Asian Health Services
818 Webster Street
Oakland
CAUSA
94607
Biographical Sketch: Julia Liou is the Director of Program Planning and Development for Asian Health Services (AHS), a comprehensive community health center located in Oakland Chinatown that provides medical care, health education, insurance counseling and client advocacy to the underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population in Alameda County, California. At AHS, she oversees program planning and grants as well as coordinates various community projects. As its co-founder, Julia also manages the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, a statewide effort to address the health and safety issues nail salon workers face in their work environment. The Collaborative recently received an Environmental Protection Agency award for its work. During her time at AHS, she has managed the Revive Chinatown! project, a community transportation and urban planning effort, helped develop policy recommendations around language access, coordinated the capital implementation of Revive Chinatown! Phase I recommendations, and has published peer reviewed articles related to pedestrian safety and community health workers. Most recently, she coordinated a community engagement project related to the City of Oakland’s Lake Merritt Specific Planning process, which seeks to ensure community input, vision, and ideas into this proposed transit oriented development planning process.
Julia currently sits on UCLA’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Multi-Campus Research Program Advisory Board, Cancer Prevention Institute of California CBCRP Study Community Advisory Committee, was on the East Bay Municipal Utility District Community Advisory Board and a Policy Fellow with the Women’s Policy Institute where she worked with the Safe Cosmetics Coalition on legislation related to protecting the health and safety of nail salon workers and consumers in general. Prior to Asian Health Services, Julia was a member of Teach For America and served as an 8th Grade Science Teacher in Watts, California for three years. Julia holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of California at Los Angeles where she served as the Public Health Student Association President. She participated on the Women’s Foundation of California Community Action Fund as a community advisory board member and served on the Board of Directors of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and assisted as a co-coordinator of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.