Maryjane Puffer

Maryjane Puffer is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health. She claims this position as the nexus of all she has been committed to throughout her career, as a pediatric nurse, a community health program director and lead developer of youth health programs.

Prior to this position, Ms. Puffer served for twelve years as the Director of Clinical and Community Health Programs for the California Family Health Council, managing the largest federal family planning grant in the nation. Before this Ms. Puffer spent six years establishing and leading Mother Net LA, a community health program in Compton. In her early career, she developed international health programs in Mexico, Guatemala, Africa and Eastern Europe; and spent eleven years working as a nurse in pediatrics, adolescent health and hospice care. Ms. Puffer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. Ms. Puffer currently serves on the state Steering Committee of the Adolescent Sexual Health Work Group, the School Health Coalition of Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles School Policy Roundtable and the Los Angeles Preconception Health Collaborative. She is also Co-Chair of the California Preconception Health Care Council and a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Advisory Board Member for the Fresno Regional Foundation.