Heather Gates named executive director of NC public health groups

Carolina School of Public Health graduate and NCIPH program coordinator Heather Keith Gates has been named executive director of the state's Big Three public health membership groups--the NC Public Health Association, the NC Association of Local Health Directors, and the NC Alliance of Public Health Agencies. She assumes her post in Raleigh November 1, replacing retiring Executive Director Deborah Rowe. “Having worked with health directors and public health staff around the state through the NC Public Health Incubator Collaboratives,” Rowe said, “Heather has a great understanding of the challenges and the opportunities facing public health in North Carolina.”  Gates received her BS in Biomedical Science from University of South Alabama and her MPH from UNC.

Last updated September 12, 2006