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Board
of Directors
Max
Pepper, MD, MPH, President
Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, Vice President
Peter Orris, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM, Secretary
Treasurer
Lillian Terris, Ph.D.
Phyllis Freeman, JD [non voting, ex-officio
member]
Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA [non voting,
ex-officio member]
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Profile:
Phyllis Freeman
Phyllis
Freeman is a Professor in the College of Public and Community Service,
Senior Fellow in the Center for Social Policy of the John Jay McCormack
Graduate School of Policy Studies, and on the faculty of the Public
Policy Ph.D. program, University of Massachusetts Boston. She specializes
in law, public policy, and public health. She served as Counsel
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the US House of Representatives
(1982-86), was a Scholar-in-Residence at the US Institute of Medicine/National
Academy of Sciences (1986-87), and has worked with the Pan American
Health Organization, the UN Task Force for Child Survival, and the
Fogarty International Center at the US National Institutes of Health.
She served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National
Center for Infectious Diseases of CDC and serves now on the Board
of Advisors for the Massachusetts Biological Laboratories and on
the Editorial Board of Salud Publica (national public health journal
of Mexico). During the 1992-93 academic year, she was a Fulbright
Scholar at Mexico’s Academy of Medicine and National Institute
of Public Health. She has written extensively about public health
policy domestically and internationally.
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