Regions

Region I New England

CT MA ME NH RI VT

Darlene Morse, MSN, RN, MEd, CHES, CIC

PHN Program Manager

New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services, DHHS

Concord, NH

603-271-4494

REGION II Northeast and Caribbean

NJ NY PR USVI

Maria MacPherson, RN, MPH

Public Health Nurse Leader 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

Syracuse, NY

315-263-0779

REGION III Mid-Atlantic

DC DE MD PA VA WV

Kristin A Bennett, MSN, RN

APHN Board Member-at-Large

APHN Membership Chair

Hockessin, DE

302-690-7427

REGION IV Southeast Sunbelt

AL FL GA KY MS NC SC TN

Juanita Graham, DNP, RN, FRSPH

Office Director

Mississippi Dept. of Health

Conehatta, MS 

601-672-3195

State of Tennessee Lead

Jennifer Valentine, MSN, RN

Director of Organization Planning and Development

Knoxville County Health Dept.

Knoxville, TN

865-215-5096

REGION V Great Lakes - Upper Mid-West 

IN MI MN OH WI

LuAnne McNichols, RN, MN

PHN Director, Ass’t Director, Community Health Division

Minnesota Dept. of Health

St.Paul, MN

651-201-5566

REGION VI Greater Southwest - Southcentral

AR LA NM OK TX

Ann Benson,MSN, APRN-CNP

Director of Nursing Services

Oklahoma State Dept. of Health

Oklahoma City, OK

405-271-5183

REGION VII Heartland - Central

IA KS MO NE

Dana Messerly, DNP, MPH, RN

Associate Professor, Chamberlain College of Nursing

Strafford, MO

417-234-8822

REGION VIII Rocky Mountain - Upper West

CO MT ND SD UT WY

Carol McDonald, MSN, RN

APHN Board Member-at-Large

APHN Program Chair

PHN Retired

303-886-9410

REGION IX Pacific Rim 

AZ CA HI NVPalau and Marshall Is., American Samoa, N. Mariana Islands, Micronesia and Guam

Rhonda Giarretto, MSN, PHN, CNS

Supervising Public Health Nurse

Alameda County Public Health Department

Oakland, CA 94605

510-577-7044

REGION X Northwest Artic

AK ID OR WA

Peggy Sue Wright, RN, MSN, PHCNS-BC, DrPH

QA/QI Nurse Consultant II

Section of Public Health Nursing

Alaska Division of Public Health

Juneau, AK

907-465-5824