Ginger Lee, DrPH

Ginger Lee, DrPH, is the founder of the Ginger Lee Global Health Consulting Group, which works at the intersection of low-income and marginalized communities, government, and health systems to address equitable systems and policy change. She specializes in non-profit leadership and management, organizational development, and systems change. She offers the ability to assess systems, community, global, and local public health, as well as organizations, and to synthesize results to produce customized, high-quality trainings and documents for publication.

Dr. Lee is particularly interested in transformative systems and organizational change, and how traditional philanthropy can shift the way it supports non-profits by focusing on systems level change in addition to direct service. She has developed a model to reflect her research findings related to how philanthropy can invest to support successful change led by communities most impacted by inequities.

Because Dr. Lee was raised in a situation of poverty and had the opportunity to obtain her doctorate, her focus is on social and commercial determinants of health for communities that do not have access to opportunities, and that experience structural barriers. Dr. Lee has an entrepreneurial drive that she has harnessed, among other things, to help build Latino Health Access, an award-winning non-profit organization that works deeply within communities affected by inequalities to build power using the community health worker model, as well as place-based and place-conscious models.

Dr. Lee was the CEO of The LGBTQ Center OC for four years, during which time she quadrupled growth. She has managed the City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services operations and collective impact initiatives and co-founded the Office of Equity. Dr. Lee is published in peer reviewed journals, and is the co-author of Recruiting the Heart, Training the Brain, a book about place-based initiatives and the community health worker model. She is in the process of publishing a model based on qualitative research to explain successful systems and policy changes led by low-income communities.

In addition to more than 20 years of domestic leadership, her global experience includes serving as the Board President for Foundation Todos Juntos, funding projects in Guatemala, acting as a consultant to Fundación Punta de Mita in Mexico, providing technical expertise to The Greater Contribution which provides micro-loans and education for women in Uganda, synthesizing a multi-lateral conference for publication for the Pan American Health Organization, founding the Greater Los Angeles Female Genital Mutilation Task Force, participating in the U.S. Mexico Border Task Force, and conducting community health worker trainings in India. Dr. Lee has received numerous awards and recognition for her work, including One of Five Mujeres Making a Difference in Orange County.