Northeast District

Northeast District Director

Emily Speck, BSPH, REHS

GIS Coordinator

Portage County Health District

999 East Main Street

Ravenna, OH 44266

330-296-9919 EXT: 132

especk@portagehealth.net

Bio: 

Hello! I am excited and honored for this opportunity serving as the Northeast District Director in 2025.

I am a Kent State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health with a concentration in Environmental Health. Throughout my college career, I was very involved in the College of Public Health and gained experiences through internships. I was an intern for Kent State’s Environmental Health & Safety Department, and I was a water quality intern for Lorain County Public Health. When I graduated, I was offered a position as a Sanitarian-in-Training (SIT) at the Portage County Health District in the Stormwater Program. Eight years later, my career has evolved with experience, knowledge and maturity working in all the water quality programs as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS). I am still a field inspector through and through, but I have recently taken on the position as the GIS Coordinator at the Portage County Health District. This position allows me combine my passions of Environmental Health and Geospatial Data Programming. It is truly amazing what we learning from all the data we are collecting and visuals we creating just by completing our daily inspections! It shows that what we do as EHSIT/REHS is significant and the reason why it is important to become involved.

I am proud of being a member of OEHA and being part of the planning committee. There are years’ worth of experience on the Northeast Planning Committee that are committed in making this a fantastic conference!