Richard Andrews, MD, MPH

Dr. Richard Andrews, MD, MPH, is the Viral Hepatitis Program Director at HOPE Clinic in Houston, TX. He served as the South Midwest Regional Director for the Task Force in 2016 before serving as the Co-Chair later that year. Dr. Andrews sees uncomplicated hepatitis B and C patients at Hope Clinic in southwest Houston, Texas. Hope Clinic is the clinical arm of Houston’s Asian American Health Coalition, whose founding purpose was to ensure culturally and linguistically competent care to Asian patients. While at Hope Clinic he has overseen the development of an active hepatitis B/C screening, prevention and treatment program. Over 400 chronic hepatitis B patients have been seen at the clinic, with over 150 under active antiviral treatment presently. Roughly half of the clinic’s current population is Asian, with the affected hepatitis B population being primarily Vietnamese, Chinese, Burmese and others. Before moving to Texas Dr. Andrews worked in migrant farmworker and community health centers on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. He grew up bilingual in southern Spain, which sensitized him to cultural and linguistic differences. He speaks moderately mangled morsels of Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese and Burmese – just enough to make the patients laugh. He received his MD at University of Connecticut Medical School, Family Medicine residency at Georgetown University. He did his MPH degree and Preventive Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University. He is board certified in family medicine. Dr Andrews is a past board member of the Texas Association of Community Health Centers (TACHC) and of the Migrant Clinician’s Network (MCN). He has been participating in AAPCHO/CERC activities since 2014.