Susan Philip is the Acting Health Officer for the City and County of San Francisco. She has been part of the city’s COVID-19 response since the SFDPH Department Operations Center was first activated on January 21, 2020. Previously she was a Deputy Health Officer and the Director of the Disease Control and Prevention branch in the Population Health Division of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. In that role, she oversaw population level clinical, biomedical, disease intervention efforts to reduce communicable and chronic diseases in San Francisco. She has worked for SFDPH since 2005. Dr. Philip received her M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and trained as a resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. After a M.P.H at the Harvard School of Public Health, she completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at UCSF. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco and has been an HIV primary care provider at San Francisco City Clinic.
