Health department recognized for top-tier emergency preparedness
“Shelby County Health Department’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness team worked hard to meet the exceedingly high standards required to attain PPHR recognition,” said Dr. Michelle Taylor, Health Department director. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The Shelby County Health Department is one of 550 local health departments nationwide earned the national recognition.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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