Angela Dunn
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has hired Dr. Angela Dunn, executive director of the Salt Lake County Health Department. Dunn will remain in Salt Lake County as she joins the CDC team. Her role at the CDC will be to ensure state and local health departments nationwide have the resources they need to effectively and efficiently investigate and respond to public health threats. Her last day at SLCoHD will be Feb. 16. Dunn joined SLCoHD in June 2021 in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and led the department through the latter half of the pandemic, as well as a department reorganization. Prior to joining SLCoHD, she was state epidemiologist at the Utah Department of Health and an epidemic intelligence service officer for the CDC.
