Gary Bailey is currently a professor of practice at Simmons College School of Social Work and at the Simmons School of Nursing and Health Sciences. At the School of Social Work, he coordinates the Dynamics of Racism and Oppression sequence. He chairs the School of Social Work Awards Committee; is chair of the Simmons College Black Administrators, Faculty and Staff Council (BAFAS); is a member of the Simmons Faculty Senate; is vice chair of the Simmons President’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council (PDIAC); and co-chaired the Simmons College Initiative on Human Rights and Social Justice.

In 2010 Bailey was elected president of the International Federation of Social Workers. He is the first person of color to hold this post and only the third person from the United States to do so. IFSW is a federation representing more than 90 countries and 746,000 social workers globally. He is a past president of the North American region of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) located in Berne, Switzerland, having served in that role from 2003 until 2006. He was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Policy, Advocacy and Representation Commission (PARC) in August 2006, where his responsibilities included the review of existing and the development of new policies, and he oversaw the IFSW representatives at the United Nations in Nairobi, Geneva, New York City, and Vienna.

In 2010 he was appointed to the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) Global Commission. He previously served on the board of the North American and Caribbean Association of Schools of Social Work representing CSWE.

He is a member of the board of the Fenway High School in Boston, where he serves on the governance and facilities committees. In 2009 he was appointed by the Honorable Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, to serve on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA). MEFA, created 30 years ago, is a self-financing state authority, not reliant on state or federal appropriation, which sells bonds to help undergraduate and graduate students fund higher education. To date, MEFA has issued approximately $4.2 billion and bonds and has assisted hundreds of thousands of families in financing a college education. At MEFA he chairs the nominating committee and is a member of the audit committee. He was reappointed by Governor Patrick to a term ending in 2019.

He is a member of the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) Board of Ambassadors and the AIDS Action Advisory Council. He is a trustee of the Union United Methodist Church (UUMC) in Boston.

Bailey was the chairperson of the National Social Work Public Education Campaign. He is a former member of the NASW Foundation Board of Directors. He was a member of the board of the NASW Insurance Trust (now Assurance Services, Inc.), a public company that is the largest provider of insurance services for professional social workers.

He is a past president of National NASW, having served as president from 2003 until 2005. He was president-elect from 2002 to 2003. His tenure at NASW National has included serving as the NASW national second vice president from 2000 to 2002 and as the associations treasurer from 1995 to 1997. He was also the president of the Massachusetts Chapter of NASW from 1993 to 1995.

Bailey is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. He was named Social Worker of the Year by both the National and Massachusetts NASW in 1998. He was made a Social Work Pioneer by NASW in 2005, making him the youngest individual to receive this honor and joining individuals such as Jane Addams and Whitney M. Young.

In May 2013 Bailey received a Doctor of Humane letters, honoris causa, from the University of Connecticut.

Pat Daoust is the director of nursing for global health at Massachusetts General Hospital. She sets the vision, operationalizes, and provides leadership to all global nursing initiatives related to the organizations mission. Presently Daoust is also serving as the interim director a MGH–Global Health. The reach and impact of her work spans three decades and two continents. Daoust’s career trajectory is characterized by her enduring commitment to health as a human right and her dedication to the nursing profession. She has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the Nursing Leadership Award by Sigma Theta Tau International, the ANAC Public Service Award, the AIDS Action Committee Heroes in Action Award, and the MGH Linda Kelly Visiting Scholar Recognition Award. Daoust serves on the Global Committee for the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and the board of the Global Nursing Caucus.

Alfred DeMaria, Jr. serves as medical director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences and State Epidemiologist in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is a graduate of Boston University and Harvard Medical School, and did post-graduate training at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, Boston City Hospital, and the Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the Department of Public Health in 1989, he was an infectious diseases consultant in private practice and served on the staff of the Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston City Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine (1979–1985). He is currently president of the Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society and past president of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and of the Northeast Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.

Andrew Fullem has nearly 30 years experience working in domestic and international public health. Currently he is an associate director in the international division at John Snow, Inc. (JSI), and director of the JSI/World Education Center for HIV and Infectious Diseases. As the associate director he is responsible for strategic planning for JSI programs in a number of countries in East and Southern Africa as well as India. He leads a process for the creation and management of JSI affiliate offices in India and South Africa. As the director of the Center for HIV and Infectious Disease, he provides strategic planning and technical assistance to JSI programs in the areas of: service delivery, program monitoring and evaluation, surveillance, and research. He is also responsible for managing a process for strategic innovation within JSI. Prior to joining JSI, Fullem was director of HIV Surveillance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Robert Allan Hill teaches in the areas of New Testament and Pastoral Theology. Since 1981 he has taught in several schools including McGill University, Syracuse University, Lemoyne College, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Northeastern Seminary, United Seminary, and various church settings. His passionate interest lies at the intersection of Scripture and life, especially in the work of preaching. Hence his research has combined publication related to the Gospel of John and Gnosticism, on the one hand, and preaching in ministry, on the other. For example, An Examination and Critique of the Understanding of the Relationship between Apocalypticism and Gnosticism in Johannine Studies appeared in 1997, and The Courageous Gospel in 2013, while Snow Day: Reflections on the Practice of Ministry in the Northeast was published in 2000 and Renewal: Thought, Word, and Deed in 2009 (see below). Most of his writing, however, has been devoted to weekly sermons, over thirty five years, in ten pulpits, some of which are collected, taped and published. Hill has taught Greek, New Testament, Preaching, the Practice of Ministry, Church Administration, and other courses. His perspective on pastoral theology focuses on the special needs of the church in the Northeastern USA in the 21st Century. Publications in these areas include Renewal: Thought, Word, and Deed (2009), Seeing with the Heart: Devotions from Marsh Chapel (2010), and Prophetic Protestant Sermons on America’s War in Iraq: Marsh Chapel, Boston University (2010) , and three other collections of sermons and devotions. (Dean Hill’s eleven books may also be purchased through the Marsh Chapel office for $10 each). In addition, he has written or co-authored and published a number of articles, chapters, sermons and essays, which are listed in the resume.

