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 Tangerine M. Brigham is a Deputy Director of Health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health in the City and County of San Francisco, California. In that capacity, she is also Director of the Healthy San Francisco program. Ms. Brigham’s expertise crosses the health, housing and social service fields where she has overseen several initiatives, in the areas of health care coverage expansion, homeand community-based services and supportive housing. She has extensive experience in community planning, program development and public policy. In addition to working on the development and implementation of Healthy San Francisco, in the area of health care coverage expansion Ms. Brigham worked on the development of the San Francisco Health Care Accountability Ordinance and implementation of Medi-Cal managed care in San Francisco. She also worked on the initial planning for San Francisco’s Healthy Kids Program and the Los Angeles County Children’s Health Initiative. Ms. Brigham has authored several reports on health care coverage expansion and universal health care, including “Achieving Health Insurance for San Francisco’s Uninsured” and “San Francisco Health Access Program: Serving Uninsured Adults.”
Ms. Brigham has held several leadership positions in the non-profit and public sectors, having previously served as Community Health Program Officer for The San Francisco Foundation, Chief of Staff for L.A. Care Health Plan, Director of the Corporation for Supportive Housing’s California program and Director of Policy and Planning for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
She sits on the non-profit boards of First Place for Youth and Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation. She is also a member of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on theHealth Care Markets and Consumer Welfare Advisory Committee and the Fred Finch Youth Center Advisory Board.
She received her Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990 and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1984.
Thank you 2010 Sponsors
Wine Sponsor ~ KMD Architects
Make A Toast Sponsor ~ Aramark
Flowers Sponsor ~ Mills Peninsula Health System
Program Sponsor ~ Marin General Hospital and Novato Community Hospital, Sutter Health Affiliates
Gold Circle Honoree Table ~ Hanson Bridgett
Gold Circle Table Sponsors
Brown and Toland Medical Group ~ California Health Care Foundation ~ California Pacific Medical Center ~ Davis Wright Tremaine LLP ~ El Camino Hospital ~ HealthNet ~ Kaiser Permanente Hayward Medical Center ~ Pillsbury Winthrop ~ San Francisco Health Plan ~ The Permanente Medical Group ~ ValleyCare Health System
Scholarship Contributors
California Pacific Medical Center ~ Hill Physicians Medical Group ~ McKesson ~ Palo Alto Medical Foundation ~ Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical ~ KL Kingsley Executive Search ~ Witt Kiefer
In Kind Sponsors
The Westin St. Francis Hotel ~ Plumpjack
Program Design donated by: WhiteSpace Healthcare Marketing 
 
Past Woman of the Year awardees include:
2009 Gene Marie O'Connell, newly retired chief executive officer of San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
2008 Kimberly Popovits – CEO, Genomic Health, Inc. - through her pioneering work at both Genetech and Genomic Health, she paved the way for life-saving new breast cancer diagnostics and therapies
2007: Sandra Hernández, M.D. - CEO of The San Francisco Foundation (TSFF) and former director of public health for the City and County of San Francisco
2006 - Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. – Clinician (University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine), medical education reformer, pioneer in mind/body holistic health and New York Times bestselling author
2005 - Victoria Hale, Ph.D. – CEO and founder of the Institute for OneWorld Health, the country’s first non-profit pharmaceutical company
2004 - State Senator Jackie Speier – California State Senator and health care advocate
2003 - Molly Joel Coye, M.D. – CEO and founder of Health Technology Center, former Senior VP of Health Dimensions and former director, California Department of Health Services
2002 - Andrea Martin – Founder and executive director of The Breast Cancer Fund
2001 - Jenny Chin Hansen – Executive Director, On Lok
2000 - Cora Tellez –President& CEO, Health Net of California (Health Plans Division)
Why Be a Sponsor?
Your sponsorship of WHCE’s Woman of the Year program will allow us to continue to fulfill our mission of supporting women’s career goals in the health care field through our regular membership activities. It will also permit us to fund two scholarships: The Lynn Adamson Memorial Scholarship, and the Girl’s Inc. Annual Scholarship.
The Lynn Adamson Memorial Scholarship: Currently awarded in the amount of $4,000, this is an educational scholarship targeted for women who are at a postgraduate or other advanced level of training and desire additional academic training and/or research to further their career interests. Lynn Adamson was a Bay Area health care planner, a long-time WHCE member and former President of WHCE (1993-94), as well as the founder of the Bay Area Health Care Planning Association (one of the predecessors to the Society of Professionals In Healthcare). Lynn was tireless in her support of these organizations and the individuals she met through them, and exhibited courage and unflagging optimism in the face of many serious medical challenges. Lynn died suddenly in 1998, after suffering a major stroke.
The girls inc. Annual Scholarship: Currently awarded to a graduating high school senior in the amount of $2,000, this is an educational scholarship targeted to support undergraduate studies for at-risk and/or underserved young women interested in pursuing careers in science and/or health care. WHCE established a relationship with the California chapter of girls inc. in 2004. girls inc. provides vital educational programs for high-school-age girls, helping them to confront subtle societal messages about their value and potential and to prepare them to lead successful, independent and fulfilling lives.
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