Helene
Gayle
President and CEO
Chicago Community Trust
Bio
Helene D. Gayle joined The Chicago Community Trust as president and CEO on 2017. She began her career as a physician before entering the public health and global development fields. She has worked for the Centers for Disease Control, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CARE, and McKinsey Social Initiative (now McKinsey.org.)
A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Dr. Gayle earned a B.A. at Barnard College, M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, and M.P.H. at Johns Hopkins University.