Bruce  Dart, Ph.D.

Bruce Dart, Ph.D.

Executive Director

Organization: Tulsa Health Department

Bruce Dart, Ph.D., currently serves as MyHealth’s Finance Committee Chair, Secretary/Treasurer of the Board of Directors, as well as the Interim Chair for the Board of Directors.

Dr. Dart has served five local health departments in three states during his 34-year career in public health. Currently, he is the Executive Director of the Tulsa City/County Health Department (THD), a local public health agency of 340 team members serving a county of over 600,000 people in Oklahoma.

Dr. Dart serves in a leadership role as a member of several National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) work committees and is a NACCHO Past-President and former Board member. He serves on the Public Health Accreditation Board's (PHAB) Accreditation Review Committee. He is a Registered Environmental Health Specialist and former Nebraska Environmental Health Administrator of the Year. He is a Year 15 graduate of the National Public Health Leadership Institute and his team was co-winner of the Martha Katz award for best project. He has received an appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Oklahoma University College of Public Health and serves on the CASA, MyHealth, and Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Board of Directors in Tulsa. He also chairs the Oklahoma State Health Department's Obesity Prevention Committee as part of the Oklahoma Health Improvement Plan. He received his BA in Biology from Drury University (MO) in 1977, his MS in Administration (Health Services) from Central Michigan University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Health Services from Walden University (MN) in 2005.

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