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Calvin Bland

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Calvin Bland retired as Chief of Staff and Special Advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s President in December 2008. Mr. Bland was the director of New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) program and Research Professor at Rutgers University until 2013. He was a Visiting Research Professor providing mentoring and advice to the NJHI team until December 2022 but is now retired.

Bland served as the President and Chief Executive Officer at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children from 1980 to 1999 (Philadelphia, PA). He is a past Chairman and former member of the Board of Directors of MedicAlert Foundation International.

He has chaired the boards of trustees of the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals (its public policy affiliate), and the advisory board of the Foundation’s NJHI program. He was a member of the boards of Health Partners of Philadelphia, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Association of American Medical Colleges’ Council of Teaching Hospitals and several other boards of nonprofit agencies and institutions. He has served on numerous medical and health-related committees in New Jersey and Philadelphia. A highly regarded health executive, Bland has received a number of distinguished honors throughout his career including “Health Care Administrator of the Year” from the National Association of Health Services Executives (Philadelphia). His most recent honor was the establishment of the endowed “Calvin Bland Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellows Program at the University of Pennsylvania," by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to focus on improving opportunities for young men of color.

Bland received an M.S. in Administrative Medicine (Hospital Administration) from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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