Swannie Jett, DrPH, MSc, was selected as the new CEO of Park DuValle. Community Health Center in August 2021. Dr. Jett, most recent appointment was as Health Commissioner for the Brookline Department of Health in Brookline, MA in 2017. Dr. Jett was the Health Officer/Surgeon General for Seminole County, Florida from 2013-16, and the Health Officer of Bullitt County Health Department in Kentucky from 2009-to 2013.

Currently, Dr. Jett is Lieutenant Colonel in the Arkansas Air National Guard where his latest assignment was in Senegal, Africa assisting with the Ebola Virus Outbreak. Dr. Jett is a national leader in public health as the Past President of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).

In 2011, he completed the National Public Health Leadership Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received the Bronze Star Medal for serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2006 to 2008.

Dr. Jett holds a Doctor of Public Health with an emphasis in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Science degree from the University of Tennessee in Bio-Systems Engineering, a Master of Healthcare Administration from Suffolk University, and a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Statistics from Tennessee State University.

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