Sentences with phrase «city health commissioner»

We'd like to thank Stephanie Rawlings - Blake, mayor of Baltimore; Oxiris Barbot, M.D., city health commissioner; and Jennifer Brause, executive director of Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS).

Leana S. Wen is the Baltimore City health commissioner.

She's Margaret Hamburg, 53, the New York City health commissioner in the 1990s and later an official at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she specialized in bioterrorism and planning a response to a potential flu epidemic.

Bassett has been in contact with both state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker and Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a former New York City health commissioner.

Two more Bronx residents have died from Legionnaires» disease, increasing the total to 10 in what city health commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett described as the worst outbreak of the illness in city history.

New York City health commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Times advocating for the metzitzah b «peh deal Mayor Bill de Blasio made with the Orthodox community.

City health commissioner Mary Bassett, as well as public health officials around the country, believe social determinants play an outsized role in public health.

On February 5, Dr. Mary Bassett, the city health commissioner told a City Council budget hearing that «the public health literature is clear.»

At the late - Sunday press conference, de Blasio said that state and local government authorities had been «exceptionally communicative,» and that the state and city health commissioners had been in «constant communication.»

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The legislation was proposed at a Board of Health meeting last month by Dr. Jay K. Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control for New York City's health department, after 11 infants contracted neonatal herpes between November 2000 and December 2011, after the circumcision rHealth meeting last month by Dr. Jay K. Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control for New York City's health department, after 11 infants contracted neonatal herpes between November 2000 and December 2011, after the circumcision rhealth department, after 11 infants contracted neonatal herpes between November 2000 and December 2011, after the circumcision ritual.

«The city's highest obligation is to protect its children; therefore, it is important that parents know the risks associated with the practice,» said Dr. Thomas A. Farley, commissioner of the city's health department, in a news release.

While much of what the speakers at the N.F.L. / USA Football luncheon I attended last week in New York City was concussions and football safety advice MomsTEAM has been giving parents for years, what impressed me the most was what we were told about the ongoing efforts by the league and its youth football partner to improve health and safety for football players from the pros down to the youth level, a topic which takes up more of N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell's time than any other.

Donna Myrill, who heads the Queens district attorney's treatment court programs, will be investigations commissioner; Robert Cleary, a city health department chief contract officer, will be procurement compliance director; and Charles Campisi, a retired NYPD internal affairs chief, will be corrections commissioner.

Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT Community Center.

«This delay could really prevent thousands of children in New York City from receiving preventive interventions and more comprehensive services,» Gary Belkin, executive deputy commissioner for mental hygiene at the New York City health department, said in a statement.

The city's commissioner and assistant director of permits and inspection services told county legislators Thursday afternoon that the city plan focuses on education, collaboration with the county health department and concentrated enforcement in the three highest risk ZIP codes.

«We neglected to consult with the community and this was not a good idea,» said Dr. Sue Blank, the assistant commissioner who oversees sexually transmitted disease control at the city health department, at the March 15 event.

Joining in the ribbon cutting are Housing Works CEO Charles King, Levine, Barrio, Dr. Sue Blank, the city's assistant commissioner for sexually transmitted disease control, Bassett, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the city's deputy commissioner for disease control, TAG's Jeremiah Johnson, Dr. Eunmee Chun, director of sexual health at the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Dr. Freddy Molano, vice president of Infectious Diseases and LGBTQ Programs at the Community Healthcare Network, and McMhealth at the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Dr. Freddy Molano, vice president of Infectious Diseases and LGBTQ Programs at the Community Healthcare Network, and McMHealth Center, Dr. Freddy Molano, vice president of Infectious Diseases and LGBTQ Programs at the Community Healthcare Network, and McMorrow.

«I want to give credit to the important alliance between the advocates and the people who work in government,» Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the city's health commissioner, said during the March 15 official reopening of the clinic, which is located at 303 Ninth Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets.

The city and state health commissioners put out a joint statement later Monday saying that three additional sites tested positive over the weekend for the bacteria, bringing the total to 18.

A Cuomo spokeswoman said later that Dr. Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, had called his city equivalent, Dr. Mary Bassett, to brief her on the discovery and left a message, since Bassett was already at de Blasio's news conference.

Crisis is part of the gig for the chief health official in the nation's largest city, and Dr. Mary Bassett has dealt with her share of emergencies in the two years she's served as commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hyhealth official in the nation's largest city, and Dr. Mary Bassett has dealt with her share of emergencies in the two years she's served as commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental HyHealth and Mental Hygiene.

With overdose deaths from opiods setting a record in New York City last year, the health commissioner is calling on doctors to help solve the problem by prescribing fewer painkillers.

The Emergency Management, Fire, Police, Sanitation, and Transportation Commissioners will be taking all appropriate and necessary steps to preserve public safety and to render all required and available assistance to protect the security, well - being and health of the residents of the City.

That's partly why the city's health department has been commended by public health officials across the country, including Tom Farley, former mayor Michael Bloomberg's health commissioner, even as local politicians — most prominently Governor Andrew Cuomo — have publicly wondered whether the department could have done more or acted quicker.

On Monday — just five weeks later — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn stood with Dr. Tom Farley, the city's health commissioner, to proclaim that the city would move forward to restrict tobacco sales to anyone underCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn stood with Dr. Tom Farley, the city's health commissioner, to proclaim that the city would move forward to restrict tobacco sales to anyone undercity's health commissioner, to proclaim that the city would move forward to restrict tobacco sales to anyone undercity would move forward to restrict tobacco sales to anyone under 21.

Ericson, who also serves as Orange County deputy health commissioner, says funding for Belleayre will help draw tourists from the New York City metropolitan region and support local communities.

OSP manages city - affiliated, independent 501 (c) 3 nonprofits, including the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, whose chairwoman is First Lady Chirlane McCray; the Fund for Public Health, whose chairwoman is Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH); and the Fund for Public Schools, which is headed by the city's schools chancelcity - affiliated, independent 501 (c) 3 nonprofits, including the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, whose chairwoman is First Lady Chirlane McCray; the Fund for Public Health, whose chairwoman is Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH); and the Fund for Public Schools, which is headed by the city's schools chancelCity, whose chairwoman is First Lady Chirlane McCray; the Fund for Public Health, whose chairwoman is Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH); and the Fund for Public Schools, which is headed by the city's schools chancelcity's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH); and the Fund for Public Schools, which is headed by the city's schools chancelcity's schools chancellor.

But just last week, Dan Kass, the city's deputy health commissioner, said the chance of an outbreak in the city is low because the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transport Zika do not live in the area.

«We are always concerned about access to vaccines... especially for immigrant communities and adults who may not have insurance,» said Dr. Jane Zucker, an immunization specialist and assistant commissioner at the city's Health Department.

They are scattered throughout the city, Dr. Mary Bassett, the commissioner of the Department of Health, said.

«The report is in line with the work we are already doing in Baltimore City,» says Leana Wen, the city's public health commissioCity,» says Leana Wen, the city's public health commissiocity's public health commissioner.

M. Cooper Lloyd is a resident physician in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and former special assistant to the commissioner at the Baltimore City Health Department.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

Local government funds from Wood County commissioners, and the cities of Hawkins, Mineola, Winnsboro and Yantis support APET SPCA's low - cost animal health programs and animal shelter.

The best part is that one of the physicians involved in the anthrax investigation was actually the City's health commissioner.