BOARD OF DIRECTORS
VALERIA (VAL) TIVNAN
Board Chair
Val is the Director of Population Health Strategy and Well-being at EBS, Employee Benefits Solutions. In this role she supports EBS clients in their journey to building a culture of health in the workplace while helping leaders transform employees into knowledgeable healthcare consumers. Val’s passion is to advise leaders on tactics to bring lifestyle medicine into workplaces with a goal of improving population health and decreasing healthcare costs.
Val has 30 years of experience in the wellness, well-being and lifestyle medicine fields. She is the Chair of the lifestyle medicine in the workplace group from ACLM and is involved in the organizations such as HERO (Health Enhancement Research Organization) where she has contributed to several committees and published papers at prestigious journals such as the Am. J. Health Promotion. Val is also in the board of a lifestyle medicine non-profit organization – PAVING the Path to Wellness.
Val has a Master’s in Education from Boston University and an MPH from UCLA. She is an Adjunct Professor at Merrimack College and has won EBA’s prestigious ‘Wellness Director of the Year’ award in 2017.