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Ignatius Bau joined The California Endowment
as a program officer with 17 years of community service and experience
working to address the health challenges affecting the state’s
underserved communities. Bau, a San Francisco resident, received
his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California,
Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) and his J.D. from the Boalt Hall School
of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Current Work
Bau, who is based at The Endowment’s San
Francisco office, focuses on the foundation’s strategic program
area of cultural competence in health. He conducts outreach to
organizations to increase their awareness of funding opportunities,
reviews grant-related proposals from community organizations, develops
programs to improve the health of underserved communities, and
monitors foundation grants.
Work Relevant to Hablamos Juntos
Prior to joining The Endowment, Bau served for
seven years in a number of capacities with the Asian and Pacific
Islander American Health Forum, a national health policy advocacy
organization headquartered in San Francisco. His most recent position
there was deputy director for Policy and Programs, directing program,
policy and research activities for the organization to ensure achievement
of the agency’s mission, values, operational principles and
strategic plan.
Prior to that, he served as the organization’s
policy director during which he coordinated legislative and administrative
advocacy activities on issues of health care access, cultural competence,
health care quality, managed care and welfare reform. His initial
position with the organization was as HIV program coordinator where
he oversaw a national technical assistance and training program
for over 70 community-based organizations and health departments
providing HIV prevention interventions targeting Asian and Pacific
Islander populations.
Other positions of note include: adjunct faculty
at the New College of California School of Law in San Francisco
where he co-taught an Immigration Law and Issues class; and staff
attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee of Civil Rights of the
San Francisco Bay Area where he engaged in class action litigation,
legislative and administrative advocacy, and public education.
Bau has served on numerous nonprofit, community-based
organizations’ boards of directors, including the Asian and
Pacific Islander Wellness Center, the Northern California Coalition
for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and the National Minority AIDS
Council. He also has served on a number of government committees
and task forces including the President’s Advisory Council
on HIV/AIDS, the National Institutes of Health’s Office of
AIDS Research Prevention Science Working Group, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention’s National HIV Prevention
Planning Group, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office
of Minority Health National Minority HIV Plan Working Group, the
Institute of Medicine’s Committee on HIV Prevention Strategies
Non-Governmental Organization Liaison Panel and the California
Department of Health Services’ Task Force on Multicultural
Health. He also was a member of the Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organization Public Advisory Group, the National
Quality Forum Work Group on Minority Healthcare Quality Measurement
and Reporting, and several Technical Advisory Committees for the
California Health Interview Survey.
Bau was the lead author of the “A People
Looking Forward: Action for Access and Partnerships in the 21st
Century,” the Interim Report of the President’s Advisory
Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and has authored “This
Ground is Holy,” a book on the sanctuary movement for Central
American refugees, a chapter on immigration law in “AIDS
and the Law (Third Edition)” and several articles in legal,
health and public policy journals.
Additionally, Bau has presented at numerous conferences,
facilitated retreats and training workshops, and possesses vast
experience in conference planning. He is the recipient of several
awards for his community service, including the Asian and Pacific
Islander Wellness Center’s 1998 National Community Award
the National Lawyer Guild Immigration Project’s 1995 Carol
King Award, the State Bar of California’s 1994 Legal Services
Achievement Award and the Asian Law Caucus’ 1994 22nd Anniversary
Honoree.
Email: ibau@calendow.org
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