Cobb Health Director to Lead Regional Agency

The director of Cobb & Douglas Public Health has been tapped to lead the North Georgia Health District on an interim basis. 

Dr. Jack Kennedy will have dual roles. He'll guide the Dalton-based health agency until a permanent health director is named and remain with Cobb & Douglas Public Health, said Jennifer King, the spokesman for the North Georgia Health District.

The vacancy at the North Georgia Health District was created when Dr. Harold Pitts, the leader since 2005, resigned. The agency covers Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens and Whitfield counties.

Kennedy has lived in Marietta since 1986, and was the founding board chairman of the Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb.

In addition to directing the Cobb & Douglas Public Health District, Kennedy serves as an affiliated professor in the Office of Applied Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, which is part of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University.