WASHINGTON: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) named Dori Salcido deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, following the departure earlier this year of Jenny Backus.

Richard Sorian, assistant secretary for public affairs at HHS, made the announcement internally on February 25.

Salcido, most recently a communications director at the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Office of the Surgeon General, started February 22. She previously worked at AOL and in the White House press office.

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