Last Friday, Governor Rick Snyder announced the appointments of eighteen members to the Public Health Advisory Commission.  The twenty-four-member commission will complete an assessment of the current public health service delivery system in Michigan, at both the state and local level.  Including a review of:

• The organization of public health functions within and across the executive departments of Michigan;
• The division of responsibilities between state and local public health authorities;
• The regulatory framework established by the Public Health Code.

The commission will complete its work and issue a final report to Governor Snyder for his consideration no later than April 1, 2017.  Dr. Eden Wells, the state’s Chief Medical Executive, will be a voting member and serve as chair.  The Governor appointed to the commission:

• Cynthia Aaron – medical director for the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Regional Poison Control Center
• Eric Adelman – executive director of Kadima
• Denise Chrysler – director of Network for Public Health Law Mid-States Regional Center at the University of Michigan
• Abdul El-Sayed – executive director and health officer for the Detroit Health Department
• William Fales – associate dean for clinical applications, chief of EMS and Disaster Medicine, program director of the EMS fellowship program and an associate professor at Western Michigan University
• Kathleen Forzley – health officer for Oakland County Health Division
• Mark Fowler – water/wastewater superintendent for Boyne City
• Debra Furr-Holden – C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
• Robert Gouin – environmental health director of Mid-Michigan District Health Department
• Mona Hanna-Attisha – director of the pediatric residency program at Hurley Medical Center in Flint and is an assistant professor of pediatrics and human development at Michigan State University
• Chris Kolb – president and CEO of the Michigan Environmental Council
• Dianne Malburg, chief operations officer of the Michigan Pharmacists Association
• Bill Manns – president of Trinity Health/Mercy Health Saint Mary’s
• Susie Meshigaud – director of health and human services of Hannahville Indian Community
• Kristen Schweighoefer – environmental health director of Washtenaw County Public Health
• Ann Sheehan – assistant professor at Michigan State University College of Nursing
• Michelle Styma – CEO of Thunder Bay Community Health Services, Inc.
• Melina Wilkins – director of the Online Master of Science Food Safety with the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University

In addition to the above members, the following five department heads or their designees will serve as non-voting, ex-officio members:

• Jamie Clover Adams, Director, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Heidi Grether, Director, Department of Environmental Quality
• Nick Lyon, Director, Department of Health and Human Services
• Shelly Edgerton, Director, Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
• Col. Kriste Etue, Director, Michigan State Police

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