Executive Director

Shelley Martin, MPH, CHES, is the Executive Director and Editor in Chief of HRA. She provides leadership for resource and program development and is a contributing author of HRA's accessible and user-friendly publications. Shelley received the 2002 B. Holzer Health Literacy Award for published materials from the Institute for Healthcare Advancement and the Chancellor's 2001-2002 award for University-Community Partnerships. She was awarded the Pratt Fellowship in 2005 to promote community empowerment in Australia. She will be participating in the 2007 Advanced Health Leadership Forum through a joint offering between the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, to bring together senior health care leaders from countries around the world to discuss key health care issues that are converging across countries and organizations. She joined HRA in 1990 after an extensive career in health promotion and consultation that included national training on HIV/AIDS prevention, improving access to health care for rural Americans, and developing the Medical Home Training model for Head Start.