Janet Lin

Janet Lin MD, MPH, MBA, MHCDS is Chief Strategy Officer at University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics (UI Health). In her role she helps to guide the overall strategy and lead transformative healthcare delivery system change for the only state public hospital. She is Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, an affiliate professor in Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), and a center affiliate at UIC’s Center for Global Health, serving previously as the director of Health Systems Development. Dr. Lin was the President of the Chicago Board of Health until December 2024.

Her work is dedicated to the pursuit of how to improve the access to or the delivery of health care within resource-limited settings through a lens of equity and social justice. In her academic research, Dr. Lin’s work centers on creating and implementing programs related to “preventative – or pro-active – emergency medicine” which recognizes the complexity and nuances of our healthcare system and that the ‘ER’, functioning as a safety net, oft serves as a microcosm of the public health challenges society faces.

Dr. Lin is a recipient of the University of Illinois Presidential Medallion and the 2021 Physician of the year at UI Health. Dr. Lin serves on the executive board of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. She has also been a long-standing board member and previous President of the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She is a Billings Fellow of the Institute of Medicine Chicago and a member of the International Women’s Forum Chicago connecting C-level women across multiple facets of industry. She previously served on the board of directors of MedGlobal, a humanitarian organization providing locally appropriate care in difficult-to-reach areas of the world that are affected by war, natural, disasters, famine, and ethnic cleansing.