Leadership Team

The Project is guided by a statewide, cross-disciplinary Leadership Team of public health directors, health officers, chronic disease program leaders, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), and others.

Getting Involved

The Leadership Team plays a critical role in ensuring that the Project
provides significant value to local health departments (LHDs). Participants provide continuing guidance to this statewide initiative to build the capacity of LHDs to do upstream chronic disease prevention work in our communities. Members include CHEAC (local public health directors), CCLHO (health officers), and various county, regional, and state affiliate and leadership organizations representing Directors of Health Education, Nutrition, Public Health Nursing, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, and Data and Epidemiology, as well as Chronic Disease managers. It is driven by LHD priorities, incorporates urban, rural, and frontier perspectives, and includes LHDs not represented by regional public health alliances.

To learn more about joining the Leadership Team, please contact us.

California Chronic Disease Prevention Leadership Project Leadership Team Discussion

Leadership Team Members

Barb Alberson, MPH

Senior Deputy Director, Policy & Planning

San Joaquin County Public Health Services

Jack Anderson

Policy Analyst‎

County Health Executives Association of California (CHEAC)

Angela Ball, MPH, RN, PHN

Senior Deputy Director, Policy & Planning

Alameda County Public Health Department

Sara Bosse

Public Health Director
CHEAC

Madera County Department of Public Health

Wendel Brunner, PhD, MD, MPH

California Chronic Disease Prevention Leadership Project Principal Investigator

Retired Contra Costa

Angie Butters, RN, BSN, PHN

Program (Clinical) Manager

California Conference of Public Health Nursing Directors (CCPHND) Representative

Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services

Edith Cabuslay, MPH

Chronic Disease Manager

California Conference of Local Directors of Health Education (CCLDHE) Representative

Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII)

San Mateo County Health Department

Curtis Chan, MD, MPH

Deputy Health Officer

Deputy Health Officer

MCAH Action Representative

San Mateo County Health: Public Health, Policy & Planning

Robin Cox, MPH, CPH

Senior Health Services Manager, Bureau Chief

CCLDHE

Solano County Health & Social Services

Kat DeBurgh, MPH

Executive Director

Health Officers Association of California (HOAC)

Tracy Delaney, PhD, RD

Executive Director

Public Health Alliance of Southern California

Van Do-Reynoso, MPH, PhD

Public Health Director

CHEAC Executive committee

Leadership Project Co-Chair

Santa Barbara County Public Health Department

Heather Duvall

Health Promotion Manager

Stanislaus County Health Care Services Agency

Patricia Erwin, MPH

Deputy Director, Community Health

San Francisco Department of Public Health

Michelle Gibbons

Executive Director

CHEAC

Sarah Hagen, MS, MCHES

Program Manager, Public Health

County of Placer Health and Human Services

Krista Hanni, MS, PhD

Planning, Evaluation and Policy Manager

Monterey County Health Department

Jake Hanson, MPH

CCLHO Executive Administrator

CCLHO

Tamarra Jones, DrPH

Public Health Chief Equity Officer, Health Policy and Planning Manager

San Mateo County Health: Public Health, Policy & Planning

April Jurisich, MPH, RD

Public Health Program Manager

Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency

Olivia Kasirye, MD, MS

Health Officer

CCLHO Chronic Disease Control & Prevention Committee

Sacramento County, DHHS

Tony Kuo, MD, MSHS, FAAFP

Director, Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention

Director, Office of Senior Health

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Rhonda McClinton Brown, MPH

Branch Director, Healthy Communities Branch

County of Santa Clara, Public Health Department

Terri Sue Canale-Dalman

Interim Deputy Director, Center for Healthy Communities

California Department of Public Health

Becky Nanyonjo-Kemp, DrPH

Director, Public Health

CHEAC

Merced County

Stephanie Nathan

Assistant Public Health Director

Madera County Department of Public Health

Hieu Nguyen

Director of Population Health and Equity

Orange County Health Agency

Rita Nguyen, MD

Assistant Health Officer

California Department of Public Health

Leah Northrop, MPA, MAIS

Branch Director, Public Health

Past CCLHO Executive Administrator

Sutter County Health & Human Services

Jessica Núñez de Ybarra, MD, MPH, FACPM

Chief, Chronic Disease Control Branch

California Department of Public Health

Dan Peddycord RN, MPA/HA

Public Health Director

Past CHEAC President

Contra Costa Health Services

Karen Pfister, MS

California Conference of Health Data Managers and Epidemiologists (CCLHDME) Representative

San Mateo County Health

Karen Relucio, MD

Health Officer/Deputy Director

CCLHO President, CHEAC

Napa County Health and Human Services Agency

Melanie Ruvalcaba

Manager, Office of Policy and Planning

Fresno County Department of Public Health

Kim Saruwatari, MPH

Public Health Director

CHEAC

Riverside University Health System

Eric Sergienko, MD, MPH

Health Officer

CCLHO

Mariposa County Health and Human Services Agency

Lynn Silver, MD, MPH

Senior Advisor for Chronic Disease & Obesity

Public Health Institute

Alison Sipler, MPH, CHES

Program Coordinator, Chronic Disease and Health Equity

County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency

Laurie Somerhausen, MS, RD

Program Manager

CCLHDN

Yolo County Health Department

Michele Stephens, LCSW

Public Health Director

CHEAC

Humboldt County Health and Human Services

Lara Weiss, MPH, CHES

Program Manager, Healthy Communities Division

CCLDHE

Humboldt County Health and Human Services

Lori Williams, MSW

Public Health Director

CHEAC

Stanislaus County Health Services Agency

Wilma Wooten, MD, MPH

Health Officer

CCLHO Chronic Disease Committee Co-Chair

Past CCLHO President

Leadership Project Co-Chair

County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency