Billy Oglesby, PhD, MBA, MSPH, FACHE

Billy Oglesby serves Humana as the Dean of the College of Population Health and Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives at Thomas Jefferson University.

Oglesby is a population health strategist, scientist, and results-driven leader with more than 25 years of consulting and operational experience improving population health outcomes, driving operational efficiency, and expanding access to prevention and care services.  He has worked with payors, providers, academic medical centers, life science companies, digital health firms, government agencies, community organizations, and other stakeholders to drive meaningful and sustainable population health improvement across a continuum of upstream and downstream initiatives.

Oglesby was a member of the Founding Faculty at the Kent State University College of Public Health.  He created and taught in a top-ranked online Master of Public Health program in Health Policy & Management; conducted IRS-compliant Community Health Needs Assessments and consulted on population health improvement plans for adult, children, and specialty hospitals in the region; and led a collaborative of local government agencies and foundations to fund HIV prevention programs and related policy analysis. He also directed a federally funded regional clinical women’s health program, which successfully increased the number of minority patients served, increased the number of teens served and continuously using highly effective contraception, doubled the number of clients receiving routine HIV testing, and tripled the number of partnerships with community organizations.

Oglesby earned a bachelor’s degree in corporate finance and master’s and doctoral degrees in health behavior from the University of South Carolina, an MBA in healthcare strategy from Kent State University, and is a graduate of Advanced Finance Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.