Three months after summarily firing the woman who led Chicago through the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Brandon Johnson has chosen a former New York City public health professional to take Dr. Allison Arwady’s place.
Dr. Olusimbo “Simbo” Ige, managing director of programs at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will become the first Black woman to serve as Chicago’s permanent health commissioner. As an assistant health commissioner in New York, she helped lead that city through the pandemic.
