SWANNIE JETT, DrPH, MSc, was selected as the new CEO of Park DuValle

Community Health Center in August 2021. Dr. Jett's most recent appointment was as Health Commissioner for the Brookline Department of Health in Brookline, MA in 2017. Dr. Jett was the Health Officer/Surgeon General for Seminole County, Florida from 2013-16, and the Health Officer of Bullitt County Health Department in Kentucky from 2009 to 2013.

Dr. Jett is passionate about improving communities and addressing issues involving the Social Determinants of Health such as housing, women’s health services, men’s health, tobacco, homelessness, gun violence, climate change, and health inequities.

Currently, Dr. Jett is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force National Guard.  His last assignment was in Senegal, Africa assisting with the Ebola Virus Outbreak. Dr. Jett is a national leader in public health as the Past President of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). He is an honorary member of Kentucky’s Delta Omega Public Health Society.  Dr. Jett has an 11-Time Telly Award-winning TV show called CEO Live Talks, which airs on Wave 3 on Saturdays.

In 2011, he completed the National Public Health Leadership Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received the Bronze Star Medal for serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Jett received a Mayor’s Citation in 2005 from the Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, for his distinguished service and contribution to the betterment of the city and its people. Dr. Jett is a Paul Harris Fellow.

Dr. Jett holds a Doctor of Public Health with an emphasis in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Science degree from the University of Tennessee in Biosystems Engineering, a Master of Health Care Administration from Suffolk University, and a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Statistics from Tennessee State University. He’s also a graduate of Air War College.