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Sora Tanjasiri, DrPH Role: Evaluation Co -Lead and Subaward Site Co -PI Affiliation: Associate Director, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine (MSI) Dr. Tanjasiri is a behavioral scientist with 23 years of experience applying community -based participatory research (CBPR) to developing and testing cancer prevention and cancer early detection interventions for disparity populations, particularly Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She has served as PI, Shared PI, or Co -PI on more than a dozen CBPR studies to address cancer and other health disparities. She also serves as the Associate Director for Cancer Health Disparities and Community Engagement for the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Previous research -related leadership roles have included training director or co -director on two large center projects to promote health disparities research, create community partnerships, recruit and retain diverse populations in longitudinal studies, and identify efficacious approaches to improving the health care of racial/ethnic minority populations. Last, she has led three studies to assess the impacts of COVID on ethnic/racial populations, resulting in two publications with another four in development or under review. Her role in HEAL-OC is that of Evaluation Co -Lead and Site Co -PI for the Minority Serving Institution. Dr. Tanjasiri will lead the evaluation of the Population Track and provide periodic quality improvement feedback to the PD/PI, Project Manager and Implementation Core leads. Complete List of Published Work: litn�//w r ncbi nlrn nihLyom/ i s/m ncbi�rataniasiri tlbihliography/40832819/public/ John Billimek, PhD Role: Evaluation Co -Lead and Subaward Site Co -PI Affiliation: Co -Director, Program in Medical Education for Latino Communities (PRIME -LC) Residency Track, Vice Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine (MSI) Dr. Billimek is an experienced community engaged researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Health Policy Research Institute and PI of 2 NIH/NHLBI grants focused on addressing underuse of medical services in underserved Latino communities. As lead evaluator on the LiveHealthyOC project, he guided the development and evaluation of culturally acceptable interventions to promote prevention and disease management for low-income Latino and AAPI patients at seven community health centers (CHCs) with the Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers, and has served on quality improvement task forces to reduce disparities in CHC settings. He collaborated with Latino Health Access to develop an evaluation report for their diabetes health education promotora program. As a member of the OCHEC-CAP, he led a bilingual team of interviewers to gather stakeholder input from dozens of Spanish-speaking Santa Ana residents, health workers and community leaders to understand impacts of COVID mitigation efforts, and presented findings to government and community stakeholders. His role in HEAL-OC is that of Evaluation Co -Lead and Site Co -PI for the Minority Serving Institution. Dr. Billimek will lead the evaluation of the Community Health Center Track, and provide periodic QI feedback to the PD/PI, Project Manager and Implementation Core leads. Complete List of Published Work: https•//www ncbi nlm nih eov/mvnebi/browse/collection/476906tO