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Commendation of Dr. Susan Palchick, PhD, MPH upon her retirement - offered by Commissioner Conley
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WHEREAS, Susan Palchick, PhD, MPH, began her career with Hennepin County in 1996 as the Community Health Supervisor for Epidemiology and Environmental Health in the Community Health Department; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Palchick held positions of increasing responsibility before being appointed as the Director of Hennepin County Public Health; and
WHEREAS, Susan has been a champion for a "health in all policies approach" and evidence-based policies that improve public health, advising on the creation of several county ordinances, including retail tobacco and smoke free ordinances, the public health nuisance ordinance, and an ordinance on body art; and
WHEREAS, Susan led the Public Health department through the painstaking process of becoming the first nationally accredited public health department in Minnesota in 2014 - thereby assuring the department meets national standards for performance and quality; and
WHEREAS, Susan has been a champion for continuous quality improvement and advancing health and racial equity by providing the training and resources Public Health staff need; as well as ensuring her department is held accountable to these priorities by building them into annual performance reviews, creating committees to drive and oversee the work, and through the annual measurement of progress via staff surveys; and
WHEREAS, Susan ensured that Hennepin County Public Health was at the forefront of the county's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing strong, steady, and science-based leadership throughout the most significant public health crisis in over 100 years; and
WHEREAS, Susan has also distinguished herself as a public health leader outside of Hennepin County through her participation on numerous state and national committees on issues ranging from participation and advising the Kresge Foundation in its E...
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