JAY C. BUTLER, MD, is former Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. During his tenure, he served as incident commander of Governor Bill Walker's Opioid Crisis Response Cabinet. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Medical School, has completed post-doctoral clinical trainings at Vanderbilt and Emory Universities, and maintains board certifications in infectious diseases, internal medical, and pediatrics. He is an affiliate professor of medicine at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He was the 2017 President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and is the recipient of the 2018 National American Society of Addiction Medicine's Public Policy Award. In 2019, he became Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
MICHAEL R. FRASER, PhD, MS, CAE, FCPP, is Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the national nonprofit organization representing state and territorial leaders of public health agencies of the United States, U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia, as well as the more than 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. He has been featured in interviews with the Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, The Hill, CNN, Bloomberg, MSNBC, and other national and regional media outlets. He is an affiliated faculty at the George Mason University College of Health and Human Services and a Professorial Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. His collaborative research and scholarship have been published in several academic journals including the American Journal of Public Health, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.