Susan M. Salkowitz, MA, MGA, has a long career in public health informatics, including at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health
as consultant to the CDC and health departments across the U.S. focused on Immunization Information Systems (IIS), linkages of IIS with EHRs, and other public health reporting systems. Her consulting included training family physicians implementing NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home and quality reporting and assessing linkages between childhood developmental screening and Medicaid in NJ. She served as Informatics Consultant to the Public Health Informatics Institute, and to the HRSA-funded Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center.
Salkowitz, a Fellow of College of Physicians of Philadelphia, is Clerk of the Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine which interacts with the schools and programs in public health in Philadelphia, on issues of diversity ,gun violence, and SDOH. Salkowitz is a graduate and mentor for the Fels Institute at Penn, where she received The Living Legend Award from the Women of Fels in March, 2022,. She also mentors students from the LDI SUMR program. Salkowitz serves on The Community Advisory Board of the Jefferson program in Public Health and is a capstone reviewer, and on the Jefferson Center for Injury Research and Prevention (JCIRP). She is a member of the American Public Health Association (APHA) health administration section where she serves as a mentor and abstract reviewer.
Salkowitz is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute