Dr. Faith Mitchell has been a mainstay in Washington DC’s public health space for three decades. She was vice president for program and strategy, then president and CEO of Grantmakers In Health from 2007-2019 after spending 12 years at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, preceded by a senior appointment at the U.S. Department of State. Today she is an Institute Fellow in the LAB and Health Policy Division of the Urban Institute. Dr. Mitchell earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, where she was later an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Medicine. She chairs the board of the Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation, cochairs the advisory group for the John A. Hartford Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Board on Health Care Services, and serves on the editorial board of Health Affairs.
