By The Times-Standard, June 23, 2020.
From a Yurok Tribal Council release:
The Yurok Tribal Council recently appointed Angie Brown as the COVID-19 Incident Command Team’s Public Health Officer.
Brown brings more than 25 years of local, Public Health experience to the Incident Command Team. She will be overseeing the Yurok Public Health Task Force, which is responsible for developing and implementing plans to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on the Yurok Reservation. The veteran healthcare professional will also provide medical oversight on the enforcement of the Tribe’s Public Health Ordinance and other related regulations.
Brown is the Credentialed School Nurse for the Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District and leads the organization’s response to the COVID-19 emergency. She has a comprehensive understanding of what local tribal entities, counties and the state are doing to confront this unprecedented crisis. Brown has also served as a Public Health Nurse for the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, where she was involved in communicable disease control and prevention. Becoming a Certified Public Health Nurse in 1995, she has worked for both state and tribal agencies in Humboldt County.
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