Staff: Who We Are
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.
Jessie Buerlein, MSW
Project Director, Perinatal and Infant Oral Health
Email- jbuerlein@cdhp.org
Jessie Buerlein is a Project Director for CDHP’s cooperative agreement focused on improving perinatal and infant oral health. Prior to joining CDHP, Ms. Buerlein worked to develop and coordinate community development programming for families and children as an employee of the YMCA of Greater Richmond before beginning her graduate studies. Ms. Buerlein earned her Masters in Social Work from Boston College in 2006, with a concentration in Community Organizing, Planning, Policy, and Administration.
Danielle Grote Erbele, MA
Senior Policy Analyst
Email- derbele@cdhp.org
Danielle Grote Erbele is senior policy analyst at the Children’s Dental Health Project, where she is responsible for government relations work related to health reform and implementation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. She formerly served as legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland. In that role, she crafted the Congressman’s legislative response to the tragic, dental-related death of a 12-year-old Maryland boy. As a result of this work, Rep. Cummings was recognized as a national leader in efforts to improve children’s access to dental care. She also advised the Congressman on matters related to health, education, labor, seniors, criminal justice, and drug policy and served as the Congressman’s advisor for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the chamber’s primary investigative body. Prior to working for Rep. Cummings, Danielle served in the offices of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. She also served stints as a reporter and copy editor. She holds a master’s degree in applied politics from American University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Pennsylvania State University.
Marcy Frosh, JD
Associate Executive Director, Infrastructure Development Initiative Related to Oral Disease Prevention and Oral Health Promotion
Email- mfrosh@cdhp.org
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.
Akilah Williams, PHR
Office Manager
Email- awilliams@cdhp.org
Akilah Williams is the Office 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.
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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