About the Health Commissioner

Terry Allan has been the health commissioner at the Cuyahoga County Board of Health since 2004, which serves as the local public health authority for 886,170 citizens in 58 Greater Cleveland communities. Terry has been with the Board for 21 years, with direct program and administrative experience in Environmental Health, Epidemiology and Surveillance and Community Health programs. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Hawaii. He is an adjunct faculty member at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine and also co-chaired the Health and Caring Investment Committee for the United Way of Greater Cleveland from 2005-2007. He is a member of the Greater Cleveland Health Care Association Board of Trustees, the Cuyahoga County Family and Children First Council and a member of the Executive Committee on the Cuyahoga County Invest In Children Initiative. Terry is the current President of the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners (AOHC). He has served on several advisory panels for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is a Year 13 Scholar of CDC’s National Public Health Leadership Institute. Terry was recently elected to a second two year term as an At-Large member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).  He represented NACCHO on the Standards Development Workgroup of the National Public Health Accreditation Board.

Administration 

Administration Staff Contact Information

Annual Report 2008

Annual Report 2007

Governance and Organizational Structure