Sharon Lewis, formerly a senior deputy director at D.C. Health, is retiring after steering the agency for nearly a year.
and other entrenched public health challenges confronting the nation’s urban centers — has been without a permanent leader since LaQuandra Nesbitt resigned in July.a senior deputy director at the department, has steered the agency since, helping D.C. Health navigate the mpox crisis and lingering impacts of covid-19 as city officials conducted a national search.
The industry already is grappling with an exodus from public health due to burnout from three years of the pandemic as well as a wave of retirements, said Benjamin, who was acting commissioner for public health in the District in the early 90s.“The jobs have become more political,” he said in a recent interview. “There was a time when you had a lot of these big things happen in public health and governors and mayors cared, but didn’t hit newspapers … This is public health’s time in the fishbowl.
“Good health policy is good politics but sometimes you have to be the explainer of that, the person who makes that transparent to the political leader,” he said. “And sometimes you have to be able to tell them ‘no’.”
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