Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH is the founder and past executive director of the Build Healthy Places Network. 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 & Economic Opportunity.

Dr. Jutte currently works as a consultant and serves as a Board member for both Purpose Built Communities, a network of community-led revitalization efforts focused simultaneously on housing, education, well-being, and economic mobility, and the Center for Health Care Strategies, a policy design and implementation hub focused on improving outcomes for Medicaid enrollees. Prior to founding BHPN, Dr. Jutte worked as a pediatrician for 20 years in community clinics and as a neonatal hospitalist. He was also a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health of 15 years where he published in several prominent scientific journals inlcuding Pediatrics, Epidemiology, the American Journal of Public Health, and Health Affairs. Dr. Jutte received his BA from Cornell University, MD from Harvard Medical School and MPH 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.