Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, MA

Dr. Adewale Troutman has had a distinguished record of achievement in public health education, leadership, research, and advocacy. Currently, he is the Director of the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness where he leads the department’s 350 employees in the protection, preservation and promotion of the health, environment and well-being for the country’s 16th largest city. In addition, Dr. Troutman serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville School of Public Health. Since coming to Louisville more than four years ago, Dr. Troutman has accomplished much including:

• Being featured as a public health expert in the PBS documentary “Unnatural Causes: Is inequality making us sick?” that aired in March, 2008.  The documentary turned the nations focus to the surprising factors that determine good health….that social conditions – the jobs we do, the money we’re paid, the schools we attend, the neighborhoods we live in – are as important to our health as our genes, our behaviors and even our medical care.
• The passage of a comprehensive smoke-free ordinance for virtually every public building and workplace in Louisville
• Renaming the department to include “Public Health and Wellness”
• Establishing the Center for Health Equity – the first such center at a city or county health department in America.  The Center focuses on Creating Health Equity through Social Justice and a focus on the social determinants of health thereby eliminating the health  gap between communities of color, the poor and the rest of the population 
• The development and implementation of the Mayor’s Healthy Hometown Movement, a communitywide effort to create a new culture in Louisville where physical activity, good nutrition and optimal health are the norm.
• Establishment of the Office of Faith and Health.  The Louisville Metro Health Department is one of the few local public health departments to create an office to work with the faith community to affect healthier lifestyles through health education and promotion
• The launch of a mobile health unit, the department’s first since the 1940’s, which focuses on extending public health services to underserved areas of the community
• The establishment of an office of Emergency and Public Health Preparedness to focus on collaborating local public health’s preparedness, response and mitigation of natural, man-made and potential terrorist events with other first responders

• The annual publication of Health Status Assessment Report, a detailed report on the state of Louisville’s health and

• The development and implementation of a Louisville Metro Behavioral Risk Factor Data System.  This system is helping to inform the design of such initiatives as fitness campaigns and smoking cessation programs

Dr. Troutman holds an M.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey as well as an M.P.H. from the Columbia University School of Public Health.  Dr. Troutman also earned an M.A. in Black Studies from the State University of New York.  He served a residency and internship in Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Other positions he has held include: Director of the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness; Director of Emergency Medical Services for United Hospital’s Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey; Medical Director and Acting Health Officer of the Newark Department of Health and Human Services; and Medical Director of the North Newark Health Center.

Dr. Troutman also served as Senior Scientist for Community Health and Preventive Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine where he worked with former U.S. Surgeon General, David Satcher, on a study of racial disparities in health.

Dr. Troutman’s record includes a widespread focus on global health including health assessment missions to Angola, Zaire during the Rwanda crisis, WHO consultancies to Japan and Uganda, training in Community Oriented Primary Health care in India, organizing around the convergence of animal and human health in a WHO, CDC sponsored consortium in Austria and multiple trips to Sub Saharan Africa including Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin, Nigeria and South Africa.