Arturo Brito, MD, MPH, rejoined Children's Health Fund (CHF) as its president and chief executive officer on September 23, 2021. He is a community pediatrician with a population health focus and previously worked for CHF as its chief medical officer and executive vice president from 2006 to 2011. In those positions, Arturo led CHF's national network growth from 17 to 25 programs, greatly expanding delivery of comprehensive healthcare services to children and families living in under-resourced communities throughout the United States. During the decade before rejoining CHF, Arturo served as lead physician and deputy commissioner, Public Health Services, New Jersey Department of Health (DOH), and, most recently, executive director, The Nicholson Foundation. He received his medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency at Emory University School of Medicine. In addition, Arturo has frequently volunteered his services domestically and internationally, with multiple volunteer missions to Haiti (responding to the 2010 earthquake), Bolivia, and to Mississippi and Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
