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\nNebraska’s public health directors were collectively honored with the Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award during UNMC's Omaha commencement ceremony May 8. The directors partnered with their communities to engage in providing expert COVID-19 public health guidance since March 2020.
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\nIn addition to their everyday duties, they are recognized for working tirelessly to overcome obstacles, identifying key data to create robust dashboards, creating partnerships to establish testing sites, conducting contact tracing, reviewing business and event plans, distributing personal protective equipment and more.
\nAuburn<\/strong> –Grant Brueggemann, Southeast District Health Department 
\nBurwell<\/strong> –Chuck Cone, Loup Basin Public Health Department 
\nColumbus<\/strong> — Chuck Sepers, East Central District Health Department 
\nCrete<\/strong> — Kim Showalter, Public Health Solutions District Health Department 
\nDakota City<\/strong> — Natasha Ritchison, Dakota County Health Department 
\nFremont<\/strong> — Terra Uhing, Three Rivers Public Health Department 
\nGrand Island<\/strong> –Teresa Anderson, Central District Health Department 
\nHastings<\/strong> –Michele Bever, South Heartland District Health Department 
\nHemingford<\/strong> –Kim Engel, Panhandle Public Health District 
\nKearney<\/strong> –Jeremy Eschliman, Two Rivers Public Health Department 
\nLincoln<\/strong> –Pat Lopez, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department 
\nMcCook <\/strong>— Myra Stoney, Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department 
\nNorth Platte<\/strong> — Shannon Vanderheiden, West Central District Health Department 
\nOmaha<\/strong> — Adi Pour, Douglas County Health Department 
\nO'Neill<\/strong> — Roger Wiese, North Central District Health Department 
\nPapillion<\/strong> — Sarah Schram, Sarpy\/Cass Health Department 
\nWayne<\/strong> — Julie Rother, Northeast Nebraska Public Health Department 
\nWisner<\/strong> — Gina Uhing, Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department 
\nYork<\/strong> — Laura McDougall, Four Corners Health Department 
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