Director, Division of Maternal and Child Health
Kentucky Department for Public Health
Frankfort, Kentucky
Dr. Henrietta S. Bada is the Director of the Division of Maternal and Child Health of the Kentucky Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Also, she is the Mary Florence Jones Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, in the College of Medicine, University of Kentucky. She graduated with MD degree from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. She completed her residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Neonatology at the University of Louisville. She has a Masters of Public Health from the University of South Florida. Prior to her position at Kentucky, she was a faculty at Southern Illinois University and University of Tennessee. Her areas of interest in practice and research include newborn brain disorders, physiological measurements, perinatal addiction, and outcomes of children born with medical complications or with exposure to drugs and other adverse conditions. She has several publications on these topics.
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