Stephen L. Williams

Stephen Williams serves as the director for the Houston Health Department (HHD), a full-service public health department with 1,300+ employees serving the 2.3 million residents of Houston while also overseeing a $161 million budget. Stephen is actively involved in Public Health issues at the local, state and national levels. Under Stephen’s leadership, HHD has become more visible and the citizens of Houston have been afforded a better quality of life. He has spearheaded the implementation and institution of several programs in HHD such as See to Succeed; Assessment, Intervention and Mobilization (AIM); Project Saving Smiles; and pioneering the Affordable Care Act outreach and enrollment efforts through the Enroll Gulf Coast collaborative. The collaborative allowed stakeholders across the Gulf Coast to work together as partners with a common strategy and organization to provide outreach and enrollment to the region’s estimated 1.4 million uninsured while also gaining national attention and White House support. Stephen received his Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, City University New York, a Master of Education from the Auburn University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Social Work from Huntingdon College. He is an alumnus of the American Leadership Forum, Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter/Medical Community Class, and is a graduate of the National Urban Fellowship Program and Executive Leadership Institute sponsored by the National Forum for Black Public Administrators.