Staff: Who We Are
Catherine Dunham, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Email- cdunham@cdhp.org
Dr. Dunham leads the CDHP team through the implementation of strategic initiatives , board management and development, project coordination, staff administration and management, resource development, and policy advocacy. Dr. Dunham is also the President and Founder of The Access Project, a research and advocacy organization that has worked to improve access to health care for people without adequate health insurance since 1998. Dr. Dunham received her Masters in Education and her Doctorate in Social Analysis in Education from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. She has faculty appointments at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Brandeis University.
Meg Booth, MPH
Deputy Executive Director
Email- mbooth@cdhp.org
Ms. Booth is the Deputy Executive Director of CDHP where she manages policy efforts to improve the health and health care systems for children. Prior to joining CDHP Ms. Booth served as a Policy Analyst for children with special health care needs and early childhood issues at the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs. Her background includes working to educate policy makers on child health issues at the local, state, and national levels. Ms. Booth worked with local health department in North Carolina to assess and evaluate their strategies to enroll children into public health care coverage. Additionally, Ms. Booth also worked in the Family Services Bureau at the Iowa Department of Public Health developing the state Title V Block Grant application and outreach strategies for enrolling Iowa's children into Medicaid and SCHIP coverage. Additionally, Ms. Booth was a Policy Associate with the Alliance for Health Reform and a private consultant at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Ms. Booth holds a bachelor of arts in Community Health Education with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Northern Iowa. She also obtained a Master's in Public Health from the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 
Marcy Frosh is the Associate Executive Director of CDHP where she manages state policy initiatives. Prior to joining CDHP, Ms. Frosh served as a consultant on health policy projects with MayaTechCorporation's Health Policy and Legislative Analysis Program. Under contract with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), she completed key phases of a project to develop an instrument to evaluate state childhood obesity policies related to the School Nutrition and Physical Activity Environment. She also served as a consultant on the development and implementation of a legislative evaluation system to enhance analyses of State Cancer Legislative Database data for NCI's American StopSmoking Intervention Study (ASSIST). She has dedicated her career to local, state and federal policy and legislative development with a particular focus on public health. Ms. Frosh holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Maryland. She also obtained her Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center.Vanessa Bell is the Development Manager at CDHP where she provides leadership and management to CDHP’s growing effort to increase revenue from various funding streams. Vanessa manages all of CDHP’s fundraising activities including donor cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. Prior to joining CDHP, Ms. Bell held the position of Director of Development, Marketing & Communications for Family Services, Inc. where she was successful at raising over $250,000 for the organizations 100th anniversary gala and helped increase its revenue from $9M to $14.4 million over a four year span. Prior to that Vanessa has worked as a Development Director at various United Ways on the East Coast and at the American Red Cross National Headquarters where she worked exclusively with the National Board of Governors on fundraising efforts throughout the U.S. post Hurricane Katrina. Vanessa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science from Wilmington College and is a member of the Association for Fundraising Professionals.
Colin Reusch is a Policy Analyst at CDHP where he tracks implementation of health care reform, researches and drafts issue briefs and policy documents, and provides guidance and direction in identifying and pursuing policy initiatives as they relate to improving oral health. Prior to joining CDHP, Colin worked on young alumni programs at Eastern Kentucky University and local government policy issues at the Kentucky League of Cities. Colin earned his Master's of Public Administration from Eastern Kentucky University in 2009
Akilah Williams is the Operations Manager of CDHP where she provides financial and administrative support to strengthen CDHP’s financial standing efficiency; oversees general business management of the organization; and manages the daily administrative and office functions that support CDHP. Prior to joining CDHP, Ms. Williams worked as a Recruiter/HR Generalist for Spherion where she managed the recruiting and staffing needs of high profile accounts who’s gross sales range from $50K to $1M plus. In this role, Akilah also managed the day-to-day operations of the branch office. Before joining the staffing industry, Akilah worked in association management and meeting/event planning for five years where she also acquired skills in public relations and administrative management. Akilah holds an M.B.A. in Human Resources Management from the American Intercontinental University, and a B.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland at College Park. She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management and has also completed the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) Certification.
As the Senior Policy Fellow at Children Dental Health Project, Dr. Tate performs science-based policy research and writing as well as serving as an expert consultant to CDHP staff. Dr. Tate is also currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University . After serving as Chief for the Department of Dentistry at Children’s National Medical Center for six years she is now the Director of Oral Health Advocacy & Research. Dr. Tate received her dental degree Magna cum laude from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston MA in 1998 and completed her fellowship in Pediatric Dentistry in 2000 from Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC. She is an examination committee member of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and has serve on the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Council of Clinical Affairs since 2003. Dr. Tate is also a Board member of the Mid –Atlantic P.A.N.D.A Association and an active lecturer in the area of prevention of abuse and neglect. She had served as a member of the Pediatric Advisory Board for FORBA for the last year.
CONSULTANTS
Libby Mullin
Email- libbymullin@starpower.net
Libby Mullin graduated from Lawrence University with a B.A. in political science in 1990. After eight years of legislative experience on Capitol Hill, Libby opened her own health care consulting practice, Mullin Strategies, in 1999. Libby has worked extensively with non-profit advocacy and provider groups in identifying and directing their legislative and regulatory interests as well as providing strategic guidance on a range of issues from lobbying to coalition building to board development to corporate fundraising.
Highlights of Libby’s work include securing a 5 year, $20 million CDC campaign on women’s health, drafting and negotiating the inclusion of eight specific provisions on oral health to the S-CHIP Reauthorization legislation, drafting and helping pass legislation that authorizes a $100 million in new funding for children’s oral health, managing a $2 million federal grant on oral health and securing a new source of stable federal support for the operations of the nation’s children’s hospitals.
On the strategic consulting side, Libby works with clients to develop their overall strategic plans, develop key messages, identify new partners, build coalitions, run board meetings, and secure new sources of funding. Libby routinely runs advocacy workshops on how to be effective with policymakers.
Libby is the recipient of the 1999 “Friend of Children and Children’s Hospitals” award from the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and the 2003 President’s Award of Excellence from the Interstitial Cystitis Association.
Prior to Mullin Strategies, Libby worked as a health policy advisor and chief of staff for several members of the U.S. House of Representatives who served on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. During her tenure, Libby was intimately involved in Medicaid and Medicare reform, a wide range of public health service programs and the enactment of SCHIP. On behalf of Rep. Diana DeGette, Libby successfully negotiated the only Democratic amendment to SCHIP during its enactment in the summer of 1998.
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