April 12, 2016

4:30–6 p.m.
Instructional Building
72 East Concord Street
Hiebert Lounge
Live-Streaming Available During Event
#PHForum2016

Donna J. Petersen

Senior Associate Vice President, USF Health, and Dean, College of Public Health, University of South Florida

Donna Petersen is dean of the College of Public Health and senior associate vice president, USF Health, at the University of South Florida. She earned her masters and doctoral degrees in maternal and child health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She has held faculty and senior leadership positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and served as director of the Division of Family Health at the Minnesota Department of Health.

She is the author of numerous publications, book chapters, and a textbook on needs assessment in public health. She is a frequent lecturer on topics related to maternal and child health, health care reform, and systems change and leadership, and has provided extensive technical assistance and training to more than 25 state health departments in the areas of needs assessment, data system development, systems level accountability, and the development of population-based indicators.

Petersen has served on numerous boards, commissions, and task forces and is editor emerita of the Maternal and Child Health Journal, founding member and past president of the National Board of Public Health Examiners, chair of the Council on Education for Public Health, and chair-elect of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. She is leading the Framing the Future Task Force on the future of education in public health and is a member of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Systems and Services Research Initiative.

Locally she is a member of the Tampa Bay Partnership’s OneBay Healthy Communities Executive Committee; the Hillsborough County Health Care Advisory Board; the Bayfront Health, Education, and Research Organization Board of Trustees; and the Tampa Preparatory School’s Board of Trustees. She has been honored for her work by the American Public Health Association, the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health, the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, the Delta Omega National Public Health Honor Society, and the National Coalition for Excellence in MCH Epidemiology. In August 2011 she was presented a Distinguished Alumna Award by Johns Hopkins University.