Feygele Jacobs, DrPH. President & CEO

Feygele Jacobs is the President and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation (RCHN CHF). She provides overall leadership and management of Foundation programs, sets the Foundation’s strategic goals, and oversees program development.

She came to RCHN CHF as EVP and Chief Operating Officer at its founding in 2005, after serving as executive vice president and chief of staff of the Ryan Community Health Network (RCHN) and CenterCare, Inc., a health center owned managed care plan serving low-income people across New York City. Prior to joining the RCHN family of organizations in 1997, her early career included positions in New York City’s and Boston’s public health care systems, and in hospital administration at the St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, a major teaching hospital network in New York.

She is a graduate of Oberlin College (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.P.H., M.S.) and pursued post-graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds a DrPH in Public Health Leadership and a certificate in Public Health Informatics from the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health. She presently serves on the boards of directors of National Center for Farmworker Health, CALL FOR HEALTH/UNA VOZ PARA LA SALUD, and Community Health Ventures and previously served on the board of Care for the Homeless, a community health center in New York City. She was recently appointed to the faculty of Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, Department of Health Policy and Management.