We Are IH: Team lead helps build healthy Interior communities

October 6, 2022

Name: Mike Adams (he/him/his)
Job Title: Team Leader, Healthy Community Development
Years of Service: 30
Worksite: Vernon Health Centre​​​​​​​
Community: Head of Okanagan Lake, briefly known in time as Vernon
Ancestral Territory: Syilx Okanagan
Advice to live by: 

  • “If you're not having fun and laughing, then it's time to move on.”
  • “People. Helping people, supporting people, working with people.”
     

As an environmental health officer, Mike Adams’ passion is for making communities healthier places to live, learn, work and play. His goal is that everyone in the community has an equal opportunity to have the best life they want.

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