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COVID Collaborative

COVID Collaborative
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COVID Collaborative is an American advocacy group composed of representatives from the fields of health, education, and the economy. The stated intention of the group is to develop consensus recommendations, and engage with state and local leaders across America.[1]

Organization

COVID Collaborative is a founding member of the COVID-19 Community Corps.[2]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
John Bridgeland Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer[1:1] Civic Enterprises
Ray Chambers Co-Founder[3] MCJ Amelior Foundation
Gary Edson President Civic Enterprises
Steven Phillips Vice President, Science and Strategy Chatham House
Anjali Balakrishna Program Director Frontier Markets
Emily Devereaux Fellow American University
Jennifer Harris Lead, Rural and Faith Community Engagement JWH Communications
Catherine Jaynes Senior Director, External Affairs Cicero Group
Riley Kennedy Civic Fellow Civic Enterprises
Ellie Manspile Operations Director, Civic Civic Enterprises
Dirk Kempthorne National Advisory Committee Co-Chair United States Department of the Interior
Deval Patrick National Advisory Committee Co-Chair Bain Capital
Barbara Alexander National Advisory Committee Duke University School of Medicine
Danielle Allen National Advisory Committee Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
Drew Altman National Advisory Committee Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
Bill Antholis National Advisory Committee Miller Center
John P. Bailey National Advisory Committee American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Melody Barnes National Advisory Committee Democracy Initiative
Georges Benjamin National Advisory Committee American Public Health Association (APHA)
Regina Benjamin National Advisory Committee Office of the Surgeon General (OSG)
Richard Besser National Advisory Committee Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Carrie Billy National Advisory Committee American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
Joshua Bolten National Advisory Committee Business Roundtable
David Brailer National Advisory Committee Health Evolution
John Bridgeland National Advisory Committee Civic Enterprises
Larry Brilliant National Advisory Committee Pandefense Advisory
Nancy Brown National Advisory Committee American Heart Association (AHA)
Scott Burns National Advisory Committee Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Barbara Bush National Advisory Committee Global Health Corps
Robert Califf National Advisory Committee Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Elizabeth Cameron National Advisory Committee Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
Richard Carmona National Advisory Committee Office of the Surgeon General (OSG)
Brian C. Castrucci National Advisory Committee de Beaumont Foundation
Peter Chernin National Advisory Committee The Chernin Group (TCG)
Juliet Choi National Advisory Committee Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF)
Bechara Choucair National Advisory Committee Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
Chris Christie National Advisory Committee Government of New Jersey
Suzanne Clark National Advisory Committee United States Chamber of Commerce
Michael Crow National Advisory Committee Arizona State University (ASU)
Marla Dalton National Advisory Committee National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID)
Mitch Daniels National Advisory Committee Hudson Institute
Mark Del Monte National Advisory Committee American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Charity Dean National Advisory Committee The Public Health Company
Joshua DeBois National Advisory Committee White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Carlos del Rio National Advisory Committee Emory Center for AIDS Research
Leah Devlin National Advisory Committee UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Arne Duncan National Advisory Committee Emerson Collective
Mark Dybul National Advisory Committee Center for Global Health Practice and Impact
Martin Edlund National Advisory Committee Malaria No More
Joycelyn Elders National Advisory Committee Office of the Surgeon General (OSG)
Ezekiel Emanuel National Advisory Committee University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Matt Eyles National Advisory Committee America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
Paul Farmer National Advisory Committee Partners in Health
Harvey Fineberg National Advisory Committee Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Gabrielle Fitzgerald National Advisory Committee Panorama
Michael Fraser National Advisory Committee Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Lori Tremmel Freeman National Advisory Committee National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
Julio Frenk National Advisory Committee University of Miami
Tom Frieden National Advisory Committee Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Bill Frist National Advisory Committee Frist Cressey Ventures
Geoffrey Garin National Advisory Committee Hart Research
Robert Gates National Advisory Committee Office of the Secretary of Defense
Don Gips National Advisory Committee Skoll Foundation
Céline Gounder National Advisory Committee Just Human Productions
Joseph Grogan National Advisory Committee White House Coronavirus Task Force
David Grossman National Advisory Committee Kaiser Permanente Washington
Margaret Hamburg National Advisory Committee Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Claire Hannan National Advisory Committee Association of Immunization Managers (AIM)
Virginia W. Harris National Advisory Committee National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Patricia de Stacy Harrison National Advisory Committee Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
Ray Hart National Advisory Committee Council of the Great City Schools
Cheryl Healton National Advisory Committee NYU School of Global Public Health
Kathy Higgins National Advisory Committee Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Glenn Hubbard National Advisory Committee Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Michael Huey National Advisory Committee American College Health Association (ACHA)
Holly Humphrey National Advisory Committee Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Tom Inglesby National Advisory Committee Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Vicki Jay National Advisory Committee National Alliance for Children's Grief
Derrick Johnson National Advisory Committee National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Devin Jopp National Advisory Committee Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
Chrissie Juliano National Advisory Committee Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC)
Rebecca Katz National Advisory Committee Center for Global Health Science and Security
Vanessa Kerry National Advisory Committee Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Chi Kim National Advisory Committee Pure Edge
John King Jr. National Advisory Committee United States Department of Education
Gary Langer National Advisory Committee Langer Research Associates
Michael Leavitt National Advisory Committee Leavitt Partners
