Heike Thiel de Bocanegra, PhD, MPH
Director, UCSF Family PACT Program Support and Evaluation
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
c/o Office of Family Planning, California Department of Health, Sacramento
Email: heike.thiel@cdph.ca.gov
Biosketch:
Heike Thiel de Bocanegra, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Director of UCSF’s team in Sacramento which provides program support, monitoring, and evaluation of Family PACT (Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment). The Family PACT Program is administered by the California Department of Health Services, Office of Family Planning. She obtained her MA in psychology from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her doctoral degree in public health from New York University. Her doctoral dissertation explored predictors of breastfeeding among immigrant women in New York City. She has over 20 years of program management and health service research experience in primary care and reproductive health issues in international and national projects. In Peru she supervised the implementation of 20 demonstration primary care projects that informed the health policy of Peru’s Ministry of Health. From 1991 to 2000, Dr. Thiel de Bocanegra was a Research Scientist and Associate Director at the Center on Immigrant Health, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine. The Center’s mission is to improve access to primary care and quality of care of New York’s immigrant population. In her capacity as Vice-President of Research and Evaluation at Safe Horizon, New York (former: Victim Services Agency), she oversaw applied research and evaluation projects of programs serving victims of crime, terrorism, and abuse, including intimate partner violence, sexual assault and rape.
Areas of Interest:
- Intimate partner violence and reproductive health
- Racial/ethnic disparities
- Cultural competence
- Access to care
Publications on PubMed
Updated January 2009