Dr. Leider is the founding director of the Center for Public Health Systems, as well as an Associate Professor in the SPH Division of Health Policy and Management and associate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the areas of public health systems, the public health workforce, and public health finance. He is the director of evaluation for the Region V Public Health Training Center. He holds a PhD in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Janette Dill is an Associate Professor in the Health Policy & Management Division in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She is the Deputy Director of the Consortium for Workforce Research in Public Health and the Associate Director of the Life Course Center at the UMN. Her research focuses on job quality and career mobility among the health care and public health workforce. Her research has been published in top public health and social science journals, including Health Affairs, Medical Care Research and Review, and Social Science and Medicine, and her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and other state and federal agencies. She holds a PhD in sociology and MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.