Kristi McClamroch, PhD, MPH, is an infectious disease epidemiologist, public health strategist, and storyteller with three decades of experience leading research, programs, and people across academic, nonprofit, and government settings. She is the founder and CEO of Courageous Public Health, LLC, a consulting firm committed to helping women lead with authenticity, vision, and courage in a complex and imperfect public health system.

Dr. McClamroch’s journey through public health is rooted in both scientific expertise and lived experience. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MPH and BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. Over the course of her career, she has worked as a university professor, epidemiologist, program evaluator, youth development director, technical writer, and executive director. Her research has spanned global HIV/AIDS surveillance, adolescent sexual health, and social justice in underserved communities. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and served as a principal investigator on community-based grants, all while mentoring the next generation of public health professionals.

In 2024, Dr. McClamroch launched Courageous Public Health to center healing, justice, and personal transformation as essential components of public health leadership. Through keynote speaking, workshop facilitation, and podcasting, she creates spaces where women in public health can explore their stories, reclaim their power, and take unapologetic action for equity and systemic change.

Dr. McClamroch is also the host of the Courageous Public Health Podcast, where she interviews courageous BIPOC women doing the work of public health. Her guests are changemakers who are reshaping what it means to lead. Her voice is known for its honesty, warmth, and depth—reflecting her core belief that public health work is personal, and that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to act in spite of it.

When she’s not leading Courageous Public Health, Dr. McClamroch is writing her first book—a memoir weaving together personal narrative, ancestral trauma, and public health insight—leaning into her vision of courage, freedom, connection, and kindness, and living very much out loud.