Multicultural Area Health Education Center
Sabbatical, 1997

Luis Mata is the former Executive Director for the Multicultural Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), a family-oriented organization that promoted health care through educational interventions. During his 24-year tenure in the field of health care and disability management, Luis played a central role in developing national strategies to increase childhood immunization rates, creating culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate training models for healthcare professionals, and generated Spanish-language media messages on health hazards such as secondhand smoke.

* Luis transitioned out of his role at the Multicultural Area Health Education Center in 2012.

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