David Hicks, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Dr. David Hicks is a board-certified family medicine physician and serves as Health Officer at the Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH). At JCDH he served as Deputy Health Officer, Incident Commander for JCDH’s COVID-19 response efforts, and was Medical Director of Adult Health & Family Planning.
Before working at the health department, Dr. Hicks oversaw five clinic locations as Chief Medical Officer at Birmingham Health Care. He also has provided medical care in various settings, including urgent care clinics, correctional facilities, and an academic health system. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a member of Alabama’s Rural Medical Service Awards Advisory Board. Dr. Hicks is a Leadership Birmingham graduate, former Chairman of Alabama’s STD Medical Advisory Council, Freshwater Land Trust Red Rock Committee member, Kiwanis Club of Birmingham member, and UAB School of Public Health’s Community Engagement Council associate. In 2021, he received the NAACP Metro Birmingham Branch’s Community Trailblazer Award. In 2024, he received the Medical Association of the State of Alabama’s William Henry Sanders Award.
Dr. Hicks earned a Master of Public Health degree in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and was a National Institutes of Health Fogarty MIRT Program research trainee at the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He later earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his Family Medicine residency at Christiana Care Health System where he also served as Chief Resident.