Dr. J. Jacques Carter

Dr. J. Jacques Carter

Primary Care Physician

Primary Care Physician

Harvard Medical School

Dr. J. Jacques Carter currently serves as an attending physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. From 2005 to 2014, he also served as the Medical Director of the Prostate Cancer Screening and Education Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dr. Carter serves as a medical advisor for PHEN and a member of its board of directors. 

Dr. Carter has been active in a number of civic and community organizations, including past board president of the Family Service of Greater Boston and past chair of the Brookline Advisory Council on Public Health. 

He has earned degrees from Howard University and George Washington University and received his medical degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Carter completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Then, Dr. Carter completed a graduate program at the Harvard School of Public Health where he received his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree. 

He then completed a clinical fellowship in primary care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since completing his training, Dr. Carter has held a number of clinical and administrative positions, including medical directorships of several local and national healthcare organizations. 

As a former director of one of the major clinical clerkships, he now serves as a teacher, advisor, and mentor for students at Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and the School of Public Health. He regularly gives talks on medical and health-related topics to community groups and students throughout the Greater Boston area. He also lectures nationally and internationally on medical and public health topics. Dr. Carter serves as a medical consultant and resource for members of the print and electronic media.  

State Rep. Goffrey A. “GA” Hardaway, Sr.

State Rep. Goffrey A. “GA” Hardaway, Sr.

93rd District of Tennessee

93rd District of Tennessee

Representative G.A. Hardaway (D-TN) is a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing District 93. He assumed office in 2006. His current term ends on November 5, 2024.

Hardaway is running for re-election to the Tennessee House of Representatives to represent District 93. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. He advanced from the Democratic primary on August 1, 2024.

Biography

Hardaway earned his B.S. in finance from DePaul University. He is a real estate investor.

State Rep. Dontavius Jarrells (D-OH)

State Rep. Dontavius Jarrells (D-OH)

1st District of Ohio

1st District of Ohio

State Rep. Dontavius Jarrells currently serves in his first term representing Ohio’s 25th House District, including Columbus, Clinton Township, and Mifflin Township.

Growing up in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Rep. Jarrells saw firsthand the lack of affordable housing, safety, education, employment, and other essential services have on families. After nearly a decade fighting for disadvantaged and marginalized communities across Ohio, Rep. Jarrells is committed to advancing commonsense legislation to make Ohio a better place to live, work, go to school, start a business and raise a family. During his first term in elected office, Rep. Jarrells introduced legislation to increase Ohio’s minimum wage to $15/hr., eliminate discriminatory covenants from deeds during property transfers, remove derogatory language within the state’s code, and designate Columbus’ Poindexter Village as an official Ohio Historical site.

Mr. James Williams

Mr. James Williams

Director of Federal Relations

Director of Federal Relations

American Cancer Society

Mr. James Williams, Director, Federal Relations- Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Screening American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network A native Washingtonian, James M. Williams, Jr, is a graduate of Fisk University with a degree in African History and Public Administration. He is currently director of federal affairs for cancer prevention, early detection and screening with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Before joining ACS CAN, he was director of federal affairs for Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, where he helped secure the only branch of NIH outside Bethesda, MD on their campus. Between 1988 – 2011 James served as a top staffer on Capitol Hill to six different members of Congress, including as Chief of Staff to Rep. John Lewis and Legislative Director/Appropriations Staffer to Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick. He currently serves on over six different non-profit boards with a primary focus on the differently-abled and recently retired after 10 years from West Point’s Board of Admissions. He and his wife Patrice share five adult children.

Ms. Shonta Chambers

Ms. Shonta Chambers

Executive Vice President of Health Equity Initiatives and Community Engagement

Executive Vice President of Health Equity Initiatives and Community Engagement

Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF)

Ms. Shonta Chambers transitioned back to the non-profit sector in 2014 by joining PAF. She leads the development and execution of strategic initiatives to expand PAF’s approach to achieve health equity through community and national level partnership engagement and mobilization. These initiatives are designed to link limited income communities to resources to abate financial, logistical and social access to care barriers. She brings to this role nearly 20 years of non-profit and public sector middle and senior level experience that spans public health, women’s health and behavioral health.

Additionally, she serves as the Principal Investigator on record as part of DP13-1314 CDC’s National Networks to Reduce Cancer and Tobacco Related Disparities Cooperative Agreement. In this role, she administers the SelfMade Health Network a national network focused on reducing cancer and tobacco related disparities among populations with low socio-economic characteristics.

Shonta enjoys mentoring young women, golf, and watching her sons play baseball.

Dr. Arnav Srivastava

Dr. Arnav Srivastava

Urologic Oncologist

Urologic Oncologist

University of Michigan

Dr. Arnav Srivastava is an urologic oncology fellow at the University of Michigan. He obtained his MD, MPH from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He then completed his urology residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.

He has clinical interests in urologic malignancies including prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer.

He has research interests in health services research, health economics, insurance design, and biomarker development.

He has more than 50 publications and over 1000 citings.