Susan M. Salkowitz, MA, MGA has a 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 includes training family physicians implementing NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home and quality reporting, and assessing linkages between childhood developmental screening and Medicaid in New Jersey. 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, 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. Salkowitz serves on The Community Advisory Board of the Jefferson program in Public Health and on the Jefferson Center for Injury Research and Prevention (JCIRP). She also participates in the Code Red gun violence prevention program. She is a mentor to the Philadelphia Young Health Leaders Association on the AMIA Public Health Informatics Work Group and is a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Informatics. She is a member of the American Immunization Registry Association and APHA, Health Administration and Health IT Sections.
Salkowitz is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania.