Staff Attorney
National Health Law Program
2639 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles
CAUSA
90034
Email:
wong@healthlaw.org
Biographical Sketch: Doreena Wong is a staff attorney at the National Health Law Program ("NHeLP"), which is a national public interest law firm working to increase and improve access to quality health care on behalf of limited income people by providing legal analysis and representation, information, education, and policy advocacy. She provides support to the Health Consumer Alliance, a partnership of consumer assistance programs operated by community-based legal services organizations whose purpose is to help low-income people obtain essential health care. She places a special focus on increasing the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services for immigrants and limited-English proficient populations. She has served on various advisory bodies and task forces, including the Office of Minority Health=s National Advisory Committee for the Development of Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care and California=s Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists. She is currently one of the co-chairs of the Policy and Research Committee and on the Board of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the California Health Care Safety Net Institute’s Language Access Advisory Committee, the Advisory Group of the National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations, and the Department of Health Services’ Task Force on Medi-Cal Language Access Services.
Before coming to NHeLP, she worked in the area of civil rights for a number of public interest organizations including the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, CA, the ACLU of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., and a Los Angeles civil rights firm specializing in enforcement of consent decrees in race discrimination cases. She graduated from New York University School of Law in 1987 as a second career after having worked as a health care professional for nine years.