Jessica Yamauchi

Jessica Yamauchi, MA, has served as the Executive Director of the Hawai‘i Public Health Institute (HIPHI) since 2012 and has worked to pass several health policies, including raising the age of sale of tobacco products to 21, including electronic smoking devices in Hawai‘i’s state smoke-free air law, healthy by default beverages for kids’ meals, and securing funding for a pilot double up bucks program (increasing fresh local produce for SNAP recipients). Jessica is currently chair of the National Network of Public Health Institutes Board of Directors, ex-officio board member of the Hawai‘i Public Health Association and serves on the UH Office of Public Health Studies, Community Advisory Panel.