Director of Healthcare Initiatives for Justice-Involved Populations
Akron, Ohio
United States
Daniel Mistak is acting president and director of Health Care Initiatives for Justice-Involved Populations at Community Oriented Correctional Health Services. Dan connects community systems of care to services provided in jails to improve care on both sides of the wall...
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Disability Rights Activist
Nairobi
Kenya
Felicia Mburu holds a masters in international human rights law from American University, Washington College of Law. Felicia is interested in pursuing the rights of persons with disabilities to live and be included in the community on an equal basis with others. In the past, Felicia has worked with various civil societies in Kenya, Latvia, Hungary, the United States and across Africa on intersectional matters of gender and disability justice...
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Artist & Community Advocate
San Francisco, California
United States
Gloria Aguirre is an artist and community advocate in San Francisco, serving as program manager for community outreach at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Advocating for long term investments to improve health literacy and access to care in often marginalized communities, she believes that humanity’s most powerful tools for change are curiosity and creativity...
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Oral Health & Public Health Education
Phoenix, Arizona
United States
Dr. Scott Howell is a board certified public health dentist and director of public health dentistry & teledentistry at A.T. Still University. His work in health equity focuses on developing innovative models in the field of teledentistry to help increase access to oral health care...
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Infectious Disease Physician & State Politician
Des Moines, Iowa
United States
Dr. Megan Srinivas is an infectious disease physician who focuses on addressing disparities in health resource allocation in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She is working with Project ECHO that uses telecommunications to extend clinical reach to underserved and rural communities in the state...
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Associate Professor of Law & Medical-Legal Partnership Director
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
United States
Medha D. Makhlouf is a professor of law and the founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law. She is also an assistant professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine...
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Director of Business Operations
Chicago, Illinois
United States
Emily MacDonald is the Director of Business Operations for Erie Family Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Chicago, IL serving 88,000 patients in over 70 languages each year, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. She leads and supports efforts across the organization’s 13 clinics related to reproductive health, hospital partnerships, and clinical education programs...
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Family Physician
Washington, DC
United States
Dr. James Huang is a family medicine physician. After graduating from the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, he completed his Social and Family Medicine Residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, where he also served as chief resident...
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Law, Science & Health Policy
San Francisco, California
United States
Sarah Hooper, JD is a Professor of Practice at UC Law SF and Executive Director of the UCSF-UC Law Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. In this capacity, she directs the JD Concentration in Health Law & Policy, co-directs the Master of Science in Health Policy & Law Degree (HPL) and serves as the Policy Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors clinic...
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Public Servant
Cleveland, Ohio
United States
Jordi Luke (they & he) was appointed as the Chief Quality & Innovation Officer at Care Alliance Health Center in 2022. Jordi led the organization’s quality programs, grants, development, marketing, research, and outreach. Prior to joining Care Alliance, Jordi served in several senior leadership roles at the US Department of Health and Human Services where they developed and implemented the CMS Framework for Health Equity, the Health Equity Technical Assistance Program, and the Minority Research Grant Program...
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