Advisors & Collaborators

Strategic Advisory Committee

Our Strategic Advisory Committee (SAC) provides strategic guidance and direction to the American Heart Association and Voices for Healthy Kids to advance advocacy campaigns. SAC members explore and advance key movement-wide topics that broadly impact member organizations. Deepening understanding and commitments around health equity is a leading priority.

• American Indian Cancer Foundation 

• Center for Science in the Public Interest 

• ChangeLab Solutions 

• Child Care Aware of America 

• Friends of the Children

• Gramercy Research Group

• Hawai’i Public Health Institute 

• Hispanic Unity of Florida 

• National Alliance on Hispanic Health 

• National Head Start Association 

• Nemours Children’s Health System 

• Pritzker Children's Initiative

• Public Health Law Center 

• Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences at Baylor University 

• Root Cause Research Center

• The Praxis Project 

• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

• University of South Carolina

Collaborators

Innovation, Equity and Exploration Workgroups 

Our Innovation, Equity and Exploration (IEE) Workgroups explore defined policy questions to advance advocacy innovation, health equity and how policy issues may overlap, and support dialogue on social, demographic, policy and other trends related to the Voices for Healthy Kids policy priorities. Voices for Healthy Kids provides funding opportunities to support these projects to engage issue experts, stakeholders, community organizations, researchers, and others in a search for innovative policy solutions and future forecasting related to public policies that support children growing up at a healthy weight. 

National Media Core Team  

The National Media Core Team comprises communication experts from 25 national organizations who are working together to advance media and public relations strategies. 

Policy Research Advisory Group 

The Policy Research Advisory Group is a small group of equity-focused research experts that inform the research activities at Voices for Healthy Kids. Members challenge us to see our blind spots in our research approach, design, and methods and help get us closer to the root causes of inequities and become more anti-racist in our policy agenda.

• Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH, University of Miami School of Medicine

• Gabriela Gallegos, JD, MPP, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health

• Rosalina James, PhD, Urban Indian Health Institute

• Christina Stacy, PhD, Urban Institute

• Michael Stevenson, MPH, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

• Melicia Whitt-Glover PhD, FACSM, Gramercy Research Group/Council on Black Health

• Stella Yi, PhD, MPH, New York University Center for the Study of Asian American Health

Policy Research Network 

The Policy Research Network comprises 40 members of the research community, including Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded research partners, American Heart Association professional volunteers (clinicians and scientists), academic institutions and individual researchers. The network serves as the evidence base for the initiative’s policy priorities. 

Partnerships

Health Leaders Initiative

Become a health leader to:

• Create a program model sharing the truth about health risks related to medical and oral health topics

• Engage national, state, local and tribal organizations who want to support goals, message and tools development, and assist with volunteer recruitment

• Change the narrative with media, legislators and community advocates

• Training Health Leader volunteers to provide key messages through effective message delivery

Download Presentation on Health Leaders Partnerships Here