Julia Vinagolu-Baur, MBA, MS, is a health program coordinator I at the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Prevention (OMH-HDP), New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH). Vinagolu-Baur’s work falls under the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: CDC-RFA-OT21-2103: National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved. Vinagolu-Baur’s responsibilities include supervising staff and guiding initiatives toward grant-directed focus areas, including rural communities, New Americans, communities of color, immigrants, refugees, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer + community. In line with OMH-HDP’s legislative charge and seeing how data drives disparities in minority areas, Vinagolu-Baur assists with the development of a toolkit pilot program to improve race and ethnicity data collection in hospital facilities and serves as a support to the liaison to the Health Equity Council. Prior to joining the NYS DOH, Vinagolu-Baur obtained her master’s of business administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her master’s of science in medical technology from the State University of New York’s Upstate Medical University. Vinagolu-Baur has worked in federally qualified health centers as a Community Health Care Association of New York State AmeriCorps member and has gained health policy and project management experience at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations.