Elizabeth Hertel
Lansing,
Michigan
Elizabeth Hertel is senior chief deputy director for administration at MDHHS, where she oversees external relations and communications, finance and administration, and legislative services. Ms. Hertel joined the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) in 2013 as the senior assistant for policy and planning, and was appointed director in February 2014. Following the merger of the departments of community health and human services into MDHHS in 2015, she served as senior deputy director for policy, planning, and legislative services. In October 2016 she left that position to serve as director of Michigan advocacy for Trinity Health and returned to MDHHS and her current position in February 2019. Ms. Hertel previously worked as a senior advisor for health policy in the state’s House Republican Policy Office and as a legislative assistant to state Rep. Bruce Caswell. She also worked as a consultant with Public Sector Consultants and then as a policy analyst at Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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