Suzet M. McKinney

Current Term

2025-2031

2025

Principal and director of life sciences, Sterling Bay, 2021-2025
Instructor, Division of Translational Policy and Leadership Development, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 2015-present
Adjunct assistant professor of health policy administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, 2010-2025
CEO and executive director, Illinois Medical District, 2015-2021
Chicago Department of Public Health, including deputy commissioner, Bureau of Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response, 2002-2015
City of Chicago Public Safety; Division of Women and Children's Health
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of Defense
Senior advisor, public heatlh and preparedness, Tauri Group, 2011-2012

Operations lead, Station of Illinois' COVID-19 Alternative Care Facilities
Operations lead, State of Illinois' Alternate Care Facilities
Mentor, Biomedical Sciences Careers Project, Harvard University
Board of directors, Lurie Children's Hospital
Board president, The Chicago Urban League
Board member, The Chicago Network
Board member, Kemper Corporation
Board member, Wintrust Financial Corporation
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Susan G. Komen Chicago
Board president, Thresholds
Board member, National Urban League
Board member, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Advisory board, Fifth Third Bank
Co-chair, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine; member, NASEM Board on Heatlh Sciences Policy
Health and Medicine Division, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies
Chairperson, Board of Scientific Counselors, U.S. Centers for Disease Control Center for Public Health Preparedness and Response
Chicago Network
Economic Club of Chicago

Fellow, National Preparedness Ldadership Initiative, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University (2012)
DrPh, public health leadership, emergency preparedness planning and response, workforce development, University of Illinois at Chicago (2009)
MPH, health care administration, with certificates in managed care and health care administration, Benedictine University (2001)
BA, biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow, Brandeis University (1996)

Democrat

Chicago