Speaker Profile

Biography
Dr. Debra Bogen is the Director of the Allegheny County Health Department. She assumed her leadership role in March 2020, nearly two months in advance of her scheduled start date, to address the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since taking the helm of the Health Department, she has guided our county through numerous and unpredictable challenges of the pandemic with a focus on equity in access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines. Even while facing a pandemic, she and the ACHD team advanced significant regulatory improvements including overhauling plumbing and air quality regulations and advancing new paid sick time regulation. Dr. Bogen is committed to improving community and family health using public health data to drive policy and practice. Prior to her appointment as ACHD Director, Dr. Bogen was a member of the Pittsburgh region medical and research community for more than two decades. She held a primary academic appointment as Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh, and secondary appointments in psychiatry and clinical and translational sciences. She served as the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Pediatrics at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Bogen earned her medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and completed both her pediatric residency and General Academic Pediatrics fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is one of the founders of the Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank and serves as the organization’s Volunteer Medical Director.