MD/MPH, FACP
Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Illinois School of Public Health
Dr. Murray has spent her career serving the medically underserved. She has worked in a variety of settings including Occupational Medicine at a Workers Clinic in Canada, Residency Director for Occupational Medicine at Meharry Medical College, and Bureau Chief for the Chicago Department of Health under Mayor Harold Washington.
Dr. Murray worked as Medical Director of the federally funded health center, Winfield Moody, serving Cabrini Green Public Housing Project in Chicago. She has been an active member of a wide range of local and national organizations including serving as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSSDF), and the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Board of Directors of Trinity Health (a large Catholic Health System).
In 1997, Dr. Murray returned to the Cook County Health System where she served as Chief Medical Officer-Primary Care for the twenty-three primary care and community health centers comprising the Ambulatory & Community Health Network of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services. She was also an attending physician in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Cook County Hospital. Dr. Murray has worked in leadership roles in public health organizations including National Association of City & County Health Officers (NACHO), Health Equity and Social Justice Team and the National Executive Board of ALPHA. During 2011, she served as President of the American Public Health Association. In December 2014, she retired from her position as the Chief Medical Officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health and Cook County Health & Hospital System, the PHAB Accredited and state certified public health department for suburban Cook County. In December 2018, Dr. Murray stopped seeing patients as a voluntary attending physician in Internal Medicine, ending over forty years of clinical practice.
Today, she serves as an Honorary Attending Physician of Cook County Health and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. She serves on many local and national boards including the Chicago-based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and chairs the board for the National Collaborative for Health Equity. She remains passionate about increasing the number of Black and Latino health professionals and serves on the Urban Health Program Community Advisory Committee at the University of Illinois. Dr. Murray is devoting the rest of her career to being an enthusiastic full time troublemaker. She has been a voice for social justice and health as a basic human right for over fifty years.