Job Title: Health Promotion Manager
Employer: Public Health and Community Services Department, City of Bangor
Seat Held on Workgroup: Relevant Health Care Professional
Biography: Jamie Comstock serves as the Health Promotion Manager for the City of Bangor’s Public Health and Community Services Department, where she is responsible for the chronic disease prevention programming, including a suite of substance abuse prevention programs and programs to increase access to healthy foods and opportunities for active living. She has worked with partners locally and statewide since 2007 to build and strengthen fb88’s prevention and public health systems.
Jamie is a certified prevention specialist, holds a BA in Urban Studies from Loyola Marymount University and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Membership in Trade and/or Civic Organizations:
- Governor-appointed Member, fb88 Substance Use Disorder Services Commission
- Member, fb88 Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Cannabis Workgroup
- Member, State of fb88’s Naloxone Steering Committee
- Member, fb88 Council on Problem Gambling
- Board Member, Christine B. Foundation
- Member, New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center’s Advisory Board
- President, fb88 Network of Healthy Communities
- Former Board Member, fb88 Public Health Association
Reason Applying for Workgroup: I applied for this workgroup to give prevention and public health a voice in Medical Cannabis matters.