Hispanic Cancer Health Foundation Leadership
Situated in diverse environments across the United States, the HCH Foundation Board of Directors and leadership meets regularly to govern the HCHF, provide guidance, and set priorities each year so that we can help reduce the burden of cancer affecting Hispanics across the country.
Janie Muñoz, M.D., Ph.D. has nearly 30 years of experience in medicine/healthcare creating strategies & teams for cancer research hospital & healthcare companies, as well as crafting public health policy on a national scale for underrepresented groups. She has experience researching and supporting the development of therapies in cancer and working with Regulatory Authorities (FDA & other federal agencies).
Dr. Janie Muñoz, Executive Director & FounderWith a wealth of clinical research experience and biomedical postdoctoral training in onco-proteomics/metabolomics/genomics at the Office of Research-Advanced Technology Core research labs of Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Dr. Muñoz oversees a team to develop healthcare research and policy to reduce health disparities, equitably integrate post-market pharmaceutical activities, and clinical research. She oversees the HCHF Centros de Comunidad por Salud Oncológica initiative, and the training of minority scholars researching novel therapies to patients in underserved Hispanic communities. As a Texas native and science/medical educator, Dr. Muñoz served as an Adj. Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University and served as full-time faculty at Texas A&M University. After working in the private sector, Dr. Muñoz joined the academic medicine sector where she helped garner FDA approval for medical oncology agents on pharmaco-immunotherapy clinical trials performed with patients afflicted with fatal oncological disease at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Dr Muñoz has held positions in R&D, Research Associate scientist and management in clinical development, and clinical study/clinical research within the scientific cancer research community, along with providing medical education training to doctoral graduate students at the University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston. Dr. Muñoz completed her education from University of Texas-Austin (Ph.D.;B.A.), Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Science), UH-V (B.S.) and UAG School of Medicine (M.D.) with U.S. clinical education patient-based experience at the Tucson Medical Center hospital in Arizona. As the founder, Dr. Muñoz established Hispanic Cancer Health Foundation as a public charity nonprofit organization. She leads the organization to accomplish all of its long-term goals including the professional growth of minority scholars working towards the discovery of new drug candidates and therapies, and the training of Hispanic Cancer Health Foundation students/scholars in cancer medicine as HCH Foundation's Executive Director. She has developed and implemented a bold Strategic Plan to accelerate world class science to deliver transformative oncological medicine therapies to Hispanics and a diverse world.
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Global Health & International Scholar AchievementsAs an international health advocate working in the Hispanic community for well over 30 years, Dr. Muñoz proudly served her country in Beijing, China after being selected by the U.S. Department of State as an official delegate of the U.S. delegation to the 4th United Nations World Conference on Women to formulate and guide public health policy on an international scale to improve health outcomes of underrepresented women's health in 1995. As an internationally published research scholar and global management consultant, Dr. Muñoz has been an expert speaker at the global, national, and local level and serves on the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Board of Directors Journal Committee. As a part of her commitment to health/medical education and developing Hispanics students, she serves as a mentor with our Hispanic Cancer Health Foundation Health Research Scholars Program and also serves as a mentor with the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA). As a native Texas Dr. Muñoz received a B.S. in Biology, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from U of H-V, in addition to graduating with honors in her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She previously served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Latina Health Organization (NLHO). She is a national Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1993) received as an advocate-minority health leader at the University of Texas-Austin sponsoring her fellowship to develop and effectuate federal public health policy on the national level creating public policy legislation with various members of the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the United States Congress.
National CLAS & Health OutcomesDr. Muñoz collaborated with professional consultants (former HHS Office of Minority Health) to review and provide linguistic and cultural competence in health care, and cultural competency training, education, and technical assistance to health professionals, organizations, care providers to address health & behavioral needs of language minority individuals and improve health outcomes. Dr. Muñoz evaluated program initiatives geared at improving the health status of minority populations under the NIH-Office of Minority Health’s 2013 National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health & Health Care (CLAS Standards). She is a Project Blueprint, Board of Director-Class XXI inductee of the United Way of Greater Houston, Texas.
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