Dr. Flores joined The Endowment in July 2004 as a Senior Program Officer for the foundation’s Healthy Communities/ Disparities in Health Program. His work focuses on strategic program development and grant making, primarily directed at policy and systems change to improve community health. He guides the Endowment’s
Healthy Eating, Active Communities initiative to prevent childhood obesity, as well as projects to strengthen public health systems.
Previously, he has served as Health Officer and Director of Public Health in San Diego County and in Sonoma County; Clinical Assistant Professor for the UCSF Family Practice Residency Program; Director, Project HOPE in Guatemala; and Deputy Health Officer in Santa Barbara County.
Dr. Flores is an alumnus of the University of Utah College of Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Public Health Leadership Institute. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine committee that published “Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in The Balance,” and is also a member of the Institute of Medicine committee that published “The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century.”
Dr. Flores has held leadership positions in local, state, and national organizations, including the National Association of County and City Health Officials, California Conference of Local Health Officers, Sonoma County Medical Association, and is a founding board member of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California.
