Officers, Directors, Liaisons, and Directors Emeriti doing the work of ANCBH Orientation and Training Materials for New Board Members ANCBH New Board of Director Training Slides - July 2025

Resources This section offers educational resources of various types as they become available, in the form of documents to download and useful links. Hurricane Helene: Emergency Resources ANCBH Newsletters CDC Newsroom Directory of Local Health Departments and Directors Interactive Maps – Organization and Governance of NC Human Services Agencies Health Directors Job Description Accreditation Information Continuing Education Information Vaccine Confidence This website has tools and resources for building vaccine confidence in patients and communities Health-Related Web Sites Health Equity and Behavioral Health Integration This resource from AHRQ provides an overview of the role of behavioral health integration in reducing disparities in health and healthcare, and shares practical strategies and resources for ensuring integrated practices are advancing health equity. Restaurant Inspection Scores Covid funding inadequate for NC Public Health Read the Raleigh N&O analysis. ANCBH Meeting Minutes: BOD (restricted access)

Improving public health in North Carolina About ANCBH Since its incorporation in 1986, the Association of North Carolina Boards of Health has been and continues to be a unique organization serving North Carolina’s local boards of health and their members. The Association’s goal is clear: to pursue excellence in public health in North Carolina by providing leadership and support for local Boards of Health in their efforts to protect and promote the public's health. And its purposes remain focused on the health of the public by: Promoting high standards of comprehensive public health services for the citizens of North Carolina. Providing consultation and education for, and facilitate the exchange of ideas among, Board of Health members. Supporting health policy and finance issues in support of public health in North Carolina. Promoting close working relationships between local Boards of Health and other allied agencies. Promoting programs and projects deemed necessary to protect and promote the health of the citizens in North Carolina. Supporting public awareness of public health issues and dangers. ANCBH continues to meet the needs of our members by working with: Local health directors by attending their monthly meetings, supporting their advocacy efforts, and giving a monthly report of our activities; The N.C. Institute of Public Health local board of health training program by providing a trainer; The N.C. Local Health Department Accreditation Board with four members serving on the board; Liaison groups such as N.C. Association of County Commissioners, N.C. Alliance for Health, and the N.C. Citizens for Public Health. ANCBH in Review Bylaws

