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Herminia Palacio

Director of Advancing Change Leadership at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Dr. Herminia Palacio served as medical director for the Reliant Park/Astrodome megashelter in Houston during Hurricane Katrina. She is the immediate past chair of the Texas Public Health Coalition and previously was the executive director for Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services.

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How would Texas respond to a 2015 Katrina?

By Herminia Palacio and Eduardo Sanchez, Sept. 3, 2015

Given decreases in funding and staffing at state and local health departments in the years since Hurricane Katrina, Texas may not be as prepared to care for storm evacuees in the future.