Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MS, AAHIVS
Co-Principal Investigator/Regional Clinical Director
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Tim Vincent, MS
Training Consultant
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Adam Thompson, MPH
Pacific AETC Practice Transformation Coach of Coaches
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Jennifer Awa, MPH
Training & Development Unit Consultant
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Yomi Obafemi, MD, MPH
Consultant
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Kevin Williams
Training & Development Unit Consultant
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Prescott Chow, MUP
Co-Principal Investigator/Program Director
Prescott has more than 30 years of local, regional, national, and international program and training management experience. As the Director and Co-Principal Investigator for UCSF’s Training & Health Equity Collaborative, which includes the Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center, the West Region Care & Well-being Center, and the Training Development Unit, Prescott works closely with other members of the Senior Management Team on program strategy and planning, stakeholder engagement, work plans, implementation models, reporting, and project deliverables. He’s thrilled to help lead amazing teams that actualize these programs.
Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MS, AAHIVS
Co-Principal Investigator/Regional Clinical Director
Dr. Monica Hahn is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF in the Department of Family & Community Medicine. As a family physician, HIV specialist, and Clinical Director/Co-Principal Investigator of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC), Monica’s work centers around promoting health and wellness for HIV-affected families with an emphasis on integrating HIV prevention and treatment, as well as sexual and reproductive wellness, into primary care. Her clinical experience includes co-directing the Family HIV Clinic, a family-oriented HIV primary care clinic at San Francisco General Hospital’s Family Health Center, and providing perinatal HIV care to people living with or affected by HIV as the Associate Medical Director at HIVE Clinic, also based at San Francisco General Hospital. Monica co-directs the PAETC-supported HIV specialty concentration training program for the UCSF Family & Community Medicine Residency Program. Her interests include integrating anti-oppression, cultural humility, and Critical Race praxis frameworks into medical education and training for students, residents, and interdisciplinary care teams. She serves as a research and career mentor to UCSF medical students as the Director of Inquiry and Evaluation for the PRIME Urban-Underserved program. Monica’s inspiration for becoming a physician-advocate is rooted in her personal experiences and work experiences in public health and social justice activism. Her work has focused on addressing health inequities in HIV prevention and care for communities of color and developing strategies for dismantling systemic oppression and structural violence in healthcare systems to advance health equity for all. She completed her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley with a major in Molecular & Cell Biology and a minor in Ethnic Studies. She earned her MPH at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, and earned her MD/MS at UCSF School of Medicine, where she was a participant in the UCSF PRIME Urban-Underserved program. She completed residency training in Family & Community Medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital. Her interests include STI/HIV prevention and treatment, sex positivity, community-based participatory research and programming, health and social justice policy/advocacy, and advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and antioppression in medical education.
Jae Rouse Iñiguez, MSHA, MA
Associate Director for Operations
Jae Rouse Iñiguez, MA, MS is a healthcare management expert with over 20 years’ experience in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. They’ve managed projects with departments of public health, with academic health center teams and clinic-based teams in a variety of practice settings. As a Family & Community Medicine Unit Manager they are responsible for administration and operations, contracts, finance, personnel, and HR for all grants awarded to the PAETC administrative unit. Outside of work they enjoy playing music in local bands, volunteering for social justice work, and spending time with their partner and rescue dogs.
JaDawn Wright Morgan, MA
Deputy Director
JaDawn is infectiously passionate and motivated by exceptional experiences working in HIV healthcare programs, aligning herself with and centering the voices of communities disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS. She has over 20 years of experience in technical assistance, training development and facilitation, project management, and quality improvement programs. Ms. Wright Morgan, grounds her work in health equity principles and culturally affirmative practices. As the Deputy Director of the Training and Health Equity Collaborative (THE Collaborative) the administrative unit for Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center (Pacific AETC), Alameda County Care Connect Skills Development Unit, and HIV Age Positively West Region Care & Wellbeing Center. JaDawn brings the culmination of her experience and expertise to serve on the senior management to lead program implementation and evaluation teams.
Brian Abascal, MFA
Pacific AETC Project Manager
Brian (he/him/his) a project manager for the Pacific AETC. Brian has 20+ years experience working in HIV care and prevention in an academic health setting. Brian’s projects include Pacific AETC’s Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE), HIV & Aging, Rural Health, and the EHE Primary Care HIV Prevention (PCHP) Community of Practice, PrEP Ready!, funded by the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC). His past projects include the HIV Learning Network (HIVLN), a twice a month webinar series for providers on HIV and other related health topics, and has coordinated several conferences and gatherings for the Califorina Department of Public Health – Office of AIDS (CDPH-OA). Previously, Brian was the coordinator for Boston HAPPENS, the adolescent HIV program at Boston Children’s Hospital, which was a local partner site of the New England AIDS Education & Training Center.
