About Us

Advisory Board

Larry Adelman
Series Executive Producer & Co-Director of California Newsreel

Michele Alban
Director, Community Connections, Telemundo Network Group

Neal Baer, Co-Chair
Executive Producer, Under the Dome

Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
Assistant Professor, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Russ Brown
Executive Vice President, Marvel Enterprises, Inc.

Joseph Cerrell
Director, Europe Office, Foundation Relations,
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Jeffrey Cole
Director, Center for the Digital Future, USC

Jorge Daboub
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Univision

Bruce Evans
Senior Vice President, Drama Programming, NBC Entertainment

Sir Richard Feachem
Director, UCSF Global Health Group

Jonathan Fielding
Director of Public Health, L.A. County Department of Health Services

Irwin "Sonny" Fox
Senior V.P., Sonny Fox Consultants

Stephen Kory Friedman
General Manager, mtvU

Sylvia Gold
Former Senior Vice President, ICM

Jodi A. Gusek
Senior Vice President, Corporate Research, Gemstar–TV Guide International, Inc.

Herb Hamsher
President, TAO, Inc.

Mark Horton
Director, CA Department of Public Health

Richard Jackson
UCLA School of Public Health, Professor and Chair

Donna Kanter
Owner, The Kanter Company, Inc.

Christopher Keyser, Co-Chair
President, Writers Guild of America, West

Jeffrey Koplan
Director, Global Health Institute, Emory University

Norman Lear
Producer / Philanthropist

Heinz-Josef Lenz
Scientific Director, Cancer Genetics, USC Norris Cancer Center

Debra Lieberman
Director, Health Games Research, UC Santa Barbara

Aliza Lifshitz
Internist, Cedars Sinai Medical Center / Medical correspondent, Univision

Judith Light
Stage & Screen Actress / Producer

Barbara Masters
Public Policy Director, The California Endowment

Doe Mayer
Mary Pickford Chair / Professor of Film and Video Production,
USC School of Cinema Arts

Mike Miller
Senior Science Writer, Office of Media Relations, National Cancer Institute

Donna Mitroff
President, Mitroff & Associates

Thom Mount
CEO, Reliant Pictures Corporation

Stephen M. Ostroff
Director, Pennsylvania State Bureau of Epidemiology

James Redford
President, James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness

Michael Roberts
Executive Vice President, Current Programming, The CW Network

Marcy Ross
Executive Vice President, Current Programming, Fox Broadcasting

Miguel Sabido
Writer / Producer / Professor

Tom Scott
Director, Global Brand & Innovation, Global Health Policy and Advocacy Communications,
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Michael Taylor
Chair, Film & Television Production, USC School of Cinematic Arts

Carol Trussell
Producer

Thomas W. Valente
Director, MPH Program, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Liz Wise
Vice President, Current Programming, The CW Network 

Faye Wong
Past President, APHA / Branch Chief, CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control

 

Ex-officio members

Sandra de Castro Buffington
Director, Hollywood, Health & Society

Martin Kaplan
Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media and Society,
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism;
Director, The Norman Lear Center

Ernest J. Wilson III
Dean, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Vicki Freimuth
Professor, University of Georgia

Claudia Parvanta
Professor, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Victoria Riskin
Past President, Writers Guild of America, West

Vicki Beck
Director emerita, Hollywood, Health & Society