Joined the HOPE Clinic in 2021 to spearhead COVID-19 vaccine mobilization efforts. She previously co-founded and continues to lead the non-profit initiative PEACE, which focuses on resettlement of refugee artisans. As the Community Health Worker (CHW) Program Manager, Gina Lulu hired, trained, and managed a team of CHWs. This team comes directly from the communities it serves and collectively speaks 12 languages.   

Gina Lulu’s grant-based projects aim to improve vaccine access and equity among underserved communities experiencing health disparities, bringing COVID-19 outreach education to more than 250,000 people, while also immunizing more than 12,000 people against COVID and more than 20,000 people against the flu. Gina Lulu has established relationships with more than 50 community partners to bring mobile vaccination clinics into places like schools, neighborhoods, community centers, and places of worship.   

As the Community Health Grants Director, Gina Lulu’s work now champions equity in a more capacious manner. Gina Lulu and the team she leads help community members establish health homes, so that they may receive the preventive healthcare they deserve. During and in preparation for the post-pandemic “Medicaid unwinding” in 2023, Gina Lulu developed strategies for communities to be apprised of the changes in the program and how to re-enroll. She creates chronic disease and public health educational material, ensuring that they are linguistically-tailored and culturally-customized according to the populations that her team serves. Gina Lulu is also Hope Clinic’s representative to the agencies of the Refugee Resettlement Consortium. As waves of Syrian, Burmese and Afghan refugees came to Houston, Gina Lulu quickly mobilized to address their urgent health needs. She has applied for, secured, and managed more than $500,000 in federal funds from organizations such as the CDC Foundation, the Health Resources Services Administration, and the Agency for Community Living.   

Throughout all of her health equity work, Gina Lulu also promotes civic engagement efforts to boost voter turnout in the Houston area. In partnership with Houston in Action, Gina Lulu organized a team that turned out more that 8,500 AAPI voters in the Nov. 2024 election. In 2025, Gina Lulu has forged partnership with the Houston Endowment, to secure funding for citizenship and naturalization programs. Gina Lulu has made it a priority to forge relationships with local and statewide government officials to gain support for health initiatives and advocate for the causes that Community Health Centers promote.  

In 2017, Gina Lulu was a keynote speaker at the Texas Medical Center Vigil for Refugees. In 2022, Gina Lulu received the Asian American & Pacific Islander Coalition of Health Organizations (AAPCHO) Health Hero Award. And in 2023, the CDC invited her to present methods from her work combating vaccine hesitancy in pregnant and postpartum populations at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) annual conference. In October 2024 Gina Lulu received the Texas Association of Community Health Center (TACHC) Emerging Leader award.  

Gina Lulu also directs the Clinic’s governmental affairs practice, serving as a liaison to local officials and arranging local government partnerships with the Clinic. Gina Lulu maintains an active calendar in supporting community work, grassroots campaign and local officials, for whose campaigns Gina Lulu assists with fundraising and strategy. 

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