Advisory Board

Center of Excellence in MCAH Advisory Board

The Center of Excellence in MCAH maintains an Advisory Board of leading MCAH professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The Advisory Board is made up of representatives from Title V and MCAH organizations, including organizations serving CYSHCN, state and local MCAH Directors and program staff, other HRSA MCHB funded projects, community representatives, and alumni.

• Ifeyinwa Asiodu, PhD, RN
  • Associate Professor, Family Health Care Nursing
  • UCSF School of Nursing – California Childcare Health Program (CCHP)

• Natalie V. Berbick, MSW
  • MCAH Program Specialist 
  • Contra Costa Public Health Department – Family, Maternal & Child Health Division

• Tamica Foots-Rachal, BS
  • Project Director
  • Family Voices of California

• Jeff Gould, MD, MPH
  • Director 
  • Stanford School of Medicine – Division of Neonatology, Perinatal Epi & Health Outcomes Research Unit

• Anna Gruver, MPH, MSW
  • Director
  • Alameda County Public Health Department-Family Health Services Division

• Charles E. Irwin, Jr., MD
  • Director Emerita
  • UCSF LEAH Project
    • National Adolescent Health Information and Innovation Center (NAHIC)
    • Public Policy Analysis and Education Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health

• Gor Yee Lum, MPH**
  • Regional MCH Consultant
  • US Public Health Service, Region IX

• Kristen Marchi, MPH*
  • Director
  • UCSF Center for Health Equity

• Pip Marks
  • Program Manager
  • Family Voices of California

• Solaire Spellen, MPH*
  • Head of Quality Improvement and Systems Change
  • Irth App
• Joanne, Septz, PhD
  • Director
  • UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

* UCB Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program Alum
** Federal Liason