Penn Medicine Provider
Family Medicine
Cheryl A Bettigole
Accepting new patients
Sees patients of all ages
Penn Family Care
Schedule onlineCall 215-662-8777

About me

  • Director of Public Health Integration
  • Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

I am a board-certified family physician and have spent most of my career working to increase access to high-quality primary care for people who are uninsured or underinsured, as well as working to pass and implement policies and systems changes that build health equity. I previously served as a family physician and clinical director in the Philadelphia city health centers, as Chief Medical Officer of a large federally qualified/migrant health center in New Jersey, as Director of the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and as Health Commissioner of Philadelphia from 2021-2024.

As a faculty member in Penn's Department of Family Medicine & Community Health and Director of Public Health Integration for Penn Medicine, I will be working collaboratively with colleagues across the health system and the university and with community stakeholders to develop new strategies and expand existing successful work to decrease early deaths in West and Southwest Philadelphia, as laid out in Penn Medicine's strategic plan.

Education and training

  • Medical School: Jefferson Medical College
  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Bettigole is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Efrat R Kean, Maura Sammon, Cheryl Bettigole, Sage Myers, Setareh Mohammadie, Naomi Rosenberg, Patricia Henwood Operation Allies Welcome Medical Response Unit at Philadelphia International Airport: A Framework for Medical Triage of High Volume of Displaced Persons Arriving by Air , Population Health Management, 27(4): 2024,257-266

Cheryl Bettigole, Patricia C Henwood, Sage Myers, Maura Sammon Changing The Playbook For Immigrant Health , Health Aff (Millwood), 42(12): 2023,1767-1771

Pharis M, Gulino SP, Robbins JM, Bettigole C Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Philadelphia , Am J Public Health, 111(7): 2021,1352-1357

Bettigole C, Farley TA The Philadelphia story: attacking behavioral and social determinants of health , Annals of Internal Medicine, 165(8): 2016,593-594

Bettigole C, Farley TA Retail stores and the fight against tobacco—following the money , JAMA Internal Medicine, 176(10): 2016,1520-1521

Bettigole C. An Uninsured Immigrant Delays Needed Care , Health Affairs, 34(12): 2015,2192-5

Bettigole C. The Thousand Dollar Pap Smear , New England Journal of Medicine, 369(16): 2013,1486-7

Mattie Bodden, Giselle Babiarz, Annaka Scheeres, Shivani Sowmyan, and Megan Todd Mayssa Abuali, Eman Addish, Lenore Asbel, Kezia Barnett, Andrew Best, Cheryl Bettigole, Kathleen A. Brady, Landrus Burress, Gail Carter-Hamilton, Jessica Caum, Kinnari Chandriani, Kelly Clark, Constance DiAngelo, Rebecca Drake, Shara Epstein, Frank Franklin, James Garrow, Jane Gould, Dana Higgins, My-Phuong Huynh, Aras Islam, Stacey Kallem, Taseen Karim, Dawn Kiesewetter, Danica Kuncio, Jose Lojo, Robbie Madera, Tanner Nassau, Palak Raval-Nelson, Pilar Ocampo, Tiina Peritz, Meagan Pharis, Jenna Scully, Kassahun Sellassie, Alexandra Skula, Amber Tirmal, Aurora Trainor, Cherie Walker-Baban, and Sarah Weinbrom Health of the City A report on community health in Philadelphia , Department of Public Health, City of Philadelphia: 2023

Ajeenah Amir, Octavius Blount, Dwayne Wharton, Cheryl Bettigole, Thomas Farley, Terry Johnson, Xavier Lofton, Alison Roberts, Raynard Washington, Jessica Whitley Brotherly Love: Health of Black Men and Boys in Philadelphia , Philadelphia Department of Public Health : 2019

Cheryl Bettigole with collaborating authors Childhood Lead Poisoning Surveillance Report , Lead and Healthy Homes Program, Phila.gov: 2022