Officers, Directors, Liaisons, and Directors Emeriti doing the work of ANCBH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Merle C. Green, MPH, MBA (Executive Director) Retired Guilford County Health Director 2/2020 mgreen4@triad.rr.com ; mgreen@alamancecountync.gov Employed since 2020 ANCBH Mailing Address: Association of North Carolina Boards of Health c/o Merle Green, MPH, MBA Executive Director 730 Trollinger Road Graham, NC 27253 OFFICERS President Karl Timothy Johnson, PhD Public Health, BA Associate Member, Assistant Professor UNC Gillings School of Public Health Member since 10/2023 Past President Benjamin W. Tillett, BS Pharm, PharmD, RPh (Person) Past President of NALBOH, Member NALBOH BOD Member of the NCLHD Accreditation Board Member and past chair of Person County BOH NCALHD Accreditation Board, member Past Director of Pharmacy for Person Memorial Hospital Member since 2011 Secretary Vacant (June 2023) Treasurer Edna R. Hensey, MPH (Wake) Associate Member, Treasurer and Liaison, NC Citizens for Public Health Member since 1990s BOARD OF DIRECTORS Patricia ‘Pam’ Andrews, MA Agency Counseling, BA Psychology Current Chair, AppHealthCare BOH, (Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga Counties) Clinical Mental Health Counselor Principal, Capstone Wellness Center NCALHD Accreditation Board, member Member since 10/2023 Kevin Austin, BS Engineering Operations (Yadkin) Current, Chair of Yadkin County Commissioners, member NCALHD Accreditation Board, member (representing NCACC) VP and Manufacturing Manager, Austin Electrical Closures Member since 10/2023 Eva A. Brown, BS Accounting, MPA (Warren) Current BOH member, Warren County Past Secretary of ANCBH and Director Emeritus of ANCBH Retired in 2016 as CFO (Assistant Health Director), Warren County Health Department Member since 6/2017 Janet O. Clayton, MPH, REHS (Person) NCALHD Liaison to ANCBH Health Director, Person County Health Department Environmental Health Specialist Member since 10/2024 James A. “Jim” Davis, Law Enforcement Certification, Criminal Justice/Policing (Hoke) Chair, Hoke County BOH Private Investigator, Sandhills Security and Investigations Past Sheriff, US Justice Department Official, and 9th Congressional Dist. Chair of Hoke County Member since 5/2023 Jean Benson Douglas, BS Pharm, PharmD, RPh, FASHP (Guilford) Associate Member, past pharmacist member and Chair of Guilford County BOH and GCHHSAC (i.e., Advisory Committee) Retired Cone Health Clinical Pharmacy Services Coordinator and Assoc. Prof. High Point University School of Pharmacy Member since 3/2016 Deborah Fortune, PhD, FAAHE (Durham) Associate Member, Past President, Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE) Professor of Public Health Education Member since 8/2021 Herbert G. Garrison, MD, MPH (Pitt) Chair, Pitt County Board of Health Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine Development Officer, East Carolina University Foundation Member since 11/2023 Patrick E. Harris, BS, Fire Science (Johnston) Retired CEO/ CFO several medical practices, restaurant owner, Retired Director of Emergency Services County Commissioner, Johnston County, Vice Chairman of the Board Commissioner Member, Johnston County Board of Health Commissioner Member, Johnston County Department of Social Services Board of Directors Member since 11/2023 Barbara Ann F Hughes, PhD, MPH, RD, LDN (Wake) NC Local Health Directors liaison and Director Emeritus, ANCBH Past President of ANCBH and NALBOH Past Dietician member of Wake County BOH Member since 1994 Calvert B. Jeffers, Jr., DVM (Forsyth) Past President, Nominations and Awards Committee Chair, Director Emeritus, ANCBH Current Veterinarian member of Forsyth County BOH NCALHD Accreditation Board, member Member since 2013 James Edward Jordan (Eddie), EMT, EMS Instructor, AAS (Surry) Associate Member, ANCBH Administrator, EMS Services, Surry County Carl Durham Awardee, ANCBH, 9/20/2023 Member since 10/2023 John M. Kessler, BS Pharm, PharmD, RPh (Chatham) Associate Member Past Pharmacist member and Chair, Chatham County BOH Principal and Chief Clinical Officer of SecondStory Health, LLC Member since 8/2021 Jerry McKee, BS, PharmD, MS, BCPP (Burke) Associate Member, Burke County BOH Psychopharm Solutions, LLC, CEO and Chief Consultant Member since 7/2025 Marielena Moreno-Garcia, BSN, RN, CCM, NE-BC (Alamance) Associate Member, ANCBH Current nurse member and former Chair of Alamance County BOH NALBOH Board of Directors and Chair of the State Leaders Group Member, NCALHD Accreditation Board UNC Health Population Health Program Manager Member since 5/2023 Page and Roster updated January 22, 2026 ANCBH DIRECTORS EMERITI

