Jennifer Bernstein, J.D., M.P.H., is a deputy director with the Network’s Mid-States Region Office. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Women’s Studies and a Certificate in LGBT Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Juris Doctor and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Iowa in 2009. During graduate school, Jennifer was a research assistant at the National Health Law and Policy Resource Center. She conducted a multi-state survey of laws related to nursing homes civil monetary penalties for noncompliance and researched the effectiveness of the Medicare and Medicaid nursing home survey process. She also interned at the District of Columbia Primary Care Association, drafting a model state plan amendment for D.C. aimed at expanding language access services for Medicaid patients. Upon graduation, Jennifer was admitted to the Texas State Bar. She accepted the Hogg Foundation Mental Health Policy Fellowship working for Lutheran Social Services of the South in Austin, Texas. She worked during the 82nd Texas Legislative Session advocating for the expansion of trauma informed care throughout the state. She also volunteered as a pro bono attorney for Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas, representing low income victims of domestic violence.

Sallie Milam, JD, CIPP/US/G, is a deputy director of the Network’s Mid-States Region Office. Sallie has practiced law for over 25 years primarily in the health, HIPAA and general privacy areas. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, with U.S. and government privacy certifications. She has extensive experience in working with state agencies on data related issues. From 2003 to 2018, Sallie served as West Virginia’s chief privacy officer and led the executive branch’s privacy program. Previously, Sallie facilitated data sharing through her service as the West Virginia Health Care Authority’s privacy officer and as HIPAA senior legal counsel, where she led HIPAA privacy implementation across the West Virginia executive branch. Additionally, she was the first executive director of the West Virginia Health Information Network, which is West Virginia’s statewide health information exchange, and was West Virginia’s project director for its Nationwide Health Information Network contract.

Vivian Singletary, MBA serves as director of the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), a program of the Task Force for Global Health. In this role, Vivian guides PHII’s work to improve health outcomes worldwide by strengthening health practitioners’ abilities to use information effectively.

Vivian’s experience combines almost 20 years in systems development and in public health. Earlier in her career, she served in leadership positions in supply chain management and information systems implementation for Home Depot and M&M before transitioning into public health. She was introduced to the Task Force for Global health in 2009 as the global supply chain manager for the International Trachoma Initiative, where she oversaw the pharmaceutical supply chain of over $1 billion in Zithromax donations and built in-country capacity for over 15 African and Asian countries.

Vivian has played an integral role in developing PHII’s global portfolio. Her work for the institute began with improving, designing and analyzing business processes and developing functional requirements for health insurance information systems. She established PHII’s Requirements Laboratory business unit in 2012. As the unit’s director, Vivian played an essential part in managing informatics projects in both the U.S. and in developing countries. Key projects include her leadership role in developing the African Workforce Planning project—a tool that helps allocate health care practitioners to areas of greatest need in Mozambique and Tanzania—and acting as director of informatics practice for the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) initiative, which addresses the causes of childhood mortality in developing countries.

Vivian holds a master’s of business administration degree from Kennesaw State University and a juris master’s degree from Emory University School of Law, with a focus on global health. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Denise Chrysler, J.D., serves as director of the Network’s Mid-States Region Office. Previously, she served as the public health legal director for the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH). In this position, she coordinated the legal needs of the Public Health Administration and provided legal expertise and assistance regarding public health powers, programs and services. Denise also serves on the Ingham County (Michigan) Board of Health.

Denise served as an assistant attorney general for 20 years. There, she provided legal advice and representation to programs that protect the public’s health, safety and welfare in the Michigan Departments of Community Health, Agriculture and Environmental Quality. She is the recipient of the Frank J. Kelley Award for Excellence for successful efforts to protect mammograms and medical records of some 200,000 patients in Southeast Michigan who were abandoned by a bankrupt health provider. Denise graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1980. She is a member of the Public Health Law Association and the State Bar Health Care Law Section. She is admitted to practice before both state and federal courts in Michigan.

Sallie Milam, JD, CIPP/US/G, is a deputy director of the Network’s Mid-States Region Office. Sallie has practiced law for over 25 years primarily in the health, HIPAA and general privacy areas. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, with U.S. and government privacy certifications. She has extensive experience in working with state agencies on data related issues. From 2003 to 2018, Sallie served as West Virginia’s chief privacy officer and led the executive branch’s privacy program. Previously, Sallie facilitated data sharing through her service as the West Virginia Health Care Authority’s privacy officer and as HIPAA senior legal counsel, where she led HIPAA privacy implementation across the West Virginia executive branch. Additionally, she was the first executive director of the West Virginia Health Information Network, which is West Virginia’s statewide health information exchange, and was West Virginia’s project director for its Nationwide Health Information Network contract.

