Affiliate Organizations

The NLTCN is comprised of the following network participants:


Management Committee:

•  Indiana Latino Institute, Inc. (Lead Agency)
• Hispanic/Latino Unidos por la Salud, UNIDOS (formerly the California Hispanic/Latino Tobacco Education Network/Partnership at the University of Southern California
• US Mexico Border Health Association
• Midwest Latino Health Research Training and Policy Center at the University of Illinois in Chicago (MLC)

Steering Committee:

• Indiana Latino Institute, Inc 
  Aida McCammon, MSW, ACSW
  President/CEO and NLTCN Project Manager
  Email: amccammon@indianalatino.com
  
  Jeannette Noltenius, MA, PhD
  National Director
  Email: jnoltenius@sswdc.com
  
  Jean A. Leroux Guillén, BGS
  National Network Communications Manager
  Email: jleroux@indianalatino.com

• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
  Patricia Sosa, PhD
  Vice-President Consituency Relations
  Email: psosa@tobaccofreekids.org
  
  
• ClearWay Minnesota
  Jaime L. Martinez, M.Ed.
  Dorector of Community Development
  Email: jmartinez@clearwaymn.org
  
  
• ETR Associates
  Francisco O. Buchting, PhD
  Director of Strategic Development and Knowledge Transfer
  Email: franciscob@etr.org
  
  
• Hispanic/Latino UNIDOS por la Salud at the Universtiy of Southern California (USC)
  Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH
  Associate Professor in Preventative Medicine & Sociology
  Email: baezcond@usc.edu

  Cecilia Portugal, MPH
  Training and Technical Assistance for NLTCN
  Email: Portugal@usc.edu
  

• HMA Associates
  Juan Carlos Velaquez, MA
  Director of Multicultural Social Marketing
  Email: cvelzquex@hmaassociates.com
  

• Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
  Karla Sneegas, MPH
  Executive Director
  Email: ksneegas@itpc.in.gov
  

• Latino Commission on AIDS
  Yanira Arias
  Program Director
  Email: yarias@latinoaids.org
  

• Midwest Latino Health Research Training and Policy Center at the University of Illinois in Chicago (MLC)
  Aida Giachello, PhD
  Executive Director
  Email: aida@uic.edu
  

• National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
  Julie A. Harvill, MPA, MPH
  Lead Consultant
  Email: harvill@chronicdisease.org
  

• Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center a the University of Puerto Rico
  Elba Diaz-Toro, Dra.
  Project Director
  Email: elba.diaz@upr.edu   
  

• Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium
  Debra Morris, MPH, CHES
  Director of Technical Assistance
  Email: debra.morris@emory.edu

Advisory Committee:

• Christine Ortiz
  Founder
  The Knowledge Laboratory
  Longwood, FL
  
• Cynthia Serna
  Grassroots Development Director
  American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Great West Division
  Albuquerque NM
  
• Jesse Nodora, DrPH
  Research Assistant Professor
  Family & Community Medicine
  College of Medicine
  Arizona Cancer Center
  Tucson, Arizona
  
• Juan Carlos Vega, MLS
  Activist Librarian & Consultant
  Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  
• Maribel Quiala, L.C.S.W
  Southeast Coordinator
  National Latina Health Network
  Miami, Florida
  
• Nora D. Manzanilla
  Program Director
  Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney
  Tobacco Enforcement Program
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Dr. Olivia Carter-Pokras
  Associate Professor
  Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health
  College Park, MD
  
• Rosemary Flores
  Executive Director
  Family Leadership Initiative
  Henderson, Nevada
  
• Sally Herndon Malek, MPH
  Head, Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch
  NC Division of Public Health
  Raleigh, NC