Community and Economic Development Dept
City of Benton Harbor
2010 “Friend of Public Health Award” Recipient
The Community and Economic Development Department of the City of Benton Harbor was presented with the “Friend of Public Health Award” for 2010 by the Berrien County Health Department Board of Health at a ceremony held May 5, 2010, following the regular monthly meeting of the Board. Duane C. McBride, Ph.D., Chair of the Board of Health, made the presentation. Receiving the award was Department Director, Nicol Brown.
“This award, created in 2000 and given annually, has been established to honor a worthy recipient, either individual or organization, for outstanding contribution to the health of the community while reflecting the spirit of the Health Department’s mission and its population-based approach to health status enhancement,” McBride stated.
Dr. McBride shared an impressive list of accomplishments demonstrating The Department’s contributions to the community and cited many examples of collaboration with the Health Department, for example reducing childhood lead poisoning, The Safe Routes to School Program and improving the built environment thru the City’s Master Plan and Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
Dr. McBride added, “It was the unanimous feeling and vote of the Board of Health that no other entity in the Berrien County community was more deserving to receive this year’s ‘Friend of Public Health Award’. The Department of Community and Economic Development for the City of Benton Harbor has been able to make great strides in improving the health of the community.”
“Director Nicol Brown, along with Regina Sistrunk, Deputy Director and Sarah Murray, AmeriCorp Volunteer, show what social policy can do to improve the health of the community,” McBride concluded.
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