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About the Board of Health
The Board of Health's Vision is:
"Louisville is a community that provides every person equal opportunity for complete health and well-being."
The Mission of the Board of Health is:
The Board of Health acts as an independent voice to promote and protect equitable physical, mental, and environmental health in the Louisville community through advocacy, education, regulation, and collaboration with public and private entities.
Board members are:
Dr. LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, a board-certified family physician, joined the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness as director in July of 2011. She is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences. Statute dictates that the director of health be an ex-officio, non-voting member of the Board of Health
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| William M. Altman, JD was elected Board Chair in July, 2006. Mr. Altman is Senior Vice President of Compliance, Risk Management, and Government Programs for Kindred Health Care. Mr. Altman is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School and is currently also a doctoral candidate in Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. He also serves on the boards of the Kentucky Council On Human Relations and the Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. |
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| Karen M. Cost, Ph.D., D(ABMLI) is Chief of Immunology for Norton Healthcare and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University. Dr. Cost is a current member, and former Board Chair, of Metro United Way, and also serves on the Advisory Committee for the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program at Bellarmine University. She has served on the Boards of The Center for Women and Families, Bridgehaven, The Family Place and Leadership Louisville Foundation. |
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Dr. Sherry Babbage is a dentist in private practice at the West Louisville Dental Clinic. She has been named a YMCA Black Achiever and also serves on the Northwest AHEC Board of Directors and on the Louisville Emergency Management Systems and Fire Advisory Board and on the COP Policy Advisory Board.
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| Chad A. Downing, RPh, is a pharmacy supervisor for the Walgreen Company. His territory includes 28 stores in Louisville and Southern Indiana. He holds community faculty positions with Sullivan University College of Pharmacy as well as Purdue University College of Pharmacy where he also serves as a preceptor. |
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| Dr. Michael D. Needleman is a Family Practice Physician in the Okolona area. He is a graduate of the Northwestern School of Medicine. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of Louisville. Dr. Needleman sits on the Admissions Committee of the U of L School of Medicine and serves as the President of Jefferson County Chapter of the Kentucky Academy of Family Practice. He is also a question writer for the American Board of Family Practice. |
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Dr.Gerald Temes is a retired Thoracic Surgeon after practicing in Louisville for 35 years. He served as a Clinical Professor of Surgery at UL Medical School and is currently a gratis Adjunct Professor of Medical Education. He has held many leadership positions in the Jewish Community and in the Medical Community. He was the founding Chair of the Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Institute. He is currently serving as Chair of the Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services Board. He is currently serving his second term on the Louisville Metro Board of Health. |
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Connie L. Sorrell is the Associate Director for Community Outreach at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center and Director of the Kentucky Cancer Program at the University of Louisville. She received her Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently serves on the boards of the Kentucky Breast Cancer Advisory Board, the Kentucky Breast Cancer Research and Education Trust Fund, the Kentucky Colon Cancer Advisory Board, the Kentucky Prostate Cancer Coalition, and the Colon Cancer Prevention Project. She was also on the founding boards for Gilda’s Club Louisville and the Louisville Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. |
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Gabriela Alcalde
Gabriela is a public health leader with experience in the government, nonprofit, academic, and community sectors. She currently works as an independent public health consultant providing research and writing, training, and leadership on various policy, public health, and community engagement issues.
Gabriela has publications on public health and health policy topics and has presented extensively at the local, national, and international level. She is active on boards and coalitions addressing public health, health equity, gender issues, and the Latino community. She is currently completing a DrPH in Public Health Leadership at UNC Chapel Hill, and holds a Master in Public Health (M.P.H.) from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology from the University of Louisville. Gabriela was born and raised in Lima, Peru and currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her family. |
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Anthony D. Smith is the Director for Safe Neighborhoods for Louisville Metro Government. In that position he works with business, civic organizations, schools and police to address the root causes of violence in Louisville.
Smith earned a bachelor’s degree from Northern Kentucky University. He has served as the Director of Network Organizing for the Network Center for Community Change (NC3) in Louisville, as a caseworker in the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office, and in positions at the the Louisville Urban League and the Jefferson County Public Schools. |
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Dr. Anthony M. Zipple is the President and CEO of Seven Counties Services, Inc. He will serve as an ex-officio member of the Board of Health. Prior to coming to Louisville he served as the Chief Executive Officer for Thresholds, a Chicago-based organization that helps people with mental illnesses get decent homes, good jobs, achieve educational success and find optimal levels of physical and mental health. A licensed psychologist, he has authored over 60 articles, book chapters, monographs and books on topics related to community mental health. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal and Psychiatric Rehabilitation. |
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