OUR TEAM
Brenda Leath
Executive Director, Center to Advance Community Health & Equity
Principal Investigator, Public Health Institute
Brenda A. Leath is a biomedical ethicist and health policy strategist with a career spanning more than 30 years in the healthcare industry. Dr. Leath’s career reflects a continuous and piercing focus on pursuing health equity through her work in various settings—academic medical centers, public policy, corporate research, and nonprofit organizations. Her accomplishments include leadership positions, special appointments, and recognitions such as President & CEO of Leath & Associates, Inc.—where consultant engagements focus on public health, health equity and quality improvement, maternal and child health, and health disparities research. She is the Senior Consultant on Health Equity, Research, and Ethics to the Tuskegee Macon County Community Foundation. She was formerly a Senior Study Director and the Founding Director of the Center on Health Disparities and Health Equity Research at Westat, Inc.; President Emeritus of the National Consortium for African American Children (NCAAC); Associate Director of Special Population Initiatives at the congressionally established National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, where she founded NCAAC as an initiative; White House Appointment to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCIPID) by United States President George W. Bush. She has numerous organizational affiliations, including with the American Public Association’s Health Informatics Information Technology Section, the Standards Accreditation Committee of The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., MedSurplus Alliance, and the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
Kevin Barnett, DrPH, MPH, MCP
Founding Executive Director, Center to Advance Community Health & Equity
Allied Program Director/Consultant, Kevin Barnett & Associates
Kevin Barnett has led research and fieldwork in hospital community benefit and health workforce diversity at PHI for over two decades, working with hospitals, government agencies, and community stakeholders across the country. Current work includes Alignment of Governance and Leadership in Healthcare (AGLH), a partnership with The Governance Institute and Stakeholder Health with funding from RWJF, to build population health knowledge among hospital board members and senior leadership, and a national study of hospital interventions to address food insecurity. Additionally, Barnett led a national study of community health assessments and implementation strategies for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a national initiative funded by the Kresge Foundation to align and focus investments by hospitals, other health sector stakeholders, and financial institutions in low income communities.
MaryAnne Bobrow, CAE
Program Administrator
MaryAnne has spent over 20 years in nonprofit management, serving in various senior leadership roles, including CEO/Executive Director. She is a Certified Association Executive and a Certified Meeting Professional Fellow and brings the knowledge from those knowledge bases to CACHE. Her competencies include association management, program administration, certification oversight, finance management, grant writing services, and other allied skills. She has written many chapters in association management textbooks, most recently, the 2021 Ethics Chapter for Professional Practices in Association Management and the 2025 updated ethics chapter for the American Society of Association Executives.