The California Endowment
Bay Area Regional Office
1111 Broadway 7th Floor
Oakland
CAUSA
94607
Biographical Sketch: Dr. George Flores is Senior Program Officer for The California Endowment, the state’s largest health foundation. His work focuses on policy and systems change to advance health-supportive community environments. Dr. Flores oversees grant-making for the Endowment’s multi-site programs that aim to prevent childhood obesity, including Healthy Eating, Active Communities (HEAC), Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP), and the CA Convergence. His grant-making portfolio also supports public health and community groups to work collaboratively to address inequities in the social and environmental factors that shape health outcomes.
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.