Monique Fountain Hanna

Commander Monique Fountain Hanna is a pediatrician and preventive medicine physician in the US. Public Health Services, Corp. (USPHS), working in the field of public health for the federal government. She currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer and Innovation Advisor for the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Division of Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems. CDR Fountain-Hanna is the Division’s Quality Improvement and Innovation Advisor providing leadership and oversight in the area of continuous quality improvement to the 53 state, territory and tribal grantees implementing evidenced-based home visiting programs for women, infants and families. In this role, Dr. Fountain Hanna oversees the first national home visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) as well as awardee implementation of elevated standards for quality improvement in the Federal Home Visiting Program. She also serves as the project lead for the Division’s innovation awards which use evidenced based theory to improve support systems in at-risk communities for families in need. Dr. Fountain Hanna has dedicated both her professional and personal life to serving those in diverse communities across the country who have traditionally had a limited voice to speak for themselves including children, impoverished and disenfranchised populations.