Chris Calitz, M.P.P., is Director of the Center for Workplace Health and also serves as the science advisor to the American Heart Association’s CEO Roundtable, 46 CEOs of the nation’s largest companies who are dedicated to creating healthy companies and healthy communities. Before joining AHA, Chris was a health policy analyst for the Vitality Group and he co-founded the MEND Program, one of the largest community-based childhood obesity programs in the U.S, U.K., Canada, and Australia. Chris has published original research, commentaries, and statement articles on disease prevention and workplace health promotion in Circulation, Health Affairs, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the American Journal of Health Promotion. He currently serves on the Board of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO). Previously, he served as an expert panelist on workplace wellness for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the national advisory board for the Corporate Health Leadership Program convened by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Chris has expertise in policy analysis, research and evaluation, program development, implementation science, and cardiovascular disease prevention.
He is a 2019 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Understanding and Supporting Anchor Businesses to Build a Culture of Health program, managed by AcademyHealth.