Advisory Board: Britt Weinstock

Britt Weinstock has worked in the field of minority health, health equity and health policy for roughly a decade and a half. Currently, Britt serves as the Director of Health Policy to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Health Braintrust in the Office of the Congresswoman Donna Christensen. Britt plays a pivotal role in developing the legislative priorities of the CBC Health Braintrust, advises the CBC on myriad legislative proposals that directly and indirectly affect health policy and minority health, as well as work to eliminate health disparities and achieve health equity, both on a domestic and global level. In addition to helping to conceptualize and plan the Spring and Fall Health Braintrusts, Britt also works closely with the Congressional TriCaucus offices to ensure consistency of political message and position on health legislation across the racial and ethnic minority congressional offices, as well as with the Congressional Global Health Caucus on international health policy.

Prior to commencing her tenure in the Office of Congresswoman Donna Christensen, Ms. Weinstock was the Director of Minority Health Initiatives at Families USA, where she served as an internal resource on minority health and health disparity elimination, oversaw a multicultural partnership of policy analysts and media that focused on minority health and assessed the minority health repercussions of numerous health policy proposals. Ms. Weinstock also has held professional positions at the National Business Group on Health, Bass and Howes, Inc., the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Association for World Health.

Ms. Weinstock, who was born in Germany and grew up in west and southern Africa, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University, a Master of Arts degree from Georgetown University and is pursuing her Doctorate in Sociology, with a co-specialization on medical sociology and social inequality, and a minor in bioethics. Her doctoral research - which focuses on the social determinants of health and minority health epidemiology - will culminate with her dissertation, which is entitled, A Part of the Solution or A Part of the Problem?: The African-American Health Provider's Role in the Cruel Irony of Breast Cancer in African-American Women.

Ms. Weinstock has authored and co-authored numerous articles and publications on public health, health policy and health equity issues, the latest of which was featured in the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. Britt has received several awards and honors, including a national award for her work analyzing the business case to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities from the National Minority Health Month Foundation, and the 2007 "Special Health Public Policy Award" from the National Black Nurses Association.