The keynote speakers at the 28th Annual Health Summit "Starting Upstream: Creating Healthy Communities" are:
Dr. Tony Ward
Dr. Tony Ward is an Assistant Professor at The University of Montana’s Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS). He has both a B.S. (Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas) and M.S. (the University of Houston – Clear Lake, Houston, Texas) in Environmental Science, and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Montana in 2001. Dr. Ward also worked for several years as an environmental consultant in the Houston and Seattle areas specializing in air quality issues. In addition to conducting research, he also teaches in the University of Montana’s School of Public and Community Health Sciences, and is an adjunct faculty with the University of Montana’s Department of Chemistry. More information.
Nancy Lee
Nancy Lee is President of Social Marketing Services, Inc., a small consulting firm in Seattle, Washington, and has more than 30 years of practical marketing experience in private, nonprofit, and public sectors. An adjunct faculty member of the University of Washington and University of South Florida, she teaches Social Marketing and Marketing in the Public Sector. Lee is a frequent speaker on social marketing at conferences, seminars, and workshops and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Capetown in South Africa, Victoria University in Australia, the National University of Ireland in Galway, Yale, Oxford, and Stanford. She has consulted on a variety of public health social marketing campaigns including efforts to reduce HIV/AIDS, Tobacco Use, Teen Pregnancies, Senior Falls, Texting and Driving, and to increase Physical Activity, Timely Immunizations, Fruit and Vegetable consumption, and use of Seatbelts, Bike Helmets, Booster Seats and Lifevests.
Lee has coauthored six books with Philip Kotler, including Social Marketing for Public Health: Global Success Stories, Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good, UP and OUT of Poverty: The Social Marketing Solution, Marketing in the Public Sector: A Roadmap for Improved Performance, Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause, and Social Marketing: Improving the Quality of Life.
Marilyn Metzler
Marilyn Metzler is a social determinants of health analyst with the Community Health and Program Services Branch in the Division of Adult and Community Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is the lead on multiple activities focused on social determinants, including co-authoring the soon- to-be-released Promoting Health Equity: A Resource to Help Communities Address the Social Determinants of Health, guest-editing a theme issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, the development of a social context module for CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and organizing the CDC/ATSDR Social Determinants of Health Work Group. She has also served as the CDC lead on a team of federal agencies and private partners that is refining and updating the Community Health Status Indicators resource for monitoring and assessing community health. Previously, Marilyn worked in the CDC Urban Research Centers program office, which provided support for community-based participatory research centers in Seattle, Harlem, and Detroit. Before arriving at CDC, she was Regional Director of Community Health Education for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire.
