Angelica Hardee PhD, CHES

Dr. Angelica Hardee currently serves as Vice President of Community Impact at the American Heart Association, where she’s dedicated to Greater Cincinnati/NKY’s community health initiatives. She provides leadership focused on addressing top health priorities of the region by leading work related to hypertension, e cigarette/tobacco use, and healthy food access. She aims to make the community the most equitable and healthy region in the United States. Dr. Hardee leads policy, system, and environmental changes and creates policies and programming while convening researchers, physicians, and advocates to share best practices.

Dr. Hardee has over 10 years of experience dedicated to addressing health-related social needs in the community. She is serving her third term as a Governing Councilor for the Community Health Planning and Policy Development section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Hardee is a native of Cleveland, OH, and a three-time alumna of the University of Cincinnati, where she received her bachelor's, master's, and doctorate focused in public health, health policy, and global health systems.