About CHRT

Lisa M. Braddix is the Chief Health Equity Officer for the Southeastern Michigan Health Association where she works to foster organizational collaboration to improve community health using practical approaches that will eliminate health disparities in marginalized populations throughout southeast Michigan. Lisa has spent several years working in community health and is passionate about issues related to health disparities and health equity.

Lisa also serves as the Steering Committee Chair for the newly established Center for Health Equity and Community Knowledge in Urban Populations at Wayne State University. She also is the co-chair of the Michigan Cancer Consortium Health Equity and Policy Committee and the Healthy Pontiac We Can! Coalition.

Lisa is a health enthusiast and a Certified Group Fitness Instructor through the Athletics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA). She is the Founder and CEO of Glow Up Fitness, LLC, a newly created fitness company empowering women and girls to adopt fitness as a life skill and as a cultural norm to practice through all stages of life and to pass down through generations.

Lisa is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and a graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biological Sciences and has a Master of Public Health Degree from the University of Michigan. She has also earned a graduate certificate in Non-Profit Management from Eastern Michigan University and is currently a doctoral student at Wayne State University studying the Sociology of Health and Illness. Lisa is also a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, the oldest service organization founded by college-educated, African American women.