YSPH Dean's Speaker Series: Leaders in Public Health

Please join us for the Yale School of Public Health's Dean's Speaker Series, Leaders in Public Health, featuring Dr. Karen Hacker.

Karen Hacker, MD, MPH, is the Director of CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, where she oversees more than 1,000 staff dedicated to preventing chronic diseases and promoting health across the life span. Since her appointment, she has overseen the community health worker and social determinant of health accelerator plan initiatives. She oversees a broad portfolio that includes Maternal Mortality, School health, obesity prevention, smoking policies and the leading chronic diseases.

Dr. Hacker has a long history of public health practice at the local level having served as the Director of the Allegheny County Health Department in Pennsylvania for 6 years. She also held a variety of leadership roles at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts, including her role as the Senior Medical Director for Public and Community Health.

Dr. Hacker has published extensively and is an expert in community-based participatory research (CBPR). She served as the Director of the CBPR program of the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Award Initiative and wrote Community-Based Participatory Action Research, a widely used academic text.

Dr. Hacker received her MD from Northwestern University School of Medicine and her MPH with Honors from Boston University School of Public Health and continues to see patients as a primary care physician in adolescent medicine.

The Leaders in Public Health Series is open to active Yale community members only for in-person attendance. The general public is welcome and encouraged to participate via the Zoom link provided. Thank you for your understanding.