{"id":2774,"date":"2025-12-31T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:16:39","slug":"november-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2025\/12\/november-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"David Willard, Region 3 Tobacco Lead, NC Department of Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2775 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-300x300.png\" alt=\"Headshot of David Willard with quote\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><em><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">&#8220;Our local partners are our biggest asset. Working through them and with them to try to initiate tobacco control initiatives in their respective areas is where we focus a lot of our efforts. The locals know their communities better than anybody else, so it&#8217;s always great to have<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">champions at the local level.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our local partners are our biggest asset. Working through them and with them to try to initiate tobacco control initiatives in their respective areas is where we focus a lot of our efforts. The locals know their communities better than anybody else, so it&#8217;s always great to have champions at the local level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116605,"featured_media":2775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-300x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-768x768.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-1024x1024.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/7887-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"November 2024 Spotlight; David Willard, Regional Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Manager for NC DHHS \u2013 Chronic Disease & Injury","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}