Matthew Stefanak, MPH

Matthew Stefanak has served as Health Commissioner of the General Health District in Mahoning County, Ohio, since 1988. As chief executive officer of the Mahoning County District Board of Health, he leads a public health agency with a staff of 51 providing services to the 250,000 residents of Mahoning county townships and villages and, through contracts and agreements, to three cities in the county.

Mr. Stefanak received his public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and is an alumnus of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Ohio Public Health Leadership Institutes. He is a faculty member in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy and is active in professional and civic associations including recent service as President of the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners, the organization representing Ohio’s 130 local health districts: Chair of the board of directors of Access Health Mahoning Valley, a not-for-profit organization that links low-income individuals without health insurance with a network of volunteer health care providers; and, Chair of the National Association of County and City Health Officials’ Environmental Health Committee.

In 2007 Commissioner Stefanak was appointed by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at CDC.