Barbot appointed health commissioner
APHA member Oxiris Barbot, MD, in December was appointed commissioner of New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Barbot had been its acting commissioner since the retirement of her predecessor earlier that year. Prior to that, she had been medical director for New York City’s schools, and from 2010 to 2014, she was Baltimore’s health commissioner.
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