Cross Sector Data Sharing: Necessity, Challenge, and Hope

Cason Schmit¹, Kathleen Kelly¹, Jennifer Bernstein¹

• ¹Cason Schmit, J.D., is an assistant professor in the Texas A&M University School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management (College Station). Schmit received his J.D. from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), and B.A. from Willamette University (Salem, OR). Kathleen Kelly, M.P.A., is a Management Assistant to the County Manager in Coconino County Arizona, and Co-founder of Lifting Up Peoria, LLC. Previously, Kelly worked as a Management Analyst with the Peoria Police Department. Kelly received her MPA focused in Community Development from Rutgers University - Camden (Camden, NJ) and BA from Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, MO). Jennifer Bernstein, J.D., M.P.H., is the Deputy Director at the Network for Public Health Law's Mid-States Region and helps lead the Data for Population Health initiative. Bernstein received a J.D./M.P.H. dual degree from the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), and B.S. in Women's Studies s from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI).