Public Health Accreditation Board

Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Chair: William Riley, PhD
Associate Dean, University of Minnesota School of Public Health (Minneapolis, MN)

Vice Chair: Carol Moehrle
District Director, North Central District Health Department (Lewiston, ID)

Secretary/Treasurer: Edward A. Harrison, MBA
President, National Commission on Correctional Health Care (Chicago, IL)

Paul K. Halverson, DrPH, MHSA, FACHE
Director & State Health Officer, Arkansas Department of Health (Little Rock, AK)

Les Beitsch, MD, JD 
Director, Center for Medicine/Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine (Tallahassee, FL)

Kaye Bender, RN, PhD, FAAN
President and CEO, PHAB
 

Directors

Rex Archer, MD, MPH
Director, City of Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department (Kansas City, MO)

Terry L. Cline, PhD
Commissioner of Health, Oklahoma State Departmnet of Health (Oklahoma City, OK)

Leah Devlin, DDS, MPH
University of North Carolina School of Public Health (Raleigh, NC)

Joe Finkbonner
Executive Director, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (Portland, OR)

Fernando A. Guerra, MD, MPH
Director, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (San Antonio, TX)

Kenneth W. Kerik, MPH, RS
Ohio Public Health Council (Columbus, OH)

Bud Nicola, MD, MHSA, FACPM
Director, University of Washington School of Public Health (Seattle, WA)

Alonzo Louis Plough, PhD, MPH
Director , County of Los Angeles Public Health, Emergency Preparedness, and Response Program (Los Angeles, CA)

F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD
Professor of Health Services Research & Policy, University of Kentucky College of Public Health (Lexington, KY)

Hugh Tilson, MD, MPH, DrPH
Epidemiologist and former Director of North Carolina’s Division of Health Services (Raleigh, NC)

Harvey Wallace, PhD
Professor and Department Head, Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI)


Organizational Representatives

Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (Emeritus)
Executive Director, APHA

Stacy A. Bohlen
Executive Director, NIHB

Marie Fallon, MHSA
Executive Director, NALBOH

Paul Jarris, MD, MBA
Executive Director, ASTHO

Bobby M. Pestronk, MPH
Executive Director, NACCHO