Office of Community Health (OCH)
The OCH is coordinating a multidisciplinary event around Unnatural Causes. The event at Stanford will be an evening of dialogue and screening of "Unnatural Causes" to better understand Stanford's work in addressing health disparities through community partnerships. 
The Office of Community Health is the home in the School of Medicine for informed, committed, and sustained community engagement in local health issues. We are developing an innovative national model to train future leaders in community health, disseminate community health scholarship, and enhance local health via community-academic partnerships.
The foundations for our work are: 1) maintaining and expanding partnerships with 20 community health organizations in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties; and 2) creating formal linkages within Stanford to increase efficiency and leverage community health resources across the university.
Our commitments are to:
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Build opportunities for substantive community engagement among medical, graduate and undergraduate students with an emphasis on preclinical medical students;
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Support and develop faculty engagement in community health;
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Promote the translation and dissemination of scholarly work on health issues affecting local communities; and
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Respond to community-health related needs and inquiries from students, faculty, health professionals and members of the surrounding community.
The OCH was established in the Fall of 2005 with initial funding from the Dean's Office and the Valley Foundation.
