Cindy Haq, MD, serves on the IZL Board of Directors and has helped to develop its HEAL program. She is Professor Emerita of Family Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. She has provided primary health care and strengthened medical education in rural and urban areas of the US, Pakistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, with the World Health Organization, and with governmental and non-governmental organizations.

A champion for health equity, she cares for people on Catalina Island, for people who are homeless, and advocates with Climate Health Now. As mother and grandmother, she savors time with family, friends, and the natural world.