Jimmy Dills

Jimmy Dills is a senior research associate at the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC), where he works to improve public health by advancing a Health in All Policies perspective of decision-making. His areas of expertise are systems thinking, health impact assessment (HIA), and healthy community design.

At GHPC, he leads the community design for physical activity components of the Georgia State Physical Activity & Nutrition project, as well as other initiatives that aim to inform plans and policies to best support health and well-being. These include a recent HIA of planning decisions in Tacoma, Wash.; developing health action plans for affordable housing preservation projects, in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners in California; and a collaboration between the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development to promote healthy aging. Jimmy also leads GHPC’s partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on maternal and child health projects, including the National MCH Workforce Development Center and the National Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center.

Dills has also served on advisory committees for MARTA, the SOPHIA (the national network of health in all policies practitioners), and the Georgia Healthy Homes Coalition.