Hannah Hardy, Ph.D., M.P.A.

Dr. Hardy is an interdisciplinary professional having worked in several fields including community development, the environmental field, and most recently, public health and human services. She is responsible for managing several projects that are aiming to reduce racial health disparities in Allegheny County and addressing the social determinants of health.  
Hannah E. Hardy is the Assistant Director for Aging Services at the Allegheny County Department of Human Services. In her current role, Dr. Hardy is responsible for creating and managing the Internal Systems Bureau. This is a support bureau that works across all units of Aging Services to facilitate broad services and high-quality programs for older adult residents of Allegheny County. This is accomplished through four main strategies: cross programmatic training, monitoring, measurement and development of workflows and standard operating procedures.  

Most recently she served as the Director for the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Program at the Allegheny County Health Department where she managed the implementation of the countywide health and wellness campaign called Live Well Allegheny and all the programs and activities of the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Program including the Traffic Safety Education Project and Safe and Healthy Communities Program. In that role, she was the Principal Investigator for two cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control. In her previous position she was the Director of Operations and Programming for Let’s Move Pittsburgh based at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.  

Hannah has a 20-year career working in a mixture of non-profit and local government positions in community development, public health and the environment. She currently serves on the boards of the Central Catholic high School Crew Team, Children’s Sickle Cell Foundation, Inc., Flourishing Communities, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and Rising Tide Partner – Northside Board. In addition to serving on several working groups of both national and statewide organizations. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Carlow University.  
Hannah received her Doctorate in Community Engagement from Point Park University, master's degree in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs and a bachelor's degree from Miami University of Ohio. She lives in the City of Pittsburgh with her husband and two sons. 

• Ph.D., Community Engagement, Point Park University
• MPA, Community Development, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
• BS, Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University of Ohio 

“I am deeply committed to addressing disparities in health and social outcomes to achieve equity. I adopt an interdisciplinary thinking and learning style to bring diverse groups of people together to solve problems. I use my skills as a servant leader to manage and mentor because I believe that people are the most important resource to address inequity.”