Guilford County has announced the appointment of Courtney McFadden as its new Division of Public Health director.
McFadden, who holds a Master of Public Health degree, will officially begin her duties with the county starting on Monday, July 14. In her new role, she’ll oversee Guilford County’s public health operations and lead the county’s efforts to protect and promote the well-being of more than 500,000 residents.
McFadden has 19 years of experience with the Maryland Department of Health. There she served in several high-level roles. Most recently, she was the deputy director of the Prevention and Health Promotion Administration – Maryland’s largest public health division.
While there, she oversaw a budget exceeding $500 million and led a workforce of more than 500 public health employees.
Guilford County’s Division of Public Health has about 450 employees and the county-funded portion of the health division is about $25 million annually.
Before being a deputy director in Maryland, she served as director of the Center for Cancer Prevention and Control and director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau – where she led statewide programs meant to improve health outcomes for women, children and families.
Guilford County Assistant Manager Victor Isler, who serves as the county’s Health and Human Services drector, welcomed McFadden to the role and called her an asset to the community.
In a public statement, he praised her leadership, knowledge of public health systems, and her track record managing large teams and programs.
Isler also thanked Guilford County Assistant Public Health Director Anita Ramachandran for serving effectively as interim director while the county conducted the nationwide search.
McFadden expressed enthusiasm about joining Guilford County’s public health division. She called this a pivotal time for the field and emphasized her commitment to working with county staff, partners and residents to make Guilford County healthier.
McFadden has been recognized in the past for her work in expanding access to healthcare: Within the Maryland Department of Health, she focused on reducing barriers through data-informed programs and policy initiatives.
She also served as interim chair of the Maryland Commission on Health Equity in 2023, where she helped develop strategies to address the broader social and economic factors contributing to health disparities.
McFadden earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University and a Master of Public Health degree from George Washington University.
Currently, she’s participating in the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health program, a national leadership development initiative.
Another job filled by a DEI person. It is sad that getting a plum job role in government includes the backing of “inclusive” organizations.
https://www.astho.org/communications/newsroom/2024/leading-the-change-astho-program-advances-diversity-in-public-health-leadership/
Eminently qualified; yet another one of Skip’s minions.
Just skips way of paying reparations. Just like all 8 of the new hires he put in the new mwbe that he created out of thin air after the budget was signed last year.
I know this is hard to understand but a Guilford county is extremely diverse having black people fill government positions isn’t DEI it’s right in line with county demographics. Having only white people man or women would be the epitome of DEI we would be rewarding a demographic is not the majority with most government roles to make White people feel good
Put your mask on!!!
Put your tinfoil hat on
Chris get out Greensboro or Guilford County doesn’t concern you.
Nope. Happy to stick around and breakup the nonsense commented here on a regular basis.
Were there no good candidates in North Carolina? Do that not have any internal candidates or others from health departments around the state? Why go out of state when there has to been good people here that already know north carolina’s health care system. The previous director came from another county in NC as did the person before them.
That doesn’t fit skips reparation plan.
our new public health director looks healthy or is an AI generated image from ‘big media’ ?