Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH, is deputy director of Harvard-based FirstPlace Partners, which leverages advances in the science of early childhood development to drive greater impact on health and opportunity through community revitalization. Previously, he founded Build Healthy Places Network and for 10 years led the organization as executive director, building a national platform that bridges health care, community development, and finance to advance shared investments in reducing poverty, promoting racial equity, and improving health.

Dr. Jutte served for a decade as a trustee of Mercy Housing, the nation’s largest nonprofit affordable housing developer, and as an advisory committee member to several national health care and community development finance organizations, including CommonSpirit Health, Trinity Health, the Primary Care Development Corporation, and Enterprise Community Partners. He was also one of three senior scientific editors of the 2021 U.S. Surgeon General’s report, Community Health and Economic Opportunity.

In addition to CHCS, Dr. Jutte serves on the boards of the Rippel Foundation, a national organization advancing equitable health and well-being through systems change, and Purpose Built Communities, a network of community-led revitalization efforts focused on housing, education, well-being, and economic mobility. Earlier in his career, he practiced for 20 years as a neonatal hospitalist and primary care pediatrician and served for 15 years on the faculty of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Dr. Jutte earned a BA from Cornell University, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an MPH from UC Berkeley. He trained in pediatrics at Stanford University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in population health at UCSF through the RWJF Health & Society Scholars program.