 | This biographical article is written like a résumé. (September 2022) |
Helene Gayle | |
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 Gayle in 2018 | |
| 11th President of Spelman College | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Mary Schmidt Campbell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 16, 1955 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse | Stephen Keith |
| Education | Barnard College (BA) University of Pennsylvania (MD) Johns Hopkins University (MPH) |
Helene D. Gayle (born August 16, 1955) is an American physician, and academic and non-profit administrator. She has been president of Spelman College since 2023. She formerly was CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation's leading community foundations. Earlier in her career she was the director of international humanitarian organization CARE, and spent much of her career in the field of public health research in epidemiology at the CDC.