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Health Advisory Committee members

Growing a Healthy Workforce in the Delta Action Plan

The Health Advisory Committee (HAC) membership includes at least one member from each of the eight states represented in the Delta Regional Authority. Each member serves at the recommendation and pleasure of the Governor of their state.

HAC members are knowledgeable of health issues facing their state and represent a variety of professions in the areas of medicine, policy, health and human services and academics.

The Delta Regional Authority’s Health Advisory Committee presented the “Growing a Healthy Workforce in the Delta: An Action Plan for Projects to Improve Health in the Delta” in April 2010.

State Member Name
Arkansas Joseph Thompson
  Steven B. Jones
Alabama J. Ross Gunnells
Illinois Woody Thorne
Kentucky Robert W. Brooks
Louisiana Lester W. Johnson, MD
Missouri Benjamin Harvey
Mississippi Therese Hanna
Tennessee Paul Fassbender