Feygele Jacobs

Feygele Jacobs, DrPH, MS, MPH serves as Director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health and Professor of Health Policy and Management. Prior to joining the faculty full-time, she was President and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation (RCHN CHF), a non-profit foundation dedicated exclusively, until its sunset in 2022, to supporting and benefiting health centers and the communities and patients they serve across America. At its founding, she was the Foundation’s executive vice president and previously, executive VP and chief of staff of the Ryan Community Health Network (RCHN), the Foundation’s predecessor entity, and its affiliate CenterCare, Inc., a health center owned managed care plan serving low-income people across New York City. Her career has also included positions in both New York City’s and Boston’s public health care systems, and at a major teaching hospital network in New York. She continues to teach core courses in public health policy. In collaboration with colleagues in the Geiger Gibson Program, she has co-authored dozens of policy briefs, data notes and blog posts related to community health center policy and care for the underserved. Feygele holds a DrPH from the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health, where she also completed a certificate in Public Health Informatics. She is also a graduate of Columbia University (MS, MPH) and Oberlin College.