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Women in Leadership | Heather Meador
Event details
You're invited to the monthly Women in Leadership speaker event at our CRST International Graduate Center.
Arrive at 11:45 AM to enjoy a networking opportunity and snacks before the presentation at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch and a friend/coworker!
Heather Meador will discuss her career journey and experience within health care. A Q&A session will follow shortly after the presentation.
The Women in Leadership group meets monthly as discussion and networking events featuring women leaders to share their experiences in education, nursing, business, and leadership. Anyone can attend and enjoy meeting local professionals as they recant their leadership stories.
Heather Meador is the Clinical Branch Supervisor at Linn County Public Health. She has worked with staff to initiate several new programs for sexual health, immunizations, harm reduction, and refugee health. This includes an at-home STI-testing program, initial refugee health exams, Naloxone vending machines, international travel clinic, and expanded outreach services.
Heather served as the Operation Chief for the Unified Command structure responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Linn County. In the fall of 2022, she was presented with the Corridor Business Journal award as a Woman of Influence and the 2022 Leadership in Learning Award from Grant Wood Area Education Agency.
Heather obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Lewis University in Illinois. She and her husband reside in Cedar Rapids and have one daughter attending the University of Iowa and another daughter working in Washington D.C.
