In January 2019, Whitney P. Witt was appointed as the inaugural dean of Lehigh’s new College of Health. She is an experienced leader in the field of population health, with a distinguished career spanning government, private, nonprofit, and academic spheres. Prior to arriving at Lehigh, Dean Witt directed the Center for Maternal and Child Health Research at IBM Watson Health. She holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard University School of Medicine.
She recently sat down for a long interview with Resolve, the magazine of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.