Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MS, AAHIVS
Co-Principal Investigator/Regional Clinical Director
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Cheryl Anne Batac, MPH
Training & Development Unit (Los Angeles County) Project Manager
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Tim Vincent, MS
Pacific AETC Training Consultant
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Adam Thompson, MPH
Pacific AETC Practice Transformation Coach of Coaches
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Joe Lee, Consultant, MSHA
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Yomi Obafemi, MD, MPH
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 a project manager for the Pacific AETC. Brian has nearly 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) project, as well as the Ending the HIV Epidemic-Primary Care HIV Prevention (EHE-PCHP) Community of Practice, PrEP Ready!, funded by the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC). In addition, he coordinates the HIV Learning Network (HIVLN), a twice a month webinar series for providers on HIV and other related health topics. The webinars are a combination of HIV case study and consultation/discussions along with topical didactic trainings, and are held every second and fourth Thursdays from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm (PST). 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
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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
Care & Well Being Center (CWC) Project 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.
Enrique Ramirez, MPH
Training & Development Unit (Alameda County) Project Manager
Hello! I’m Enrique, a public health professional with a background in STI prevention, health education, community engagement, and DEIB. Alongside the Training Development Unit (TDU) team, I help promote and coordinate training opportunities for the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Enhanced Care Management and Community Support providers in Alameda County. We engage in various training topics in categories such as Member Engagement and Sector Knowledge.
I’m originally from Bakersfield, CA but I’ve lived in Oakland for 2 years now! I’m interested in translating and applying public health theory and community relationship-building to address systemic inequities centering on underserved communities, specifically QTBIPOC. I graduate from the UC Berkeley MPH Program in 2020 where I learned skills such as program planning, developing theories of change, strategic planning, and evaluation. I also received my B.A. Psychology from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona in 2013. My personal interests include wine tasting, board game nights with friends, and beating escape rooms (I’ve never lost one!)
TJ Lane, MSW
Training & Development Unit (Alameda County) Training Manager
TJ joined THE Collaborative in January 2023 as the ACTDU Training Manager. TJ is a native of Michigan and an avid fan of her home state sports teams: the Detroit Tigers, Lions, and Michigan State Spartans. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Michigan State University and a Master of Social Work from the University of Minnesota. When TJ is not working, she enjoys being outdoors, reading, traveling, and watching sports (in-person and tv).
Constance Vazquez
Pacific AETC Program Coordinator
Constance Vazquez (she/they) is a queer femme of color, originally from East LA. Currently in the last year of her Master’s program in Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. She is stepping into the public health sector after working as an educator with youth in the Los Angeles area as well as in Sacramento and San Francisco. She also has a professional culinary background where she has worked as a Chef for 10 years. Throughout her career journey she has always centered social justice through programs and initiatives that focused on food scarcity, underserved communities of color, equitable access to education, and so much more. She is excited to continue to contribute to important work around HIV/AIDS in her role as a program coordinator with THE Collaborative and PAETC.
Cheryl Anne Batac, MPH
Training & Development Unit (Los Angeles County) Project Manager
Cheryl Anne Batac is a Program Manager for THE Collaborative’s Training and Development Unit (TDU). Based in Los Angeles, she supports TDU efforts to strengthen Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports capacity building infrastructure as part of the CalAIM initiative. Prior to this role, Cheryl Anne was a graduate teaching assistant and a student intern, where she researched advocacy strategies for the implementation of evidence-based interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS in Ghana and Uganda.
Cheryl Anne has worked in global sexual and reproductive health, substance use disorder prevention, and health education/health promotion. She is passionate about promoting health equity and ensuring that access to healthcare is attainable for all. Cheryl Anne holds a Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara, and a certification as a Health Education Specialist.
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.
Joe Lee, Consultant, MSHA
Consultant
Joe Lee is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Community Health Synergy, LLC, a queer and Asian-owned business dedicated to advancing health equity through community-centered capacity building.
Joe offers expertise on strategic planning and implementation, cross-sector partnership engagement, coalition building, social determinants of health data advocacy, federal and state grants management, health policy analysis, training and facilitation, and workforce development.
In the span of his 14-year career, Joe has supported Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), FQHC Look-Alikes, community-based organizations, County agencies, Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans, and national training organizations across the continental U.S., Hawai’i, U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands, and Freely Associated States.
Joe has previously held positions at the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations, Community Health Center Network, LifeLong Medical Care, City of Berkeley, and Transform Health.
Joe also serves as a Lecturer of an undergraduate community health equity course at UC Berkeley and advisor for several student-led service and research organizations.
Joe has a BA in Interdisciplinary Field Studies from UC Berkeley and an MS in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership from UCSF.
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.