Jose Montero, MD, MPH

Dr. Montero, became the Director of the Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services in 2008. As Director, Dr. Montero leads the development and implementation of polices that help create the conditions to improve and maintain a healthy population. For this process he relies on two key strategies: the development of a systematic approach for actionable data collection, use and dissemination; and a better coordination of the public health systems and the health care system, with a clear expectation of population health improvement. He has brought this vision to his role on several academic and national policy committees, including the Association o State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO), of which he is the past-president.

José received his MD from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He specialized in Family Medicine, receiving his degree from the Universidad del Valle in Cali Colombia and a degree in Epidemiology, from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota Colombia. He received as well a Masters on Health Care Delivery Science at Dartmouth College.

José also fulfils several national roles. He is the Past-President of ASTHO (Association of State and Territorial Health Officers). He serves on several committees including the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP, as ASTHO Liaison) and has been recently appointed to the CDC’s Board of Scientific Councilors for the Office of Infectious Diseases. He is a member of the IOM Roundtable on Population Health and a member of the National State Policy Academy. José serves as well as Co-Chair of the Health Promotion-Disease Prevention pillar of the NH Citizen Initiative, and member of Dartmouth Medical School Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Advisory Committee and he served as board member at the NH Foundation for Healthy Communities,