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Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has appointed Palak Raval-Nelson to lead the city’s Department of Public Health, highlighting her nearly three decades of service in the City of Brotherly Love.
Raval-Nelson started with the department back in 1996 as a public health sanitarian and rose through the ranks. For the last two years, Raval-Nelson served as the city’s deputy health commissioner, overseeing the divisions of Environmental Health Services, Air Management Services, the AIDS Activities Coordinating Office and the Public Health Lab.
During a press conference Monday at City Hall, Raval-Nelson said her first assignment all those years ago was conducting food inspections in Kensington, something that made her realize Philadelphia was where she wanted to be.
