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Sunday, October 12, 2025   (0 Comments)

2025 NALBOH Annual Conference Recap

This year's NALBOH Conference brought together public health leaders and board members from across the country for three days of insight, collaboration, and strategic learning. Highlights included the Talking Health communications workshop from the de Beaumont Foundation, keynote addresses from leaders at NACCHO, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Trust for America’s Health, and a series of breakout sessions covering board governance, public health law, federal policy, community engagement, and financial sustainability. From foundational public health services to emerging issues like health misinformation and nicotine product regulation, attendees left equipped with practical tools and strategies to strengthen local health governance and improve population health outcomes.

Conference Highlights

Attendees Exhibitors Presenters
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What Attendees are saying about the 2025 Conference

  • "Local Boards of Health - Public Health's best kept secret and most underutilized resource."
  • "The title may have 'National' in it but really, we are all family and this conference feels like that. You see familiar faces and hear from friendly voices that rejuvenate you to do the work you're already passionate about."
  • "Thank you for all you do to keep the public safe in our Nation and in all of our States and Counties. This was a very good conference and I enjoyed meeting board members from other states."
  • 100% of conference evaluation respondents would attend a future NALBOH Conference

Keynote Speakers

  • Damon Chaplin, NACCHO President & Minneapolis Department of Health Commissioner
  • Tekisha Dwan Everette, Trust for America's Health Executive Vice President
  • Caroline Brunton, WK Kellogg Foundation
Tekisha Dwan Everette Damon Chaplin Van Johnson
Tekisha Dwan Everette
Executive Vice President
Trust for America's Health
Damon Chaplin
President
National Association of County and City Health Officials
Van Johnson
Mayor
City of Savannah

Featured Guests

Van Johnson and Dr. Bonzo Reddick

Van Johnson, City of Savannah Mayor
Dr. Bonzo Reddick, District Health Director for the Coastal Health District

NALBOH Leadership and Damon Chaplin

NALBOH Leadership, Ben Tillett (NC), Arba Kenner (KY), Mary Kitten (WI), Marielena Moreno-Garcia (NC)
pose with NACCHO President, Damon Chaplin (MN)

 

Additional Highlights

Session photo Riverboat cruise Evening event
 
NALBOH Sponsors and Exhibitors