Brandon G. Wilson, DrPH, MHA is the Co-Interim President & CEO, alongside Dana Clarke. He also serves as the Senior Director of Health Innovation, Public Health, and Equity and is a member of the senior management team at Community Catalyst.
Dr. Brandon G. Wilson, DrPH, MHA, is a transformative leader in health innovation, public health, and equity. Dr. Wilson serves as the Co-Interim President & CEO, alongside Dana Clarke. In this role, Dr. Wilson oversees the overall direction of Community Catalyst’s work to build the power of people to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice.
Dr. Wilson is also the Senior Director, Health Innovation, Public Health and Equity at Community Catalyst, where he oversees the organization’s health system innovation and community-first public health work. Furthering his commitment to improving health care access, quality, and equality, Dr. Wilson serves on several boards, including the Primary Care Collaborative, Health Care Payment and Action Learning Network, and the Community Solutions Program Partner Advisory Board.
In his role at Community Catalyst, Dr. Wilson leads the Center for Community Engagement in Health Innovation. This center conducts community-based research to understand how inequities in the U.S. health system drive poor health outcomes for historically excluded communities and drives practice and policy change strategies based on its findings. Dr. Wilson also drives Community Catalyst’s strategic vision for a public health system rooted in community leadership and perspective, which includes Community Catalyst’s Vaccine Equity and Public Health Program (VEAP).
Dr. Wilson has built out Community Catalyst’s Global Community Engagement Exchange Program, in partnership with the U.S. State Department. This transformational leadership development experience equips dedicated visionaries with the expertise, skills, and resources to develop multisector approaches and build healthy and engaged global communities enabling civic society leaders to harness the power of networks, relationships, and information related to community engagement and health system innovation.
As a recognized public health advisor, he has made significant contributions to health equity and innovation. At the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), he led initiatives on inclusive data collection, policy efforts in post-acute care settings, and social determinants of health. He also spearheaded the integration of health equity into the CMS Innovation Center’s strategic plan and led the implementation of key models like the Accountable Health Communities Model and the Health Care Innovation Awards. At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Wilson enhanced minority participation in clinical trials and improved patient safety culture, by centering community leadership and community advisory boards. Dr. Wilson has been recognized for his exceptional public service by numerous esteemed figures in health care, including several NIH Directors and CMS Administrators.
He received a master’s degree in health systems management at George Mason University, and a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) at Morgan State University. He holds a faculty appointment at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. His research interests include using patient-centered and indigenous models of care, community-based participatory and action research, democratizing, demystifying, and decolonizing global public health to eliminate health disparities and advance health equity in underserved and disinvested communities.