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Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In this role, she would advise on how to best assist low-income communities in Flint and drive health efforts such as access to safe and affordable housing. In the same year, she was also elected to sit on the Public Health Advisory Commission, a 24-member commission that aimed to complete an assessment of the public health service delivery system in Michigan. By 2017, Furr-Holden was appointed interim director of the MSU College of Human Medicine Division of Public Health while continuing her roles as director of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions and co-director of the Healthy Flint Research Coordinating Center.
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