Medical Director, Office of Health Disparity Elimination
Medical Director, Office of Health Disparity Elimination
Lovetta Brown, M.D.
Mississippi Department of Health 570 East Woodrow Wilson Drive / Box 1700 Jackson, MS 39215-1700
Dr. Brown has participated in extensive community development activity since 1988. She founded the
Mississippi Health Awareness Project, a community-based tax-exempt organization to address HIV, Gang
and Violence prevention in Grenada, MS. As Health Officer she started a three county Violence Prevention
Program that resulted in the establishment of the first Boys and Girls Club in the District. In 1998 she
developed the Safe at Home program, a home maternity case management program for nom-Medicaid patients
in four Delta counties under the Healthy Start Initiative.
Education
M.D., Medical College of Wisconson, 1981
M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University, 1984
Internal Medicine Residency, Medical College of Wisconsin, 1981-1983
Internal Medicine Residency, Meharry Medical College, 1984-1985
Certified Public Manager, MS State Personnel Board, 2001
Professional Licenses and Memberships
Board Member, Mississippi Access Rural Care (MARC)
Board Member, Society for the Analysis of African-American Public Health Issues (SAAPHI) of the American Public Health Association
Robert Wood Johnson Program
Mississippi Association of Public Health Physicians
