Joanne Madrid is a Principal Program Administrator with the Office of Rural Health & Primary Care where she administers several health care work force development programs focusing on mental health and medical professionals’ clinical training, rural rotations and preceptorships, and a summer internship pipeline program. She is a health equity coach, speaker, and trainer, serves on the Health Equity Steering Committee for the Health Policy Division, and is a member of various communities of practice (CoPs) including the Statewide Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Grant Administration CoP, the MN Dept of Health Equity in Grants Work Group, and the MN Dept of Health Equity in Data CoP. She came to MDH in 2021 from Colorado, where she enjoyed her work in many public health roles, including non-profit and women’s cancer center leadership, health equity and social determinants of health training, policy work, partnership development between the cannabis industry and non-profit organizations for corporate social responsibility projects, and through the University of CO Health Sciences Center researched cancer outcomes for underserved populations and childhood diabetes in Denver, CO and the Gila River Indian Community in AZ. Recognized as a data-driven collaborative leader, an out-of-the-box creative, a problem-solver, an innovative grantmaking professional, and persuasive speaker, Joanne has been honored to present locally and nationally at a variety of conferences and workshops.