Dr. Halleh Akbarnia

SPEAKER | LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ILLINOIS, ISSUES BRIEFING 2023

Dr. Halleh Akbarnia is an Emergency Medicine Physician who has been at level-one trauma centers for almost 20 years. Working with gun violence victims and having been personally affected by gun violence herself, she has become a strong advocate for GVP at both a local level as well as nationally, recently sitting on a panel at the national GVP conference in D.C. as well as speaking at the national vigil.

She is the co-lead for her local Moms Demand Action group and sits on the board of People for a Safer Society, as well as being active in GVP work through Doctors for America, where she is currently the Vice Chair of Community Health and Prevention .

During the pandemic, she became involved with the Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team (IMPACT) and led volunteer vaccination efforts in Chicago. Dr. Akbarnia is an active member of the Chicago Medical Society and the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians.

With her interest in public health, she is back in school at UIC in Chicago getting her MPH focusing on Community Health. She lives at her home in Glenview with her husband and two children.