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Georgia Public Health Nurses Celebrate National Nurses Week with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
collaboration with Georgia’s Division of Public
Health nurses. Other distinguished speakers
included S. Elizabeth Ford, MD, MBA, Former
Acting Director, Georgia Division of Public
Health; and Stephanie B.C. Bailey, MD, MSHSA,
Chief of Public Health Practice, CDC. Patricia
Drehobl, RN, MPH, OWCD, moderated the panel
discussion.
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Gloria V. Chen, RN, MBA, EdD, Public Health
Nursing and Clinical Coordinator, DeKalb
County Board of Health; and Patricia B. Brannen,
RN, MSN, Public Health Nursing and Clinical
Coordinator, Southeast Heath District (Waycross,
Georgia), addressed many of the dire challenges
affecting public health nurses today. Among
the existing and complex problems: an aging
workforce, loss of nursing faculty, growing
refugee population, low salaries, and state
funding cuts.
Two of CDC’s over 170 public health nurses,
Theresa Sipe, RN, MPH, PhD, from NCHM, and
Susan E. Dietz, RN, MS, from OWCD, discussed
areas where CDC is responding to the dire
challenges affecting today’s public health nurses.
Sipe spoke about science-based evidence
programs available in the Guide to Community
Preventive Services with more than 200
interventions.
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Dietz summarized how the Office of Workforce
and Career Development looks at the national
picture and finds avenues where CDC can
promote, support, train, and enhance the public
health workforce. After all, nurses make up the
largest group of workers within public health.
In a remarkable video, Dietz offered a tribute to
public health nurses from Florence Nightingale
and Clara Barton to today’s public health nurses
on the front line nationwide and around the
world.
Carole Jakeway, Chief Nurse, and Meshell
McCloud, Assistant Chief Nurse for the Division
of Public Health, recognized the following
individuals who were nominated for Excellence
Awards in Public Health:
• Carol Hadley, Public Health State Office
Program Director, Office of Strategy and
Systems Development, Strategic Planning
and Partnerships Unit
• Sandra Metcalf, Health Check Program
Consultant, Office of Birth Outcomes
• The recipient of the Award for Excellence in
State Office Nursing for 2009 went to Carol
Hadley.
District Nursing Excellence Award
Nominees:
• Debra Adams, District Nursing and Clinical
Director, South Health District, Valdosta
• Eileen Albritton, District Nursing and Clinical
Director, West Central Health District,
Columbus
• Pam Blackwell, Director of Emergency
Preparedness and Response, Cobb and
Douglas Health District
• Gayle Brannon, District Public Health Nursing
and Clinical Coordinator, Northwest Public
Health District, Rome
• Dr. Gloria Chen, Clinical Nursing Services
Manager, DeKalb District
• Helen Ellis, PHN, Epidemiology Division, East
Metro Health District
• Cheryl Freeman, Nursing Supervisor, Fulton
Health District
• Brenda Greene, Program Manager, Southwest
Health District
• Angie Hanes, District Director of Nursing and
Clinical Services, North Health District
• Wendy LeVan, Women’s Health Coordinator,
LaGrange Health District
• Cynthia Marrs, PHN II, Fulton Health District
• Jan Massey, Evans County Nurse Manager,
Southeast Health District
• Dorothy Rhodes, Communicable Disease
Specialist, Cobb/Douglas Health District
• Jan Smith, District Child and School Health
Director, Cobb/Douglas Health District
The recipient of the Award for Excellence in
District Nursing for 2009 went to Debra Adams.
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Photo 1: Pat Drehobl, RN, MPH, Associate Director
for Program Planning and Development, Office of
Workforce and Career Development, CDC; Carole
Jakeway, RN, MPH, Chief Nurse, Acting Director,
Field Operations, Division of Public Health; Meshell
McCloud, RN, APRN, WHNP-BC, Assistant Chief Nurse,
Office of Nursing, Division of Public Health; Susan
E. Dietz, BSN, MS, Special Projects Advisor, Office of
Workforce and Career Development.
Photo 2: Audience at Nurses Week presentation
at CDC: Forefront and center going to the right:
DPH/Office of Pharmacy staff, Donelle Humphrey-
Franklin, RPh, MBA, Assistant Pharmacy Director;
Cynthia Wynn, Business Operations Specialist; Anasa
Johnson, PharmD, MBA, Pharmacy Disaster Response
Coordinator.
Photo 3: S. Elizabeth Ford, MD, MBA, Former Acting
Director, Georgia Division of Public Health; Stephanie
B.C. Bailey, MD, MSHSA, Chief of Public Health Practice,
CDC ; and Former Acting CDC Director Rich Besser, MD
Photo 4: Gloria V. Chen, RN, MBA, EdD, Public Health
Nursing and Clinical Coordinator, DeKalb County Board
of Health, receives a Certificate of Recognition from
Meshell McCloud, RN, APRN, WHNP-BC, Assistant Chief
Nurse, Office of Nursing, Division of Public Health,
along with Debra Adams, RN, APRN , District Nursing
and Clinical Director for the South Health District 8-1;
and Patti Duckworth, RN, DNP, District Director of
Nursing Services, Cobb/Douglas Health District.
Photo 5: Meshell McCloud, RN, APRN, WHNP-BC,
Assistant Chief Nurse, Office of Nursing, Division
of Public Health presenting the District Nursing
Excellence Award to Debra Adams, RN, APRN , District
Nursing and Clinical Director for the South Health
State Office Nursing Award
District 8-1 during Nurses Recognition Week 2009 at
CDC.
Nominees:
• Janet English, Public Health State Office
Nurse Consultant for the Breast and Cervical
Cancer Unit, Office of Essential Preventive
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