Sutep Laohavanich is a senior manager at Healthforce Center at UCSF. In this role, he manages the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program team as well as contributing to human resources, diversity/equity/inclusion/belonging initiatives, and operations. He has over 15 years of cross-functional health care systems expertise in program and project management across government, industry, academia, and philanthropy.

He has worked with state, federal, and local governments in leadership and management consulting roles where he led systems change and quality improvement initiatives serving vulnerable populations in urban, rural, and frontier communities. In this capacity, he most recently served as deputy director for the Division of Home and Community Living at the California Department of Aging and as program director for the Public Authority for In-home Supportive Services in San Mateo County.

Laohavanich has served as a program officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation managing a strategic portfolio focused on enhancing health care experiences and outcomes, with a particular emphasis on serious illness care and strengthening the health care workforce. He has also held program leadership roles implementing health care innovation awards funded by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation as operations director at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and senior manager at the Purchaser Business Group on Health. He began his career as an associate systems engineer at Merck Research Laboratories in assay data systems development for pre-clinical MMRV, HPV, and Shingles vaccines.

He received his master’s degree in gerontology from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley.