Dr. Claude A. Jacob
City of San Antonio,
Metropolitan Health District
Health Director
Dr. Claude A. Jacob has over three decades of administrative experience in public health. Since July 2021, Dr. Jacob has served as the Public Health Director of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.
Before joining Metro Health, Dr. Jacob served as Chief Public Health Officer for the City of Cambridge (MA), Deputy Director for the Office of Health Promotion at the Illinois Department of Public Health, Bureau Chief at the Baltimore City Health Department, and Director of Community Affairs at Sinai Health System in Chicago.
Dr. Jacob has been an active member of several national boards and state associations, including the American Public Health Association, the Public Health Accreditation Board, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, and the Texas Association of City and County Health Officials.
Jacob received a Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health.