Andrew F. Coburn, Ph.D., is the Chair of Health Policy and Management Graduate Program, and Director of Population Health and Health Policy in the Cutler Institute of Health and Social Policy, Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. He is a senior investigator in the Maine Rural Health Research Center.

Jennifer P. Lundblad, Ph.D., M.B.A.,  is president and CEO of Stratus Health, an independent non-profit quality improvement organization based in Bloomington, Minnesota, that leads collaboration and innovation in health care quality and patient safety.  Jennifer has an extensive background in leadership, organization development, and program management in both non-profit and education settings.

A. Clinton MacKinney, M.D., M.S., is a board-certified family physician delivering emergency medicine services in rural Minnesota; a senior consultant for Stroudwater Associates, a rural hospital consulting firm; and a contract researcher for the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Timothy D. McBride, Ph.D., is a professor and associate dean for Public Health in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.

Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D., is the Rural Health Panel chair, associate dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, a professor of Health Services Research and Administration, and director of both the Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research and the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis.

Rebecca T. Slifkin, Ph.D., is director of the North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center, director of the Program on Health Care Economics and Finance at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a research associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine in the University of North Carolina Medical School.