Joe McCannon

Joe McCannon is Director for Sustainability (Supplier Engagement) in the Office of the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of the President. Joe comes to CEQ on assignment from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS/AHRQ) where he has been part of the leadership team at the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE). He previously served in the Obama Administration as Senior Advisor to the Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and was part of the founding executive team at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). Prior to that, Joe was Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), where he led initiatives including the 100,000 Lives Campaign, and he was co-founder of a consultancy that supported foundations, governments and nonprofits in scaling effective innovations in fields like public health, climate change and human services. He has taught graduate courses on systems change and quality improvement at the UPenn School of Social Policy and Practice and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and spent 2019-2020 as Executive in Residence at the Rustandy Center at UChicago-Booth. He has also served on committees of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the National Academy of Medicine and his writing has appeared in JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine and the Harvard Business Review. He is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Reuters Fellow at Stanford University.