Christine Brown-Mahoney, PhD received her PhD in from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. She also holds an AA in nursing, a BS in animal science and genetics, and an MS in quantitative genetics and statistics. Her PhD examined the labor supply of registered nurses. She has designed, analyzed, and reported on data in clinical trials, on patients' surgical outcomes, technology changes and costs, healthcare workers labor supply, and meta-analyses. Chris has published over 40 of these in peer refereed journals and presented at over 100 conferences internationally. Chris has consulted extensively with medical device companies, government agencies, and hospitals and clinics. She taught statistics to graduate students for 15 years at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Chris is currently Assistant Professor of Health Care Administration, Dept. of Management & Labor Relations, Nance College of Business Administration, at Cleveland State University.

Cheryl Cashin, PhD received her BA in Chemistry from Bucknell University, her Master's in Agriculture from Cornell and her PhD in Economics from the University of Washington. She is a specialist in health financing policy research, design, and implementation. As Director of a health reform program funded by the US Agency for International Development, she advised the government of the Republic of Georgia on national health care financing policy design and implementation. She also managed integrated health policy programs in the Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, providing technical assistance to national health financing policy development and implementation, including national health insurance, and designing and implementing health financing, service delivery, and provider payment systems. She has led the design, implementation, and analysis of household and health facility surveys to support health policy development and monitoring and evaluation in Central Asia, and participated on research teams for a series of studies of the cost-effectiveness of health and nutrition interventions in Latin America.

Patrick Richard, PhD, MA obtained his doctoral from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2007. There, he worked on children's utilization of mental health services, children's emotional and behavioral problems and their parents' labor market outcomes and analyzed the differential effects of psychological distress (PD) on employment by race. He also investigated disparities in the quality of hospital care provided to minorities and low income patients. Patrick is currently conducting research in the following three areas: 1) the effects of children's mental disorders on their parents' earnings 2) the effects of changes in patient–physician racially concordant workforce on the quality of care received by minority patients with diabetes 3) the interaction of social capital and education to moderate the impact of life–course financial strain on individual mental health outcomes of different racial/ethnic groups. Patrick was a Johnson & Johnson Program Evaluation Scholar from 2005–2007 at Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, he has more than 10 years of professional experience in Corporate Finance and State Government Policy. Patrick is currently Assistant Research Professor of Health Economics and Policy within the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health.

Jangho Yoon, PhD, MSPH received his MSPH and PhD degrees in health policy and economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His primary research interests are health economics, the evaluation of mental health policies and laws, financing and delivery of health care for vulnerable populations, social capital, and applications of advanced econometric techniques to mental health services research. His current research topics include (1) relationships between the supply of mental health care, mental health outcomes, substance abuse, and criminal justice outcomes, (2) intra– and inter–system impacts of mental health financing including an examination of the relationship between managed behavioral health care, up–coding, and cost–shifting to the criminal justice system, (3) inter–relationship between physical and mental health, (4) social capital and health outcomes such as healthy lifestyles, obesity and mental health, and (5) the evaluation of the California Mental Health Service Act. Jangho is currently Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, at Georgia Southern University.