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 has had a continuous and sharp focus on health equity throughout her career. Her accomplishments include holding leadership positions, special appointments, and recognitions such as Executive Director of the Center to Advance Community Health and Equity at the Public Health Institute; President & CEO of Leath & Associates, Inc. – where she has been engaged in public health, health equity, quality improvement, maternal and child health, and health disparities research, and 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 Emerita 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. She received a White House Appointment to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) by United States President George W. Bush. Dr. Leath is affiliated with numerous organizations, including the Standards Accreditation Committee of The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., MedSurplus Alliance; and the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
HIIT Committees: Chair, Policy Committee; Co-Chair, Global Health and Technology Committee.
APHA: Intersectional Council