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Carly Hood-Ronick is the chief executive officer at Project Access NOW (PANOW), a nonprofit in the Portland, Oregon, area working to provide culturally responsive health care and social service support for members of the community.

Before she joined PANOW, Ms. Hood-Ronick was a director at the Oregon Primary Care Association, where she oversaw health equity and Medicaid strategy efforts with community health centers around the state, identifying ways to align payment and delivery system reform.

Ms. Hood-Ronick has worked with communities in multiple states and countries to develop upstream programs and has published work on best practices in financing social care efforts. With more than 15 years of experience in domestic and international work, she is regularly called on to lead systems-level equity efforts. She has served as a co-chair of the Oregon Health Policy Board’s Health Equity Committee and has advised on community and social health data, sharing efforts as chair of the Oregon Health Information Technology Oversight Council’s Community Information Exchange workgroup. She is deeply committed to health equity and views her work through a lens that sees access to health care as a fundamental right.

Ms. Hood-Ronick received her Master of Public Affairs in social policy and her Master of Public Health from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.