About Jamila
Jamila Xible is the Director of Community Engagement at Health Care for All (HCFA), where she serves as the strategic leader of HCFA’s community engagement efforts across the state of Massachusetts.
A key component of this role is to oversee HCFA’s community-led campaigns to address intersecting public health issues and the infrastructure, staffing and sub-granting that advances health equity. A key strategy of these campaigns includes sub-granting to community-based organizations to enhance organizational capacity and implement culturally-responsive campaigns. Jamila also oversees several smaller but equally important foundation- and government-supported community engagement projects aimed at addressing health care access, affordability and equity, as well as efforts to build a small but growing grassroots base of support for the organization’s policy work. She serves as a leader with community groups, a strong program director and a fierce advocate for health justice.
Previously, Jamila worked as the Director for Health Education and Access Initiatives at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Jamila was responsible for overseeing a number of programs, including the Volunteer Health Advisors, Aging Wisely Everett, Senior Suicide Prevention, the MA Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, the COVID-19 Community Education & Vaccination Programs, and the Community Health Improvement Learning Institute, which regularly offers Community Health Worker training.
In this role, Jamila developed strategies to provide culturally responsive health education, outreach and services to underserved and hard-to-reach populations. The goal was to address social influencers of health and to support the adoption of healthy behaviors and access resources.
Jamila holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University. In addition to her native Portuguese, Jamila speaks English and is conversant in Spanish. Jamila is a dual-certified (youth and adult) Mental Health First-Aid instructor as well as a Cultural Humility trainer.
