Palak Jalan is the Chief Population Health Officer at AccessHealth Community Health Centers( a Federally Qualified Community Health System) located in Fort Bend and Waller Counties in the Greater Houston area. Palak holds a bachelor’s degree in dental medicine from India and a Master of Public health degree from the School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is responsible for strategic partnerships, care-coordination, expansion, development and making the operations more community-centered. She is instrumental in leading teams in population health and value-based care efforts alongside convening and participating in multiple community collaboratives to conduct needs assessment, community focus groups and prioritizing efforts around COVID-19 testing and vaccines. She has a passion for digital transformation and works with stakeholders to determine the most scalable solutions. Her efforts around the lack of sidewalks have led to a private foundation funding a city for a multiyear multimillion sidewalk project. Her expertise lies in strategic integration of social determinants of health into clinical practice and leading teams to achieve health and quality improvement goals.