Ellen Clement has been the Washtenaw County Public Health Department’s Director/Health Officer since 1996 and  has worked there since 1986 in various administrative positions. Her responsibilities include leading the County’s Public Health Department which serves a population of 343,252, and was recently designated an urban county by HUD. The largest city, Ann Arbor, is the home of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The Health Department was honored in 2005 with the Michigan Special Public Health Community Achievement Award for organizational cooperation in achieving public health goals.

She is a graduate of Antioch College and completed her Masters of Public Health December 2004 at the University of Michigan where she also received a Masters of Social Work in 1984 and has been an Adjunct Faculty in the School of Social Work.

Ellen Clement
MPH, MSW
Director,
Health Officer 
2006 Distinguished Public Health Practitioner 

Member of the following:

• The American Public Health Association
• National Association for City and County Health Officials
• Michigan Association for Local Public Health
• Michigan Public Health Association
• Southeastern Michigan Health Association Board
• American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Ellen was a 2001-2002 scholar in the National Public Health Leadership Institute. She has served as President for the Michigan Association for Local Public Health where she has been a member of the Executive Committee, chaired committees on education and public health law for the state association and has been a representative to the Michigan Public Health Training Center Advisory Committee and the Curriculum Committee for the UM Academic Center for Public Health Preparedness.

As the Health Officer she is responsible for taking actions and making determinations necessary or appropriate to carry out the local health department’s functions, and to protect the public health and prevent disease. The health officer also applies preventive and public health knowledge, techniques, and skills to reduce the incidence of communicable disease, occupational illnesses, and food-borne disease.