Ned Calonge, MD, MPH
Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, is the President and CEO of The Colorado Trust, a private grantmaking foundation dedicated to achieving health equity for all Coloradans. He is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. Nationally, he serves as the Chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Community Preventive Services Task Force. He chairs the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Health’s Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice and serves on the National Academies’ Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity. Dr. Calonge is past Chair of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, past Chair of CDC’s Evaluating Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention Working Group and ongoing consultant for and past member of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children. Dr. Calonge serves as a board member for Delta Dental of Colorado, as Chair of the Board of Directors for Grantmakers in Health, and as a board member for the Colorado Association of Funders. Prior to coming to The Trust, Dr. Calonge was the Chief Medical Officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Dr. Calonge received his BA in Chemistry from The Colorado College, his MD from the University of Colorado and his MPH from the University of Washington. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2011.