World Congress is pleased to announce the Public Health Congress scheduled for July 16-18, 2007 at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington, DC. The Public Health Congress brings together federal, state, and local health officials, hospital and health system administrators, and private sector executives in an exclusive networking environment designed to promote collaboration and partnerships to improve preparedness, prevention, and infectious disease control.

Donald L. Carcieri Governor State of Rhode Island

R. James Nicholson Secretary U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow for Global Health Council on Foreign Relations

George A. Strait, Jr. Former ABC News Medical Correspondent and Healthcare Expert

Federal Government Officials
John Agwunobi, MD, MPH, MBA Assistant Secretary for Health United States Department of Health and Human Services	Stephanie B. Coursey Bailey, MD, MS Chief, Office of Public Health Practice Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Administrator Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry	Garth Graham, MD, MPH Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health Office of Minority Health US Department of Health and Human Services
Charles W. Grim, DDS, MHSA Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian Health Service US Department of Health and Human Services	Robert Martin, MPH, DrPH Acting Director, National Center for Public Health Informatics Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Kimothy Smith, DVM, PhD Chief Veterinarian, Chief Scientist & Acting Deputy Chief Medical Officer US Department of Homeland Security
State & Local Government Officials
Ernie Fletcher, MD Governor Commonwealth of Kentucky	J. Nick Baird, MD Former Director Ohio Department of Health
Robert L. Burhans Director, Public Health Preparedness and Response New York Department of Public Health	Leah Devlin, DDS, MPH Health Director North Carolina Division of Public Health
Bruce Goldberg, MD Director Oregon Department of Human Services	Mitchell H. Katz, MD Director of Health San Francisco Department of Health
Christopher Koller Health Insurance Commissioner State of Rhode Island	Jennifer Kopke, MA, LAC Executive Director Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority
Karen A. Madden Director, New York State Office of Rural Health	David Palm Administrator, Office of Public Health, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Jaime H. Rivera, MD Director, Division of Public Health, Delaware Department of Health & Social Services	Shannon Robshaw Executive Management Officer, Office of the Secretary Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
John Selig Director Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services	Kevin U. Stephens, Sr, MD, JD Director New Orleans Health Department
David N. Sundwall, MD Executive Director Utah Department of Health	David Taylor Chief Information Officer and Director of Information Technology Florida Department of Health (Tentatively Confirmed)
Beverly J. Walker Commissioner Georgia Department of Human Services	Rhonda White, MBA Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness, Florida Department of Health
Hospital Executives
Ron J. Anderson, MD President and Chief Executive Officer Parkland Health & Hospital System	Mary Ann Banerji, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine, Director Diabetes Treatment Center, Suny Downstate Medical Center
Andrew Behrman President & CEO Florida Association of Community Health Centers	Alan Levine President & CEO North Broward Hospital District
George N. Miller, Jr President & CEO, Mercy Health Partners	Gene Marie O'Connell Chief Executive Officer San Francisco General Hospital
David Ross, ScD Executive Director, Public Health Informatics Institute	Richard Shannon, MD President, Clinical Development University of Pennsylvania Medicine
Robert G. Webster, PhD Rose Marie Thomas Chair St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Public Health Thought Leaders
Jon Andrus, MD Lead Senior Technical Advisor, Immunization Unit Pan American Health Organization	Ron Bialek President Public Health Foundation
Barbara A. DeBuono, MD, MPH Senior Medical Advisor, Pfizer Public Health and Policy Group; Chair of the Board, Partnership for Clear Health Communication	Stephen J. Downs Deputy Group Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Gil Dupre Chief Executive Officer Louisiana Association of Health Plans	Maria C. Freire, PhD President & CEO Global Alliance For TB Drug Development
Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow for Global Health Council on Foreign Relations	Jerome H. Grossman, MD Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Health Care Delivery Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Nicholas Guzman, MD Associate Professor of Medicine George Washington University School of Medicine	David L. Heymann, MD Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases and Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication, World Health Organization
Orin Levine, PhD Executive Director Pneumococcal Vaccine Accelerated Development Program	Michael Meit, MA, MPH Senior Research Scientist, Department of Health Policy & Evaluation, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
Alan F. Morgan Chief Executive Officer National Rural Health Association	David Nabarro, MD Senior Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza United Nations
David W. Siegrist, PhD Senior Research Fellow & Director of Biodefense, National Security Health Policy Center Potomac Institute	Ron St. John, MD, MPH Director General, Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Agency of Canada
John Wecker, PhD Director, Rota Virus Vaccine Program A PATH affiliate program	Howard Zucker, MD, JD Assistant Director-General, Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals World Health Organization