National Program Office and Multidisciplinary Track Staff
Marie Briones-Jones
Marie Briones-Jones, deputy director for
the Kellogg Health Scholars Program (Multidisciplinary Track) and Kellogg Fellows in Health Policy
Research. Before joining CFAH, she was a senior program associate at the Joint Center for Political and
Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute. Previously, Ms. Briones-Jones was a senior manager with
AcademyHealth, where she served as a co-principal investigator for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant
“Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Health Services Research: Pockets of Progress but a Long Way to
Go” and served as an associate director at the national program offices of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research and the Picker/Commonwealth Scholars in
Patient-Centered Care programs. A graduate of the University of Toronto, Ms. Briones-Jones also holds an
MSHSA degree from the George Washington University.
Barbara Kivimae Krimgold
Barbara Kivimae Krimgold, senior project
director, is responsible for initiatives at CFAH focused on improving health and reducing health
inequalities through research, research training, policy and community action. She is the national
program director of the Kellogg Health Scholars and the Kellogg Fellows in Health Policy Research
programs. Before joining CFAH, she was deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research and director of the Picker/Commonwealth Scholars in
Patient-Centered Care programs. She also was a senior budget officer at the Office of Management and
Budget and a health expert at the Senate Aging Committee. A graduate of Harvard University, she has
co-authored and co-edited several books and journal articles on socioeconomic status and health.
Brandon Moore
Brandon Moore, Director of New Media, serves as CFAH, KHSP and HBNS’s IT administrator, webmaster and graphic designer/desktop publisher. He has a background in Web development and public affairs. Before coming to CFAH, he was webmaster/external relations at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. Prior to that, Brandon was an intern in the Offices of Organizational Development, Training, and Rail and Bus Training at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. He majored in psychology at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, NC.
Community Track Staff
Renee Bayer
Renee Bayer, MHSA, is the associate
director of the KHSP Community Track, and former Resource Coordinator of the Community Health Scholars
Program. She assists the Community Track director in programmatic components of the post-doctoral
programs. She oversees the quality assurance and development of the “Community of Scholars”,
including the utilization of electronic communications, support of cross-site working groups, and the
development of national linkages strategies such as the Community Based Public Health Caucus.
Previously, Renee served as the Community-Academic Liaison Coordinator at the University of Michigan,
School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice – Community-Based Public Health Program.
She has had over 15 years of experience in facilitating relationships and activities between the faculty
and students at the School of Public Health and community-based organizations and local health
departments. Renee served as the Program Manager for multiple programs including: Michigan Public Health
Training Center Graduate Student Program; Ruth Mott Community Health Careers Program; and the Community
Crossroad Technology Hubs Project. She was staff liaison to the CBPR centers: the Detroit-Community
Academic Urban Research Center and Prevention Research Center of Michigan. Renee serves on Board of
Directors of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Friends of Parkside.
Toby Citrin, J.D.
Toby Citrin, J.D. is Co-Director of the
Kellogg Health Scholars Program and Director of its Community Track. He is Adjunct Professor of Health
Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Citrin has held numerous
positions on public health planning, policy, and advisory bodies, and chaired the Governor’s Commission
which developed Michigan’s first Public Health Code. Citrin directs the Center for Public Health and
Community Genomics (www.sph.umich.edu/genomics), whose mission is to integrate genomics into
public health practice emphasizing ethical, legal and social issues, community engagement, and the
reduction of health disparities. He has played significant roles in developing and coordinating
school-wide community-based public health programs, including serving as the first director of the
School’s Office of Community-Based Public Health from 1990 to 2007.
Barbara Watson
Barbara Watson is the Program Administrator for
the KHSP-Community Track. She is also the Program Administrator for the Community-Based Public
Health (CBPH) Caucus, which includes coordinating all activities and communication for the CBPH
Caucus.