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Ann Burroughs
Ann Burroughs has spent 20 years working to create social change and to build strength and stability in communities in the US and across Africa. Prior to joining the Human Health Project as Executive Director, she was the Principal Consultant for Community Development and Consulting, a consortium of consultants that helps nonprofits achieve their strategic goals and supports businesses to strengthen their corporate social responsibility practices. She specializes in strategic planning, leadership development, organizational advancement, advocacy campaigns and communications. She has consulted for governments, businesses, academic institutions, foundations and leading nonprofit organizations on initiatives that range from large-scale national advocacy campaigns to micro-credit lending in Southern Africa. She has also worked as Executive Director of L.A. Works, the largest civic engagement center in Los Angeles; as Director of Communications for the World Conference of Religions for Peace; as Media Director for Amnesty International USA; as Special Advisor to the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches; and was Adjunct Faculty at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Southern California. She serves on several boards both in the U.S. and in South Africa, including Shared Interest, a social guarantee fund that is dedicated to developing small businesses and creating community wealth in Southern Africa.
Ken Filbert
Ken has been an independent medical administrator working statewide in Ohio since 1989. His experience includes building and managing practices from virtually every medical specialty, as well as consulting work with labs, hospitals, and surgery centers. His work with these entities includes; physician recruitment and retention, evaluation of carrier contracts, development of internal operations, finance, establishment of quality assurance and utilization review programs, medical compliance issues, marketing, and complete data analysis and tracking.
Ken conducted the Ohio Psychological Association’s state wide “Prompt Payment” study, to evaluate the claims payment practices of Ohio insurance carriers. This involved tracking claims data originating from group practices located in throughout the state. He was solely responsible for database design, data capture, and implementation of project. The results were presented to the Ohio State insurance commission and Ohio general assembly. Following this study, in 2001 the laws for prompt payment of claims were strengthened by the Ohio state legislature. He has taught classes on practice management, administration, and Internet security at professional organization's annual state conferences.
Ken is President of Subscription Billing Inc., a company that provides web based billing and medical records access. He is a Certified consultant with Allscripts, which is one of the top electronic medical records providers in the country, and he is currently negotiating to open immediate medical care clinics in a retail environment.
Nigel Grainge
Legendary A&R Man Nigel Grainge received industry-wide acclaim for his successful signings of The Steve Miller Band (Fly Like An Eagle), Thin Lizzy (The Boys are Back in Town) and 10cc (I’m Not in Love) and many other successful signings while at Phonogram London. He then went on to create his own label, Ensign, which exploded with The Boomtown Rats (13 top 10’s, including 2 No. 1’s), The Waterboys (The Whole of the Moon) and World Party (Ship of Fools) culminating in Ensign’s biggest worldwide success with Sinead O’Connor (Nothing Compares 2 U – No. 1 in 26 countries). Now based in LA, Nigel continues his passion to discover and develop new talent.
Lyndee Knox, PhD, MS
Dr. Knox is founding director and CEO of LA Net, a primary care practice-based research network located in Los Angles and focused on the elimination of health disparities in Los Angeles. She is also an associate professor of Social Work and a clinical scholar of Family Medicine at the University of Southern California. Trained as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Knox is an expert in participatory research methods, peer-based interventions, and quality improvement in primary care. In 2010, she led the National Consensus Panel on Practice Facilitation/Coaching for the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Currently, she is leading AHRQ’s National Working Group on Practice Facilitation and PCMH transformation, and a trial of practice facilitation to support Care Model implementation and PCMH transformation in 18 safety-net practices in Los Angeles County.
In addition, Dr. Knox co-directs the Southern California Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention, and is leading a study in collaboration with the American Academy of Family Physician’s National Research Network on the impact of peer-mentoring on self-management behaviors and outcomes in senior populations with diabetes. She is the developer of the community-health-worker-delivered Madres a Madres intervention to address mental health needs in low-income immigrant families from Latin America, and has served as a consultant to the government of Trinidad and Tobago on implementing Madres a Madres and related interventions nationwide as part of a comprehensive violence prevention strategy in a multination initiative funded by the InterAmerican Development Bank.
Dr. Knox is a Senior Research Associate of the National Research Network, serves on the steering committee for the Federation of Practice-Based Research Networks Steering Committee and the National PBRN Resource Center Advisory Group, and is a Director for the National Health Foundation (NHF). She has served as consultant to or collaborated with organizations including the American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization and is the author of three books on youth violence.
Sheila Robinson
Following a career in international business development for blue-chip corporates, Sheila gained a British Wheel of Yoga teaching Diploma in 1989. Since that time she has focused on mentoring businesses and teams alongside teaching health and well-being. Her holistic approach underpins all aspects of the work. Recent projects include business support for www.skoogmusic.com (a new musical instrument for disabled kids), work with Autism Speaks internationally and a review of leadership training for UK Manufacturing. Sheila is an Independent Consultant with Arbonne, a botanically-based prestige range of skin and health products formulated for well-being. Currently she is one of a team of mentors for the youth charity site www.endz2endz.com in Brixton, London.
William E. Sawin, Sr.
Bill brings to HHP, over 35 years of service in the management consulting, fund development and strategic planning. He has been involved with managing organizational development at the Motion Picture and Television Fund, Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Catholic Big Brothers and many social service, developmentally disabled organizations and Hospitals and has raised over $100 million dollars in current and deferred gifts. His expertise in legal fund development issues and his passion for success will be an asset to HHP. As a senior adviser, he will help build the visibility and capital of HHP so that the goals of the organization will be exceeded and the organization will thrive.
