Susan M. Salkowitz, MA, MGA, has had a long career in public health informatics, including work with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and health departments across the U.S. She has focused on Immunization Information Systems (IIS), integration of IIS with electronic health records (EHRs), and other public health reporting systems.
Her consulting work has included training family physicians implementing National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home models, supporting quality reporting, and assessing connections between childhood developmental screening and Medicaid in New Jersey. She also served as an Informatics Consultant to the Public Health Informatics Institute and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center.
Salkowitz, a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, is Clerk of the Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine. In this role, she collaborates with schools and programs in public health in Philadelphia on issues related to diversity, gun violence, and social determinants of health (SDOH).
A graduate and mentor at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, Salkowitz received the Living Legend Award from the Women of Fels in March 2022. She also mentors students from the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research (SUMR) program.
Salkowitz serves on the Community Advisory Board of the Jefferson Program in Public Health, is a capstone reviewer, and is affiliated with the Jefferson Center for Injury Research and Prevention (JCIRP). She is also a member of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Health Administration Section, where she serves as a mentor and abstract reviewer.
She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government.