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Ned Calonge MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, Clinical Teaching Professor
Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, is the Associate Dean for Public Health Practice at the Colorado School of Public Health, and the Chief Medical Officer for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He is an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Calonge is also the past president and CEO of The Colorado Trust.
Nationally, Dr. Calonge chairs HRSA’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders of Newborns and Children and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. He is a past chair of CDC’s Community Services Task Force and past chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Before joining The Colorado Trust, Dr. Calonge previously served as the chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He also served as chief of Colorado Permanente Medical Group's Department of Preventive Medicine, where he practiced as a family physician for 10 years. He is a past president of the Colorado Medical Board and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2011.
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- MD, University of Colorado
- MPH, University of Washington
- BA, Chemistry, Colorado College
Affiliations
- Vice Chair; Community Preventive Services Task Force; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Chair; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; National Academies of Science, Engineering and Health
- Chair; Study Committee on Evidence-based Public Health Preparedness; National Academies of Science, Engineering and Health
- Member; Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity; National Academies of Science, Engineering and Health
- Member; Board of Delta Dental of Colorado
- Chair; Board of Grantmakers in Health
- Member; Board of Colorado Association of Funders