Medical Director
Chicago Department of Public Health
As Medical Director with the Healthcare-Associated Infections and Communicable Disease Programs at the Chicago Department of Public Health, Dr. Black focuses on healthcare-associated infections and infection control in healthcare settings in addition to community-based communicable diseases. These programs conduct surveillance and outbreak investigations, facilitate testing, and respond to emerging infectious disease threats including Candida auris and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, mpox, Legionnaires’ Disease and COVID-19. Dr. Black is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She completed undergraduate training at Cornell University, medical school at Temple University, and internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship studies at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Black practiced clinical infectious diseases medicine for 6 years at Rush University Medical Center, followed by 5 years at John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County. She is a voting member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB).