Leadership 2026-2027
Officers – Executive Committee
Chima Mbakwem, MSHS
NTCA President
TB Control Program Manager
TB and Hansen’s Disease Control Program
Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services
Transitions to NTCA Immediate Past President in June 2027
Jason Cummins, MPH
NTCA Immediate Past President
Director
TB Elimination Program
Tennessee Department of Health
Term ends in June 2027
Kim Gladfelter
NTCA President-elect
Public Health Program Manager
Division of TB/STD
Bureau of Communicable Disease
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Transitions to NTCA President in June 2027
Quentin Mazzaferro, MS
NTCA Treasurer
TB Control Program Manager
Bureau of Infectious Disease and Services
Arizona Department of Health Services
Term ends in June 2027
Kristin Bertrang, MSN, RN
NTCA Secretary
DHHS Program Specialist RN
TB Program
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Term ends in June 2028
Board Members
Daniela Ingram, DNP, RN
NTCA High Incidence Representative
TB Program Supervisor
North Carolina TB Control Program
Department of Health and Human Services
Term ends in June 2027
Lauren Swensson, MPH
NTCA High Incidence Representative
TB Program Manager
Tuberculosis Program
Virginia Department of Health
Term ends in June 2028
Alison Stratton, PhD
NTCA Medium Incidence Representative
TB Control Program Manager
TB Control Program
Connecticut Department of Public Health
Term ends in June 2027
Emily Anderson, BSN, RN
NTCA Medium Incidence Representative
TB Program Manager
TB Prevention and Control Program
Kentucky Department of Public Health
Term ends in June 2028
Claire Leback, MPH, BSN, RN
NTCA Low Incidence Representative
Supervisor
TB and Refugee Health Program
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Term ends in June 2027
Laura Cronquist, MPH
NTCA Low Incidence Representative
TB Controller
Disease Control and Forensic Pathology
North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services
Term ends in June 2028
Shannon F. Brown, MHA, BSN, RN, CCM
President, National TB Nurse Coalition
TB Nurse Case Manager
Texas Center for Infectious Disease
Texas Health and Human Services
Term ends in June 2027
Janice Louie, MD, MPH
President, National Society of TB Clinicians
Medical Director, TB Clinic
San Francisco Department of Public Health
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California, San Francisco
Term ends in June 2027
Jennifer Hubber, MPH
President, Society for Epidemiology in TB Control
TB Epidemiologist
TB Program
Washington Department of Health
Term ends in June 2027
Donna Hope Wegener, MA
NTCA Executive Director
NTCA Board Constituent Relations
To facilitate communication between CDC-funded TB programs and the NTCA Board, each of the six incidence-level representatives on the NTCA Board works as a communications liaison to an assigned group of state, big city, and/or territorial TB programs.
Assignments for 2026-2027 are forthcoming.
For questions about a constituency
assignment, please contact NTCA
at info@nationaltbcoalition.org.