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health centers (CHCs). She has led numerous collaborative initiatives with the 26 member CHCs, including COVID-19 testing and vaccination campaigns for thousands of Santa Ana and North OC residents in the CHCs, and implementation of capacity building initiatives for Patient Centered Medical Home and Federally Qualified Health Center certification for member CHCs. She prepared for these roles through a MATCH Fellowship sponsored by the National Association of Community Health Centers, Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and through service on boards including the California Wellness Foundation and the Latina Coalition for a Healthy California. For HEAL-OC, Ms. Becerra will lead the CHC Track and the Health Literacy Working Group and will support the partner CHCs in developing, implementing and evaluating health literacy interventions. Mary Anne Foo, MPH Role: Implementation Lead l - Population Health Track Affiliation: Executive Director, Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance Mary Anne Foo is founder and executive director of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, a nonprofit community -based organization helping the Asian and Pacific Islander communities with 125 staff speaking 26 different languages, and serving 40,000 per year with health, policy, youth, education and economic development needs. A founding member of OCHEC-CAP, Foo has spent the past 28 years working with the Southern California Asian and Pacific Islander community. She serves on numerous boards and advisory committees and has been a national trainer for Asian Pacific Islander cancer prevention, cultural competency and women's health issues. She is principal investigator and co -principal investigator on several health research projects, including a breast and cervical cancer prevention program for Pacific Islanders and Southeast Asians, a cardiovascular and diabetes program for Asians and Pacific Islanders, and a Southeast Asian children's health research project. She is founder and co-chair of the OC AAPI COVID-19 Taskforce, a coalition of 9 organizations leading multilingual community education on prevention, testing, and vaccination; anti -Asian hate; and advocacy for data disaggregation, language access, and expansion of social service programs. For HEAL-OC, Ms. Foo will oversee the Implementation core for the Population Health Track with a focus on intervention for Asian American, Pacific Islander, and other ethnic/racial residents of the high SVI areas of Santa Ana and North OC. America Bracho, MD, MPH Role: Implementation Lead 2 - Population Health Track Affiliation: President and CEO, Latino Health Access Dr. America Bracho is a physician and President and CEO of Latino Health Access, a center for health promotion and disease prevention located in Santa Ana and created under her leadership to assist with the health needs of Latinos in Orange County. Dr. Bracho is a leader in community organizing, and a pioneer in participatory approaches to community health education in North OC. She is recognized at the local and national levels as an expert in the area of Latino health issues, health education, cultural competency, community organizing, diabetes education and HIV. A founding member of OCHEC-CAP, Dr. Bracho lead the effort to engage County health officials in the Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) to examine inequities in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and led efforts in Santa Ana and North OC to offer community -based COVID testing sites and mobile vaccine PODS. For HEAL-OC, Dr. Bracho will oversee the Implementation core for the Population Health Track with a focus on intervention for Latino residents of the high SVI areas of Santa Ana and North OC.