Alyssa Padilla, MPH she/her/ella) is the Operations Director at the University of Arizona Comprehensive Center for Pain Addiction. She has expertise in access to care, social determinants of health, health equity and substance use interventions. Mrs. Padilla’s work focuses on program operations, community outreach, education and marketing approaches, and community based participatory research. This includes leadershiand project management, federal/state reporting, and partner collaborations for several HRSA, CDC, and state grants such as the HRSA Opioid Impacted Family Support Program and Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training grants, and other rural and urban under-resourced initiatives. Mrs. Padilla has over 21 years of hands-on experience with public health education, outreach, marketing, project management, and capacity building at the local, state, national, and global levels. Her efforts support program feasibility and output to meet funding requirements and compliance standards and to make programmatic improvements to better serve the community. She worked for the Arizona Center for Rural Health for almost a decade and now is an integral leader at her current Center. She works in partnershiwith community-based programs, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and local small businesses on projects relating to substance use interventions and access to care. Mrs. Padilla graduated from the UArizona Eller College of Management with a focus in Marketing where she coordinated outreach and education services via the Women’s Resource Center and completed an MPH from the UArizona College of Public Health and a Certificate in College Teaching from the UArizona Office of Instruction and Assessment. She is interested in community-based public health interventions and the social determinants of health and works to improve the health and wellness of under-resourced communities. Born and raised in Tucson, Mrs. Padilla is committed to serving the Arizona and southwest community.