Letitia Dzirasa

Letitia Dzirasa (born c. 1981) is an American pediatrician who was the interim deputy mayor of Baltimore for equity, health, and human services from 2023 to 2024. She served as the commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department from 2019 to 2023. On March 11, 2019, Dzirasa was appointed by mayor Catherine Pugh as commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department, succeeding interim commissioner Mary Beth Haller. She is the first African-American woman to hold the position.

Quotes

• As I’ve grown in my career, I’ve begun to understand just how blessed I was to be afforded the opportunity to attend college and pursue my dreams.
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• As I was fortunate, it is my responsibility to reach back and help others, especially those most under-resourced.
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• You know, everyone has different reasons for why they believe in something, so I try to be relatively tolerant. But in terms of going down the rabbit hole of social media on that topic, I kind of let my comms team manage that. I really try not to engage with those folks.
  • Letitia Dzirasa talks about her position on anti-vaxxers