LeeAnna Lavoie

FARMINGTON — LeeAnna Lavoie has been appointed director of Healthy Community Coalition of Greater Franklin County.

Lavoie will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the coalition’s operations, including program planning, grant development, personnel management, financial stewardship, policy advocacy and community collaboration and partnerships.

Most recently, Lavoie was the program director of the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention’s Tobacco and Substance Use Prevention Control Program. She oversaw the statewide prevention services’ portfolio that included efforts for tobacco, substance use, youth engagement, adolescent health and mass reach health communications.

Lavoie received her master’s degree in public health from the University of Southern Maine and her bachelor’s degree in community health education from the University of Maine at Farmington. She is also a certified health education specialist.

She lives in Jay with her husband and teenage son.