Anita Aguirre, MPH

Anita Aguirre, MPH

Anita Aguirre, MPH, began at SCCH as the CEO in January 2024 and has spent her career supporting community health centers and the diverse communities they serve. Her career began more than 30 years earlier as a volunteer at SCCH’s Women’s Health Center, which led her to pursue a career in health as she saw it as an extension of her feminist values. Before joining SCCH, she held multiple leadership positions at Salud Para La Gente, including Deputy Director, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief of Clinic Operations, where she served for over ten years. Anita spent the first part of her career working throughout California, directing training and technical assistance and developing plain-language health education materials for health centers implementing sexual and reproductive health and maternal and child health programs under contract with the California Department of Public Health and the US Office of Population Affairs. A health educator by training, she believes in the importance of walking alongside and being a trusted source of information for health center patients in their health and well-being journey.