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November 13, 2010 - Boston is seeing a marked decline in the number of fatalities from heroin, oxycontin, fentanyl and other opiates, according to a recent report by the Boston Public Health Commission....
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Peter Lee Peter Lee, MPH
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Peter Lee Peter Lee, MPH, is director of the Massachusetts Partnership for Healthy Communities. He brings 30 years experience in public health at the national, state and local levels.

Mr. Lee is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in biology/chemistry and a master’s degree in Public Health Administration. Prior to his current position, Mr. Lee was Director of Healthy Communities Massachusetts and Program Development Specialist with the RWJ Community Health Leadership Program, Collaborative for Community Health. He was the first director and founder of the Healthy Communities Initiative at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). He was the founding director of The Ecumenical AIDS Ministries of the SC Christian Action Council which formed AIDS Care Teams in almost 100 churches across the state. He received the Robert Wood Johnson, Community Health Leadership award, in 1995 for this work. He served on the Governing Council and on the Editorial Board of the national Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities and was co-guest editor with Len Duhl, the “father’ of the Healthy Cities movement international, of a special supplement of the Public Health Reports on Healthy Communities on 2000. He serves on the steering committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s long-range planning committee for greater Metro Boston, the steering committee for the Massachusetts Cardiovascular Health plan development, and the WalkBoston Board. He is also active in his own Roxbury neighborhood where he serves as co-chair of the Ft. Hill Civic Association in Highland Park in Roxbury.
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Tracy Desovich Tracy Desovich, MPH, CHES
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Tracy Desovich Tracy Desovich, MPH, CHES, joined HRiA in 2009 as director of the Greater Boston Center for Health Communities. With over two decades of work in community-driven prevention, she brings experience in strategic planning, organizational development, coalition building and community organizing as well as expertise in assessment, survey design and analysis, impact evaluation, and logic models.

Ms. Desovich received her bachelor’s degree in health counseling from the University of Connecticut and her master’s of public health from the University of Connecticut Health Center. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist.
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