Brandon Hill has always been dedicated to health justice by expanding access to healthcare, particularly for marginalized communities. From 2013 to 2018, he worked at the University of Chicago addressing systemic barriers to sexual and reproductive health for youth. Then Hill was named president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, where he was instrumental in managing multistate mergers that preserved access to sexual and reproductive healthcare for 75,000 women, men and teens across the Midwest.
Immediately before joining Vivent Health, Hill served as executive director at Howard Brown Health, and as a research fellow with the Kinsey Institute, he continues to publish research spanning an array of topics focused on underrepresented groups, including queer people, people of color and women.
Rooted in its legacy organizations’ commitments to serving people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community who are most impacted by HIV, Vivent Health delivers high-quality, integrated HIV healthcare, social services and prevention. The organization works to advance health equity and justice so everyone impacted by HIV can live their best and healthiest life.
At Vivent Health, Hill is continuing his mission of health justice by serving the HIV community. “I am a member of the LGBTQ+ community,” he said. “I am also Latino. This work is part of my identity. This is the work I didn’t know existed when I was young and queer, but the work I committed myself to do as an adult.”
Under Hill, the organization has experienced significant growth. Hill joined during the completion of a merger between Vivent Health and an ASO in Kansas City, Missouri, and was critical in finalizing the site’s integration and grand opening. He then led Vivent Health through two more mergers in two years, adding Illinois and Michigan to the Vivent Health footprint, establishing Vivent Health presence in six states and 15 markets. In that time, Hill led increases in revenue by $30 million, added 150 employees and increased the number of patients served to 16,503 in 2023, a growth of 9% for one of the nation’s largest HIV healthcare providers.
Hill has over 50 published articles and has delivered more than 100 presentations. He was named one of the top 50 distinguished sexual and gender health revolutionaries by the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Program in Human Sexuality and recently accepted a Milwaukee award for neighborhood development innovation (MANDI) on behalf of Vivent Health in the category of community health.
“Some of our clients tell us this is the only place where they feel welcomed and accepted for who they are,” said Hill. “They are all the motivation needed to keep going.”