Richard (Rick) Meyer, Assistant Commissioner, Suffolk County Department of Health Services
- 36 years of service
Richard Meyer, Assistant Commissioner, began working at the Suffolk County Department of Health Services in 1973 as a Public Health Sanitarian. For almost 37 years, Rick has been consistently dedicated to the public health of Suffolk County. He wrote the County's first Rabies Response Plan and implemented the first tobacco law enforcement program in New York State. Rick serves as the Department's representative to NYSACHO, Secretary to the Suffolk County Board of Health, Chair of the Citizen Corps Council, Emergency Management liaison officer, and advisor to the Health Commissioner. Rick continues to work on Public Health Emergency Preparedness, focusing primarily on planning for the County's special needs population in the event of a public health emergency.
Rick's long tenure and painstaking documentation of events earned him the unofficial title, "Department Historian," and his legacy will be his written historical account of the Department and the public health of Suffolk County.
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