Cheryl Bettigole is the Commissioner for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. She is a board-certified family physician and has previously served as the Director of the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention for PDPH, as Chief Medical Officer of Complete Care Health Network, a federally qualified community/migrant health center, and as a physician and clinical director with Philadelphia’s health centers. She is also a past-president of the National Physicians Alliance (now part of Doctors for America), where she helped develop physician teams focused on gun violence prevention and drug safety and pricing, while continuing the organization’s work on access to care. She completed her BA in history at Yale, her MA in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, her MD at Jefferson, and her MPH at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she received a Capstone Award for her work on access to care for immigrants.
