Dom Francis

Dom Francis is a public health professional with a strong background in community health, workforce development, and program management. He joined the South Carolina Hospital Association in 2025 as the Manager of Community Health & SDOH, where he provides strategic programmatic oversight for the SC Roadmap Initiative and facilitates consensus-building to address Social Drivers of Health.

Prior to his current role, Francis was the Executive Minister at his church, where he applied public health principles to serve under-resourced communities. He also served as a Training Manager at the University of South Carolina’s Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA), where he spearheaded the development of community health worker competencies for state-wide utilization in curriculum evaluation and professional best practice. He also developed a 160-hour Community Health Worker Core Competency Training in online, in-person, and hybrid formats for staff from various settings including federally qualified health centers, hospitals, community-based organizations, and government agencies. As a Workforce Development Manager for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, he led a committee focused on increasing public health competency and identify workforce gaps for the agency’s 3,300+ employees.

Francis holds a Master of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. He is a member of the South Carolina Community Health Worker Credentialing Council and holds a Mental Health First Aid Certification. He is passionate about maximizing collaboration between traditional and non-traditional partners to improve health outcomes in communities across the Southeastern United States, particularly in his home state of South Carolina.