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NALHE TEXAS Greater Houston CHAPTER

OUR CHAPTER BOARD MEMBERS

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Marlen J. Trujillo PhD, MBA

Secretary
Chief Executive Officer
Spring Branch Community Health Center

Dr. Trujillo is the Chief Executive Officer of the Spring Branch Community Health Center (SBCHC), a non-profit community health center that provides low-cost healthcare, social and educational services. Trujillo was one of the community leaders on the founding Board of the community based health center in 2003. She was a volunteer at the time serving on the Board as the Secretary while completing her undergraduate studies. Her and other community leaders spent many hours planning and fundraising to reach their objective of opening up a charity clinic to the meet the growing demand for women health services.
In May 2004, the community health center was opened in the Spring Branch area, in West Houston Texas, to target the Medically Underserved Population and help reduce healthcare disparities by increasing access to affordable quality health care. The community health center was deemed as a Federally Qualified Health Center in 2005. In recent years, the organization has experienced a population explosion which has increased the need for additional healthcare services in the West Houston area. Currently the organization has 8 locations and two mobile health clinic serving 20,000 individuals in need. In 2020, she founded the Spring Branch Leadership Institute to serve high school students interested in careers in healthcare especially adolescent women. Trujillo was born in Houston, Texas and raised in the Spring Branch Community. Her parents are from Colombia and Mexico. She has been the Chief Executive Officer of SBCHC for 14 years. She truly understands the healthcare needs of her community and is an advocate for reducing health disparities across all populations.
Prior to being the CEO of SBCHC, she held the position of Chief Financial Officer for the community health center and previously held positions at the National Hispanic Institute, YMCA of Greater Houston and the City of Houston. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from the University of Houston and also holds a Masters in Business Administration in International Business from Our Lady of the Lake University. She recently obtained her PhD in public health from the University of Texas Health Science Center – School of Public Health. She is passionate about healthcare and education. She enjoys mentoring first generation Hispanic students and spending time with her family outdoors. Trujillo is fluent in English and Spanish.

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