Nesbitt is also the first person to be appointed to one of the university’s new endowed professorships.

Dr. Sharon Lewis, a registered nurse, has been with DC Health for more than three decades. She will assume the role as interim director.

More vaccination appointments opened Monday morning, but D.C. is hamstrung by shipments of doses from the federal government.

Nesbitt joins a number of local public health officials moving away from their roles after two years of working through a pandemic.

Lawmakers want more frequent updates on COVID case numbers — but DC Health says it doesn’t have the bandwidth to do that.

At 68 cases per 100,000 people, the District’s COVID-19 transmission level is considered substantial.

Contact tracers interviewed more than 370 people about their exposure activities in the previous two weeks.