Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH, is the founder and past executive director of the Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN). BHPN is a national organization working across the sectors of health, community development, and finance to drive more impactful, collaborative neighborhood investments that reduce poverty, advance racial equity, and improve 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 for several national healthcare and community development finance organizations, including CommonSpirit Health, Trinity Health, Primary Care Development Corporation, and Enterprise Community Partners. In addition, he was one of three Senior Scientific Editors for the U.S. Surgeon General’s 2021 report on Community Health and Economic Opportunity.

Dr. Jutte currently works as a consultant and, in addition to CHCS, he serves as a Board member for Purpose Built Communities, a network of community-led revitalization efforts focused simultaneously on housing, education, wellbeing, and economic mobility. Prior to founding BHPN, Dr. Jutte worked for 20 years as a pediatrician in community clinics and as a neonatal hospitalist. He was also a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health for 15 years where he published in a number of prominent scientific journals including Pediatrics, Epidemiology, the American Journal of Public Health and Health Affairs. Dr. Jutte received his bachelor’s from Cornell University, medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and a master’s in public health from UC Berkeley. He trained in pediatrics at Stanford University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in population health at UCSF through the RWJF Health & Society Scholars program.