Jeffrey Reynoso, DrPH, MPH
Regional Director for Region 9
Dr. Jeffrey Reynoso serves as a Regional Director at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) where he advances the Administration’s health and human services priorities. He is the key representative for U.S. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra with state, local, territorial, tribal, and external partners in Region 9 which spans Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands, and 157 Federally-Recognized Tribes.
For over a decade, Dr. Reynoso has worked on health equity and social justice issues spanning academia, government, and non-profit sectors at local, state, and national levels. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC) where he was responsible for strategic leadership and external relations, organizational development and financial management, and policy advocacy and programmatic initiatives. Previously, he was a Doctoral Fellow at Kaiser Permanente designing innovative programs to address food insecurity in the Southern California region. He was also a Public Health Fellow in the office of Congressman Raul Ruiz advising on healthcare policy issues and he worked as 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.
Dr. Reynoso serves as a Commissioner to the CA 100 Initiative. He has previously served on the Boards of the Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) and the CA Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN). He has also been tapped to serve on multiple advisory boards, including the CA Department of Managed Healthcare (DMHC) Equity & Quality Committee, CA Department of Public Health (CDPH) Community Vaccine Advisory Committee, Governor Gavin Newsom’s Master Plan for Aging (MPA) Equity Workgroup and Task Force on Alzheimer’s Prevention and Preparedness Brain Trust, CA Health Interview Survey (CHIS) at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and CA Initiative for Health Equity & Action (Cal-IHEA) at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Reynoso has been quoted on issues ranging from health policy, public health, and Latinx health in CalMatters, Los Angeles Times, Politico, Sacramento Bee, Telemundo, Univision, and the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Reynoso holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from Harvard University, a Master of Public Health (MPH) from UC Berkeley, and a BA from UCLA. He is the son of working-class immigrants from Mexico who grew up in CA’s Central Valley and North San Diego County.