OCHNA Team

Pamela Austin, MSW, Chief Executive Officer

OCHNA Statistical Oversight Research Team

Azhar Qureshi MD, PhD
Curtis Condon, PhD
Dennis Berg, PhD
William Robb, MS

OCHNA Team

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.

Bonnie Bui, MA, Research Coordinator

Rebecca Littman, MA, Research Analyst

Priya Thaker, BS, Program Coordinator

Shivani Patel, BA, Administrative Coordinator

OCHNA Statistical Oversight Research Team
OCHNA data results are analyzed by OCHNA staff and a highly qualified statistical oversight team are availble for further support. The team consists of the following:

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 from the University of Southern California. Dr. Berg is retired and served as a Professor and Chair for the Sociology Department at California State University, Fullerton.

William Robb, MS, Chief Statistician for ORC Macro of Vermont. William earned both his BS in Computer Science and MS in Statistics from the University of Vermont.