Pathfinder Council

A Pathfinder Council guides the direction, priorities, and processes for Healthforce Center's community-informed health policy work, supported by The California Endowment's Social Bond Initiative, and serves as connectors to the many perspectives and communities across the state.

Pathfinder Council members play an essential role in co-designing how our work elevates, prioritizes, and responds to health workforce challenges and opportunities. Our inaugural Pathfinder Council helped shape our intended impact, craft decision-making criteria, and clarify our priorities.

Our Pathfinder Council ensures community input and advocacy drives our research priorities and policy work in California. The Council represents diverse perspectives, communities, and experiences, and, as systems thinkers and challengers, they hold us accountable to our mission. We are grateful to be joined by these members (listed alphabetically):

Rehman Attar
Rehman Attar
Director, California State University, Office of the Chancellor
Lisa Countryman-Quiroz
Lisa Countryman-Quiroz
CEO, JVS - Bay Area
Crispin Delgado
Crispin Delgado
Executive Director, Insure the Uninsured Project
Virginia Hedrick
Virginia Hedrick
CEO, California Rural Indian Health Board
Natalie Lupin
Natalie Lupin
Senior Policy Coordinator, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Jeff Oxendine
Jeff Oxendine
CEO, Health Career Connection
Van Ton-Quinlivan
Van Ton-Quinlivan
CEO, Futuro Health