August 21, 2008

Resumés


	STEPHEN ISAACS, J.D. A leading expert in both health and philanthropy, Mr. Isaacs has advised staff members and boards of many foundations on a wide range of subjects. Recent assignments have included counseling a new health foundation on program priorities, strategies, staffing, and board-staff relations; assessing a foundation’s work in both the health and volunteer sectors; evaluating the priorities of a foundation and helping it develop new strategies based on the evaluation; and counseling a state government commission on health reform. His work has encompassed health insurance, free clinics and volunteer specialist-referral networks, diabetes prevention and treatment, the future of small medical practice, community health, and health information technology, among other topics. An attorney, writer-editor, and former professor of public health at Columbia University, Stephen Isaacs edits To Improve Health and Health Care: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology, a book series published annually by Jossey-Bass that examines foundation-funded programs and draws lessons from them, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Series, also published by Jossey-Bass. He has worked with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the past twelve years. Mr. Isaacs has written extensively about philanthropy, health, socio-economic development, and human rights for both professional and popular audiences. His articles cover topics such as conversion foundations, partnerships among foundations, foundation strategies, class and health, safety-net services, reproductive health, obesity prevention, and public health success stories. His book, The Consumer's Legal Guide to Today's Health Care Your Medical Rights and How to Assert Them (Houghton-Mifflin, 1992), was reviewed as "the single best guide to the health care system in print today." In addition to The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology, which is an annual publication, Mr. Isaacs has edited a number of other books: Tobacco Control Policy (Jossey-Bass, 2006); School Health Services and Programs (Jossey-Bass, 2006); Generalist Medicine and United States Health Policy (Jossey-Bass, 2004); Improving Population Health: The California Wellness Foundation's Health Improvement Initiative (Social Policy Press, 2002); and Salud en América Latina: de la Reforma para Unos a la Reforma para Todos (Editorial Sudamericana, 2000). Mr. Isaacs' experience as a grant maker includes six years as a program officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. and in Thailand, and five years as vice-president for program planning and evaluation of International Planned Parenthood/Western Hemisphere Region. A former member of the Advisory Council of the NIH's National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Medical Committee, and of the Human Rights Watch board, Mr. Isaacs is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School. He speaks French, Spanish, and Thai languages. PAUL S. JELLINEK, Ph.D. Dr. Jellinek was program vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ, from 1991 until 2002. Trained in health policy and administration with a special focus on health economics, he joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a program officer in 1983. At the time that he left the Foundation in 2002, he oversaw a grant portfolio of $370-million. While at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Jellinek developed and managed a wide range of complex national initiatives that have broken new conceptual ground and have had lasting national impact. Major achievements include: Faith in Action, one of the largest programs in the history of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Since 1993, Faith in Action has launched over 1500 local interfaith coalitions throughout the nation to provide volunteer care and support to homebound elderly and disabled Americans. Fighting Back, the largest-ever privately funded initiative to reduce demand for illegal drugs and alcohol in this country. The program, launched in 1989, has leveraged more than a billion dollars in federal grants to local substance abuse coalitions nationwide. Conceptualization and support for Improving the Medicare Market, a 1996 Institute of Medicine Report that provided the basis for the current statutory patient protection provisions for Medicare managed care enrollees. The Urban Health Initiative, a 10-year $65-million program designed to reach enough children to change the city-wide health statistics for Baltimore, Detroit, Oakland, Philadelphia, and Richmond. The AIDS Health Services Program, which became the model for the Ryan White Emergency Care Act, a federal program that continues to provide hundreds of millions of dollars to community-based AIDS services providers nationwide. Conceptualization and support for a landmark study by former Harvard president Derek Bok which is currently being considered by the U.S. Comptroller General as a potential scorecard of progress on the nation's domestic priorities. Dr. Jellinek has extensive experience working with foundations and government agencies, and was an active member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Health from 1993-1999. He holds a doctorate in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Bush Fellow in child and family policy, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania . His prior work experience includes journalism and mental health. His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Issues in Science and Technology, Health Affairs, and other journals. He recently completed a book about the Faith in Action program.