Chair, Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine | Flint, Michigan Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine (MSU CHM) has appointed Jennifer Johnson, PhD, C. S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health, Professor of OBGYN, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine as the founding chair of the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health, effective April 1, 2024.Dr. Johnson was the first research faculty member to join the Division of Public Health at MSU in late 2014/early 2015. Since then, Dr. Johnson has helped recruit numerous faculty members and forged deep and meaningful partnerships and collaborations with the people of Flint, MI. She was previously a faculty member in the Brown University Department of Psychiatry.Dr. Johnson is a licensed clinical psychologist whose research and advocacy address mental health and maternal health equity and access to mental healthcare as a social justice issue. She is also a leading NIH researcher in the country, having been the principal investigator of more than 18 NIH-funded studies worth more than $70 million and co-investigator on another 19. She currently leads two NIH-funded and community-partnered Centers: the National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention and the Maternal Health Multilevel Intervention for Racial Equity (MIRACLE) Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. At MSU, Dr. Johnson is an advocate of participatory governance processes to promote equity and address structural racism and sexism through her membership on MSU President’s Strategic Planning Committee, the MSU Sustainable Health Steering Committee, the Michigan Governor’s Public Health Advisory Council, and as the SU Faculty Senate and Steering Committee Chair.Dr. Johnson received her B.S. in applied physics and her PhD in clinical psychology from Brigham Young University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University.Jamie Sands led this search with Randi Herrick, Jasmine Miller, and Lily Sethares.