OCHNA Team

Pamela Austin, MSW, Chief Executive Officer
Research Analyst

Bonnie Bui, Masters Candidate, Data Analyst

OCHNA Statistical Oversight Research Team

Azhar Qureshi MD, PhD
Curtis Condon, PhD
Dennis Berg, PhD

Jacob E. Levin, PhD
William Robb, PhD

Pamela Austin, MSW, OCHNA Chief Executive Officer
Pamela Austin has served as OCHNA’s CEO since its inception in 1997, overseeing all aspects of the project, including the development and production of the OCHNA county wide health needs assessments and executive summaries. In addition to OCHNA reports, she had the benefit of producing two of the early Annual Reports on the Conditions of Children in Orange County (1995, 1996).

Pamela received her Master's in Social Work from the University of Southern California, with an emphasis on Community Organizing, Policy and Administration and a sub concentration in Public Child Welfare. Her practical experience with health and social service include working as a Behavioral Health Coordinator, a Social Worker Assistant in Children's Services and a manager in a national consulting firm.  These experiences display her humanistic connection to the statistical data she provides.

OCHNA Research Analyst - TBD

Bonnie Bui, Master's Candidate, OCHNA Data Analyst

Bonnie received her Bachelors in Economics at California State University, Fullerton, with minors in Business Administration and Women's Studies.  She is currently completing the requirements for a Masters in Sociology at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF).  Bonnie works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Sociology at CSUF, and recently assisted a professor in interviewing children for a study on childhood cognitive development and its relationship to reading.  Bonnie has experience analyzing economic trend data with E-Views and survey research data with SPSS.

OCHNA Statistical Oversight Research Team
All OCHNA data results are analyzed by OCHNA staff and reviewed by a highly qualified statistical oversight team, consisting of the following members:

Azhar Qureshi, MD, PhD, received his PhD in Public Health with an emphasis in Statistics from UCLA and currently works for St. Joseph Health Systems as the Vice President.

Curtis Condon, PhD, received his PhD in Neuroscience and is currently a Senior Public Health Research Analyst with the Orange County Health Care Agency.

Dennis Berg, PhD, received his PhD in Sociology, is a Fulbright Scholar and is currently a full time professor and Chair for the Sociology Department at California State University, Fullerton.

Jacob E. Levin, PhD, received his PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from University of California, Berkeley and is currently the Director of Research Development at the University of California, Irvine.

William Robb, PhD, Chief Statistician for ORC Macro of Vermont.