CHAIR: DEAN GOODERMOTE is the chairman and chief executive officer of Double-Take Software, a leading developer of disaster recovery and high availability systems. He has spent the past two decades either managing or founding high-technology companies, including Clinsoft, which at the time of its merger with Phase Forward was the world’s leading provider of software for clinical trial data management and adverse event analysis.
Mr. Goodermote sits on the boards of several high-technology companies and nonprofit organizations. He also teaches at HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany’s oldest business school, where he was elected to the honorary position of Professor of Entrepreneurship. Mr. Goodermote chairs the Advisory Committee for the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also an official with the United States Ski and Snowboard Association and active in music. KEN BANTA leads Corporate Strategic Affairs at Schering-Plough Corporation, the global, research-based pharmaceutical company. He is based at Schering-Plough’s Kenilworth, New Jersey, headquarters. In this role Ken is responsible for providing strategic counsel and project leadership on a wide array of company priorities. He works directly with Chairman and CEO Fred Hassan and other members of the top management team. A key focus of Ken’s role is driving the continuing transformation of Schering-Plough, which has become as one of the most dynamic companies in the global biopharmaceutical sector.
Prior to joining Schering-Plough, he led Strategic Communications at the global pharmaceutical company Pharmacia Corporation, until Pharmacia’s acquisition by Pfizer in April of 2003. Ken joined Pharmacia’s predecessor company, Pharmacia & Upjohn (P&U) in 1996. From 1997 onward he worked with then-CEO and Chairman of P&U Fred Hassan and other senior management colleagues to implement a turnaround program that transformed the company from one of the worst performing companies in the pharmaceutical industry, into one of the best performers in its global peer group.
Ken is a graduate of Amherst College and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and grew up in Germany, Italy and the United States. Ken serves on the Board of Common Ground, the New York organization dedicated to long-term solutions to homelessness. He is also a member of the Board of the Hudson Union Society, a Manhattan-based non-profit dedicated to multidisciplinary discussion among its members and a roster of global leaders from the arts, politics, science, business and non-government organizations. Ken Banta lives in Manhattan.
JOHN M. BARRY is the author of five books. The National Academies of Science named The Great Influenza, a study of the 1918 pandemic, winner of the 2005 Keck Award for the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine. The National Academies also invited him to give the 2006 Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture; he is the only non-scientist ever to give that lecture. His earlier book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, won the 1998 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians for the year’s best book of American history. He has served on advisory boards at M.I.T’s Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals and on a federal government Infectious Disease Board of Experts, and he has advised federal, state, and World Health Organization officials on influenza and risk communication. After Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Congressional delegation asked him to chair a bipartisan working group on flood control, and in 2007 he was appointed to both the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control Authority East, which oversees six levee districts in the metropolitan New Orleans area, and the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, which develops and implements the state's hurricane protection plan.
A frequent guest on broadcast media, he has also contributed to award-winning television documentaries and has written for publications ranging from the Journal of Infectious Disease to Sports Illustrated, as well as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, and Esquire. 
JAMES C. COBEY, MD, MPH, FACS, graduated from Hamilton College with a bachelor of arts degree in History specializing in Thai foreign policy in the 19th Century. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and his master of public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, focusing on international health.
Dr. Cobey is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon in an independent practice that specializes in major trauma, spine reconstruction, and total joint replacement. He has been the team doctor for Gallaudet University (school for the deaf) for twenty years, and he is an instructor on International Humanitarian Law and Disaster Relief for the Red Cross. He holds the rank of Professor of Orthopaedics at Georgetown University and Senior Associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has been guest lecturer at Yale University, George Washington University and other medical schools. As a member of Physicians for Human Rights, Dr. Cobey shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He is president of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School’s Society of Alumni, an inaugural member of the Dean’s Alumni Advisory Council, and on the executive committee of the Alpha Chapter of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society.
In 2002 Dr. Cobey received the Frank Annunzio award from the Christopher Columbus Foundation. In June, 1998, he was awarded the American Red Cross’s International Humanitarian Service Award, and in 1992 he won the Charles R. Drew Award from the American Red Cross. He is author of numerous articles on orthopaedics and international relief. 
WILLIAM FLUMENBAUM is a senior vice president and investment counselor for Captial Guardian Trust Company's Personal Investment Management division and a vice president of Capital Guardian Trust Company, a Nevada corporation. Prior to joining the firm in 1998, he spent eight years with the University of California, Los Angeles, as executive director of the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation, and subsequently as director of principal gifts across the campus. Prior to that, he spent two years as an executive director of the Children’s Health Fund in New York and four years as the director of programs for Helen Keller International. He also spent 10 years in international public health with a Swiss foundation. Mr. Flumenbaum earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in educational psychology from the California State University, Hayward. He serves on the boards of directors of Public Counsel and the Venice Family Health Clinic, and on the University of California, Los Angeles’s Board of Governors. Additionally, he is a member of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Advisory Committee for the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response; the Board of Public Counsel; and the Board of the New Roads Schools.
