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Tom Cotter
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Executive Director
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Healthcare Ready
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Speaker Bio
Tom Cotter, MPH, executive director of Healthcare Ready, brings more than a decade of global health readiness and response expertise to expand the nonprofit’s mission-driven work addressing health equity.
During his 15-year career as a public health and emergency management professional, Cotter has piloted and launched innovative international strategies to localize emergency response operations and build sustainable response functions worldwide.
Cotter holds a Master of Public Health degree from Boston University School of Public Health, a certificate from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College. He also attended the University of the Philippines as part of an international research team focused on the socioeconomic determinants of health and since 2013, has served as an emergency response coordinator for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
During his 15-year career as a public health and emergency management professional, Cotter has piloted and launched innovative international strategies to localize emergency response operations and build sustainable response functions worldwide.
Cotter holds a Master of Public Health degree from Boston University School of Public Health, a certificate from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College. He also attended the University of the Philippines as part of an international research team focused on the socioeconomic determinants of health and since 2013, has served as an emergency response coordinator for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
