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Isha Weerasinghe is the Center for Law and Social Policy’s associate director of mental health and well-being. She works on reframing and making improvements to the mental health system, focusing on communities of color and other communities on the margins. Ms. Weerasinghe previously was the director of policy and advocacy at the Association for Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), where she advocated for better access to linguistically concordant and culturally responsive care for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA&NHPIs). She also led/participated in city and national coalition building and provided policy guidance on the local and national-levels, for AA&NHPI-serving community health centers and organizations, in health access and equity. Ms. Weerasinghe conducted community based participatory research, as well as local and state policy advocacy at New York University’s Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH), working within New York City and New York state. She started her federal policy career to improve the lives of people living with hepatitis B. Isha has a B.A. in biology from Bryn Mawr College, and a M.Sc. in health policy and demography from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the board Vice Chair of Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso (FAN DC) and is the board Chair of 9to5: National Association of Working Women.
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