Kiran Joshi, MD, MPH

Dr. Kiran Joshi oversees CCDPH’s Behavioral Health, Emergency Preparedness and Epidemiology Units. He is also an Attending Physician with the Department of Family Medicine at Stroger Hospital.

Since joining CCDPH, Dr. Joshi has been responsible for overseeing the development of WePlan 2020, the community health assessment and improvement plan for suburban Cook County, advancing health equity as an agency and community health priority, and developing the agency’s response to the opioid overdose epidemic. He co-led the agency’s response to COVID-19 from 2020-2022.

Dr. Joshi is also currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is part of the core faculty of the Preventive Medicine residency program at Cook County Health.