Portia Morris, MPH
Evaluation Manager
Portia Morris is the Evaluation Manager at The Collaborative and PAETC. She has been with the organization since 2014 and has over a decade of experience in public health project evaluation. She graduated with an MPH from UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health Infectious Disease and Vaccinology program. Portia began her career in public health in 2011 as an HIV test counselor and since then has developed expertise in designing data collection tools, analyzing program outcomes, and producing actionable reports to support evidence-based decision-making.
Ben Ignalino
Pacific AETC Regional Program Manager
Ben Ignalino (he/him/his) is a proud Asian Queer American with over 20 years in the HIV field. He currently serves as the Regional Office Program Manager for the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC). In his role, he works collaboratively with PAETC teams in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Hawai’i and the US Affiliated Pacific Islands, to expand the number and ability of healthcare professionals and organizations in the Pacific region to provide high-quality HIV-related services to increase access to healthcare and decrease health inequities. He comes to PAETC with a rich history of work in the fight in Ending the HIV Epidemic. Ben has a longstanding history as both a frontline team member and administrator of HIV prevention grants focused on PrEP, Syringe Service Programs, and Queer Care. He has also served as the Director of Capacity Building Assistance where he facilitated high-impact HIV Prevention trainings and designed tailored HIV-specific content for CDC-funded community-based organizations. Ben’s expertise on HIV testing, prevention for people living with HIV, condom distribution, and organizational development and management have helped shape HIV prevention efforts in communities across the country.
JB Del Rosario, MPH
Training & Development Unit Training Manager
JB comes to T.H.E. Collaborative with a professional background in service outreach and implementation research. His personal experience with surviving cancer and navigating disabilities as a queer Filipino-American naturally brought him to the HIV world. He started his journey when he served on the California Planning Group, bringing perspective about LGBTQIA+ young adults of color. This interest in systems change and community engagement grew as he became an HIV test counselor and community researcher. During his graduate training at University of California – Berkeley, he expanded his learning about program design, strategic implementation, and the social and environmental factors affecting health. During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he conducted HIV implementation research for people who were unstably housed/unhoused in San Francisco. The group found that while the world was grappling with COVID-19, the most vulnerable people still maintained holistic HIV care with an accessible, welcoming, person-first care model. His experiences brought him to his current role as the Care and Wellbeing Center Project Manager. He does this by giving back to those that came before him, sharing their stories, and helping to create a world where all people can age with dignity. He believes that we have the power to improve our collective wellbeing through community-building and resource sharing and we all have the tools necessary to create a more equitable world. It is a matter of using them for that purpose.
Gabriel Moore-Topazio
Training & Development Unit Project Manager
Gabriel brings a tenacious, disciplined and detail-oriented approach to operations and administration with a diverse background in the fields of finance, law, copy editing, marketing, art, and publishing. As a graduate of the Community Mental Health Work Certificate Program at CCSF, he has a passion for multidimensional wellness and is eager to utilize his administration skills to support the Training and Health Collaborative and Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center.
Julie Whitfield
Pacific AETC Program Coordinator
Julie brings over a decade of experience in public health to their current role as Program Coordinator for the Training and Health Collaborative and Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center with UCSF. With a background in health education, reproductive healthcare, and pandemic response, Julie’s work is heavily informed by and focused on the intersections of race, economic conditions, disability, and LGBTQ+ health. They are deeply committed to understanding the intricate ways in which social and environmental factors influence infectious disease.
Claudia Wallen
Training & Development Unit Program Coordinator
Before joining the Training Development Unit, Claudia worked for many years as a Program Coordinator in the field of Social Services for organizations such as Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, Lutheran Social Services, and the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. Most recently, she was an Operations Manager for the online news media company, The San Francisco Standard. Claudia is a graduate of Michigan State University where she received her MS in Community Services from the School of Sociology and is a proud AmeriCorps alum who began her work in San Francisco as a VISTA Member Resident Services Coordinator at an affordable housing complex in Diamond Heights, run by the Cesar Chavez Foundation.
Tim Vincent, MS
Pacific AETC Training Consultant
Tim Vincent has been working in the field of HIV and other health-related issues for over 30 years. He managed a national capacity building assistance program funded by the Centers for Disease Control to provide training, technical assistance and resources to healthcare professionals working in HIV prevention and care and continues to do so in the role of a senior consultant.
