Kelvin Quan, JD MPH
Assistant Dean, Business & Administration
University of California, Berkley
School of Public Health
Kelvin Quan is the Assistant Dean for Business and Chief Administrative Officer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. Previously, he was the Director of Grants & Contracts for the Public Health Institute; the Chief Financial Officer of the San Francisco Health Plan; and the Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Interim Chief Executive Officer of theAlameda Alliance for Health. He also practice health care law and served as a senior finance executive for several hospitals.
Mr. Quan’s career is anchored in healthcare finance, law, cultural competency and advocacy. He served in executive roles for health plans, hospitals, and an international research institute. He served as a member of national advisory groups and expert panels for the U.S. Office of Minority Health, National Health Law Program, Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care, and the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The topics include business case for cultural competency & language access and the elimination of disparities in health care. He is a frequent speaker at national conferences on these topics and has authored numerous publications on these topics.
His research and consulting projects include “Medical Malpractice and Language Access” for the National Health Law Program; “Survey of Medicaid Health Plans for Cultural Competency & Language Access” for The California Endowment; and “Exploring Ethnic/Language Match and Cervical Cancer Screening” for the California Cancer Research Program. Mr. Quan established and oversaw the nationally recognized program for cultural competency and language access at the Alameda Alliance for Health, managed care health plan serving Medicaid and other low-income communities.
For seven years, Mr. Quan was the Board President of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, a national health advocacy and policy organization. In 1980, he co-founded the Bay Area Asian Health Alliance, a health advocacy group, and in 1981 Self-Help HomeCare, a home health agency serving monolingual Chinese elderly. He has been a member of the California State Bar since 1993. In 2002, Mr. Quan was the recipient of the “Spirit of Public Health” award for the University of California, Berkeley. He holds his Juris Doctorate from University of California, Hastings College of the Law, his Masters in Public Health from U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health and his Bachelors in History and Economics from Northwestern University. He also received awards from Self-Help for the Elderly, the State Bar of California and the Asian American Bar Association for community service.
