Marin County Public Health Officer
Operating on the principle that the highest attainable standard of health is a human right.
Dr. Matt Willis has placed health equity at the center of Marin County’s Public
.Health practice. He calls on his experience as a physician, epidemiologist, and community member to elevate health for all in Marin.
A Marin native, Dr. Matt Willis has been the County’s Public Health Officer since 2013.
Before his current role, he served as Director of Primary Care for the Navajo
Reservation in Arizona and in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, where
he conducted outbreak investigations in the U.S. and abroad. He has published
research in vaccine equity, crisis decision-making, tuberculosis control, disaster
response, and overdose prevention. He lives in San Anselmo with his wife and three
children.