At Boston University School of Theology, Hill teaches one course in New Testament each year (usually fall term, and usually the Gospel of John), and one course in Pastoral Theology each year (usually spring term, and usually a course in Preaching or Pastoral Leadership). A two credit course for undergraduates of Boston University, on ‘Vocation’, is in the planning stages. The course on John differs from some other studies of Johannine literature in that it strongly, equally relies both on the Jewish background to the gospel (from Hill’s study at Union/NYC with J.L. Martyn and R.E. Brown) and on the Hellenistic (Gnostic?) background to the gospel (from Hill’s study at McGill with F. Wisse and N.T.Wright.). Hill has recently published a book on John, The Courageous Gospel: John in Sermon, Lecture, Essay and Discussion, copies of which in rough form were used in the course. Two collections of sermons, A Village Green, and, In the Depths of the Depression were published in 2011.

Dean Hill’s religious leadership at Boston University, across all of the 17 schools and colleges and the larger community, is rooted and grounded in the historic pulpit of Marsh Chapel, whose Sunday service is broadcast on NPR each Sunday morning at 11am (WBUR 90.9FM), with a listenership of 75,000, and another 25,000 listening by podcast. As Dean of the Chapel, he preaches most Sundays, leads the Marsh staff (40 full and part time persons in the areas of ministry, music and hospitality), gives oversight to all University religious life (7 University Chaplains, 26 religious life groups, and several campus ministers), provides prayers for various all University events (Commencement, Matriculation, other), meets with the Deans’ Council and University Leadership Group, and guides pastoral care for the community, through the chaplains’ offices. In recent years some BUSTH students have chosen to do their field work at Marsh (so, 5 in 2007, 3 in 2008, 7 in 2009, 1 in 2010, and similar number since then). Marsh Chapel hosts 16 weekly worship services, one of which is the BUSTH led Wednesday 11:15am service. About 2,500 people a week, during the school year, are present for worship, study or service in the chapel building. For more information, visit the Chapel website.

Bob Hill has been preaching since 1976. As an elder (Upper New York Conference) in the United Methodist Church he has had experience in ten local churches, five different annual conferences, multiple annual conference board assignments, General and Jurisdictional Conference participation, General Board membership (GBHEM), various speaking engagements, and denominational leadership discussions. His views of the present condition of the church, particularly in the Northeast, and prospects for ministry into the future, have provided a complementary perspective to that of some recent Northeastern UMC denominational leadership. His main denominational interests have been in Large Church ministry and Theological Education. Dr. Hill was given the Harry Denman award for Evangelism in 2003. Currently he serves on the Board of the New England Annual Conference United Methodist Foundation, the Board of Visitors of the Learning Project Elementary School (Back Bay, Boston), the Board of Visitors of Harvard Memorial Church, and the Board of Ministry of Harvard College. He is an active member of the Boston Ministers’ Club and the New Haven Theological Discussion Group, and an inactive Rotarian. He loves sports, and played basketball and soccer at the high school and college levels. His wife Jan is a musician and teacher, whose children’s choir sings regularly in Boston, most notably once a year in early May on the steps of Trinity Church, Copley Square. Bob and Jan are joggers, and spend summers on a lake in upstate New York. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.

Nancy Norman, a native Bostonian, is the medical director of integration for the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership.  She has served in this role at the partnership for five years, focusing mainly on working with city and state public health officials, medical providers, consumer advocates, and business leaders to improve health outcomes by working to improve health care systems. She brings a keen appreciation of the interdependency of medical, behavioral, and social dimensions of health to a career spent implementing actionable, practical strategies for health improvement and system redesign. The major focus of her work is to look at ways to better integrate behavioral health with primary care, partly by focusing on payment reform and health system redesign efforts.

Prior to joining the partnership, she was the chief medical officer for the Boston Public Health Commission. In this capacity she oversaw the clinical functions of the commission and developed initiatives to address emerging health problems. One of her major responsibilities was the supervision of the Infectious Disease Bureau, which included the HIV/AIDs Services Division. This division was the grantee for the Ryan White Part A dollars that continue to support the collaborative/integrated approach to care for residents of the City of Boston living with HIV. Nine years as a primary HIV care provider and director of women’s health at the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston made transition to this more population-focused work with HIV an exciting challenge.

Norman was also instrumental in the restructuring of the health disparities work to realign the focus on health equity and social justice. Norman completed her internship and residency, including chief residency in internal medicine, at Faulkner Hospital after receiving a BA in biology from Bowdoin College and an MD from Boston University School of Medicine. Norman later received an MPH from Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed a clinical fellowship in community-oriented primary care/preventive medicine at Carney Hospital.  She is currently on staff at Boston Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Boston University. Norman is tremendously effective at building coalitions, sustaining relationships, and masterfully exerting influence to effect change.