Jeffrey Reynoso

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Bio

Dr. Jeffrey Reynoso is a public health leader and strategic advisor with extensive experience leading organizations and initiatives to advance health policy and systems changes. His career spans academia, government, and non-profit sectors at the national, state, and local levels.

Most recently, he was appointed by President Joe Biden to represent the Biden-Harris Administration as Regional Director at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) in Region 9—the Southwest and Pacific Region. He served as a key representative for the White House and U.S. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in engaging with state, local, territorial, tribal, and external partners in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands, and 157 Federally-Recognized Tribes.

Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC), the state’s leading Latino/a health policy organization, where he provided strategic leadership, expanded external partnerships, strengthened fiscal and organizational capacity, and advanced statewide policy and programmatic initiatives. Earlier in his career, he was a Doctoral Fellow at Kaiser Permanente designing innovative programs to address food insecurity in the Southern California region, a Public Health Fellow in the Office of Congressman Raul Ruiz advising on healthcare policy issues in the Eastern Coachella Valley, and a Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)/Management Fellow at the County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency (HHSA) supporting the Director’s Office on Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation.

He has received numerous recognitions for his work including Public Health Alumni Champion by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Hispanic Health Leadership Award by the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA), and Aspen Ideas Festival Health Scholar by the Ricardo Salinas Foundation Fellowship.

Education

• DrPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2017
• MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 2013
• BA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2009