Mónica Morales, Deputy Director - California Department of Public Health

Join us as we continue to talk with Mónica Morales, Deputy Director for the Center for Healthy Communities at the California Department of Public Health. This is our follow episode to Episode 71: Mentoring, Growing Our Own, where Monica dives into her experiences working for the Department of Public Health and how she navigates the system. In her current post, she oversees programs that address environmental and occupational health, injury prevention, chronic disease prevention, and substance misuse. Mónica was raised and Watsonville California and holds a BA in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz and a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University in New York.*Note: Ms. Morales' comments reflect her own personal views and experiences, not necessarily those of her employer.