2012 Conference Speakers

Linda Goler Blount

President, WFG Equity

Linda Blount is president of WFG Equity, a collaborative practice for academic and non-profit institutions interested in understanding and employing equity strategies to reduce and eliminate disparities in health, education and well-being.

Prior to her work at WFG Equity, Blount was the first national vice president for health disparities at the American Cancer Society. There, she had the responsibility of leading the effort to develop the overall health disparities strategic direction for the Society and to ensure programs and policies were evidence-based across the social determinants continuum. Prior to her work at the Society, Blount spent six years with Coca-Cola, where she was responsible for strategic planning for Global IT in the formula management, innovation, and procurement departments.

Blount has 12 years of international health, planning and social justice experience consulting with government ministries in Germany, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Trinidad and Tobago where she lived for four years. She began her public health career at CDC in the Office of the Director, HIV/AIDS, where she was responsible for global decision support strategies. She received her master’s degree of public health in epidemiology from the University of Michigan.