Findings from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health
 
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Cheri Pies

 
Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor and Director, The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University

Dr. Bethell is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University.  She is the founding Director of The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) where she leads the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health.  Established in 1997, the CAHMI promotes early and lifelong health of children, youth and families in public policy and community practice, with a focus on family-engagement and family-driven data and IT tools. Dr. Bethell served as principal investigator for the collaborative development and widespread national use of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener as well as in the validation and national, state and local implementation of numerous child, youth and family health and health care quality measurement and improvement, most of which have been endorsed for voluntary use by the National Quality Forum. Prior to OHSU, Christina served as Senior Vice President at the Foundation for Accountability, where she led the development of numerous adult and child health care quality measures and the nationally, including the Adults with Special Health Care Needs Screener and the widely adopted Consumer Information Framework for reporting quality information to consumers and health care plans and providers. She earned her B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.P.H. and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley as well as a Ph.D. in health services and policy research from the University of Chicago.  Dr. Bethell is committed to contributing to the development of family, community and health care systems that proactively address early life socio-emotional factors impacting health over the life course, including the emerging field of mindfulness and interpersonal neurobiology as it applies to improving health care quality and the health of children.
Whitney Witt

 
Stephen Blumberg, PhD, Associate Director for Science, Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Dr. Stephen Blumberg was recently named the Associate Director for Science for the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to this new role, he was the lead statistician for the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey. This random-digit-dial survey mechanism regularly fields some of the world’s largest telephone surveys on children’s health, health care, and well-being, including the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and the National Survey of Children’s Health. His published research often focuses on survey strategies to identify vulnerable populations, such as children with special health care needs and children with autism spectrum disorder.  Since 2003, Dr. Blumberg has also written and spoken extensively about the prevalence of wireless-only households and the impact of cell phones on coverage bias for telephone surveys. His honors include the 2008 Young Professional Achievement award from the Coalition for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology, the 2009 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), and election as the 2012 President of DC-AAPOR, AAPOR’s Washington-Baltimore chapter.
William Sappenfield

 

Michael D. Kogan, PhD, Director, Office of Epidemiology and Research, HRSA / Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Dr. Michael D. Kogan is Director of the Office of Epidemiology and Research for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau at HRSA. In this position he is responsible for directing activities of the office with an emphasis on 1) building the data capacity of federal, state and local areas in maternal and child health; 2) strengthening the present and future workforce skill levels in maternal and child health epidemiology; 3) disseminating information and strengthening the evidence base in maternal and child health; and 4) overseeing the extramural research program.  He also serves as the Project Director for the National Surveys of Children’s Health and the National Surveys of Children with Special Health Care Needs.  Prior to this position, he was a senior epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics.

He serves on the editorial board of the Maternal and Child Health Journal and has served in that capacity for the American Journal of Public Health. He has served as a special editor for Pediatrics and the Maternal and Child Health Journal.  He has also held adjunct academic appointments at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Harvard University, and is a regular lecturer at Georgetown University.  He has published over 100 articles and book chapters on numerous topics in pediatric and perinatal epidemiology.  He received the 2003 Advancing Knowledge award from the Coalition for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology.  He also received the 2011 HRSA Administrator’s Award for Excellence for his leadership and research. He received his doctorate in epidemiology from Yale University.