San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has selected an experienced Medicaid manager, Daniel Tsai, to be the city’s new director of public health. 

He takes on the role as the city is seeking to create more substance abuse and mental health treatment locations and programs, and as two different strains of bird flu are circulating around the nation. A child in the city was diagnosed with one of the strains in January and made a full recovery without needing hospitalization. 

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