Jacqueline Martinez
Senior Program Director
Ph: 212-584-7672
As Senior Program Director, Jacqueline Martinez serves as a key advisor to the President and CEO and has a central role in developing the Foundation's program areas, identifying emerging opportunities and strategic niches, building partnerships with other foundations, ensuring quality and accountability, and evaluating the performance of programs and grantees. Ms. Martinez provides leadership and guidance to two priority areas: Improving Health Care for People with Diabetes and Integrating Mental Health/Substance Use Services. Ms. Martinez also has a special interest in the strategic and creative development of leadership and capacity-building programs with community-based organizations throughout the State.
Ms. Martinez joined NYSHealth with 10 years of experience in managing and developing community-based health programs for medically underserved communities throughout New York City. Most recently, Ms. Martinez served as the program director for the Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative (NMCVC) at Columbia University’s Center for Community Health Partnerships. NMCVC's mission, one of eight sites funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is to improve access and quality of care for the uninsured and under-insured residents of Northern Manhattan. In this capacity, Ms. Martinez implemented and evaluated health programs in obesity prevention, oral and mental health, case management, and childhood asthma. She also mobilized national, State, and local resources to promote policy changes to address the health care concerns addressed by the program.
Prior to her work with Community Voices, Ms. Martinez, as a research associate for the City University of New York Medical School, conducted an analysis of peer-reviewed literature on racial and ethnic disparities in diagnosis and treatment in the U.S. health care system. She was a program manager for Alianza Dominicana, Inc., an NIH fellow for the Department of Public Health in the City of Merida in Yucatan, Mexico, and an assistant coordinator for Beginning with Children, a Brooklyn-based charter school designed to promote academic achievement for inner-city children.
Ms. Martinez holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development from Cornell University. She has served as adjunct professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, board director of the Institute for Civic Leadership, and board member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness-New York City Metro.
