Jessica Nunez de Ybarra, MD, MPH, FACPM

Jessica M. Núñez de Ybarra, MD, MPH, FACPM serves as President and Chair of the Sacramento Latino Medical Association. Jessica works at the State of California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in the Office of Policy and Planning as a Community Health Medical Administrator and the Designated Institutional Official over the Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency Program. She previously served as the CDPH Chronic Disease Control Branch Chief overseeing 11 programs and the establishment of the California Wellness Plan, as well as a Public Health Medical Officer III in the CDPH Center for Infectious Diseases coordinating public health training and emergency response. She is the former Deputy Public Health Officer in Kern County Department of Public Health and worked as Director of its Office of Public Health Preparedness. Jessica serves as Co-Chair of the National Hispanic Medical Association’s Northern California Chapter. She is past President of the California Academy of Preventive Medicine. She is also presently a volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Davis (UCD) School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences.  She has served as a lecturer in UCD Chicano/a Studies Program.  Dr. Núñez de Ybarra was selected as a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2009-2010. Dr. Núñez de Ybarra has her Medical Doctorate from UCD and received her degree of Master in Public Health in Health Services Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles.  She is Board Certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine.  She lives in Sacramento, California with her husband Steven J. Ybarra, JD and their son Thomas Arturo Ybarra.