David A. Kindig is Emeritus Professor of Population Health Sciences and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine. He is Emeritus and Founding Co-Chair of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. He Co-Directed the Wisconsin site of the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program, was an initial Co-PI on the Robert Wood Johnson MATCH grant under which the County Health Rankings were developed, was the Founder of the RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize and an IAPHS Founding Board Member. Read more
He has published extensively on population health including his 1997 book “Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results” and the widely cited 2003 American Journal of Public Health article with Greg Stoddart “What is Population Health?”. From 2011 to 2103 he was Editor of the Improving Population Health blog. He has remained active in his Emeritus role: his paper “Population Health Improvement: A Community Health Business Model“ with George Isham won the the 2014 ACHE Dean Conley Article of the Year Award; his “Meeting the Institute of Medicine’s 2030 US Life Expectancy Target” was AJPH Editor’s Choice in 2018; and he has contributed occasionally to the IAPHS blog including “A Population Health Boot Camp” in 2020.
He received a B.A. from Carleton College in 1962 and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago School of Medicine in 1968. He completed residency training in Social Pediatrics at Montefiore Hospital in 1971. He was Director of Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center (1976-80), Deputy Director of the Bureau of Health Manpower, U.S. DHEW (1974-76), and the First Medical Director of the National Health Services Corps (1971-73). He was National President of the Student American Medical Association in 1967-68. He was Senior Advisor to Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1993-95. In 1996 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. (see more at www.pophealth.org).
He lives with his wife Margi, has three children and six grandchildren, enjoys wood splitting and carving, fly-fishing, prairie restoration, and reading political biography and western literature.
