Christina Holub, PhD, MPH focuses on developing health promotion interventions to reduce health disparities through academic-community partnerships. She was identified as a Pacific American Emerging Leader and invited to be a fellow of the National Pacific American Leadership Institute (NAPALI). Previously, Dr. Holub led the evaluation team in a church-based randomized controlled trial funded by NCI and managed a CDC-funded Special Interest Project in collaboration with Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health aimed at developing culturally appropriate, evidence-based recommendations for obesity prevention programs. Currently, Dr. Holub leads an NIH NIGMS funded R16, a CBPR approach to reduce health disparities and address new norms since the COVID-19 pandemic, partnering with the Pacific Islander and Latino communities in North County San Diego. The study was informed by her previous Pacific Islander Community Health Study (PIC Health). Dr. Holub is Department Chair and Associate Professor in Public Health at CSU San Marcos. Dr. Holub received her MPH from Yale University (Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences) and PhD in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.