Parham Jaberi's appointment comes after Board of Health members last month questioned the timeline for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to name a new commissioner.
“This is an appropriate move because it puts a knowledgeable public health and expert physician in a leadership position that we needed,” said board member Wendy Klein, physician and former director of the Health Brigade, a public health clinic in Richmond.
The next commissioner will inherit an agency with 5,000 employees and contractors, many of whom were on the front lines of the pandemic response, and some of society’s most intractable public health problems, from the opioid epidemic to gun violence.Littel has said the agency head should prioritize workforce, mental health, maternal and child health, the opioid crisis and fentanyl poisoning, as well as covid lessons learned.
Jaberi worked for the state health department for nearly a decade, including more than five years as a district health director in Chesterfield and Powhatan counties in the Richmond suburbs, as well as six years at the Louisiana office of public health. He earned his medical degree from University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2002, and four years later a master of public health from Tulane University School of Medicine, according to his LinkedIn page.
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