Medical Director
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Brooklyn, New York, United States
A seasoned medical epidemiologist, clinician and emergency manager, Dr. Mary Foote is a specialist in infectious diseases and serves as the Medical Director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response at the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), one of the largest public health agencies in the world. In 2015, she established the NYC DOHMH’s communicable disease preparedness program aimed at maintaining and enhancing healthcare readiness for emerging infectious diseases in the NYC region. As a lead for clinical operational preparedness for NYC, she supports healthcare and community all-hazards preparedness work with a focus on building resilient systems and mitigating health disparities during emergencies. Critical to the Health Department’s successful responses to mpox, measles, Ebola, Legionnaires and Zika as the Director of Healthcare System Support, Dr. Foote served on the front lines for New York City throughout the COVID-19 response with a focus on health communications, infection control, healthcare worker safety, allocation of scarce resources and access to care. She continues to lead NYC’s therapeutics programs for COVID-19 and mpox where she has helped pioneer innovative approaches to ensure equitable access to new treatments, receiving a NewYorkBIO COVID Hero of New York award for this work. She earned her MD and MPH from the University of Arizona and completed a residency in Social Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, before going on to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia to complete a fellowship in Infectious Diseases. Prior to coming to the NYC Health Department, she has worked on health system strengthening and tuberculosis projects in India, Peru and Nicaragua.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Thursday, October 17, 2024
3:39 PM – 3:51 PM US PT