Board of Directors - 2010

Ned Baker

Ex-Officio

SALBOH Liaison

Education:

* Bowling Green State University:

2009 - Doctor of Science and Public Health (Honorary Degree)

1950 (BA)
* University of Michigan: 1954 (MPH)

Family: Wife: Jo; Children: Teresa, Michael, Nedra, Brad
Grandchildren (7); Great Grandchildren (3)

Career:

Wood County(OH) Health Department, Bowling Green, OH (1950-1955) Chief Sanitarian
Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene & Correction, Columbus, OH (1955-1957) Sanitarian – Hired to clean up slaughter house and dairy operations at state prisons and mental hospitals
Ohio Department of Health - Northwest District Office, Bowling Green, OH (1957-1969) Supervising District Sanitarian – Serving 27 Northwest Ohio Counties
Health Planning Association of NW Ohio, Maumee, OH (1969-1982) Environmental-Public Health Planner/Associate Executive Director; Serving 11 NW Ohio Counties
Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH (1982-1992) Director NW Ohio Area Health Education Center Program
National Association of Local Boards of Health, Bowling Green, OH (1995-1998) Executive Director

President, Ohio Public Health Association 1965
Wood Co. (OH) Board of Health (1986-1999) Bowling Green’s representative to the Board
President, Ohio Association of Boards of Health (1992)
With Vaughn Upshaw (Ex. Dir. Association of North Carolina Boards of Health) -Initiated research to identify state associations of boards of health who met in Atlanta, GA in 1991 to discuss forming a national organization
NALBOH officially formed at a meeting in Washington, DC in Nov. 1992
Elected as first NALBOH president (1993 & 1994)
Wrote first Co-operative Agreement between NALBOH and CDC 1997
State Affiliate Director, NALBOH Board of Directors (1999-2000)
Appointed as a Lifetime Ex-Officio member of the NALBOH Board of Directors (2003)
Liaison to State Associations of Local Boards of Health for NALBOH (2006 to present)

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