Elizabeth Romero, MBA, MS, is a public health professional with over twenty years of experience in building and leading systems change initiatives to improve health across the life span where children and adults live, work, pray, and play.  She has a specific passion for addressing health equity, social determinants, and health outcomes for those at most risk.  

She has served as Director of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health for the state of Delaware, where she oversaw and managed Delaware’s state hospital and behavioral health agency. Romero implemented a statewide health informatics strategy for behavioral health to address value-based care, connectivity and collaboration, referral management, and analytics. 

She also served as the Senior Director for Health Improvement with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. During that time, Romero’s duties there and accomplishments included oversight of behavioral health, injury, and substance abuse and chronic disease health teams with a focus on building systems of care to improve population and community health outcomes. Romero also previously worked for Nemours Health and Prevention Services in Newark, DE, the National Association for State Boards of Education, AED/FHI 360, and the Harvard Prevention Research Center at the Harvard School of Public Health. She currently consults with the federal and state government agencies, communities and hospital systems.

She holds a BS from Boston University, an MS from the University of Oregon, an MBA from the University of Delaware and is crazily working on a PhD from the Virginia Commonwealth University.

She loves learning new trendy words to bug her young adults with, attempting to make candles, and walking outdoors especially near water.