Shante Gilmore is Director, Health Equity Initiatives at the Patient Advocate Foundation. She previously served as a Health Equity Program Manager with the CDC and as a Practice Transformation Coach with the Maryland Department of Health under the Maryland Primary Care Program. She has extensive community-based health experience and volunteered as a Community Health Worker, where she focused on serving vulnerable populations, including at-risk women and teens. Dr. Gilmore holds an MPH (Behavioral Health Concentration) and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Morgan State University. She also holds a Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore.