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DPH Office of Health Equity details staffing, engagement and Race Equity Action Plan progress
Summary
Interim Chief Health Equity Officer Tracy Burrows and HR representatives summarized staffing fills, community engagement, a pathway internship program for BIPOC youth and progress on a Race Equity Action Plan; HR reported a 62% employee survey response rate and said hiring efficiencies had reduced vacancy rates.
Tracy Burrows, interim chief health equity officer at the Department of Public Health, presented an update on the Office of Health Equity that emphasized a near-term hiring plan to onboard a permanent chief in the fall and work with Be The Change consulting to synthesize organizational findings by August 2024. Burrows described an organizational chart of four teams (Workforce & Culture; Data, Policy & Reporting; Operations; and a Health Disparities team funded by a CDC grant) and said most positions are close to…
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