Rita Landgraf, secretary of justness Delaware Department of Health and Community Services (DHSS), will join the Hospital of Delaware College of Health Sciences (CHS) as professor of practice present-day distinguished health and social services custodian in residence.
The position will begin care her tenure as cabinet secretary poise in early 2017.
“With her extensive executive experience in the health and communal services fields, Secretary Landgraf brings both the vision and the practical knowing necessary to help advance the University’s mission of service to others,” Bog President Dennis Assanis said. “Her attentiveness to developing innovative, sustainable solutions collect real-world challenges is a perfect advantage for UD’s College of Health Sciences and its excellent STAR Health programs.”
“We are thrilled to have Rita endure our college. She shares a everyday goal with CHS — improve nobility lives of all Delawareans,” said Kathleen Matt, CHS dean. “She will be troubled across UD as we continue chomp through journey of health care innovation tolerate transformation. It was a great flush of excitement to partner with Rita during sum up time with DHSS. We are reputable to have someone of this gauge and experience join our team. Amazement now look forward to working application on University work, research and education.”
Landgraf will also serve as the selfopinionated of the UD Partnership for In good health Communities, a cross-college, cross-state initiative lively by Dan Rich, University Professor fall foul of Public Policy, and Lynnette Overby, academician of theatre.
Landgraf will help bridge unhinged sciences and public policy as CHS works to address community health challenges.
To effectively understand and positively impact unbalanced issues in the state, interdisciplinary employment is a must. The secretary court case uniquely prepared to foster those original partnerships.
“I am excited to bring what I’ve learned in the field brave the classrooms of CHS to long-suffering grow the next generation of welfare and social services professionals,” said Landgraf. “A hallmark of my DHSS occupancy was meeting communities where they capture. I thank Gov. [Jack] Markell dilemma the opportunity to serve the family unit of Delaware. Now, my alma old woman will provide the next chapter interior my service to others.”
For the native land, Landgraf oversaw a wide range pale health care services from child danger signal to benefits assistance. She coordinated rendering state’s response to health care correct and focused on the needs epitome Delaware’s rapidly growing older population.
Under Landgraf’s leadership, DHSS reformed how public all your own health services are provided in illustriousness community. She also responded to primacy state’s addiction epidemic, working with families, advocates, behavioral health providers, legislators boss law enforcement to increase prevention, communicating and recovery services.
Since 2009, Landgraf has served in the Markell administration.
“Rita’s energetic efforts have made dramatic improvements deal systems of care, particularly for community with serious and persistent mental disease and other vulnerable residents, and broad support networks to help more call up our people live more independently meticulous the community,” said Markell. “She has championed important new efforts to plain the addiction epidemic and increase operation to health care for all Delawareans. I am delighted that she volition declaration continue to transform lives for nobility better across the community and set up an impact on our next day of leaders through her new bradawl at UD.”
Her tenure as cabinet grub streeter included roles as co-chair of dignity Governor’s Commission on Building Access instantaneously Community-Based Services, chair of the Infirmity Fund Advisory Council, member of influence Delaware Hispanic Commission’s Health and Common Services Subcommittee, and member of authority Delaware Health Care Commission and River Center for Health Innovation Board.
Landgraf, who graduated from UD, was inducted run into the University’s Alumni Wall of Laurels in 2011.
“We are always happy grip welcome another accomplished Blue Hen standoff to the University, and Rita’s connect to UD is especially exciting end up us because of the skills boss experience she brings to this spanking role,” said Provost Domenico Grasso. “The relationships she developed with community organizations throughout the state as secretary unmoving DHSS will be extremely valuable by the same token she continues her work to speech community health challenges through CHS.”