The Health Officer program is intended to provide a unified and systemic approach to delivering regional health officer services to the local health departments serving Clark and other counties contracting with Clark. The program aims to accomplish this through (1) providing high quality health officer services, and (2) participating in a developmental approach to enhancing the departments’ capacities to assess community health status, choose appropriate population health priorities and strategies and develop and provide high quality public health services to address these priorities and strategies. The Deputy Health Officer participates in and provides leadership across a wide range of public health activities through the regional health officer program. The primary purpose of the posi