Welcome from the Department Chair

Welcome to the Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine! I’m proud to serve as Chair for a department uniquely committed to its vision - To develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate innovative, scalable community-centered prevention approaches that advance health equity and justice-locally, nationally and globally.

Our faculty and staff leverage community wisdom and partnerships to diagnose health problems and leverage existing to co-develop responsive and sustainable intervention and implementation strategies associated with the multifaceted determinants of health . The Department leads or collaborates with numerous centers and institutes within the Morehouse School of Medicine community and with the nation's leading centers and institutes to support cutting-edge initiatives and programs.

These initiatives fuel efforts and advance excellence in clinical care, public health practice, education, training, research and related scholarship that transform contexts, conditions, and systems by, with, and for communities to advance optimal health. We hope you enjoy our department website and hope that it will assist you in finding a provider, learning about our programs, or making a connection with our faculty and staff.

Tabia Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH | Professor and Chair