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Paul Kuehnert is Associate Vice President – Program, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation where he provides leadership and management direction for the Foundation’s work related to leadership and transforming health and health care systems.

As an executive leader for the past 25 years, Kuehnert has led both governmental and community-based organizations in order to help people lead healthier lives. In the late 1980s he was a founder and later CEO of Community Response, Inc., one of the Chicago-area’s largest housing, nutrition and social service providers for people living with HIV/AIDS. He moved to Maine in 1999 and served in the state health department, leading the development of a regional public health system and becoming deputy director of the department in 2005. Most recently Paul was the county health officer and executive director for health in Kane County, Illinois, a metro-Chicago county of 515,000 where he initiated and led “Making Kane County Fit for Kids,” a public-private partnership to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity.

Kuehnert is a pediatric nurse practitioner and holds the Doctor of Nursing Practice in executive leadership as well as the Master of Science in public health nursing degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow in 2004 and inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2015.