NAQC Welcomes New Director and Officers to the Board!
 

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you to all members who participated in the recent election of the Board. I am pleased to announce that Corinne M. Graffunder, DrPH, has been elected to the Board. Please join me in welcoming her as NAQC’s newly elected director.   Dr. Graffunder is Associate Vice President for Domestic Non-Infectious Programs at the CDC Foundation leading a multi-million dollar portfolio that addresses chronic conditions and related risk factors including tobacco use. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2020, she held leadership positions in the CDC working for over 30 years to advance Global, national, state and local prevention efforts. As CDC’s Deputy Associate Director for Policy she led the development of the National Prevention Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness. From 2015-2020 she directed the Office on Smoking and Health and was responsible for providing broad leadership and direction for all scientific, policy, and programmatic efforts related to tobacco control and prevention. In January 2020, she oversaw the release of Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General. She successfully expanded the message of the Tips From Former Smokers® campaign, assisted state and local tobacco policy efforts to address persistent tobacco-use disparities and epidemic rates of e-cigarette use among youth and young adults and played a critical role in guiding OSH’s efforts in response to the national e-cigarette, or vaping, product-use associated lung injury (EVALI) outbreak. Additionally, she has an adjunct faculty appointment at the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana, teaching doctoral level courses in global health policy analysis and advocacy.

Board Officer Election: I have one more year remaining in my term as Chair of the Board and am also pleased to announce the newly elected Board officers and executive committee member-at-large!

Chair-elect:    Miranda Spitznagle
Treasurer:      Robert McCaffree
Secretary:       Delmonte Jefferson
Executive Committee Member-at-Large: Catherine Saucedo
 
To learn more about NAQC’s directors, please browse the Board webpage.
 
Thanks to Candidates, Nomination Committee and Exiting Director: I would like to give special thanks to the candidates who were willing to have their names put forward for the election, NAQC members who nominated potential candidates and those who voted in the election, and to members of the Nomination Committee (Miranda Spitznagle, Committee Chair, Linda Bailey, Karen Brown, Sandra Hernandez, Catherine Saucedo and Hilary Tindle).

Finally, I would like to extend a special thank you to Dr. Hilary Tindle, for her excellent service on the Board during her three-year term.

If you have questions about the responsibilities of the Board or suggested nominees for next year’s election, please contact the Board at Board@naquitline.org. Please note that you can submit potential candidates for the NAQC Board throughout the year.

Submitted on behalf of the Board,

Paula Celestino 
Board Chair