Theresa Chapple-McGruder

Theresa Chapple-McGruder joins the University having most recently served as director of the Oak Park (Ill.) Department of Public Health, where she was instrumental in coordinating the Chicago metropolitan area community’s COVID-19 pandemic response. Chapple-McGruder earned her PhD in epidemiology and maternal and child health at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009 after completing an MPH in maternal and child health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has led major maternal and child health initiatives for the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and the Georgia Department of Health, where she served as director of the Office of Maternal and Child Health. Chapple-McGruder has coauthored several important peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and reports focusing primarily on public health workforce development and inequities in maternal and child health outcomes.