Ayanna Bennett, a pediatrician and health equity officer officer in San Francisco, will replace LaQuandra Nesbitt.
The stakes were high for Bowser to install a director who could follow former health director LaQuandra Nesbitt, wholast July as a trusted adviser to the mayor and the public face of the District’s coronavirus response.
San Francisco, the city where Bennett has spent her 20-year career, and the District are both densely populated cities coping with opioid overdoses, gun violence and HIV. They are also cities where public health leaders understand structural racism is at the heart of social barriers from housing to access to primary care.
“They are all of our problems and have many of the same roots,” she said. “In almost any city you can use the redlining map from the 30s to determine where health problems are the worst. The map lays out the same as it did nearly 100 years ago.“We’ve kept the legacies of many of our poor judgments of the past in our health system and in the health of the people who live in our cities and it is true in San Francisco and it is true in D.C.,” she said.
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