Marcy Lopez - Executive Director

Marcy López, MPH is currently the Executive Director of the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT), with national headquarters in New York City. Prior to joining LCAT, she served as the Director of Policy and Advocacy of the Latino Commission on AIDS. In this role, she was responsible for policy development the implementation of advocacy strategies. Her leadership resulted in numerous highly visible national policy and advocacy forums. Specifically, she spearheaded the establishment of the first National Latino Hispanic AIDS Action Agenda, a community driven national movement to address the challenges Latinos face due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She also directed the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, a national social marketing campaign to improve education on HIV and increase the number of Latinos tested for HIV. Her public health career began as an Asthma Educator and Research Coordinator at New York University / Bellevue Hospital. The focus of her work was the World Trade Center Resident's Respiratory Health Study, which examined the respiratory, and health effects of residents living in lower Manhattan after the physical collapse of the World Trade Center. Marcy's interest in health is in addressing the common threads that exist across the various health issues faced by Latino communities in the United States. She believes by targeting and addressing these factors, large-scale progress will be made Marcy is a New York born and raised Puerto Rican. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Latino Studies from Cornell University and went on to receive her Master in Public Health from Columbia University. She is also a 2006 National Hispanic Health Foundation Scholar.