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<br />UNC professor will serve as Orange <br />County interim health director <br />CHAPEL HILL NEWS <br />MARCH 1, 2017 12:33 PM <br /> <br />HILLSBOROUGH - The Orange County Health Department has named UNC professor Dorothy <br />Cilenti as its interim health director while searching for a permanent leader. <br /> <br />Cilenti is on faculty at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Maternal and <br />Child Health and previously served as the North Carolina Local Public Health Agency Accreditation <br />Administrator at the North Carolina Institute for Public Health. <br /> <br />She has worked in leadership roles in local and state public health agencies for over 20 years, <br />including as health director for Chatham and Alamance counties and interim health director for <br />Orange County in 2011. Cilenti currently directs the National Maternal Child Health Workforce <br />Development Center under a cooperative agreement with Health Resources and Services <br />Administration. <br /> <br />“My main goal is to keep the health department operating as it is so a new health director can walk <br />into a well-functioning department,” Cilenti said. <br /> <br />The Orange County Board of Health is working with the county’s Human Resources Department to <br />hire a replacement for former Health Director Colleen Bridger, who left Feb. 23 for a new job in San <br />Antonio, Texas. <br /> <br />The county is reviewing applications and will begin the interview process in mid-March, health <br />department officials said. <br /> <br />Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill- <br />news/article135708688.html#storylink=cpy <br />