, and Charles Engelhard Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation