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News Release
For Immediate Release: August 3, 2020Media Contact: Steve Elliot
Phone: 602-542-1025
ADHS Welcomes Steve Elliot as new Communications Director
Former AP Bureau Chief and Cronkite Professor joins ADHS
The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is pleased to welcome Steve Elliott as its new Communications Director. As Director of Communications, Elliott leads the department’s communications, media relations, and messaging efforts.
“We are excited to have Steve join our team of professionals,” said Dr. Cara Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services. "Steve's expertise will help us provide critical information to Arizonans during the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to communicate all the great work we do to advance public health in Arizona."
Elliott joins the department with more than 30 years of experience in journalism and public information, including work in Honolulu, New York City, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Arizona, where he founded a news wire at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Most recently, he worked as the Assistant Communications Director for Public Information at the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Elliott, along with the rest of the ADHS communications team, can be reached by email at pio@azdhs.gov or by phone at (602) 542-1025.
