About Jeannette
Jeannette G. Koijane, MPH, is the Executive Director of Kōkua Mau, a statewide network of organizations and individuals leading a movement to improve care. A membership organization, Kōkua Mau partners with health plans, healthy systems, hospices, government agencies and other organizations statewide. Kōkua Mau was established in 1999 and works throughout the state. Jeannette has served as the Executive Director since 2010. Jeannette serves on the Hawaii POLST Task Force, which provides leadership on POLST issues including the 2023 updates to the POLST form and is the Hawaii representative to National POLST. Jeannette received her graduate degree in Public Health from the University of Hawaii and her undergraduate degree from Cornell University. She has been involved with serious illness care since 1988, beginning in the field of HIV/AIDS working with the AIDS Memorial Quilt as the Director of International Programs and then in a variety of research and educational positions in Berlin, Germany, and San Francisco. Jeannette has worked in the US Affiliated Pacific Islands helping to develop palliative care programs through a collaboration with the Cancer Council of the Pacific Islands, the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, and John A. Burns School of Medicine. She serves as a volunteer advisor to Zahana, a participatory rural development project in Madagascar.