Guest
Dr. David Holtgrave
Dr. David R. Holtgrave, PhD (he, him, his) joined the Department of Health in August 2024 as a Special Advisor to the Commissioner.
From 2022 to 2024, Dr. Holtgrave served in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, a post for which his portfolio spanned public health and translational research aspects of substance use policy.
A first-generation college student, Dr. Holtgrave earned his PhD in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign in Quantitative Psychology and immediately thereafter held a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Interdisciplinary Programs in Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.