Robin Wilcox, MPA

Robin Wilcox joined the Public Health Accreditation Board in August, 2007. As Chief Program Officer, she leads the development and implementation of the standards and measures and of the accreditation process. She guided all phases of PHAB’s beta test.

Robin’s work at PHAB follows a career of leadership and innovation in the public health arena in many different venues including executive positions in a government public health agency, a health care system, a school of public health, a health planning agency, and a healthcare membership association. Robin worked in the Pennsylvania Department of Health for almost 15 years in positions that included Director of the Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation and Acting Deputy Secretary for Community Health. As Vice President of the Pennsylvania Institute for Healthy Communities, she worked in communities to bring together public health, healthcare, and other community resources to partner to build communities that create health. As the Executive Director of a five-county health policy and planning agency in southern New Jersey, she directed community health assessments, consumer research, health service planning, community and provider consensus development, and consumer involvement in health planning and policy development.

As a member of the Coordinating Council of the Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities, Robin was a national leader for healthy communities and a founding co-chair of both the Coalition’s Progress Measures Action Team and the States’ Network. She is also a past president of the Pennsylvania Public Health Association and served on the Advisory Committee of the Association for Community Health Improvement.