Chef Finance Office and Vice President, Robert Wood Foundation
 
As this year’s OHSU SPH Hooding Guest Speaker, Dr. Plough is responsible for aligning all the Foundation’s work with the best evidence from research and practice on improving health equity and incorporating program evaluations into organizational learning. He also oversees the two grantmaking portfolios focused on innovation and emerging issues: Ideas for an Equitable Future and Global Ideas for U.S. solutions.

Dr. Plough has been a national leader in public health practice for over 25 years and has published an extensive body of peer reviewed research and is the author and editor of 8 books including the most recent Necessary Conversations: Understanding Racism as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity.