Lucia Flores

Lucia Flores is the Chicago Director for Partners In Health-US. She is a bicultural, bilingual Latina born in Mexico City and raised in Chicago. Over the past 20 years, Lucia has worked to develop and increase access to resources on the South and West side of Chicago. She enjoys reading, listening to podcasts and trying to grow things in her backyard. The Chicago Collaboration to Advance Reach, Equity and Systems to Prevent Diabetes is a multi-sector effort to expand access to evidence-based diabetes prevention programs and telehealth diabetic retinopathy screening in Chicago community areas that have a disproportionate burden of type 2 diabetes and lack sufficient preventive services.