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Laura Spadaro, MHA

Makamu wa Rais na Mkuu wa Huduma ya Msingi, Afisa Sera ya Afya ya Umma

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Laura Spadaro is vice president and chief primary care and public health policy officer for The Wright Center. She helps guide, develop and advocate for public health policies and strategies that promote overall population health through systematic efforts to advance prevention, reduce chronic disease burden, and address socioeconomic determinants of health, as well as disparities in both care access and health outcomes.

A National Health Education Honoree, Spadaro earned her bachelor’s degree in public health from Temple University. She served as a public health intern with the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and joined the Pennsylvania Department of Health as an executive intern in the Office of the Secretary in 2018, before being promoted to Executive Assistant and then Executive Advisor for former Pennsylvania Secretary of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, and Executive Deputy Secretary, Sarah Boateng.

Wakati wa utumishi wake na Idara ya Afya ya Pennsylvania, alishauri juu ya mipango mbalimbali ya afya ya umma, ikiwa ni pamoja na ufumbuzi wa ubunifu wa kushughulikia vurugu, matumizi mabaya ya dawa za kulevya, umaskini, na masuala ya afya ya mazingira. Aliongoza haswa Mpango wa Tiba wa Kusaidiwa wa Dawa wa Pennsylvania (PacMAT), mpango unaozingatiwa kama mfano wa kitaifa wa kiwango cha dhahabu wa programu za matibabu ya opioid.