Robert Ogilvie directs PHLP's Planning for Healthy Places program. Over the past 15 years he has worked extensively in community development and planning to help improve low- and middle-income neighborhoods. Prior to joining PHLP, he served as a faculty member in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, as a consultant to city and county governments, nonprofit organizations, and neighborhood activists, and as Director of Volunteers at the Partnership for the Homeless in New York City. He is the author of Voluntarism, Community Life, and the American Ethic (Indiana University Press, 2004), an examination of why people volunteer and how local organizations create community. Robert holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University and is a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University of South Carolina.
As founder and director of Public Health Law & Policy (PHLP), Marice Ashe manages long-term strategic planning for all of its projects and guides their day-to-day activities. She has been with the Public Health Institute for nearly 15 years, establishing and directing pioneering efforts that leverage legal and policy tools to promote public health. She teaches public health law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, and serves on the board of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy. She has also worked with the UC Office of the President and the Contra Costa County Health Services Department, and as a consultant with numerous private philanthropies and state and federal health agencies. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Hannah Burton Laurison is a Senior Associate with PHLP's Planning for Healthy Places project, where she specializes in community and economic development. Prior to joining PHLP, she staffed an $80 million public-private initiative that worked to develop new grocery stores in Pennsylvania's low-income communities. She has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, coordinated a hunger relief program, and organized community gardens in low-income communities. She is the author of Stimulating Supermarket Development; a contributor to The Price Is Wrong: Getting the Market Right for Working Families in Philadelphia, published by the Brookings Institution; and a co-author of What's Cooking in Your Food System: A Guide to Community Food Assessment. She is a graduate of Brown University (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and Tufts University's Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
Pilar Lorenzana-Campo is an associate with PHLP's Planning for Healthy Places program, working on community land use policies and development standards to support public health. Prior to joining PHLP, she worked with an engineering and planning consulting firm to design master planned communities and craft specific plans for developments throughout California. She is a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines and received a graduate degree in urban and environmental planning from Arizona State University.
Scott Watkins joined PHLP as an office administrator in 2009. He previously worked for the City of Alameda’s planning and building department, where among other projects he developed a master plan for city facilities and overhauled the records management system. He is certified in building code enforcement as well as permit and zoning inspection. Scott is a graduate of San Diego State University with a degree in public administration, and is currently working toward a master’s in public administration at California State University East Bay.
