Dr. Shelley Hearne '79
Director, Center for Public Health Advocacy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dr. Shelley Hearne brings an extensive track record of leadership, policy impact, institution building, and teaching in health advocacy. At the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she is the inaugural Alfred Sommer & Michael Klag Decanal Professor of the Practice for Public Health Advocacy and director, Center for Public Health Advocacy. In addition, she runs the Forsythia Foundation, an environmental health philanthropy, as a consultant.

Previously, Dr. Hearne was the president of CityHealth, which catalyzes city policies for healthier living; founder of the Trust for America’s Health, a national organization dedicated to preventing epidemics, protecting health, and the managing director of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Health group, which included its biomedical research, food, pharmaceutical, and financial security programs. She has also led the Big Cities Health Coalition, which represents the thirty largest cities’ health officials, served as the acting director of NJ’s pollution prevention program, and was the executive director of the Pew Environmental Health Commission. 

She is experienced running advocacy campaigns that successfully helped pass and implement important public health policies, such as the model N.J. Pollution Prevention Act, Nationwide Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act, and the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act. She has served in numerous national leadership positions, including chair of APHA’s executive board and vice president of the Council on Education for Public Health. 

She has been widely covered in the press, covering topics ranging from pandemic preparedness, public health infrastructure, ranking systems for states and cities on public health issues, including obesity, emergency response, and key policy issues, such as early education, tobacco control, healthy food procurement, earned sick leave policies, and financial security. She has substantial experience testifying before and engaging with policymakers at the federal, state, and local level.

Shelley has received numerous awards for her advocacy efforts, including the Senator Lautenberg Award for lifetime achievement in public health, the APHA’s Executive Director Citation, and Bowdoin College’s Common Good award. She received her B.A. in chemistry and environmental studies with honors from Bowdoin College and a DrPH in environmental health science from Columbia University’s School of Public Health. 

Rosina Wickart P '26 '29
Vice President, Supply Chain Procurement supporting Johnson & Johnson Global Pharmaceuticals

Rosina holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Sussex University, UK. Rosina resides in Princeton, New Jersey with her husband and two daughters, who attend Stuart and are in the 7th and 4th grades.

Rosina started her career at Johnson & Johnson in 1992 as a Research Scientist (Dusseldorf, Germany) and worked five years in Research & Development before moving into Procurement. Procurement is an integral part of Supply Chain as it relates to securing the raw materials, packaging and external services to manufacture products. In this domain, Rosina has worked in different countries that include Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. In 2008, Rosina left the Europe region and spent four years in Singapore, leading Supply Chain Procurement for the Asia-Pacific region.

Rosina, and the entire Procurement organization, are guided by the high standards set forth in the Johnson & Johnson Credo. More specifically, these principles include a responsibility to the customers, employees and communities in which we live and work and to patients around the world. 

Currently, Rosina leads the Global Procurement team supporting the global supply chain of Janssen, the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson. Rosina’s role is focused on ensuring reliable, compliant, and cost competitive supply of our medicines to the patients and customers we serve.

Rebecca Greeley
Team Lead, Infection Control, Healthcare, & Environmental Epidemiology Infectious and Zoonotic Disease Program | Communicable Disease Service, New Jersey Department of Health

Current Infectious Disease Team Lead for the Infection Control Healthcare and Environmental Epidemiology team within the Communicable Disease Service, serving at the NJDOH for over 13 years. Currently heads up the team responsible for responding to the infection control issues involved in controlling SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), especially in healthcare facilities. She is responsible for the team who works on healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance, legionellosis and infection control and prevention at the New Jersey Department of Health. Completed CSTE/CDC Fellowship in Applied Epidemiology in infectious disease from 2007-2009 and stayed on at the NJDOH after completion of the fellowship. Rebecca has had the opportunity to participate in several high-profile outbreak investigations during her time at NJDOH including pandemic response for COVID-19, an outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia bloodstream infections associated with contaminated saline flushes; bacterial endocarditis outbreak associated with an oral surgery office practice; hepatitis B outbreak associated with a hematology-oncology office practice; and several Legionnaires’ disease investigations in healthcare facilities and the community. Prior to obtaining her MPH, she was a pharmaceutical professional with over 7 years’ experience in both clinical trial management and hands-on laboratory/microbiological work.

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