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Last updated:  April 24, 2008

Diana T. Yu, MD, MSPH

Representing Health Officers
Date Appointed: February 2007
Term Ends: July 2008

Dr. Yu is a Board Certified Pediatrician who has been in Public Health practice since 1986.  She has served as Health Officer for Thurston County since 1990, Lewis County from 1999-2007, and Mason County since 2005. She is actively involved in the Washington State Medical Association and just completed her tenure as the president of the Thurston Mason Medical Society.

Her participation has been sought by other health care providers, local, state, and federal governmental health officials in workgroups, committees, and task forces on numerous issues, including: Tuberculosis, drinking water issues, immunizations, food safety, death review, drug labs, zoonotic diseases, bioterrorism and emergency preparedness initiatives.  Dr. Yu was appointed by then Governor Gary Locke and served on the Governor’s Commission on Early Learning from 1998– 2000.  She also represents local public health officials on the Washington State Committee on Homeland Security.

In 2003, Dr. Yu obtained a federal grant and started the Thurston County Medical Reserve Corps, to recruit and train volunteers to serve as surge public health personnel in times of an emergency or disaster.  She regularly authors a public health column in the local newspaper

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