Leslie Pelton-Cairns, MS is the vice president of Clinical Health Affairs at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, the primary care association for all fifty health centers in the state. In this role, she manages clinical quality initiatives and provides direct technical assistance to health centers as a leader in the Clinical Health Affairs Team. She currently serves on several advisory committees including Brigham and Women’s Community Health Initiative and Simmons College’s Behavioral Health Workforce Integration Program. For over 15 years, Pelton-Cairns has worked to develop capacity in nonprofit organizations as well as systems and processes to evaluate the effectiveness of those efforts. She has consulted for a number of organizations including Teach For America, the City of Cambridge, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Fiscal Management Associates. She holds an MS in social work administration from Columbia University and a BS in business management and marketing from Cornell University.
