Announcements regarding key staffing changes of importance to California's rural counties.
Dana Loomis, of Blairsden, has been reappointed to the Carcinogen Identification Committee, where he has served since 2018. Loomis has been Director of the Plumas County Public Health Agency since 2021. He was a Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Community Health Sciences from 2018 to 2021, where he was a Professor of Environmental Health from 2007 to 2010. He was Head of the Monographs Program at the International Agency for Research on Cancer from 2016 to 2017, where he was Deputy Head from 2012 to 2016. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 2010 to 2012 and Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1989 to 2006. Loomis is a member of the International Commission for Occupational Safety and Health. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Epidemiology, Master of Public Health degree in Environmental Sciences and a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Loomis is a Democrat.