Curtis LeGeyt National Advisory Committee National Association of Broadcasters
Frank Luntz National Advisory Committee Storyline Strategies
James Madara National Advisory Committee American Medical Association (AMA)
Mike Magee National Advisory Committee Chiefs for Change
Spero Manson National Advisory Committee Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH)
Stephen Massey National Advisory Committee Meteorite
Stanley McChrystal National Advisory Committee Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)
Mark McLellan National Advisory Committee Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Doug McMillon National Advisory Committee Walmart
Jamie Merisotis National Advisory Committee Lumina Foundation
Carissa Moffat Miller National Advisory Committee Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Judith Monroe National Advisory Committee CDC Foundation
Marc Morial National Advisory Committee National Urban League
Janet Murguía National Advisory Committee UnidosUS
Chris Murray National Advisory Committee Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Charles Nelson National Advisory Committee Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry
Karen Niemi National Advisory Committee Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Antonia Novello National Advisory Committee Office of the Surgeon General (OSG)
Rod Paige National Advisory Committee United States Department of Education
Allen Pratt National Advisory Committee National Rural Education Association
Walter Panzirer National Advisory Committee Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
Amy Pisani National Advisory Committee Vaccinate Your Family
Jonathan Quick National Advisory Committee Rockefeller Foundation
Kathy Roth-Douquet National Advisory Committee Blue Star Families
Valerie Montgomery Rice National Advisory Committee Morehouse School of Medicine
Tom Ridge National Advisory Committee Ridge Global
Richard Riley National Advisory Committee United States Department of Education
David Satcher National Advisory Committee United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Yvette Roubideaux National Advisory Committee National Congress of American Indians
Howard Schultz National Advisory Committee Starbucks
Kathleen Sebelius National Advisory Committee Sebelius Resources
Rajiv Shah National Advisory Committee Rockefeller Foundation
Fawn Sharp National Advisory Committee National Congress of American Indians
Lisa Sherman National Advisory Committee Ad Council
Timothy Shriver National Advisory Committee Special Olympics
Robby Sikka National Advisory Committee Tonal
Andy Slavitt National Advisory Committee White House COVID-19 Response Team
Mark Smolinski National Advisory Committee Skoll Global Threats Fund
Margaret Spellings National Advisory Committee Texas 2036
Hemi Tewarson National Advisory Committee Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Jay Timmons National Advisory Committee National Association of Manufacturers
Reed Tuckson National Advisory Committee Tuckson Health Connections
Kristin Urquiza National Advisory Committee Marked By Covid
Sarah Verardo National Advisory Committee Independence Fund
Seema Verma National Advisory Committee Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Rick Warren National Advisory Committee Purpose Driven Network
Ted Wiard National Advisory Committee Golden Willow Retreat
James Wilkinson National Advisory Committee Society for Vascular Ultrasound
Michelle Williams National Advisory Committee Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jay Winsten National Advisory Committee Center for Health Communication
Bob Wise National Advisory Committee Government of West Virginia
Brennan Wood National Advisory Committee Dougy Center
Chris Wyant National Advisory Committee Obama Foundation
Ron Yee National Advisory Committee National Association of Community Health Centers
José Zaglul National Advisory Committee EARTH University
Phillip Zelikow National Advisory Committee 9/11 Commission
Mara Aspinall Expert Contributor BlueStone Venture Partners
Robert Balfanz Expert Contributor Center for Social Organization of Schools
Suprotik Basu Expert Contributor Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital
Alicia Bazzano Expert Contributor Special Olympics
Jessica Bell Expert Contributor Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
Dawn Boudwin Expert Contributor Made to Save
Margaret Bourdeaux Expert Contributor Harvard Medical School
Mollyann Brodie Expert Contributor Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
Courtney Brown Expert Contributor Lumina Foundation
Robyn Buchsbaum Expert Contributor American College Health Association
Rita Carreón Expert Contributor UnidosUS
Julia Cartwright Expert Contributor NYU School of Global Public Health
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Expert Contributor Starbucks
Chris Clarke Expert Contributor Empower Media
Alan Court Expert Contributor Medicines for Malaria Venture
Natalie Davis Expert Contributor Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Kate Emanuel Expert Contributor Ad Council
Stefani Friedhoff Expert Contributor Brown University School of Public Health
Monica Gandhi Expert Contributor UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Ellie Graeden Expert Contributor Talus Analytics
Kim Hanson Expert Contributor Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Howard Koh Expert Contributor Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Bruce Lowry Expert Contributor Skoll Foundation
Andrew Mangino Expert Contributor Future Project
Taylor McGabe-Juhnke Expert Contributor Rural Schools Collaborative
Melanie Ott Expert Contributor Gladstone Institutes
Anand Parekh Expert Contributor Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC)
Jason Patnosh Expert Contributor National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
Sonia Pérez Expert Contributor UnidosUS
Leah Perkinson Expert Contributor Rockefeller Foundation
Julia Rafal-Baer Expert Contributor Chiefs for Change
Carolyn Reynolds Expert Contributor Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Francie Richards Expert Contributor WE Charity
Caitlin Rivers Expert Contributor Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Ellen Robinson Expert Contributor National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
Yumeka Rushing Expert Contributor National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Stefani Sanford Expert Contributor College Board
Annmarie Sasdi Expert Contributor Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
William Schaffner Expert Contributor Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Donna Schuurman Expert Contributor Dougy Center
Cyrus Shahpar Expert Contributor Resolve to Save Lives
Kirsten Silverberg Expert Contributor Business Roundtable
Ryan Sims Expert Contributor United States of Care
Kendall Stagg Expert Contributor Kaiser Permanente
Meredith Sumpter Expert Contributor Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
Dan Treglia Expert Contributor University of Pennsylvania
Rick Wade Expert Contributor United States Chamber of Commerce
Crystal Watson Expert Contributor Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
De Kai Wu Expert Contributor Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Sponsors and collaborators

