HOAC Staff
Bruce Pomer, MPA
Executive Director
Bruce Pomer's career in public health spans 39 years in state government and the nonprofit sector in Sacramento. He has been executive director of the Health Officers Association of California (HOAC) since 1993. From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Pomer was director of governmental affairs for HOAC. From 1971 to 1983, he held a number of executive positions at the California State Department of Health Services, including chief of external affairs and chief of the Medi-Cal Field Services Section, where he supervised a staff of over 400 employees.
Mr. Pomer is a past president of the Board of Trustees of the Los Rios Community College District, and a board member of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Sacramento City Parks and Recreation Commission, and the California Association of Nonprofits. He is past chairman of the Sacramento County Democratic Central Committee and the Chamber of Commerce Education Committee.
Mr. Pomer received his A.B. degree in political science from the University of California at Davis in 1971, and his Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California in 1977.
He has been married to Anne Juzek Pomer for the past 39 years and has 3 children and three grandchildren. He was born September 30, 1949, in San Francisco and has been a resident of Sacramento since 1954. He reunited with his twin brother, Roger Rosenberg, after being separated for 46 years. Roger and Bruce told their story to a national audience on the Oprah Winfrey show in 1997. Roger passed away in 2009.
Kat DeBurgh
Assistant Director
Ms. DeBurgh has been working with HOAC since 2005. In 2011, she earned her Master's in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was inducted into the Delta Omega Honors Society for Public Health. She earned her undergraduate degree in politics from U.C. Santa Cruz in 2000.
