Dr. Garth Graham, MD, MPH
Lisa Renee Holderby, LSWA
Dr. John Ruffin, PhD
Dr. Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH |
 Dr. Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH
Director
Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness
Dr. Troutman holds an M.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and an M.P.H. from the Columbia University School of Public Health. He also earned an M.A. in Black Studies from the State University of New York, and served a residency and internship in Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
His primary areas of research emphasis include Health Equity and Social Justice, Social Determinants of Health, Stress & Disease, Public Health Management and Practice. Ongoing studies include Global Health issues.
Currently, Dr. Troutman is the Director of the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness where he leads the department’s 350 employees in the protection, preservation and promotion of the health, environment and well-being for the country’s 16th largest city. In addition, he serves as an Associate Professor at the University Of Louisville School Of Public Health and is the Frederick Douglass Visiting Professor in Pan African Studies.
Dr. Troutman is a member of the following committees:
- Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020 (HPAC),
- National Board of Public Health Examiners,
- Advisory Committee to the CDC on Minority Health and Health Disparities Elimination, and
- Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on Childhood Obesity.
Publications include: “What If We Were Equal? A Comparison of the Black-White Mortality Gap In 1960 and 2000,” in Health Affairs, and "Creating the Center for Health Equity" in NACCHO’s Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice. Dr Troutman is also featured in "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?...California Newsreel.
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