He has also worked in the past 15 years as an independent consultant to strengthen healthcare programs to promote health equity especially as it relates to LGBTQ+ and communities of color. In his consultant work he has provided training, presentations, developed curriculum, conducted focus groups, and helped to implement organizational change on such topics as responding to stigma, motivational interviewing, trauma informed care, social determinants of health, examining implicit bias, addressing homophobia and transphobia and cultural humility.
He also leads a non-profit organization in the Coachella Valley called Brothers of the Desert with a mission to empower Black gay men and allies through education, social networking, advocacy, philanthropy, volunteerism, and mentorship.
Adam Thompson, MPH
Pacific AETC Practice Transformation Coach of Coaches
Adam Thompson holds an undergraduate degree in theology from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in public health from the Jefferson College of Population Health. Mr. Thompson is the former Director of the South Jersey AIDS Education and Training Center and currently works as a health systems carpenter and practice facilitator supporting clinics, communities, and health systems throughout the United States to transform practices and improve outcomes. He serves as Co-Chair for the Primary Care and Chronic Illness Measure Standing Committee and is a member of the Consensus Standards Approval Committee where he evaluates quality measures for endorsement and use by health care stakeholders. He is the 2010 recipient of the Leadership in Quality Award from the National Quality Center and Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau. As a person with HIV himself, Mr. Thompson brings both professional expertise and lived experience to his work championing the rights of all persons in the United States to have access to equitable high quality care.
Jennifer Awa, MPH
Training & Development Unit Consultant
Jennifer Awa, MPH, is a Native Hawaiian harm reductionist, an activist of social justice, and a community facilitator of change and healing. She specializes in working with some of the highest-risk and most marginalized community members in San Francisco, including incarcerated populations, active substance users, LGBTQIQ (specifically the Transgender community), the homeless, and co-occurring populations. Jennifer currently works in the nonprofit sector, overseeing, designing, implementing, and evaluating mental health programs from an advocacy perspective. She is working on her Doctorate in Public Health; her other degrees are focused on Community Health Education, as well as certificates in HIV testing and counseling, community health outreach, and coaching. She has been a leader throughout her community in HIV prevention and care services, harm reduction, peer services, and outreach. For the past 25 years, she has been developing programs, facilitating health information, developing curricula, and creatively enriching the knowledge of her community by disseminating health information in a way that is culturally relevant.
She has participated in advisory committees to inform the greater Bay Area on the needs of marginalized populations, been the lead in implementing innovative strategies, and collaborated with other experts to design effective programs. Jennifer currently sits on the board of directors for a violence prevention program, bringing light to the challenges of violence in the LGBTQIQ community.
Jennifer believes that success, intertwined with being a practitioner of cultural humility, enables her to serve disenfranchised communities and create effective programs: programs built on strong leadership, innovative ideas, pragmatic approaches, and community partnership.
Kevin Williams
Training & Development Unit Consultant
Kevin is a Health and Wellness professional working in Community Health across non-profit, for-profit, and philanthropic sectors, for the better part of 30 years. I have held every position from volunteer to Executive Management in community forged organizations, driving the care of disproportionately affected communities in the quest for affordable healthcare, both general and specialized services. Active participation in Community Mobilization coalitions helped him to align his work with my passion, to bring an end to divisions in adequate health and wellness across rural, suburban, and urban areas.
Kevin’s long career has afforded him ongoing opportunities to partner with a diverse Public Health workforce that includes Community-Based Organizations, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and multiple divisions of city, state, and regional Health Departments. This included providing skills-building training, conducting Research and Evaluation services, as well as Technical Assistance sessions for growth and sustainability efforts. In the private sector, he introduced the use and efficacy of innovative technologies across 10+ states and territories. These interactions provided him with opportunities for building on previously held beliefs, expanding medical advancement access to those who have private and public health care, as well as changing outcomes for communities that have traditionally suffered from a lack of access.
He has also led policy reforms supported by diverse patient advocates’ accounts. The insight he gained from people personally impacted by health issues has strengthened his commitment to seeking solutions for conventional health practices. His current focus is on promoting wellness by identifying best practices for physical, mental, and emotional health—individually, within families, and across communities.
Yomi Obafemi, MD, MPH
Consultant
Dr. Obafemi is a preventive medicine physician with a Master’s in Public Health from the Colorado School of Public Health. Her research activities are focused in STI/HIV program implementation and evaluation. She was previously the medical director of the Denver Sexual Health Clinic. Currently, she is working with THE Collaborative to develop curriculum for HIV care providers. In addition, she provides HIV/STI training and technical assistance for the Denver Prevention Training Center.