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The Adolescent Health Working Group is staffed by a bright and energetic group of people, dedicated to AHWG's mission of utilizing the collective wisdom, resources, and energy of the collaborative to improve the health and well being of young people.
Marlo Simmons, MPH
Coordinator
Marlo was one of the original staff members of the Adolescent Health Working Group in 2001. She is currently the Adolescent Health Coordinator for the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families and the Department of Public Health. Marlo has been providing staffing support for the Adolescent Health Working Group since September 2006. Before her position as the Adolescent Health Coordinator, Marlo was the Interim Director of the California Adolescent Health Collaborative. 		Marlo Simmons
Michael Smith
Policy Planner
Michael Smith came to the Adolescent Health Working Group in 2005 from beautiful Massachusetts, where he studied biology and African American history, and worked as a young adult health and education advocate. His professional and academic goals are in public health, psychology, and adolescent medicine. In his spare time he enjoys writing and collecting music, while developing a working knowledge of plants and gardening. Michael is currently the Field Coordinator for California School Health Centers Association and Policy Planner for the Adolescent Health Working Group. 		Michael Smith
Alicia Rodgers
Project Coordinator
Alicia is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Health in Community Health Education at San Jose State University. She previously worked as a clinic counselor at New Generation Health Center, and as a health educator at the Daly City Youth Health Center. Alicia also spent a year studying abroad in Ghana West Africa where she interned at a Planned Parenthood youth center. She resides in Oakland and enjoys spending time hiking, gardening, and being close to friends and family. 		Tina Sang
Janet Shalwitz, MD
Founder and Senior Advisor
Dr. Janet Shalwitz began working with youth as a peer educator in the late 1960s. She received her medical degree from SUNY Buffalo and her pediatric and adolescent medicine training at the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and the University of California, San Francisco Department of Pediatrics. Over the last two decades, Janet has been involved in many aspects of youth health work including the provision of direct clinical services, clinic and program administration, training and education, epidemiologic and clinical research, and policy development and advocacy. In September 2001, after 20 years in the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Janet was awarded a Soros Advocacy Fellowship for Physicians, and she then became the Director of the Adolescent Health Working Group (AHWG), a community collaborative committed to improving youth health and adolescents’ unimpeded access to quality health programs and services. Janet is also Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF where she is an active member of the teaching faculty and advisor to medical students and residents. In July 2006, Janet stepped down from her position as the Director of Adolescent Health Working Group. She remains involved as AHWG's Senior Advisor, steering committee member, and cheerleader. Janet‘s current interests include developing an adolescent health provider toolkit, improving youth access to behavioral health services and ensuring health insurance coverage for young adults. Janet and her husband Burt have raised 3 terrific children who are now 28, 26 and 21 years old and she just became a grandma (bubby) in February 2006!		 Janet Shalwitz

Past Staff:
Tanene Allison, E=MC2
Dena Bushman, Toolkit
Lori Cohen, 2004 Bay Area Adolescent Health Conference
Natalie Combs, MCMC Trainings, Behavioral Health Toolkit, ADHD Conference, AHWG Website
Katy Davis, Behavioral Health and Body Basics Modules of the Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Marlene Dominguez, H.E.A.L.T.H., Get Covered! Health Insurance Outreach Program, TY Resource Guide
Jen Han, H.E.A.L.T.H.
Nedzada Handukic
Jennifer Kaufmann
Dan Leonard
Becky Osborn, H.E.A.L.T.H. and Outreach
Sara Pollock
Elise Resch, HIYA Project
Tina Sang, Behavioral Health Toolkit
Marlo Simmons, Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Raquel Sochaczewski
Edward Velasco, Behavioral Health
Allison Young

Interns:
The Adolescent Health Working Group is grateful to its many tireless interns who have helped strengthen our work.

Past Interns:
Alison Arcilla, H.E.A.L.T.H Curriculum
Joseph Bazouz, H.E.A.L.T.H.
Sarah Bluestone, Trans. Youth Guide/H.E.A.L.T.H
LaTiesha Breathwaite, Healthy Realities
Marissa Brownell, HIYA Project
Francis Calero, H.E.A.L.T.H
Patricia Campbell, H.E.A.L.T.H
Blanca Cervano-Soto, H.E.A.L.T.H.
Tiffany Chang, Toolkit
Christina Chen, Trans. Youth Guide/H.E.A.L.T.H
Spencer Christensen, HIYA Project
Solita Daley, Trans. Youth Guide
Jeanne Feuerstein, Conference 2002
Makda Gebrezghi,H.E.A.L.T.H
Yorsalem Hagos, H.E.A.L.T.H.
Tiffany Hayes, Healthy Realities
Corrina Hui, HIYA Enrollment Project
Kathy Konczal, HIYA Project
Molly Krain, H.E.A.L.T.H. Curriculum
Stephen Lau, H.E.A.L.T.H.
Darlene Lin, Behavioral Health Mapping Project
Malaika Little, HIYA Project
Stephanie Martinez, HIYA Project
Isabel Mendoza, HIYA Project
Sandra Mercado, Healthy Realities
Owen Morse, St. Mary's Relief Guide/ADHD Conference
Julieta Murillo, H.E.A.L.T.H.
Taj Mustapha, HIYA Project
Ebony Odunikan, Mental Health Survey, EC=MC2, Behavioral Health Mapping Project
Britt Payne, Behavioral Health Toolkit
Kris Prado, H.E.A.L.T.H.
Sarai Ruiz, Referral Cards
Sasha Salavador, Behavioral Health Mapping Project
Ajay Sampat, H.E.A.L.T.H. Curriculum
Kemi Shamonda, H.E.A.L.T.H
Rudy Silva, Trans. Youth Guide
Amanda Wagstaff, Trans. Youth Guide/H.E.A.L.T.H.
Kentara Walker, EC=MC2
Judy Wang, Trans. Youth Guide
Shanell Williams, HIYA Project
Jackson Yan, Mental Health Survey, Behavioral Health Mapping Project
Jackie Yanofsky, Trans. Youth Guide/ H.E.A.L.T.H.
Henry Yee, Healthy Realities
Tom You, Website
Yesmina Zavala, H.E.A.L.T.H.

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