Nancy Netherland
Kids and Caregivers – Staff Member
UCSF Chronic Illness Clinic Advisory – Volunteer
California Medicaid Children's Health Advisory Panel – Member
Nancy Netherland has served on a PCORI-funded project advisory board as a caregiver/patient representative. She has also been mentored by a PCORI Ambassador and attended the PCORI Annual Meeting in 2018. Prior to that—through her day job—she worked with a team preparing a PCORI grant. Netherland is the mother of two children with totally different rare diseases and, a few years ago, she founded www.kidsandcaregivers.com to provide support and education to the caregivers of children living with rare and chronic diseases. Netherland’s former career includes working in hospital settings as a therapist (AIDS/oncology) and designing health education programs. Her current career is designing programs and securing funding for community health centers with a focus on farmworker health care in California.
Involvement with PCORI
Pipeline to Proposal: Child and Adolescent Chronic Illness Center - Tier 2 (PL: Emily von Scheven) – Advisory Panel Member