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Population Health & Informatics Policy Committee

The Committee provides guidance and direction on policy and programmatic priorities that drive population health improvement strategies. The Committee will suggest policy directions that improve state readiness and capacity to advance best practices in population health improvement and analysis regarding each of the three pillars of population health improvement: public health and health care partnerships to support clinical to community connections; strengthening collaboration and integration between payers, providers, and public health agencies in addressing the social determinants of health and health equity; enhancing state public health agency capacity for advancing technological solutions and systems as well as using health data and informatics to develop and analyze health status improvements.

Steven Stack
Steven Stack
Kentucky Department for Public Health

Chair

Dr. Steven J. Stack, MD, MBA, FACEP was appointed Commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health by Governor Andy Beshear in February 2020. He resides in Lexington, Ky and is a board-certified emergency physician. For more than 20 years, Dr. Stack has been a leader in the medical profession. He has served on boards of directors and in senior leadership roles for numerous geographic and specialty medical societies. In 2006, he was the first emergency physician ever elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) board of trustees, subsequently serving as board chair and in 2015- 2016 as the AMA’s youngest president since 1854. Dr. Stack has served as medical director of multiple emergency departments, including St. Joseph East (Lexington), St. Joseph Mt. Sterling (rural eastern Kentucky), and Baptist Memorial Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.). Dr. Stack is married and the proud father of one daughter. His wife, Tracie, is an MD, PhD and practicing board-certified allergy/asthma/ immunology specialist. In his leisure time, Dr. Stack enjoys the study of classical Greek and Roman history, United States presidential history, photography, and traveling with his wife and daughter.