Mr. Kennedy demonstrates the critical impact effective engagement with government partners has on health delivery, policy, advancing equity and serving a community marked by poverty and health disparities. He co-founded the Lung Cancer Screening National Advocacy Campaign coalition that unites government, community and employers around shared goals that benefit the at-risk and underserved. He helped create Roswell Park’s groundbreaking “Early Detection Driven to You” mobile lung screening, ensuring preauthorizations do not pose insurmountable challenges. He shaped state and national tobacco control and HPV prevention with Roswell Park experts guiding evidence-based policy. He chairs committees for National Comprehensive Cancer Network and Association of American Cancer Institutes and had previous roles with U.S. and state senators.
