Primary Contact Email: KSchottb@co.whatcom.wa.us
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Request confirmation of the County Executive’s appointment of Champ Thomaskutty as Director of Whatcom County Health & Community Services Department, effective October 27, 2025
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Champ Thomaskutty has extensive experience in public health leadership, operations, planning and budget management. Since 2017, Thomaskutty has served as Deputy Health Officer for the Calvert County Health Department in Frederick, Maryland, where he has overseen a department of 275 staff with an operating budget of $25 million and serves as both Chief Operations Officer and Agency Administrator.
Mr. Thomaskutty is trained as an epidemiologist and served as the Director of Chronic Disease Epidemiology for the Indiana State Department of Health prior o this work in local health jurisdictions. In recent years, he has increasingly focused on the intersection of data, justice systems and behavioral health to inform crisis care and jail treatment protocols.
Mr. Thomaskutty earned his Master of Public Health degree from Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Public Health, and his Bachelor’s degree from Birmingham-Southern College. While at IU, he was awarded the statewide Stephen Jay Leadership Public Health Award, presented to an MPH student who exhibits exemplary public health leadership, scholarship, and practice.
The appointment will be effective October 27, 2025.