MAXINE HAYES, MD, MPH

Maxine Hayes, MD, MPH, is the state health officer for the Washington State Department of Health. Dr. Hayes is also clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington, School of Medicine and on the faculty of the School of Public Health. Maxine Hayes earned her bachelor’s degree in biology at Spelman College, after two years as a Merrill Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. She attended the State University of New York School of Medicine in Buffalo and her post-graduate training was in pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a Master of Public Health degree at Harvard University. Dr. Hayes has worked for the Washington State Department of Health since 1988. She is past president of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and is chair of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association. Maxine has received many awards and honors for her work, including the American Medical Association’s 2002 Dr. Nathan Davis Award. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has served on the NRC Board on Children, Youth, and Families.