Joel Ervice
Associate Director
Regional Asthma Management & Prevention
Biography
Joel Ervice is the Associate Director of RAMP. In partnership with RAMP’s Director, Joel manages organizational development, financial sustainability, and communications activities in support of RAMP’s mission of reducing the burden of asthma with a focus on health equity. Joel also manages two strategic areas: 1) Healthy Air for All, which shapes policies to reduce air pollution in inequitably burdened communities; and 2) Healthcare equity, which increases access to prevention-oriented services within healthcare, and advances workforce development for asthma professionals. Joel leads the California Asthma Financing Workgroup, a network of diverse stakeholders committed to improving the financial sustainability for asthma education and in-home environmental trigger reduction. Prior to joining RAMP in 2003, Joel was a public health media advocacy trainer for the Berkeley Media Studies Group and worked on child care and economic development policy for the National Economic Development and Law Center. After graduating from Whitman College, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, South America.