Bobbie Bagley

For this award, I nominate Bobbie Bagley, director of the Department of Public Health and Community Services for the City of Nashua and the Greater Nashua region. She has been at the helm of this department since 2016. Director Bagley is an incredible leader for our city. She has led Nashua’s COVID-19 response for the past year.

Since the first cases appeared in Nashua, Director Bagley and her department have worked around the clock to help limit the spread of the virus and keep the community safe. Whether it’s educating on the city’s mask mandate, providing regular updates on COVID cases/testing/vaccine to city officials or joining Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess in regular COVID briefings to the local press and members of the public, she always puts Nashua first. Director Bagley was instrumental in coordinating Nashua’s temporary Alternative Care Site at Nashua High School South along with CERT and Nashua’s Department of Emergency Management. She continues to support and assist the Nashua School District with COVID education and safety protocols and always makes herself available to city employees with questions and concerns about COVID. In the midst of all of this, Director Bagley is serving as a preceptor for a nursing leadership student from Rivier University, has kept Nashua’s public health department on track with pre-COVID priorities, including working on the public health strategic plan, launching a Community Improvement Plan, operating annual campaigns for communicable diseases and regular work with community partners. In 2017, thanks to her leadership, the Nashua Department of Public Health and Community Services became the first nationally accredited health department in New Hampshire. Director Bagley truly cares for our community and dedicates her every day to doing so. Strong, intelligent, capable, driven, compassionate and a real leader are just a few words to describe her. The City of Nashua is forever grateful for her invaluable contributions and work ethic.