Heidi Jugenitz

Chairperson for the City of Ypsilanti in July 2016

Public health and community development professional Heidi Jugenitz has collaborated with pro-social organizations in the US and abroad to implement sustainable, people-centered solutions to pressing health and social inequities. She also managed multi-million dollar programs focusing on strengthening health systems. She has led strategic planning initiatives on behalf of private, public, and non-profit organizations. As Country Manager for the Phones for Health public-private partnership in Tanzania, she launched Africa’s first phone- and Internet-based integrated disease surveillance and response system in Tabora region. She is also the founder and director of Social Imagination.