Local Boards of Health and Public Health Authority Boards A local board of health is the policy-making, rule-making, and adjudicatory body for public health in the county or counties in its jurisdiction. State statutes give boards of health specific powers and duties. Every type of local board may make local public health rules that apply throughout the board’s jurisdiction. Each board has limited authority to set fees for public health services. Each board also influences the day-to-day administration of the local public health agency. Public health authority boards have expanded powers and duties compared to county and district boards of health. Consolidated human services boards have all of the powers of county and district boards of health, except a consolidated human services board may not appoint the agency director (who is appointed instead by the county manager, with the advice and consent of the board). A consolidated human services board also plays a more active role in the development of the agency’s budget, and has additional powers and duties related to its oversight of other human services programs. North Carolina General Statutes defines both the responsibilities and the composition of local boards of health. The local board of health is charged with being “the policy-making, rule-making and adjudicatory body for a county health department.” And, with few exceptions, the typical board is composed of eleven members: one physician one dentist one optometrist one veterinarian one registered nurse one pharmacist one county commissioner one engineer four general public representatives The exceptions to the 11-member board include boards for a district health department, public health authority, and a consolidated human service agency or public hospital. S.L. 2012-126 (H 438) extends to all counties and creates new options to allow a board of county commissioners to assume the powers and duties of certain boards, create a consolidated human services agency, or take both actions. The options are: Assume direct control of certain boards by adopting a resolution abolishing the board(s) and transferring their powers and duties to the board of county commissioners; Create a consolidated human services agency (CHSA) governed by a consolidated human services board appointed by the county commissioners; or Create a CHSA governed directly by the county commissioners and appoint a health advisory committee. For a comparison of powers and duties by type of board, refer to the attached pdf from this UNC School of Government website: https://www.sog.unc.edu/resources/faqs/what-does-local-board-health-do DOWNLOAD COMPARISON OF BOH POWERS

PARTNERS NC Citizens for Public Health NC Assoc of Local Health Directors NC Local Health Dept Accreditation National Association of Local BOH

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Membership To join ANCBH, please complete and submit your name, email address, phone number, address to our Executive Director, Merle Green, at mgreen4@triad.rr.com and copy to merle.green@alamance-nc.com . Please also indicate what county you serve in. You will be asked for a current resume/CV, a reference letter from your Board of Health Chair or Health Director and a short statement indicating your desire to join the board. Call for Directors Nominations: ANCBH Nominations Committee welcomes nominations for Board of Directors anytime. Download the nominations form here. The Association has four membership categories defined in its bylaws and they are: Institutional Open to North Carolina County or District Boards of Health, County or District Boards of Human Services, and Public Health Authorities upon payment of dues. Institutional members have voting privileges at the Association’s Annual Meeting. An institutional member shall designate one member of its current governing board to vote on behalf of that institution on any matter to which a member is entitled to vote, and shall notify the association of the name and address of its designee. Individual Current board members of a governing body that holds institutional membership are automatically individual members without payment of dues. Associate Open to all former Board members and other persons who support the goals of ANCBH upon payment of dues. Director Emeritus Open to duly qualified former members of the ANCBH Board of Directors who are elected to this honorary status by a vote of the Board of Directors. The Director Emeritus is an honor that is bestowed only on those leaders in public health who have served on the ANCBH Board of Directors. Director Emeriti are entitled to: Be represented on the current Board of Directors Attend all Board of Director meetings and functions Click here to download the current list of Emeriti Members. BOARD OF DIRECTORS NOMINATION FORM WHY HDs NEED TO SUPPORT AND JOIN ANCBH

Selected Bibliography Many times, we want more information on preparation of board members in the advocacy area. Listed below is a selected advocacy bibliography each of you can refer to for basic and advanced information in this area. Advocacy from A to Z Robert R. Blackburn, Barbara R. Blackburn, Ronald Williamson Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London 1st edition, 2018 American Public Health Association, APHA Advocates Handbook: A Guide for Effective Public Health Advocacy, American Public Health Association, Washington, 1999 Daly, John. Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011. Eyerman, Ron and Andrew Jamison, Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998 Franklin,Holly, Advocating for the Public¹s Health: A Training Manual, Association of North Carolina Boards of Health and NCPH, 2001 Guilfoyle, Kimberly. Making the Case: How to be Your Own Best Advocate. HarperCollins, 2015 Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2000, Abacus (Paperback) 2002 Kush, Christopher, The One-Hour Activist: The 15 Most Powerful Actions You Can Take to Fight for the Issues and Candidates You Care About, Jossey-Bass, New York, 2004 Kush, Christopher, Cybercitizen: How to Use Your Computer to Fight for All the Issues You Care About, St. Martin¹s Griffin, New York 2000 Kush, Christopher, Grassroots Games: Preparing Your Advocates for the Political Arena, American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), Washington, 2004 Lencioni, Patrick. Silos, Politics and Turf Wars. Jossey-Bass, New York, 2006. Loue, Sana, Linda Lloyd and Donald O' Shea, Community Health Advocacy, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2003 Rosen, Emanuel, The Anatomy of Buzz: How to Create Word-of-Mouth Marketing, Doubleday & Company, New York, 2000 Stobbe, Mike. Surgeon General’s Warning. University of California Press , 2014. Wallack, Lawrence, Lori Dorfman, David Jernigan, and Makani Themba, Media Advocacy and Public Health, Sage Publication, New York, 1993 North Carolina Legislative Library: The Legislative Library supports the research and information needs of the Legislature, its committees and staff. The Library also offers services to other state agencies and provides limited reference services to the general public. - Submitted by Robert Blackburn, February 2007

