Thomas Quade, MA, MPH, CPH

Tom Quade is currently the Interim Director of Public Health with the City of Akron (OH) Health Department. During the past ten years in local public health practice, he has served as an epidemiologist, managed the Community Health Promotion and Vital Records units, and served as the Deputy Director of Administration. Tom holds a community faculty appointment in the Community Health Sciences Department of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy. He earned his MPH in Epidemiology and Public Health from Yale University in 1999 and his MA in Counselor Education from the University of Cincinnati in 1990. Having spent five years as a family counselor and a brief term in the Peace Corps, his entrée to public health began upon completion of his MPH in 1999 when he served with the WHO in the Balkans, preparing situational assessment reports. In late 1999, following the passing of his mother, the primary caregiver for his sister who lives with multiple disabilities, he returned to his family home in Akron to provide for her care. There he began his work in local public health. Tom was most recently appointed to the Summit County Board of Developmental Disabilities. Tom resides in Akron with his wife, Shannon, and his sister Kris.

Tom has been an active member of APHA since his graduate studies, initially as a student member in 1998 and in 2000 as a regular member. He has been a member of the Epidemiology, Disabilities, and Health Administration Sections. In 2000 he joined his state affiliate in Ohio where he took on leadership roles including initiating an Epidemiology SPIG that he chaired, at-large affiliate Governing Council seat, Affiliate Representative to APHA Governing Council, and most recently the three year President ladder. He currently serves on the APHA Action Board, Committee on Affiliates, Joint Dues Committee, and he chairs the Affiliate Capacity Building Initiative Advisory Committee. Having chaired the Communication Committee of the Action Board, his primary objective continues to be the facilitation of communication and articulation of the relationship between APHA’s section membership and APHA’s affiliate membership, believing that this would produce a stronger advocacy mechanism for the national association and generate a more recognizable relevance to the broader local public health workforce across the country.