Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH
Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, is the Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Bitton leads efforts to design, test, and scale practical solutions that improve the effectiveness, safety, and integration of health systems in the United States and globally. His work reaches more than 148 million patients each year.
Since 2012, he has served as a Senior Advisor for Primary Care and Payment Policy at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. He helped launch the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative and continues to practice primary care internal medicine in Boston. He serves on several national boards and committees and received the 2023 Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award.
Andrea Cherrington, MD, MPH
Andrea Cherrington, MD, MPH, is a Professor and the inaugural Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Population Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She earned her Master’s in Public Health and completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars’ Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after finishing her internal medicine residency at UAB in 2003. In 2006, she returned to UAB, where her research has focused on designing, implementing, and evaluating community- and clinic-based interventions for chronic disease prevention and management in historically marginalized, under-resourced communities.
Her work has been supported by the NIH, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She co-leads the NIH-funded Forge AHEAD Center and founded Connection Health, Alabama’s first nonprofit dedicated to training and deploying community health workers.
