Tomás J. Aragón, MD, DrPH
Biography
Dr. Tomás Aragón is adjunct faculty and an Impact Fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and strategic advisor to Trust.care. He served in governmental public health for 29 years, including as State Public Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health, and as Health Officer and Director of the Population Health Division, San Francisco Department of Public Health. As a local and state health officer, Dr. Aragón exercised leadership and legal authority to protect health, promote well-being, and prevent disease and injury. As CDPH director, he led the largest state health department on its journey to becoming a learning, healing, and impactful organization. Striving to embody and promote the universal values of dignity, equity, compassion, and belonging, he has worked to transform systems and policies towards a culture of healing and health for all people and our planet. Aragón supports community-led solutions that protect and promote mental, emotional, and social health. He studies Decision Intelligence 4 Health to improve organizational strategic decisions in the face of uncertainty, trade-offs, and time constraints. He promotes the Julia language for scientific computing, and he blogs at TEAM Public Health.
Research Interests
- Leadership development
- Decision making under uncertainty
Education
- MD – Harvard Medical School
- DrPH – University of California, Berkeley