Catherine Baase is the Global Director of Health Services for The Dow Chemical Company, with direct responsibility for leadership and management of all Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion programs and staff around the world. In addition to these roles, Dr. Baase drives the Dow Health Strategy for employees, retirees, and their families. She is also involved with health policy and issues management.   Previously, Dr. Baase served as director of Health Care Strategic Planning with direct responsibility for Dow’s U.S. health benefit plans.She chairs the Executive Council of the Michigan Health Information Alliance (MIHIA), a multi-stakeholder collaborative dedicated to improving the health of people in central Michigan through the innovative use of information. MIHIA is a Chartered Value Exchange (CVE) as appointed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She serves as an officer and is on the Board of Directors for the Partnership for Prevention, an organization dedicated to advancing policies and practices that make disease prevention a national priority. For several years she has been a member of the ACOEM Health and Productivity Committee and was previously a member of the Clinical Research Roundtable of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. She is a Fellow in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and a Fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians. She is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Health Promotion and has also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.