Executive Team
Jennifer Bright, MPA
Executive Director
Jennifer Bright, MPA
Jennifer Bright is Executive Director for the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI). Mrs. Bright brings over two decades of health care policy, issue management, patient advocacy and executive leadership to the position. Jennifer is also the founder and President of Momentum Health Strategies, where she works with clients to promote integrated behavioral health care, patient engagement, quality improvement in hospitals and prevention of healthcare-associated infections. She most recently served as Executive Director for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), a non-profit medical society representing physicians, advanced practice nurses, and researchers with expertise in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention. Jennifer’s prior executive leadership at the National Mental Health Association (now Mental Health America) focused on advancing policy initiatives at the state and local level. Her career has also included issue analysis and strategic issue management for corporate clients at state-focused lobbying firms. Jennifer earned her degree in political science from Trinity College, Washington, D.C. and her master’s degree in Public Administration from The George Washington University, concentrating on policy analysis and program management.
Mark Linthicum, MPP
Director of Scientific Communications
Mark Linthicum, MPP
Mr. Linthicum is Director of Scientific Communications for the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI), where he brings both scientific training as a researcher and expertise in communications and strategic planning to bear on the scope of IVI’s activities. Mr. Linthicum has over 10 years of experience in health policy and public health, with experience in policy-facing research in diverse therapeutic areas, including oncology, hepatology, infectious disease, and nutrition. His work has been published in leading journals of economics, medicine, and health policy including JAMA Oncology, Health Affairs, Chest, and Health Services Research. He earned his Master’s degree in public policy from the University of Southern California and his bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hanh Nguyen, MA
Project Coordinator
Hanh Nguyen, MA
Ms. Nguyen holds an MA in Forensic Psychology from Marymount University and a BS in Psychology from James Madison University.
Scientific Advisors
Jeroen Jansen, PhD
Lead Scientific Advisor, OSVP
Jeroen Jansen, PhD
Jeroen P Jansen, PhD, is Lead Scientific Advisor of the Open-Source Value Project (OSVP) at the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI). The OSVP is an open, collaborative, and consensus-based process for the development of open-source cost-effectiveness models and other tools for value assessment of medical interventions. Apart from his leadership role at the OSVP, Dr. Jansen is Adjunct Professor of Health Research & Policy (Epidemiology) at Stanford University and Chief Scientist for Evidence Synthesis and Decision Modeling at the Precision Medicine Group (Precision Xtract). He has 15 years of research experience in the areas of evidence synthesis and cost-effectiveness modeling and has published extensively on both applied and methods research in his areas of expertise. He is co-author of a textbook on network meta-analysis for decision-making.
Suepattra May-Slater, PhD, MPH
Qualitative Research Advisor
Suepattra May-Slater, PhD, MPH
Dr. May-Slater is the Qualitative Research Advisor at the Innovation and Value Initiative. In this role, she works with IVI leadership and patient partners to develop, implement, and optimize strategies for collaborating with patient stakeholders and ensuring patient centric initiatives and projects throughout IVI. In addition to her role at IVI, Dr. May-Slater is an Associate Director and Senior Research Anthropologist at Precision Health Economics, where she conducts qualitative and ethnographic research across a number of therapeutic areas and topics ranging from oncology to treatment decision making and patient reported outcomes. She has extensive experience investigating how patients experience illness and healthcare and her work has been published in leading medical and healthcare policy journals. Dr. May-Slater holds a PhD from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley & San Francisco; and from the University of Washington earned both an MPH in Health Services and a BA in International Studies.