Health Officer

Sarah Quaranta, MPH

Sarah Quaranta has been at the Florida Department of Health in Franklin and Gulf (DOH-Franklin/Gulf) counties since 2008. Ms. Quaranta began her public health career as a family support worker, bridging partnerships between local organizations to improve community health. 

Ms. Quaranta continued to take on new positions, including health educator consultant and positive youth development coordinator, responsible for health education grants.

From 2012 until 2017, Sarah served as an operations manager. In this position, she supervised programs in health education, school health, and maternal/child health, and served as the local accreditation coordinator over strategic planning, quality improvement, and community health plans. During this time, she worked with core public health programs during outbreak investigations and preparedness. In alignment with this experience, she served as the public information officer. Sharing public health information to residents and visitors that is timely, accurate and easy to understand remains priority.   

Ms. Quaranta became assistant director in 2017, where she focused on maximizing public health services and business management strategies to meet community needs. In June 2018, Ms. Quaranta became the administrator of the Florida Department of Health in Franklin and Gulf counties. She served as the health and medical lead in both counties during Hurricane Michael response and recovery. 

Ms. Quaranta’s professional philosophy is to empower and train employees to perform their job duties to the best of their ability, and to represent the health department in the community in a positive and professional manner. Ms. Quaranta works with a dedicated team of professionals who are committed to the business of putting good health within everyone’s reach. Her goals for DOH-Franklin and Gulf include improving health in underserved neighborhoods, community stakeholder engagement opportunities to address public health issues, and continued work on preparedness, recovery, and mitigation efforts related to disasters.

Sarah Quaranta earned a Bachelor of Social Work degree in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a Master of Public Health in 2015 from the University of South Florida. Sarah is a board member for several community organizations, including local transportation disadvantaged councils, North Port St. Joe Project Area Coalition, Citizens of Gulf County Long Term Recovery Coalition, and Ascension Sacred Heart on the Gulf.