Dr. Jovonni Spinner, MPH, CHES., is the CEO and Founder of Beacon Public Health, the vision of which is to support healthy and whole communities by focusing on health equity. She is an award-winning health equity strategist and thought leader with a deep passion for improving health equity across the lifespan through research, communication, multi-sector partnerships, and leadership. She creates culturally competent and inclusive public health programming but also shines at telling public health stories, giving voice to those rarely heard, and sharing outcomes with key influencers to provide programmatic strategic direction and influence organizational change. Dr. Spinner uses her voice to deliver dynamic speeches and to facilitate conversations on health equity.

She has led state and federal health equity programs like the Diversity in Clinical Trials Initiative, Community Health Worker Health Disparities Initiative, and Virginia Vaccines for Children Program, which have reached millions of consumers to help them make better-informed health decisions, obtain the services they need, and advocate for healthier communities. She was appointed by Governor Wes Moore to serve on the Maryland Health Care Commission in 2023.

Her passion is helping organizations and public health professionals overcome challenges in delivering dynamic, equity-driven, culturally tailored public health programs to meet the health needs of minority communities.

She is also a public health adjunct professor, serves on non-profit boards, and is active in her community creating programs to build the public health workforce and mentoring early-career professionals.

She is an alum of Virginia Commonwealth University, Emory University, and Morgan State University.