Task Force: Chair: Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.), Los Angeles Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, California
Vice-Chair: Patricia Dolan Mullen, Dr.P.H., University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
Members: Ross C. Brownson, Ph.D., St. Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, Missouri; John Clymer, Partnership for Prevention, Washington, D.C.; Jane L. Delgado, Ph.D., M.S., National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Washington, D.C.; Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, New York; Alan R. Hinman, M.D., M.P.H., Task Force for Child Survival and Development, Atlanta, Georgia; George J. Isham, M.D., HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Garland H. Land, M.P.H., Center for Health Information Management and Epidemiology, Missouri Department of Health, Jefferson City, Missouri; Patricia A. Nolan, M.D., M.P.H., Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, Rhode Island; Dennis E. Richling, M.D., Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Nebraska; Susan C. Scrimshaw, Ph.D., School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois; Steven M. Teutsch, M.D., M.P.H., Merck & Company, Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania; Robert S. Thompson, M.D., Department of Preventive Care, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington
Consultants: Robert S. Lawrence, M.D., Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; J. Michael McGinnis, M.D., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey; Lloyd F. Novick, M.D., M.P.H., Onondaga County Department of Health, Syracuse, New York
Research conducted by: Robert A. Hahn, PhD, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office; Oleg O. Bilukha, MD, PhD, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office; Alex Crosby, MD, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia; Mindy T. Fullilove, MD, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York; Akiva Liberman, PhD, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Eve K. Moscicki, ScD, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Susan Snyder, PhD, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office; Farris Tuma, ScD, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Amanda Schofield, MPH, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office; Phaedra S. Corso, PhD, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office; Peter Briss, MD, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office