Kerri McGowan Lowrey, J.D., M.P.H., is deputy director of the Network’s Eastern Region Office. She has over 15 years of experience in health law and policy research, primary and secondary legal and legislative analysis, and empirical legal and legislative research. Much of her recent work centers on law and policy addressing concussions and other injuries in youth sports. Her areas of research have also included the role of law in cancer prevention, particularly in the area of obesity prevention; health disparities and social determinants of health; the use of epidemiological evidence in courts; and legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies. Kerri is a member of the bar of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Her specialized training includes a four-year term as a cancer prevention fellow within the NCI’s Office of Preventive Oncology, where she assisted in developing the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Ethics Track. Prior to joining the Network for Public Health Law, Kerri served as technical vice president and manager of the Center for Health Policy and Legislative Analysis at the MayaTech Corporation in Silver Spring, MD. Kerri received a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1999, an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2001 and A.B. in public policy and American institutions from Brown University in 1996.

Sallie Milam, JD, CIPP/US/G, is a deputy director of the Network’s Mid-States Region Office. Sallie has practiced law for over 25 years primarily in the health, HIPAA and general privacy areas. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, with U.S. and government privacy certifications. She has extensive experience in working with state agencies on data related issues. From 2003 to 2018, Sallie served as West Virginia’s chief privacy officer and led the executive branch’s privacy program. Previously, Sallie facilitated data sharing through her service as the West Virginia Health Care Authority’s privacy officer and as HIPAA senior legal counsel, where she led HIPAA privacy implementation across the West Virginia executive branch. Additionally, she was the first executive director of the West Virginia Health Information Network, which is West Virginia’s statewide health information exchange, and was West Virginia’s project director for its Nationwide Health Information Network contract.

With deep expertise across mental health, legal, and business worlds, Hudson has earned a reputation for technology-enabled innovation that spans traditional boundaries to create inspired programs that improve access, quality, and patience experience. In the public sphere Hudson spends extensive time with governments, social service agencies, and universities to gain a deep understanding of complex problems to build novel solutions that span traditional boundaries. In the private sector, he works with companies to build go-to-market strategy, as well as channel and partner development. Hudson’s mission is to improve the accessibility and quality of mental healthcare through cross sector collaboration and technology driven innovation.

Colleen Healy Boufides, J.D., is a deputy director with the Network’s Mid-States Region Office. Colleen received her J.D. from the Duke University School of Law. While in law school, she served as Articles Editor for the Duke Forum for Law & Social Change and worked at the National Health Law Program as a legal intern. Prior to law school, Colleen received a B.S. from Arizona State University – the Barrett Honors College, where she studied psychology and global health and wrote her honors thesis on the role of community health workers in a local Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) supplemental nutrition program.

Colleen is a member of the Michigan State Bar. Prior to joining the Network, Colleen worked at the Michigan Primary Care Association, where she was involved in state and federal legislative and administrative advocacy on behalf of Michigan’s federally qualified health centers. Colleen has also worked as a commercial litigation associate for Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone, PLC, a large Michigan-based law firm. While at the firm, Colleen provided pro bono assistance to a nonprofit harm reduction organization and served on the board of a local health center and a nonprofit focused on economic empowerment, where she assisted with launching annual expungement workshops.

Denise Chrysler, J.D., serves as director of the Network’s Mid-States Region Office. Previously, she served as the public health legal director for the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH). In this position, she coordinated the legal needs of the Public Health Administration and provided legal expertise and assistance regarding public health powers, programs and services. Denise also serves on the Ingham County (Michigan) Board of Health.

Denise served as an assistant attorney general for 20 years. There, she provided legal advice and representation to programs that protect the public’s health, safety and welfare in the Michigan Departments of Community Health, Agriculture and Environmental Quality. She is the recipient of the Frank J. Kelley Award for Excellence for successful efforts to protect mammograms and medical records of some 200,000 patients in Southeast Michigan who were abandoned by a bankrupt health provider. Denise graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1980. She is a member of the Public Health Law Association and the State Bar Health Care Law Section. She is admitted to practice before both state and federal courts in Michigan.

Formerly a partner at Troutman Sanders, Mr. Gravely focused his practice in the areas of health law, information privacy and cybersecurity, and emergency preparedness and response issues for critical infrastructure industries. He has represented healthcare organizations for over 20 years in a full spectrum of healthcare legal issues. Mr. Gravely is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US). He has served as advisor on numerous initiatives related to emergency preparedness and health information exchanges. Mr. Gravely has authored numerous whitepapers and articles on key emergency preparedness issues, as well as health data privacy risks.

Cason Schmit is a research assistant professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management where he actively researches the role of law in health systems.

Prior to joining Texas A&M University, he worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Law Program as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education legal fellow (2013-2015) and as a federal contractor (2015-2016). There he worked with public health professionals within CDC centers and offices and state, tribal, local, and territorial partners to promote the use of law as a tool to improve the public’s health. His research with CDC focused on the role of law in health system transformation, including the use of electronic health information to promote public health, state innovation models, pay-for-success initiatives, and pharmacists’ vaccination authority.