HELENE GOLDBERG, RN, CS-P, MPH created the first academic program in the area of loss and grief. This prepared her to provide support for people who are dying and their families and to train health care professionals in the practice of loss and grief.
She received her MPH from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to develop training programs for these populations. She sees hospice support and bereavement intervention as prevention against complicated grief.
From 1982-1990, Ms. Goldberg worked at the Sinai Hospice developing and implementing training programs for Pro Bono Hospice Lawyers, Volunteers working with hospice patients and their families and bereaved family members. She also provided training to departments of Social Work and Drug Dependency Programs.
Prior to her hospice affiliation, Ms. Goldberg worked as a Medical Intensive Care Nurse at The Johns Hopkins Hospital for over 12 years. Since graduating from the School of Nursing at Queens College in NYC, she has practiced primarily in medical/surgical and psychiatric nursing.
She is a Nurse Psychotherapist in private practice and has an adjunct position in The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
In 1982 she established the Bereavement Network of Maryland. It is an educational and resource group that has grown significantly over the years. She has served on the Advisory Boards of the Jewish Hospice and The Compassionate Friends of Baltimore.
MARGARET CONN HIMELFARB, an editor and medical research advocate, has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master of public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is a member of the School’s Health Advisory Board, Dean’s Alumni Advisory Council, and Advisory Committee of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response. She sits on the Bloomberg School's Institutional Review Board and the Hopkins School of Medicine Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee. She has served on the Maryland Technology Development Corporation Board and was recently appointed by the Governor to the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission.
Ms. Himelfarb is a founder, past chair, and the first Honorary Lifetime Board Member of the Maryland Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). She has served on the Executive Committee and Research Advisory Board of JDRF International and has reviewed research grants for the Foundation for over 15 years. She also currently sits on JDRF’s International Board of Chancellors and Clinical Affairs Working Group. Her advocacy efforts include directing a successful national campaign for a Diabetes Awareness U.S. postage stamp and a state campaign that was instrumental in acquiring legislation for stem cell research funding in Maryland. 
NAFISA HOODBHOY has a master’s degree in History from Northeastern University in Boston. For 16 years, she was staff reporter for the daily Dawn newspaper; the most widely circulated English language newspaper in Pakistan. In Jan. 2001, she taught Gender Politics of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran at Amherst College, Massachusetts on a Ford fellowship. After September 11, 2001, she taught a related course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has helped to produce video documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Lifetime Television and worked for radio stations in the U.S. In addition, she has written for the The Washington Post, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health magazine, Paris Match and other leading publications. Currently, she works as a Producer/Broadcaster for the Voice of America, Urdu service based in Washington D.C.
WILLIAM LIN, Ph.D. is a Manager of Corporate Contributions and Community Relations at Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Lin’s responsibilities include managing the Company’s response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises, and responsibilities for the Company’s product donations portfolio.
Dr. Lin developed the product donation program strategy to embody Johnson & Johnson values with respect to the health and well-being of women and children. In ensuring that J&J is effective in responding to global humanitarian and natural disasters, Dr. Lin also manages and develops the relationships with major international governmental as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Since joining the group in 2005, Dr. Lin has led the development of the program Children Without Worms, the largest global drug donation effort by a pharmaceutical company for the treatment and prevention of intestinal worms.
Dr. William Lin started his professional career as a research scientist in the AIDS and Hepatitis division of the diagnostics sector of Johnson & Johnson. With successes and experience in new product development, he advanced through several other divisions of J&J that included positions in Quality Systems, Operations Information Management, and Strategic Sourcing. With 15 years of in-depth experience in the inner workings of this multi-national pharmaceutical company, he was well positioned to bring an operational perspective to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm of J&J. Dr. Lin holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from UCLA.
MARGARET ROGGENSACK, Esq. is the Senior Advisor for Business and Human Rights at Human Rights First, responsible for managing initiatives to address labor rights in manufacturing, internet freedom and privacy. She serves on the inter-agency Consultative Group (AG/Labor/State) to assess agricultural production in violation of international labor stnadards and to recommend guidelines to inform agricultural production. Prior to joining HRF, she served as Policy Director for Free the Slaves. In that capacity, she worked with an anti-trafficking coalition to secure passage of legislation reforming existing policy and to shape strategies to address exploitative labor in global production chains.
Prior to joining Free the Slaves, Ms. Roggensack practiced law with Hogan and Hartson, chairing the firm's Latin America Practice Group. During Ms. Roggensack's nearly 20 year career in private legal practice, she counseled clients on bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and sector specific arrangements; represented private sector interests in World Trade Organization dispute settlement proceedings; advised multinational corporations on U.S. and Latin American investments and related sourcing, training and philanthropic initiatives, and played leadership roles in industry task force and coalition efforts. She has served as an advisor to numerous private and quasi-governmental organizations on democratic transition, rule of law, and economic recovery initiatives and U.S. policy toward Latin America. She is member of the board of the Due Process of Law Foundation, and past president of the Washington Foreign Law Society.
Ms. Roggensack graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota in 1976 with a B.A. in history. She was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow from 1976 to 1978, studying economic development projects in Latin America. She received her J.D. from George Washington University in 1984, where she was the Articles Editor of the Journal of International Law and Economics. FRANCES STEAD SELLERS is Deputy National Editor of the Washington Post responsible for Health, Science and the Environment. She came  to the Post from Civilization, the magazine of the Library Congress, which she helped launch in 1994 and which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. She has written for a wide variety of US and British publications, including the Post, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Times and was a guest editor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's book, "Saving Lives: Millions at a Time." In 2003, she received an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to write about migration, dual citizenship and transnationalism, and in 2006 she was awarded a Wolfson College Press Fellowship at Cambridge University to do research into the evolution of newspapers in an age of instant news. Frances Stead Sellers grew up in the south of England, the only member of her immediate family not to pursue a career in medicine, and came to the United States in 1982 as a British Thouron Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She now lives in Baltimore with her husband, Tim, a professor of international law, and their college-age daughter. NADYA K. SHMAVONIAN the incoming president (effective January 1, 2010) of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV), a national nonprofit organization that works to improve the effectiveness of social programs and policies. She has worked as an independent consultant, providing strategic direction and counsel to many private foundations and to a broad array of local, national, and international nonprofit organizations. She has extensive foundation management experience, most recently having served as vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation for over three years. In that role, she helped oversee a dramatic reframing of the Foundation’s programmatic and operating approach, readying Rockefeller to meet new challenges of the 21st century. Earlier in her career, she spent 12 years at The Pew Charitable Trusts where she worked as executive vice president, following several years as director of administration and as program officer in health and human services. She spent seven years between these executive leadership roles as an independent consultant, where her practice included work with foundations and nonprofit organizations in the areas of management consulting and executive coaching, strategic planning and evaluation, leadership and organizational development, meeting facilitation, infrastructure development, human resources management and program design. Before joining the foundation community, she had considerable experience working in the health sector as well as overseas in humanitarian relief, both of which she continued to address during the 23 years she has spent in and around philanthropy.
Ms. Shmavonian currently serves as one of the first two non-family members of the Surdna Foundation Board, as well as on the Board of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and as an Advisory Board member to the National Philanthropic Trust. She has extensive past experience serving on nonprofit boards, including The Alliance for A Green Revolution in Africa (a joint partnership of the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations), The Center for Bioethics of the University of Pennsylvania; Abington Memorial Hospital Foundation; Chestnut Hill College, and the National Philanthropic Trust advisory board, among others. She was also a member of the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy, an international working group supported by the German-based Bertelsmann Foundation.
Ms. Shmavonian holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. in health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. STEWART SIMONSON joined Constella Group in 2006 as Vice President for Global Public Health Preparedness. In this role, Simonson leads  Constella’s preparedness programs and launches initiatives to broaden the company’s extensive preparedness expertise and its support of both public and private sector constituents. He is also actively involved in public health preparedness outreach through speaking engagements, white papers, and various other media.
Prior to joining Constella, Simonson spent nearly five years with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) where he served in a variety of senior advisory roles, most recently as Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness.
As Assistant Secretary, Simonson worked at the highest levels in government, reporting directly to the Secretary of HHS, Mike Leavitt, and former Secretary Tommy Thompson, who now heads Constella’s advisory board. Simonson was the secretary’s principal advisor on bioterrorism and other public health emergency matters, during which time he coordinated public health preparedness activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health, including implementing the $5.6 billion Project BioShield Act of 2004. Simonson also represented HHS in negotiations with foreign governments and international agencies on public health preparedness matters, and was instrumental in preparedness planning for pandemic avian influenza.
An attorney by training, Simonson has been a dedicated public servant for nearly 18 years, serving in various leadership roles at both the federal and state levels, including HHS, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation and the office of the governor of Wisconsin. He is well-versed in both domestic and global public health preparedness issues, and he is also experienced in business, having begun his career working on Wall Street.
Simonson has received several awards recognizing his contributions to public health, including The Surgeon General’s Medallion and the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research’s Public Health Achievement Award. He holds juris doctorate and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin.
SUZANNE WOLFF is a retired Senior Vice President of Mercantile Bank. Mrs. Wolff has two children who have graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. One is involved in international health issues. Another son, a graduate of SAIS, works at the UN.
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