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 (pictured below from left to right alphabetically):
- Rehman Attar, director, California State University, Office of the Chancellor
- Lisa Countryman-Quiroz, CEO, JVS - Bay Area
- Crispin Delgado, executive director, Insure the Uninsured Project
- Virginia Hedrick, executive director, California Consortium for Urban Indian Health
- Kiran Savage-Sangwan, executive director, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
- Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health
- Melissa Torres-Montoya, senior director, Health Career Connection
