Patricia A. Nolan, MD, MPH

Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health
Brown University
Executive Director, Rhode Island Public Health Institute

Patricia A. Nolan, MD, MPH is a public health consultant affiliated with Brown University and is based in Providence, R.I. Nolan is an adjunct clinical associate professor in the Department of Community Health at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University and is co-director of the community health clerkship. Nolan also serves as the executive director of the Rhode Island Public Health Institute (RIHPI) and principal investigator for a grant project funded through the National Network of Public Health Institutes to re-invigorate RIHPI and improve its sustainability. Nolan served on the Task Force on Community Preventive Services from 2001 to 2005. She also served as the chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2004 to 2007. Nolan is the current president of the Public Health Leadership Society, the alumni association of the graduates of national and regional public health leadership institutes. Nolan retired from her position as director of the Rhode Island Department of Health in 2005, after serving two, five-year terms. She previously held public health leadership positions in Colorado, Arizona and Illinois since beginning her public health career in New York City in the 1970s.