Mayor Brandon Johnson has appointed Dr. Olusimbo “Simbo” Ige as the new commissioner for the Chicago Department of Public Health. Dr. Ige, currently the managing director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will officially take over the position on Dec. 4.
Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed the next leader of the Chicago Department of Public Health Monday, his office announced three months after he fired the prior commissioner in the high-profile post. Dr. Olusimbo “Simbo” Ige is the managing director at the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based in New Jersey . She succeeds Dr. Allison Arwady , who Johnson let go in August, fulfilling a campaign promise despite Arwady’s efforts to keep the job.
Ige has spent much of her career in the East Coast, where she served as assistant commissioner for New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene until early this year. She will officially succeed Arwady as CDPH commissioner on Dec. 4, according to Johnson’s office. “Dr. Ige is a tremendous addition to not just our administration, but to the City of Chicago,” Johnson said in a statement. “Dr
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