Michael McGinnis, MD, MA, MPP is Senior Scholar, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Exec. Officer, & Exec. Director of the Leadership Consortium at the National Academy of Medicine. Previously, he was SVP & founder of the Health Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He also held appointments as Asst. Surgeon General & DAS for Health at the US Dept. of Health & Human Services, with continuous policy leadership from 1977 to 1995 in disease prevention and health promotion. Notable programs initiated and implemented include, at HHS, the Healthy People national goals and objectives process, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the US Preventive Services Task Force; at RWJF, the Health & Society Scholars Prog., the Young Epidemiology Scholars Prog., the Active Living by Design Prog. and, at NAM, the Learning Health System Initiative and the COVID-19 Emerging Stronger Initiative. Internationally, he served in India as state director for the WHO smallpox eradication program, in Bosnia as the Chair of the World Bank/European Commission Task Force for reconstruction in health and human services. National recognitions include the Public Health Distinguished Service Award, Health Leader of the Year Award, Public Health Hero Award, and the Fries Prize for Contributions to Health Improvement. He is an elected member of the NAM, Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and of the AAAS. Dr. McGinnis attended UC Berkeley, UCLA Medical School, & Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.