The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is an independent academy of state health policymakers dedicated to helping states achieve excellence in health policy and practice. Dr. Darrell J. Gaskin, associate professor health policy and management and deputy director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been elected to the National Academy of State Health Policy’s Center for Health Policy Development (CHPD) Board of Directors.  Incorporated in 1987, CHPD is responsible for the legal and fiduciary oversight of the Academy.