Lisa Tapert, MPH

Lisa joins MPCA after 7 years as Executive Director then CEO of the Maine Mobile Health Program, Maine’s federally qualified health center (FQHC) dedicated to providing mobile health care and services to Maine’s agricultural workers and seafood processors. Her primary role is driving programmatic direction and improvement toward strategic objectives. She will also focus on building strategic partnerships, program evaluation, fundraising, and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Prior to working at MMHP, she was Vice President, Global Access Programs for Axios International, a health care consulting firm based in Paris, France, where she managed the agency’s Asia offices. Lisa has over 30 years of global public health leadership and senior management experience including organizational strategic planning and implementation, program development and execution, monitoring and evaluation, leadership development and financial management. She received her Master of Public Health degree in Maternal and Child Health, from the Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Oberlin College and has worked in 20 different countries around the globe.