PI-CoPCE Planning Group
ABOUT US
PI-CoPCE’s Planning Group is composed of clinicians, researchers, public health specialists, policy advocates and people from community-based organizations (CBOs), community health centers (CHCs), universities and other regional groups. All six Pacific Island U.S. Territories and Freely-Associated States are represented in the Planning Group.
Our Planning Group
| Mr. George Cruz | USAPI (Saipan); Chamorro | Healthcare Administrator (Marians Health), CHC Board Member (Kagman Community Health Center) |
| Mrs. Christina Stinnett | USAPI (FSM,Chuuk); Chuukese | Executive Director (Chuuk Women’s Council); Business (Truk Stop Hotel) and PIDPP |
| Ms. Melisa Laelan | US (Arkansas); Marshallese | Executive Director (Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese), PIDPP |
| Mrs. Fahina Tavake-Pasi | US (Utah); Tongan | Executive Director (National Tongan American Society), PIDPP |
| Dr. Ranald Samoa | US (California); Samoan, Niuean | Clinician Researcher (City of Hope National Medical Center) |
| Mr. Tana Lepule | US (California); Samoan | Community Advocate & Researcher |
| Dr. Rebecca Delafield | US (Hawaii); Chamorro | Researcher (University of Hawaii John A Burns School of Medicine) |
| Dr. Malia Purdy | US (Hawaii); Native Hawaiian | Community Program Director and Researcher (Malama i ke Ola Health Center & UH JABSOM) |
| Ms. Innocenta Sound-Kikku | US (Hawaii); Chuukese and Carolinian | Community Coordinator (Kokua Kalihi Valley Health Center and Micronesian Health Advisory Committee) |
| Mr. Nena Tolenoa | USAPI (Kosrae); Kosraean | Executive (Kosrae Community Health Center) and Chairman (Pacific Islander Primary Care Association) |
| Mr. Romeo Alfred | USAPI (RMI); Marshallese | Board Chair (Kwajalein Diak Coalition) |
| Dr. Myra Adelbai | USAPI (Palau); Palauan | Primary Health Care (Palau Ministry of Health) and Board Member (Pacific Basin Medical Association |
| Mr. Adam Carbuillido | US (Washington DC); Chamorro | Policy Director (AAPCHO) |
| Mr. Jake Fitisemanu | US (Utah); Samoan | Health Administrator (Utah Department of Health), Council Member (West Valley City), Board Member (APIAHF) |
| Dr. Nia Aitaoto | US (Arkansas & Utah), FSM (Kosrae) and RMI; Samoan | Public Health Program Evaluator (RMI Cancer Program, KCHC and AAPCHO) and Researcher (University of Utah and New York University) |