SLU Public Health Unscripted

Episode 5 - Conversations with Leaders in Public Health: Rebecca Roesslet


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Description:

Rebecca Roesslet joins the Heartland Center podcast to discuss the skills and experience that helped her lead as a Public Health Planning Unit Supervisor during the COVID-19 pandemic. She discusses the various rewarding experiences in public health she’s had over her 20-year career including how she because involved in community engagement. The podcast ends with Roesslet’s predictions for what’s to come in the next 50 years of public health.

 

Interviewee Bio:

Rebecca Roesslet is the Assistant Director of the Columbia-Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services and she has worked for the department for nearly 20 years. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Roesslet was promoted to Public Health Planning Unit Supervisor. When the county began to see the impact of COVID-19, she led the department's COVID-19 epidemiology disease containment and contact tracing. Roesslet is an expert in project management, communicable disease investigation, community engagement, survey design and analysis, and qualitative data analysis.

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