LaMar Hasbrouck

From 2015 to 2017, Hasbrouck was the executive director for the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the Washington, DC-based organization representing nearly 3,000 local public health departments in the U.S.. He represented the voice of local public health on national issues of critical importance. Hasbrouck fought to increase federal funding for public health infrastructure, emergency preparedness, and Zika virus. He advocated for advancing science to improve population health and healthcare reform. After leaving NACCHO, Hasbrouck founded DLM LLC, a consulting firm that collaborates with organizations to bend the arc of wellness for defined populations.

In 2012, Governor Pat Quinn nominated Hasbrouck to be the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. He was confirmed by the Illinois Senate on May 17, 2012, as the 17th Director for one of the state’s oldest agencies, first organized in 1877. From 2012 to 2015, Hasbrouck was a member of the Governor’s Health Innovation and Transformation (GOHIT) team responsible for implementing the Affordable Care Act, expanded Medicaid coverage, and other reforms throughout the state. Hasbrouck directed statewide responses to several flu outbreaks, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and was co-chair for the state’s Ebola Task Force. Hasbrouck stepped down in early 2015 after Governor Quinn’s reelection loss.

From 2009 to 2012, Hasbrouck was director of the Ulster County, New York Department of Health where he promoted programs to address health disparities, directing resources to most vulnerable populations and high consumers of healthcare. In 2010, County Executive Mike Hein appointed Hasbrouck Commissioner of the Department of Mental Hygiene. Hasbrouck led the merger of both departments into the Department of Health and Mental Health.

Hasbrouck began his career at the Centers for Disease Control in 1998 as a select member of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), known colloquially as “disease detectives.” From 2000 – 2003, Hasbrouck was a medical officer with the National Center for Injury and Prevention Control and was the primary CDC scientist and contributing writer for the Surgeon General’s Report on Youth Violence (2001). He was a short-term consultant for the World Health Organization as a member of the CDC Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP) program assigned to Bangladesh. From 2004 to 2007, Hasbrouck was a senior medical officer with the Division of Global HIV/AIDS. He supported the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programs in Namibia, Nigeria, and Haiti. In October 2007, Hasbrouck was appointed Chief of Party for CDC in Guyana, South America. As a diplomat member of the US Embassy from 2007 to 2009, Hasbrouck led the PEPFAR program, oversaw completion of the National Public Health Reference Laboratory and helped to coordinate the humanitarian and civic assistance mission by the USS Kearsarge as a part of Operation Continuing Promise in 2008.

Hasbrouck grew up San Diego, California and attended Will C. Crawford High School. In 1988 Hasbrouck completed his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1990, he completed his Master of Public Health degree from UC Berkeley School of Public Health. In 1994, Hasbrouck earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science joint program. He won the Charles Donald O’Malley Prize in Medical History and was recognized as Dean’s Scholar for his medical thesis titled, “The Flexner Report of 1910 and the well-being of Black Americans: historical underpinnings of a contemporary health crisis”. Hasbrouck completed his residency in internal medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical Center New York-Presbyterian Hospital from 1994 to 1997. He was a founding member, and inaugural chair, of the Minority House Staff Committee, established in 1995 to increase the number of residents who are traditionally underrepresented in internal medicine. In 2012, Hasbrouck completed the Harvard Kennedy School program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government. He earned his MBA with a concentration in leadership and organizational health from the University of Saint Mary in 2019.

LaMar Hasbrouck (born 31 October 1965) is an American physician, CDC-trained medical epidemiologist, and public health leader. Hasbrouck was the executive director for the National Association of County and City Health Officials from 2015 to 2017. He was the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health and State Health Officer for Illinois from 2012 to 2015. He is a health policy contributing writer for The Hill, recurrent guest on CNN, former host of AMA Doc Talk, a podcast by the American Medical Association and managing Director for DLM LLC, a health consulting firm.