John Bunker is the founding Executive Director/President of New Futures, Inc. in Portsmouth, NH.  New Futures, established in 1997, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization seeking to reduce the harm caused by alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems.

Prior to his work with New Futures, John was the Vice President of Health Risk Management for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire and a Health Care Consultant with the The Wyatt Company in Washington, DC.  John holds a Doctorate in Behavioral Sciences and a Masters in Health Science from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors of Arts and Social Sciences from Birmingham-Southern College. 

John is on the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Reclaiming New Futures and Local Initiative Funding Partners Program. He has been a member of the National Institute of Health, Scientific Review Panel. On the Board of Directors for the New England Institute of Addiction Studies and on the NH Attorney General’s Underage Drinking Task Force.

John has given presentaions on “Leveraging the National Academies/Institute Of Medicine Report To Develop a State Strategy to Reduce Underage Alcohol Problems: Lessons From New Hampshire” at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington,DC and on “Reducing Underage Alcohol policy: Advocacy for Public Policy Change in New Hampshire” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Third Annual Partnership Conference on Public Health and the Law, Atlanta, GA