Biography

Allyssa Abacan is the Public Health Programming Director for the Baylor College of Medicine Teen Health Clinic. Dr. Abacan received her PhD in Management, Policy and Community Health, from UT School of Public Health (2022). She has worked in the public health field for 10+ years and has expertise in public health management and operations. Dr. Abacan has increased the clinic’s capacity to provide primary preventive and SRH services to adolescents and young adults through data analyses, quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS) activities, strategic planning, and program implementation, and monitoring, evaluation and learning. She has publications and conducted oral and poster presentations on topics around LARC uptake, immunization administration, increasing parental consents in school-based clinics and male adolescent reproductive health at local, state and national conferences. She is committed to working towards exploring and implementing evidence-based practices to address the medical and non-medical needs of marginalized populations, and, as a result, decrease health care disparities.

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