Incoming Gov. Wes Moore picked Laura Herrera Scott to oversee public health in Maryland. Here's what she wants to tackle.
Laura Herrera Scott, Gov. Wes Moore’s newly appointed acting secretary of health, inherits an agency grappling with the effects of some of the biggest challenges facing the state, including a new phase of the coronavirus pandemic,Those who know her say Herrera Scott, who was a major in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve and was deployed to Iraq, has a long history of marrying clinical and policy knowledge to build consensus and lead.
I was in the States for 2004 and 2005 — I was backfill — and then the third time I went overseas, to Iraq. It was just an incredible learning experience [with the] people I got to meet and just how committed to serving people are and also got to do some work for women veterans specifically. I was at the Veterans Health Administration after my third deployment. I went to the VA as the national director of women veteran’s health care.You helped reduce racial disparities in overdoses in Baltimore.
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