Jayne Christine Nussbaum, MPAff

Executive Director, Department of Population Health

Dell Medical School

 

Jayne has more than 20 years of experience managing public health projects and teams in non-profit and governmental settings. Before joining Dell Med, she served as the Interim Chief Operating Officer and Director of Strategic Development at the Louisiana Public Health Institute, a regional non-profit organization with a broad portfolio of efforts aimed at addressing social determinants of health in communities and enhancing health care systems to improve health. Prior to that, Jayne worked for the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a variety of capacities including government affairs, communications, external relations and policy development.

Her role as executive director is to co-create and co-manage the Department of Population Health, including developing and implementing strategic and sustainable business plans. As a career public health professional, she is very excited about the opportunity to leverage the breadth and depth of the healthcare system and academic medicine to improve population health and increase health equity.