Our Board

Raymond J. Baxter, Ph.D., is Kaiser Permanente’s senior vice president for community benefit, research and health policy. As a member of Kaiser Permanente’s national executive team, Baxter leads the organization’s activities to fulfill its social mission, including care and coverage for low-income people, community health initiatives, health equity, environmental stewardship and support for community-based organizations. He also leads Kaiser Permanente’s work in research, health policy and diversity, and serves as president of Kaiser Permanente International. Baxter has a long and distinguished career in public health, hospital, long-term care and mental health programs, including heading the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.

Gary Cohen is executive vice president and president, Global Health and Development at BD (Becton, Dickinson & Co), a global medical technology company with $12 billion in global revenues and 45,000 employees operating in 180 countries. He has served as an executive officer of the company since 1996. He is board co-chair of GBCHealth and a board director of the Perrigo Company, US Fund for UNICEF and Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children. Gary served as board chair of the CDC Foundation from 2010—2014. BD and Gary are engaged across the public, private and NGO sectors to address unmet global health needs. He serves as an advocate and expert speaker on global health, child immunization, HIV/AIDS and health system strengthening. Gary founded Together for Girls, a partnership to end violence against children. He has been honored by MESAB (Medical Education for South African Blacks), B’nai B’rith International, the US Fund for UNICEF, the Nyumbani Home for orphaned HIV positive children and the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation. Gary holds a BA and MBA from Rutgers University.

Leah Devlin, D.D.S., M.P.H., is professor of the practice of health policy and management at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Devlin was State Health Director from 2001 to 2009 and previously was deputy state health director and health director for Wake County. She has served as president of three active state organizations – the North Carolina Association of Local Health Directors, North Carolina Public Health Association and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Devlin received her dental degree and master's degree in public health administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2008, she received the University’s Distinguished Alumna Award.

Matt James is currently a visiting scholar of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. As a visiting scholar, James will conduct research and convene key leaders in the philanthropic, nonprofit, and media communities to discuss opportunities for collaboration and design projects and campaigns to help advance efforts to address climate change. Before this role, James served as the president and CEO of Next Generation, where he promoted solutions to two of the biggest challenges confronting the next generation of Americans: the risk of dangerous climate change and the threat of diminished prospects for children and families. Prior to co-founding Next Generation, he was an integral part of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s leadership team for 20 years, serving most recently as executive vice president. Before joining Kaiser, he worked in national politics as a senior aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, and Representative Morris K. Udall of Arizona. Matt was appointed by President Clinton to the board of the Morris K. Udall Foundation, is past-chairman of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health and serves on the President’s Advisory Board of the National Wildlife Federation.

Ruth Katz, J.D., M.P.H is the director of The Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine and Society (HMS) Program. Prior to The Aspen Institute, Katz served as chief public health counsel with the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to that, she was the Walter G. Ross professor of health policy of the School of Public Health and Health Services at The George Washington University. Before joining George Washington University, Katz was associate dean for administration at the Yale University School of Medicine. From 1982 to 1995, she served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition, Katz was the director of public health programs at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; the Democrat nominee for New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District for the U.S. House of Representatives; and counsel to the advisory committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health, chaired by Drs. C. Everett Koop and David Kessler.

Phil Kent is retired chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.). He was responsible for a portfolio of news, entertainment and animation, young adult & kids networks and businesses including CNN/U.S., CNN International, CNN.com and HLN; TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies and truTV; Cartoon Network and Adult Swim; and Turner Sports. Globally, Turner Broadcasting operates more than 130 channels in some 30 languages in more than 200 countries. Previously, he served as president and chief operating officer of CNN News Group. His career at TBS, Inc. also includes broad international experience as president of Turner Broadcasting System International (TBSI).

Betty King is the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva from 2010 to 2013. King served as the U.S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.  In that capacity, she worked on human rights, development, children, aging and population issues.  She represented the United States interests in a wide range of issues including development, population, refugees, HIV/AIDs, the environment, women, children and the aged, and in the participation of non-governmental organizations in that inter-governmental body. King was the principal U.S. negotiator on the Millennium Development Goals, eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000. She has an extensive background in philanthropy, having served in senior leadership roles at several large foundations including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the California Endowment and the Atlantic Philanthropies.

Charles H. McTier is a retired trustee and past president of the Robert W. Woodruff, Joseph B. Whitehead, and Lettie Pate Evans Foundations. McTier has been associated with these foundations for more than 35 years. Active in regional and national foundation associations, he served as chairman of The Foundation Center Board of Trustees, vice chairman of the Council on Foundations and chairman of the Southeastern Council of Foundations. For nine years he was a Commissioner of the Joint Commission on Accreditations of Health Care Organizations. He is a graduate of the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and currently serves as a Goizueta Executive Fellow.

Dikembe Mutombo is the chairman and president of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, which he established in 1997 to improve the health, education and quality of life for the people in his homeland, the Democratic Republic of Congo. A graduate of Georgetown University, with dual degrees in linguistics and diplomacy, Mutombo played professional basketball for 18 years before retiring from the Houston Rockets in 2009. In 2007 the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation opened the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital—a 170-bed, $29 million hospital located in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo—in memory of his mother. Closer to home, Mutombo devotes much of his time to charitable causes, which include Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital Christmas toy drive, Hosea Feed the Hungry, the Atlanta Community Food Bank and making personal appearances at local schools.

David Ratcliffe is the retired chairman, president and chief executive officer of Southern Company, one of America’s largest producers of electricity. Having worked with Southern Company and its subsidiaries since 1971, Ratcliffe became president, CEO and chairman of Southern Company in 2004. In addition to the CDC Foundation, he currently serves on the boards of CSX Transportation, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, SunTrust and Urjanet and is a member of the Georgia Bar Association. Ratcliffe received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Valdosta State University and a law degree from Woodrow Wilson College of Law.

John G. Rice is vice chairman of GE and president & CEO of GE Technology Infrastructure. Rice began his General Electric career in 1978. In 2000, Rice was named president and CEO of GE Energy. He was named vice chairman of GE and president & CEO of GE Industrial in 2005 and was named vice chairman of GE and president & CEO of GE Infrastructure in 2006. Rice earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees there. Rice is also a trustee of Emory University and the Walker School, is on the International Advisory Board of King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia, and is past chairman of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.