Kristi McClamroch, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist, public health entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Courageous Public Health. For more than 30 years, she has worked across research, practice, education, and leadership, studying what shapes patterns and outcomes across people and populations.

Dr. McClamroch 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 work has included global HIV/AIDS surveillance, adolescent sexual health, program evaluation, community-based research, and public health initiatives in underserved communities. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, served as a principal investigator on community-based grants, and mentored emerging public health professionals throughout her career.

Over the past several years, she has developed that epidemiologic way of thinking into a broader framework for understanding what shapes our experiences, choices, patterns, and outcomes—and where we have opportunities to intervene.

Through Courageous Public Health, she brings that approach to persistent organizational challenges. Rather than assuming that a problem resides primarily in an individual, the work widens the investigation across people, relationships, organizations, systems, and time. CPH works with leaders and organizations to understand what may be shaping the patterns they see, identify possible points of intervention, and choose, test, learn, and adapt.

Dr. McClamroch is also the host of the Courageous Public Health Podcast, where she talks with women doing the work of public health about the choices, constraints, relationships, and conditions that shape their leadership. Across these conversations, courage is not treated as fearlessness, but as something already present—often visible in the choices people make while fear, uncertainty, or constraint remain.

In addition to her consulting and podcast work, Dr. McClamroch is writing her first book, a memoir that brings personal narrative into conversation with epidemiology to investigate the patterns that shape our lives across generations and over time. She has also created an original album, I Thought It Started with Me, which explores many of these same questions through music.

Across all of these forms, the investigation continues: What becomes visible when we widen the explanation—and what becomes possible when we do?