Dr. Charlene Flash, President and CEO

An infectious disease physician, Charlene Flash developed one of the first comprehensive HIV prevention programs (pre-exposure prophylaxis in the United States. She has served in senior clinical or administrative positions at Harris Health System (Ben Taub Hospital) and Legacy Community Health. She has been part of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s #AsktheHIVdoc series and has taught at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston since 2012. A graduate of Yale University and Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, her work on HIV has appeared in the New York Times and on COVID-19 in the Houston Chronicle and Houston Public Media.