Abena Asare
Abena Asare
Senior Policy Consultant
Abena Asare, MPH is a Senior Policy Consultant with the Integrated Care team at Aurrera Health Group. Abena works on a variety of projects with the California Department of Health Care Services that support behavioral health policy in California, including the Opioid Settlement Fund.
Prior to joining Aurrera, Abena was a consultant, focused on health care strategy and operations. Before entering the world of consulting, she worked at Prevention Institute, a national public health nonprofit, where she helped coordinate prevention initiatives focused on health equity and community-based approaches to addressing intimate partner violence and mental health and well-being across the country. Abena was an inaugural NASHP Emerging Leaders of Color Fellow, where she worked closely with Virginia’s Department of Medical Assistance Services, contributing to maternal health policies, include doula Medicaid coverage.
Abena is trained as a birth doula and is passionate about addressing the maternal health crisis. She holds a master’s in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. Abena graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor’s in psychology and health & Society. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, supporting women’s sports, and experimenting with new recipes.
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Education
MPH, University of California, Berkeley
BS, Psychology and Health & Society, Wellesley College