Jeffrey S. Oxendine, MPH, MBA

Jeff Oxendine, MBA, MPH has been a health executive, educator and consultant for over 35 years. Jeff is Founder and CEO of Health Career Connection (HCC). He is also a longtime California and national leader in health workforce and diversity.

Jeff’s purpose is empowering students to achieve their authentic health careers, realize their full potential and optimize their impact on health. He’s done this for over 33 years at HCC, a national nonprofit that has supported over 5000 undergraduate students from under-represented, first generation college and low-income backgrounds to become health leaders and professionals.

Jeff also fulfilled his purpose at UC Berkeley School of Public Health where he empowered, mentored and prepared thousands of students for 16 years as a faculty member in Health Policy and Management and Associate Dean of Public Health Practice. He also served as Co-Director of the Undergraduate Public Health Major. In his retirement, Jeff continues to serve as Director of Health Workforce and Diversity in the Center for Healthcare Organizational Innovation Research.

Jeff shared his insights from HCC and Berkeley in his book You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor: Discover, Achieve and Enjoy Your Authentic Health Career to empower more people to achieve their authentic health careers and have the lives and impact they want to lead.

Since 2006, Jeff has also served as Co-Director of the California Health Professions Consortium, a coalition of over 300 organizations working to strengthen health workforce and diversity. He also serves as Co-Chair of the National Public Health Consortium’s Recruitment and Retention Task Force.

Jeff recently served as Co-Director of the California Future Health Workforce Commission from 2017 to February 2019. He co-led design, planning, and support of the Commission’s work to develop an actionable statewide health workforce strategy for California. He is now engaged in efforts to advance Commission recommendations (https://futurehealthworkforce.org/).

Prior to his roles at Berkeley, Jeff was a senior executive for 20 years in leading Bay Area and Boston hospitals and medical groups. He was a Lecturer in Health Management for five years at Harvard School of Public Health.

Jeff received his masters degrees in business administration and public health from UC Berkeley and his bachelors degree in health management from California State University, Chico.