LaMar Hasbrouck, MD, MPH, MBA

Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck is the Chief Operating Officer of the Cook County Department of Public Health, a subsidiary of Cook County Health . He previously served as the Executive Director for the National Association of County and City Health Officials which represents the nation’s 3,000 local health departments. Prior to that, Dr. Hasbrouck was the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. Additionally, he served as a Senior Advisor for Strategy at the American Medical Association (AMA), charged with growing relationships with health care systems, community health centers, payers, and other public/private entities to eliminate gaps in chronic disease prevention across all populations. He also hosted their international podcast, AMA Doc Talk.

Dr. Hasbrouck has been on the frontline of disease outbreaks, including swine flu, MERS, Ebola, and Zika virus, in the US and abroad. He spent twelve years as a senior medical officer and “disease detective” at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he was actively engaged in two of the largest global health initiatives in history: the World Health Organization’s polio eradication program and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. During the COVID-19 pandemic Dr. Hasbrouck advised Fortune 500 companies on virus mitigation and safe re-opening strategies. He was a frequent contributor, columnist, and medical expert for several national media outlets. His latest book, COVID Bytes: Naked Musings of a Disease Detective (February 2022), demystifies modern-day public health approaches to pandemics.

Dr. Hasbrouck earned his bachelor and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and his doctoral degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He completed his internal medicine residency at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He received a certificate in State Health Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School and earned his MBA from the University of Saint Mary. He is a diplomat with the American Board of Internal Medicine, a primary care health policy fellow with the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), and former member of the Advisory Committee to the CDC Director, Health Disparities Subcommittee. He has served on the faculty at schools of medicine and public health and is the recipient of numerous awards for his governmental and non-governmental work.