Lists the meeting schedule for ANCBH and other key state and national Public Health organizations Calendar of Events ANCBH Board of Directors Meetings 2026 (all meetings begin at 0900 and are via Zoom unless otherwise noted) January 21, 2026 March 25, 2026 (rescheduled from March 18) May 20, 2026 July 15, 2026 September 16, 2026 November 18, 2026 Upcoming meetings ANCBH Governance Network Webinars - See the Governance Network tab for dates and topics National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) See the events calendar for upcoming NACCHO programs National Recreation and Parks Association Annual Conference (NRPA) See the events calendar for upcoming NRPA programs National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) See the events calendar for upcoming NALBOH programs North Carolina Public Health Association (NCPHA) See the events tab for upcoming NCPHA programs North Carolina Association of Local Health Directors (NCALHD) See the events calendar for upcoming NCALHD programs Past meetings ANCBH Board of Health Governance Network "Consolidated Human Services Boards of Health: Practical strategies for integration" August 11, 2025 via Zoom ANCBH's Board of Health Governance Network "Artificial Intelligence in Public Health: Peril and Promises" Kristi Nickodem, JD, Assistant Professor of Public Law and Government at the UNC-CH School of Government. June 9, 2025 via Zoom. ANCBH's Board of Health Governance Network "Living with undocumented status: health and wellbeing challenges" April 14, 2025 via Zoom has been postponed until a future date. ANCBH's 3rd Annual Public Health Nursing Conference: "The Power of YOU" Great Wolf Lodge Conference Center, Concord NC May 2, 2025 View Program Information and Agenda (conference concluded) ANCBH's Board of Health Governance Network A State of Affairs: Dental Public Health in NC Rhonda Stephens, DDS, MPH •Professor of the Practice, Public Health Leadership and Practice at Gillings School of Public Health & •Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, UNC Adams School of Dentistry February 10, 2025 @ 7-8pm via Zoom ANCBH's Board of Health Governance Network What Health Board Members Need to Know About PH Preparedness Raul Gomez, Disaster Preparedness Manager, Guilford County Dept of Public Health November 18, 2024 @ 7-8pm via Zoom Program information ANCBH Annual Meeting November 14, 2024; check-in 0930, meeting 10-2 1020 US Hwy 70 W, Hillsborough, NC Bonnie B. Davis Environmental and Agricultural Center Program information North Carolina Lung Cancer Screening Stakeholders: NC Advisory Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control November 15, 2024 Program Information and Registration UNC William B. Aycock Family Medicine Building 590 Manning Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27559 ANCBH's Board of Health Governance Network : Upcoming meetings for all 88 BOH in 100 NC counties September 23, 2024 @ 7-8pm Program Information North Carolina HPV Vaccination Stakeholder Meeting Program information and Registration September 12, 2024; Thursday 8:30 AM to 03:30 PM EDT Chapel Hill, NC 27559 ANCBH's 2nd Annual Public Health Nursing Conference: "Investing in the Public Health Nurse Workforce" McKimmon Conference and Training Center, NC State Campus May 31, 2024 @ 9am-330pm Program Information