Members of the Community Health and Environment technical expert panel lend their expertise to help guide the initiative’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of all communities.

TEP members are leaders in fields ranging from community health (needs) assessment, work to reduce disparities in health outcomes, health system strategic integration, emergency preparedness, community engagement and linkages between community health and environment. Learn more about each TEP member by reading the biographies below.

Jenna Agins

Jenna Agins

Energy and Sustainability Assistant Director

NYU Langone Health

Jenna Agins manages NYU Langone’s environmental sustainability program, setting its strategic direction and leading projects to reduce the health system’s environmental footprint and build a culture of sustainability.
Coletta C. Barrett

Coletta C. Barrett, R.N.

Vice President, Mission (retired)

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center

Possessing more than 47 years’ experience as a clinician, health plan manager and executive leader, Coletta Barrett has led many efforts to interpret program work for broad audiences and integrate organizations’ missions into daily practice.
Kara Brooks

Kara Brooks

Senior Associate Director, Sustainability

American Hospital Association

With more than 20 years of environmental sustainability and energy engineering experience, Kara Brooks currently directs strategic leadership, advocacy and program development for the American Hospital Association’s sustainability initiatives.
Andrew Garman

Andrew N. Garman

Professor, Department of Health Systems Management
Director, Rush Center for Health System Leadership

RUSH

Andrew Garman’s most recent book, “Healing our Future: Leadership for a Changing Health System,” emphasizes the catalytic role health care organizations play in addressing complex social challenges, including preserving a healthy planet.
Shaneeta Johnson

Shaneeta M. Johnson, M.D.

Chair and Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery
Professor of Global Health, Associate Dean and Vice President of Global Partnerships and Engagement, Meharry School of Global Health

Meharry Medical College

Shaneeta Johnson is an inaugural fellow of the National Medical Association/Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health Equity Fellowship, and is a vocal advocate for reducing disparities in health outcomes and promoting environment-resilient communities.
Onora Lien

Onora Lien

Executive Director

Northwest Healthcare Response Network

Onora Lien leads “the Network,” a public-private partnership working to effectively engage and coordinate health care, public health, emergency response organizations and other public and private entities throughout the life cycle of an emergency, disaster or other disruptive event.
Sheetal Rao

Sheetal Khedkar Rao, M.D.

Primary Care Physician | Educator, Community Engagement and Planetary Health

UI Health | Nordson Green Earth Foundation

Sheetal Khedkar Rao’s internal medicine work explores the impact of environment on health, and she teaches a graduate course on the health impacts of the environment at the University of Illinois, Chicago School of Public Health.
Terri Scannell

Terri Scannell

Principal Advisor, Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance

OhioHealth

Terri Scannell participated in the White House convening on “Greening America’s Hospitals,” earned a certificate Executive Education in Sustainability Leadership from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has participated in the Wharton-led Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania.
Indu Spugnardi

Indu Spugnardi

Senior Director, Community Health and Elder Care

Catholic Health Association of the United States

In addition to her work at the Catholic Health Association of the United States, which has included a focus on environmental sustainability, Indu Spugnardi is involved in leading the response of U.S. Catholic health care organizations to the Vatican’s Laudato Si' Action Platform, which educates Catholics working in health care about the ways they can address environmental resilience challenges.
Rachelle Wenger

Rachelle R. Wenger

System Vice President, Public Policy and Advocacy Engagement

CommonSpirit Health

Rachelle Wenger is responsible for advancing policy issues core to CommonSpirit Health’s commitment to promoting health and eliminating health disparities, including supporting landmark legislation and strategic initiatives related to social and environmental drivers of health.