Public Health Heroes League
We Are Building Healthier Communities.
Welcome to the home of the Public Health Heroes League.
We recently launched the Public Health Heroes League awareness campaign to explain the role of public health in building healthier communities. To learn more about the campaign, review our press release. Then, check out our fun animated creations below to learn more about our work.
Join us in celebrating National Public Health Week, April 1-7
We are excited to celebrate our field and the important work we do at CCDPH, building healthier communities. Please see the attached social media toolkit containing graphics and messages from our Public Health Heroes League campaign and consider sharing widely through your networks. Thank you! We appreciate your partnership.
Welcome to the home of the Public Health Heroes League.
We recently launched the Public Health Heroes League awareness campaign to explain the role of public health in building healthier communities. To learn more about the campaign, review our press release. Then, check out our fun animated creations below to learn more about our work.
Join us in celebrating National Public Health Week, April 1-7
We are excited to celebrate our field and the important work we do at CCDPH, building healthier communities. Please see the attached social media toolkit containing graphics and messages from our Public Health Heroes League campaign and consider sharing widely through your networks. Thank you! We appreciate your partnership.
We Are Building Healthier Communities.
About the League
What:
The Public Health Heroes League is an animated team of public health servants. We represent traditional roles in local health departments. We’re dedicated to building healthier communities in suburban Cook County.
Who:
We are not a hospital or a clinic. But we do have doctors and nurses on our team and a wide range of other professionals, including epidemiologists, community health workers and emergency response personnel. We are public health professionals working to prevent illnesses, injuries and premature deaths.
Where:
We serve 2.3 million residents in 127 Cook County suburbs.
How:
We enforce health regulations, monitor and respond to public threats and collaborate with community partners to promote better health. Measles outbreak? We’re here to protect you. Lead in your home? We’ll help you remove it. Mental health challenges? We’ll connect you to resources. These are just a few things we do to build healthier communities.
To Learn More:
View our animated creations below.
About Our Work
The following digital billboards tell a little bit more about some of our work building healthier communities. Hover over our billboards to learn more.
Guarding Against Lead and Other Health Hazards
We protect children by removing lead from their homes, monitoring lead levels in their blood and providing nutrition counseling to their parents. Learn more.
Making Schools Safer with Health Resources
We provide schools resources and information to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. Learn more.
Fighting TB and Other Communicable Diseases
We make sure residents and newly arriving immigrants are protected from and treated for contagious diseases, like tuberculosis (TB), measles and COVID-19. Learn more.
Fighting the Opioid Epidemic and Other Health Crises
We’re committed to preventing opioid overdose deaths and helping people with opioid use disorder find community-based treatment and support. Learn more.
Meet the League
The fictional characters below represent members of the Public Health Heroes League. Hover over our characters below to learn more about some public health roles.
Dr. Henry Hughes
Dr. Henry Hughes is health commissioner. In real life, he represents Cook County Department of Public Health’s chief operating officer, Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck. He’s guiding suburban Cook County to a healthier future. Learn more.
Dr. Rajiv Mehta
Dr. Mehta is medical director. He is the medical mind ensuring the best health strategies for our communities. Our local health department has two senior medical officers: Dr. Rachel Rubin and Dr. Kiran Joshi. Learn more.
Javier Mendez
Javier Mendez is on the ground making a healthier suburban Cook County. He visits and monitors children born with high-risk factors, such as prematurity and birth defects. Learn more.
Marcus Wright
Marcus Wright and his team plan for public health threats, including pandemics and bioterror events. His team is responsible for mass prophylaxis and mass vaccination. Learn more.
Zoe Carter
If hospital admissions are surging, like they were during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoe Carter and her teammates help supply hospital needs, like PPE supplies. Learn more.
Priya Patel
Priya Patel works with communities to advance community health solutions and health equity. When public health emergencies occur, like flooding, Priya visits neighborhoods and shares helpful information and resources.
Sierra Ramirez
Sierra Ramirez fights for our environment so we can live healthier lives. Her team inspects, monitors and regulates environmental health issues, such as food and pool safety. Learn more.
Dr. Amy Chen
Dr. Amy Chen and her team work to prevent and reduce chronic diseases, like asthma, diabetes and heart disease. They work with community partners to promote healthy eating, active living, and tobacco-free communities. Learn more.
Nia Jackson
Nia Jackson empowers communities to take charge of their health. You’ll find her coordinating or participating in community events, programs or initiatives that support healthier living and advance health equity.
Dr. Sam Kuramoto
Dr. Sam Kuramoto is on the frontline stamping out disease outbreaks with expertise. He and his team are keeping an eye on respiratory viruses, like COVID, flu and RSV, and other communicable diseases, like measles. Learn more.
Lillian Okoye
Lillian Okoye and her team nurture our communities to better health. She helps infants and children with adverse health risks and conditions, such as premature births, birth defects, syphilis and Hepatitis B. Our chief nursing officer is Denise Gilbert. Learn more.
Dr. Tahira Al-Zahid
Dr. Al-Zahid specializes in research trends for specific diseases or health issues, such as heart disease and cancer. Check out the online portal that she reports her health data in: Cook County Health Atlas .
Alex Park
Alex Park shares public health information and resources with community partners and keeps a pulse on their needs.
Lukas Schmidt
Dr. Lukas Schmid offers treatment for latent TB infections and TB disease. Learn more.
Gabriela Torres
Gabriella Torres is a public information officer. She keeps the public and the media informed about public health issues and ways people can better protect their health. Check out some of our recent press releases.
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Sierra Ramirez
Sierra Ramirez fights for our environment so we can live healthier lives. Her team inspects, monitors and regulates environmental health issues, such as food and pool safety. Learn more.
Dr Amy Chen
Dr. Amy Chen and her team work to prevent and reduce chronic diseases, like asthma, diabetes and heart disease. They work with community partners to promote healthy eating, active living, and tobacco-free communities. Learn more.
Nia Jackson
Nia Jackson empowers communities to take charge of their health. You’ll find her coordinating or participating in community events, programs or initiatives that support healthier living and advance health equity.
Dr. Sam Kuramoto
Dr. Sam Kuramoto is on the frontline stamping out disease outbreaks with expertise. He and his team are keeping an eye on respiratory viruses, like COVID, flu and RSV, and other communicable diseases, like measles. Learn more.
Lillian Okoye
Lillian Okoye and her team nurture our communities to better health. She helps infants and children with adverse health risks and conditions, such as premature births, birth defects, syphilis and Hepatitis B. Our chief nursing officer is Denise Gilbert. Learn more.
Dr. Al-Zahid
Dr. Al-Zahid specializes in research trends for specific diseases or health issues, such as heart disease and cancer. Check out the online portal that she reports her health data in: Cook County Health Atlas .
Alex Park
Alex Park shares public health information and resources with community partners and keeps a pulse on their needs.
Lukas Schmidt
Dr. Lukas Schmid offers treatment for latent TB infections and TB disease. Learn more.
Gabriela Torres
Gabriella Torres is a public information officer. She keeps the public and the media informed about public health issues and ways people can better protect their health. Check out some of our recent press releases.
This marketing campaign is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $25,214,437 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
Updated May 22, 2024, 3:00 PM