Co-Chair: Laura Herrera Scott, M.D. Secretary of Health
Co-Chair: Jonathan N. Kromm, Ph.D., Executive Director, State Health Services Cost Review Commission
Appointed by Senate President: Mary L. Washington, Ph.D.
Appointed by House Speaker: Sheree Sample-Hughes
Appointed by Secretary of Health with advice of State Health Services Cost Review Commission: fourteen vacancies
Representing Maryland Association of County Health Officers: Ernest L. Carter, M.D., Ph.D.
Ex officio: Leonard Croft, designee of Secretary of Aging; Kay-Megan Washington, designee of Secretary of Agriculture; Helene T. Grady, Secretary of Budget & Management; Tonya B. Wigfall, designee of Secretary of Commerce; Kirsten Robb-McGrath, designee of Secretary of Disabilities; Erica S. Chapman, designee of Secretary of the Environment; Jennifer A. Edwards, designee of Secretary of General Services; Alyssa S. Lord, Deputy Secretary for Behavioral Health; Ryan B. Moran, Dr.P.H., Deputy Secretary for Health Care Financing; Nilesh Kalyanaraman, M.D., Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services; Danielle Meister, designee of Secretary of Housing & Community Development; Richard Lichenstein, M.D., designee of Secretary of Human Services; W. Lance Schine, designee of Secretary of Information Technology; Keva S. Jackson, designee of Secretary of Juvenile Services; Sarah A. Beardsley, designee of Secretary of Labor; Momah A. Conteh, designee of Secretary of Natural Resources; Kanishk Sharma, designee of Secretary of Planning; Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary of Public Safety & Correctional Services; Annie D. Harvey, Commissioner of Correction; Derek B. Peck, designee of Secretary of State Police; Paul J. Wiedefeld, Secretary of Transportation; Rosalyn Jones, designee of Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Sylvia A. Lawson, Ph.D., designee of State Superintendent of Schools; Kathleen A. Birrane, Maryland Insurance Commissioner; Mark A. Luckner, Executive Director, Maryland Community Health Resources Commission; Michael J. (Ben) Steffen, Executive Director, Maryland Health Care Commission; Camille Blake Fall, Executive Director, Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities.
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Staff: Marianne M. Gibson
c/o Opioid Operational Command Center
100 Community Place, Crownsville, MD 21032
(443) 381-4377
e-mail: marianne.gibson@maryland.gov
web: https://health.maryland.gov/mche/pages/default.aspx
100 Community Place, Crownsville, Maryland, July 2016. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
Final Report to Governor, Senate Budget & Taxation Committee, Senate Finance Committee, House Appropriations Committee, & House Health & Government Operations Committee due Dec. 1, 2025 (Chapter 749, Acts of 2021; Chapter 787, Acts of 2024; Code Health-General Article, sec. 13–5107).
Using a health equity framework, the Commission examines the health of Maryland residents; and ways for State and local governments to collaborate in implementing policies that affect their health. The Commission also considers factors affecting health, such as access to safe and affordable housing; education; employment; economic stability; inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace; mobility and access to transportation; social justice; the environment; public safety; and food insecurity.
The Commission advises the Secretary of Health and through the Secretary the senior administrators and planners in the Maryland Department of Health on issues of racial, ethnic, cultural or socioeconomic health disparities; facilitates coordination of State agencies in developing a comprehensive health equity plan that addresses the social determinants of health; sets goals for health equity; and is to prepare a plan for the State to achieve health equity.
Forty-five members constitute the Commission. One member is appointed by the Senate President, and one by the House Speaker. Fourteen members are appointed by the Secretary of Health. A local health officer represents the Maryland Association of County Health Officers. Twenty-eight members serve ex officio. The Secretary of Health and the Executive Director of the State Health Services Cost Review Commission co-chair the Commission (Chapter 787, Acts of 2024; Code Health-General Article, sec. 13–4303).
Authorization for the Commission ends June 30, 2026 (Chapter 787, Acts of 2024; Code Health-General Article, sec. 13–5107).
Geoff Daugherty; Tracey DeShields, Esq.; Jean Drummond; Katie Eckert; Amelia Rivera Oven; Laurens G. Van Sluytman, Ph.D. Terms expire 2026.
As provided by law, the Maryland Commission on Health Equity formed the Data Advisory Committee in January 2022 (Code Health-General, sec. 13–4206).
The Committee will make recommendations on data collection, needs, quality, reporting, evaluation, and visualization for the Maryland Commission on Health Equity. Moreover, parameters of a health equity data set to be maintained by a State designated health information exchange are to be defined by the Committee. They will include indicators for social and economic conditions; environmental conditions; health status; behaviors; health care; and priority health outcomes for monitoring health equity for racial and ethnic minority populations in Maryland.
The data set for which parameters are defined is to include data from: health care facilities that report to the State Health Services Cost Review Commission; health care payers that report to the Maryland Health Care Commission; and any other data source the Committee determines necessary.
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