The Community Preventive Services Task Force
The Task Force is an independent, nonfederal, uncompensated body of public health and prevention experts, whose members are appointed by the Director of CDC. Task Force members:
- Oversee the prioritization process for which systematic reviews to conduct
- Participate in development and refinement of review methods
- Serve as members of individual review teams
- Consider the findings of all reviews and issue recommendations and findings to help inform decision making about policy, practice, research, and research funding in a wide range of U.S. settings
Task Force Members
- Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA (Chair) Director of Public Health and Health Officer, County of Los Angeles Department of Health
- Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, MPH (Vice-Chair) Dean, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ned Calonge, MD, MPH President and CEO, The Colorado Trust
- Marshall Chin, MD, MPH, FACP Richard Parillo Family Professor, Healthcare Ethics, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago; Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research; Director, RWJF Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change; General Internist
- John M. Clymer Executive Director, National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Loma Linda University School of Public Health
- Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH George A. Weiss University Professor, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
- Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD, MA Research Professor and Director, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Vice President, Consulting and Applied Research, Analytic Consulting and Research Services, Truven Health Analytics
- Lawrence W. Green, DrPH DSc(Hon.) Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco
- David Grossman, MD, MPH Medical Director, Population and Purchaser Strategy-Group Health Cooperative; Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute
- Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAP Dean, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
- Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Dean for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Senior Advisor to the Center for Public Health Initiatives, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- C. Tracy Orleans, PhD Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Nicolaas P. Pronk, PhD, FACSM, FAWHP Vice President, Health Management, and Health Science Officer, HealthPartners; Senior Research Investigator, HealthPartners Research Foundation; Adjunct Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
- Gilbert Ramirez, DrPH Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Educational Effectiveness, School of Public Health, West Virginia University
- Patrick Remington, MD, MPH Professor and Associate Dean for Public Health, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison
