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font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; } <div class="col-lg-9 center_Lead "><p>Members of the Community Health and Environment technical expert panel lend their expertise to help guide the initiative’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of all communities.</p><p>TEP members are leaders in fields ranging from community health (needs) assessment, work to reduce disparities in health outcomes, health system strategic integration, emergency preparedness, community engagement and linkages between community health and environment. 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Barrett" src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Coletta-Barrett-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Coletta C. Barrett, R.N. </p> <p class="ci_profile_title"> Vice President, Mission </p> <p class="ci_profile_company"> Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center </p> <p class="ci_profile_award"> </p> <div class="ci_profile_social"> Possessing more than 47 years’ experience as a clinician, health plan manager and executive leader, Coletta Barrett has led many efforts to interpret program work for broad audiences and integrate organizations’ missions into daily practice. </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 ci_profile scrollFade"> <img alt="Kara Brooks " src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Kara-Brooks-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Kara Brooks </p> <p class="ci_profile_title"> Senior Associate Director, Sustainability </p> <p class="ci_profile_company"> American Society for Health Care Engineering, ���������� Association </p> <p class="ci_profile_award"> </p> <div class="ci_profile_social"> With more than 20 years of environmental sustainability and energy engineering experience, Kara Brooks currently directs strategic leadership, advocacy and program development for the ���������� Association’s sustainability initiatives. </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 ci_profile scrollFade"> <img alt="Andrew Garman" src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Andrew-Garman-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Andrew N. Garman </p> <p class="ci_profile_title"> Professor, Department of Health Systems Management <br> Director, Rush Center for Health System Leadership </p> <p class="ci_profile_company"> RUSH </p> <p class="ci_profile_award"> </p> <div class="ci_profile_social"> Andrew Garman’s most recent book, “Healing our Future: Leadership for a Changing Health System,” emphasizes the catalytic role health care organizations play in addressing complex social challenges, including preserving a healthy planet. </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 ci_profile scrollFade"> <img alt="Shaneeta Johnson" src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Shaneeta-Johnson-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Shaneeta M. Johnson, M.D. </p> <p class="ci_profile_title"> Chair and Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery<br> Professor of Global Health, Associate Dean and Vice President of Global Partnerships and Engagement, Meharry School of Global Health<br> </p> <p class="ci_profile_company"> Meharry Medical College </p> <p class="ci_profile_award"> </p> <div class="ci_profile_social"> Shaneeta Johnson is an inaugural fellow of the National Medical Association/Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health Equity Fellowship, and is a vocal advocate for reducing disparities in health outcomes and promoting environment-resilient communities. </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 ci_profile scrollFade"> <img alt="Onora Lien" src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Onora-Lien-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Onora Lien </p> <p class="ci_profile_title"> Executive Director </p> <p class="ci_profile_company"> Northwest Healthcare Response Network </p> <p class="ci_profile_award"> </p> <div class="ci_profile_social"> Onora Lien leads “the Network,” a public-private partnership working to effectively engage and coordinate health care, public health, emergency response organizations and other public and private entities throughout the life cycle of an emergency, disaster or other disruptive event. </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 ci_profile scrollFade"> <img alt="Sheetal Rao" src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Sheetal-Rao-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Sheetal Khedkar Rao, M.D. </p> <p class="ci_profile_title"> Primary Care Physician | Educator, Community Engagement and Planetary Health </p> <p class="ci_profile_company"> UI Health | Nordson Green Earth Foundation </p> <p class="ci_profile_award"> </p> <div class="ci_profile_social"> Sheetal Khedkar Rao’s internal medicine work explores the impact of environment on health, and she teaches a graduate course on the health impacts of the environment at the University of Illinois, Chicago School of Public Health. </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 ci_profile scrollFade"> <img alt="Terri Scannell" src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Terri-Scannell-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Terri Scannell </p> <p class="ci_profile_title"> Principal Advisor, Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance </p> <p class="ci_profile_company"> OhioHealth </p> <p class="ci_profile_award"> </p> <div class="ci_profile_social"> Terri Scannell participated in the White House convening on “Greening America’s Hospitals,” earned a certificate Executive Education in Sustainability Leadership from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has participated in the Wharton-led Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 ci_profile scrollFade"> <img alt="Indu Spugnardi" src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Indu-Spugnardi-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Indu Spugnardi </p> <p class="ci_profile_title"> Senior Director, Community Health and Elder Care </p> <p class="ci_profile_company"> Catholic Health Association of the United States </p> <p class="ci_profile_award"> </p> <div class="ci_profile_social"> In addition to her work at the Catholic Health Association of the United States, which has included a focus on environmental sustainability, Indu Spugnardi is involved in leading the response of U.S. Catholic health care organizations to the Vatican’s Laudato Si' Action Platform, which educates Catholics working in health care about the ways they can address environmental resilience challenges. </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 ci_profile scrollFade"> <img alt="Rachelle Wenger " src="/sites/default/files/2024-10/CCH-Rachelle-Wenger-300x300.jpg"> <p class="ci_profile_name"> Rachelle R. 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