Kate Nagel, DrPH, MPH

CEO, MetroHealth Community Health Centers, and Interim Senior Vice President, Community Health Enterprise

Dr. Nagel is the Chief Executive Officer of the MetroHealth Community Health Centers, a public entity Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Look-Alike, and the Interim Senior Vice President of the Community Health Enterprise at The MetroHealth System.

A seasoned healthcare executive, Dr. Nagel brings extensive experience in public health and health care administration, including enterprise growth initiatives and strategic system improvements. Her career has focused on designing and implementing large-scale initiatives that deliver measurable, positive outcomes in community and population health.
Before joining MetroHealth, Dr. Nagel served as Chief Administrative Officer at Care Alliance Health Center in Cleveland, an FQHC that annually serves nearly 10,000 individuals experiencing homelessness and residents of public housing. In that role, she oversaw daily operations across four sites, a mobile clinic and multiple community locations — managing primary medical, dental and behavioral health services; enterprise administration; external affairs; and care coordination to ensure mission fulfillment and compliance with federal mandates.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Nagel spent nearly a decade at Cleveland Clinic, holding roles in media relations and government relations, including serving as Director of Federal Affairs. She later served as the Senior Director of Public Health and Research, where she led the Clinic’s public health agenda and directed its Department of Public Health and Research.

Dr. Nagel is an adjunct faculty member at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine and Weatherhead School of Management. She holds a Doctor of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with honors from Miami University.