Press Kit
David Isei, MPH, is Executive Director of the Hawaiʻi Healthcare Task Force and builder of the Hawaiʻi Healthcare Intelligence Platform, which reconciles federal, state, and carrier data on Hawaiʻi's health system. He publishes island-level findings on workforce, network adequacy, and access, with every figure sourced, dated, and corrected in public.
David Isei, MPH, MAOL, PMP, SPHR, is Executive Director of the Hawaiʻi Healthcare Task Force, a clinician-led coalition, and the architect of the Hawaiʻi Healthcare Intelligence Platform at hawaiihip.org.
The platform reconciles federal, state, and carrier sources into figures that carry a named authority and a retrieval date. Its work has measured the distance between physicians listed in insurer directories and physicians actually delivering care, quantified the gap between registered and practicing primary care clinicians on Hawaiʻi Island, and produced the first Hawaiʻi measurement of how travel distance affects mammography screening.
Isei convened Hawaiʻi's Insurance Commissioner and the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs on network adequacy in July 2026. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran and mentors the AHEC CIRCLE student research cohort.
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644 FTE
832.6 FTE island-adjusted
Source: JABSOM Area Health Education Center, Hawaiʻi Physician Workforce Assessment 2025 · retrieved September 6, 2026
Preliminary 2026 figures were expected 12 September 2026; this row is flagged for update when they are published.
+107%
Listed clinicians against a verified truth set of 1,994 practicing primary care clinicians (Cut B, the milder accurate figure; the physician-only cut is +180%)
Source: HHIP over HMSA Report 403 (DHS UIPA), DCCA PVL, NPPES · retrieved May 5, 2026
147
10.2 per 100,000 residents, net of forensic and youth-only beds; consensus minimum benchmark 30 per 100,000
Source: SHPDA 2023 Healthcare Utilization Report, Table 8; Census Vintage 2024 denominator · retrieved August 2, 2026
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Task Force matters: david.isei@hawaiihealthcaretaskforce.org · (808) 489-2924
Coverage: the Task Force's community access survey and workforce figures were cited in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 6 September 2026.