Monica Trevino, MA

Monica Trevino, MA

Director of Center for Social Change

Monica Trevino is director of the Center for Social Change (CSC) at Michigan Public Health Institute. She leads a team of staff dedicated to making meaningful change in healthcare service delivery and outcomes for underserved and marginalized populations.  Current projects in the CSC include working with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to identify racial/ethnic disparities in programs and services in Medicaid, behavioral health, and special populations.  The CSC also supports the Medicaid program in policy analysis, health information technology, program evaluation, consumer engagement, and funding requests and associated reporting from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services through the Advanced Planning Document (APD) process.

She has over 20 years of experience in health care advocacy, including firsthand experience as a Medicaid beneficiary, community health worker, and Medicaid administrator. She has worked in the Medicaid quality improvement space and conceptualized and coordinated the Medicaid Health Equity Project that identified racial and ethnic disparities in care received by Medicaid beneficiaries in Michigan.

Ms. Trevino earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Michigan, and her master’s degree in anthropology from Western Michigan University. She is a doctoral candidate in interdisciplinary health sciences at Western Michigan University, studying disparities in behavioral health services in Medicaid.