Barnes briefed journalists in January 2024: Do COVID Treatments Need Better Media Coverage?

Dr. Arti Barnes joined as the Chief Medical Officer of the Illinois Department of Public Health in 2021. Before that, she was the Medical Director for the Departments of Infectious Diseases and Specialties at the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center in New Haven where she had also served as the Infection Prevention Officer. She has experience in academic settings as well as various public health and safety net systems across different states. Her clinical expertise includes Infection Prevention, HIV, transgender care, sexually transmitted infections and HPV. She has helped organize the Covid 19 clinical and policy response in her current and former roles and is honored to have remained a front-line provider during the entire pandemic.