Maria R. Moreno has a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University and BA in Community Health from Brown University. She worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) evaluating hypertension-related mortality among Latinos, assessed health care access among minorities in NYC, participated in the Latino Health Scan proposal for RWJF, developed prenatal classes for LEP patients in East Denver, partnered with a Family Van Program for low-income minorities in Providence, designed a health education bi-lingual program for US border town, and taught Spanish health education classes in developing communities in the Dominican Republic. Currently, she is heading the evaluation of select Sutter Health Community Benefit projects and The California Endowment Grant on language access and cultural competence. Ms. Moreno created and chairs Sutter Health’s Cultural Linguistic Access Taskforce, which is focused on enhancing language assistance services across the system.