COVID Collaborative is sponsored by the AllState Foundation, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Kaiser Permanente, the MCJ Amelior Foundation, Pure Edge, the Skoll Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation.[1:2]

Institutions collaborating with the COVID Collaborative include:[1:3]

  • Ad Council
  • AllState Foundation
  • America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
  • American College Health Association (ACHA)
  • American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
  • American Heart Association (AHA)
  • American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
  • American Medical Association (AMA)
  • American Public Health Association (APHA)
  • Arizona State University (ASU)
  • Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF)
  • Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
  • Association of Immunization Managers (AIM)
  • Association of State and Territorial Health Directors (ASTHO)
  • Big Cities Health Coalition
  • Bipartisan Policy Center
  • Blue Star Families
  • Brown University School of Public Health
  • Business Roundtable
  • CDC Foundation
  • Center for Global Health Science and Security
  • Chiefs for Change
  • Civic Enterprises
  • Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
  • College Board
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
  • Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
  • Council of the Great City Schools
  • COVID-Local
  • Dougy Center
  • Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
  • Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
  • Emory Vaccine Center
  • Ending Pandemics
  • Everyone Graduates Center
  • Gladstone Institutes
  • Hart Research
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
  • Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
  • Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
  • Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Langer Research Associates
  • Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
  • Marked By Covid
  • MCJ Amelior Foundation
  • Miller Center
  • Morehouse School of Medicine
  • National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)
  • National Alliance for Children's Grief (NACG)
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
  • National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
  • National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
  • National Association of Manufacturers
  • National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW)
  • National Congress of American Indians
  • National Rural Education Association (NREA)
  • National Rural Health Association (NRHA)
  • Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
  • NYU School of Global Public Health
  • Pandemic Action Network
  • Pure Edge
  • Resolve to Save Lives
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Rockefeller Foundation
  • Rural Schools Collaborative
  • UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
  • UnidosUS
  • UNITE
  • United States of Care
  • University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
  • University of Miami
  • University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
  • Vaccinate Your Family
  • Walmart

  1. About. COVID Collaborative. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from http://archive.vn/2022.05.15-111049/https://www.covidcollaborative.us/about ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Members of the COVID-19 Community Corps. (2021, June 9). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://web.archive.org/web/20221014053909/https://wecandothis.hhs.gov/members-covid-19-community-corps ↩︎

  3. Ray Chambers. COVID Collaborative. Retrieved February 12, 2025, from https://www.covidcollaborative.us/team/ray-chambers ↩︎