Dr. Kim Byas Vice President, Community Engagement & Impact

Dr. Kim Byas is vice president of community engagement and impact for The Center for Health Affairs. In this role, he focuses on multiplying resources and exponentially impacting community-focused work to drive new revenue streams, build robust partnerships locally and globally, foster leadership development, and advance social justice while working to eliminate structural racism.

Dr. Byas also leads a team that works with Amazon Web Services to create and operate the world’s first Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Innovation Hub to develop and implement policies and programs that address structural racism as the root cause of health disparities. This work encompasses elements including housing, medical care, firearm violence, education, climate change, digital access, food, jobs and transportation.

Prior to this role, Dr. Byas served for 18 years as a senior executive with the American Hospital Association. He is the founder and CEO of Kailo Consulting — a strategic consulting company focused on creating multiple stakeholder partnerships to address structural racism — and founder and CEO of Leadership Lessons From — a nonprofit that supports leadership development and mentoring of healthcare leaders from underrepresented populations.

Dr. Byas is a Classic Ground Theory researcher and academic leader. He is an adjunct faculty university professor of healthcare ethics in the Healthcare MBA program at Loyola University Chicago and adjunct faculty, Social Determinants of Health, in the EdD program at Union Institute & University.

He has been a mentor for nearly 20 years to more than 25 highly successful mid and senior healthcare leaders and is a board member and officer for Cafh Foundation, Quinlan School of Business, and the Conscious Leadership Guild.

Dr. Kim Byas holds a PhD in ethical and creative leadership from Union Institute & University; a Doctor of Humane Letters from Wittenberg University; a master’s degree in public health from The University of Michigan; and a Bachelor of Arts from Wittenberg University.