MDH Information Officers

Names, numbers and assignments

Andrea Ahneman
Office: 651-201-5195
Cell/After hours: 651-226-9832

• Commissioner's Office
• Budget
• Human Resources

Amy Barrett
Office: 651-201-4993
Cell: 612-250-2236

• Environmental Health
  • Drinking Water Protection
  • Environmental Surveillance and Assessment
  • Food, Pools and Lodging
  • Indoor Environments and Radiation
  • Well Management
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control
  • Foodborne, Waterborne, Vectorborne and Zoonotic Diseases
  • Health Care Associated Infections/Antimicrobial Resistance
  • STD/HIV and TB
• Public Health Laboratory
  • Environmental Lab
  • Infectious Disease Lab
  • Newborn Screening

Scott Smith
Office: 651-201-5806
Cell: 651-503-1440

• Health Equity Bureau 
  • Health Equity Strategy & Innovation
  • Office of African American Health
  • Office of American Indian Health
  • Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
• Community Health
  • Health Statistics
  • Office of Statewide Health Improvement Initiatives
    • Community Initiatives
    • SHIP
    • Tobacco Prevention and Control
    • Physical Activity
  • Public Health Practice
• Child and Family Health
  • Children and Youth with Special Health Needs
  • Family Home Visiting
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Supplemental Nutrition Programs (WIC and CSFP)
• Health Promotion and Chronic Disease
  • Cancer Control
  • Center for Health Promotion
  • Chronic Disease and Environmental Epidemiology
  • Injury and Violence Prevention

Garry Bowman
651-529-5164

• Health Policy
  • Adverse Events
  • Health Care Homes
  • Health Economics Program
  • Health Information Technology
  • Managed Care
  • Rural Health and Primary Care
  • Office of Vital Records
• Health Regulation
  • Assisted Living
  • Case Mix Review
  • Engineering Services
  • Health Care Facility Licensing
  • Health Facility Complaints
  • Health Occupations
  • Home Care
  • Mortuary Science

Danielle Ryan
651-392-1097

• Emergency Preparedness and Response Division
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
  • Vaccine Preventable Diseases
  • Emerging Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Response
  • COVID-19