Office of Community Health (OCH)
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.
Our commitments are to:
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Build opportunities for substantive community engagement among medical, graduate and undergraduate 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.
Stanford’s Office of Community Health is pleased to announce that Jill Evans, MPH, joined our team on July 27, 2009 as the Research Program Director. Jill has a long-standing history of working with local health care organizations, such as community health centers, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, as well as Kaiser Permanente and Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Since 2004, Jill has served as the Vice President of Clinical Activities for Community Health Partnership, an association of community health centers in Santa Clara County and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. As Vice President of Clinical Activities, Jill provided oversight to all clinical and quality improvement programs, including technology enabled quality improvement initiatives, continuing medical education, emergency preparedness training, convening of clinician and clinic operations peer groups, and various collaborative initiatives between the county and local clinics. Jill led the piloting and dissemination of Kaiser Permanente’s evidence based practice model “Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes Everyday” among clinics in San Mateo and Santa Clara County. She also developed systems to provide network wide Health Information Technology capacity for benchmarking population based data for population specific quality improvement planning and conducted a county-wide mental health needs assessment for providing prevention and early intervention services in primary care health centers. Prior to her work with Santa Clara County local safety net, Jill enjoyed a long career in training and development at the San Jose Mercury News and has served as an independent training and staff development consultant. Her training and development background, along with her background in local health initiatives will be used in her new role as the Research Program Director. This position is a new program area within the Office of Community Health and part of the Community Engagement Program for the Stanford Center for Translational Research and Education. It is our goal to enhance and expand our community partnerships, to enhance faculty capacity, and improve systems to increase community based research taking place at Stanford School of Medicine. We are pleased to have Jill on board. She has already developed a community health research seeds grants program and has worked to incorporate community engagement into Stanford’s newly developed research study pipe. We are looking forward to her leadership in helping shape our community engagement program.
 The Office of Community Health would like to announce that Evelyn Ho has been selected as the first Managing Director of the Cardinal Free Clinics.
Stanford Cardinal Free Clinics have traditionally been run by student and physician volunteers. At the request of Stanford medical students and the CFC Medical Directors, the Cardinal Free Clinics were placed under the administrative umbrella of the Office of Community Health and a new position was created to provide continuity, leadership, and overall management of the clinics. In order to orchestrate this new role, Evelyn’s current job has been restructured, creating a new position to combine her new role with the Cardinal Free Clinics with her existing role of overseeing educational and student fellowship programs within the Office of Community Health. As Managing Director of the Cardinal Free Clinics, Evelyn will be responsible for administrative oversight, including working with students and medical directors to build systems leading to effective and smooth operations of the clinic, develop educational programs, lead the newly formed Education and Clinical Oversight Committee, and strengthen relationships and linkages with community partners and the local health care community.
Evelyn’s strong organizational skills combined with her record of developing sound educational programs and building long-standing relationships with local community health centers and public health departments will further support growth and institutional stabilization of the Cardinal Free Clinics and OCH Educational Programs. We are proud to be able to have Evelyn remain part of the OCH team in this expanded capacity. Please join us in congratulating Evelyn in her new role!
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In the Spotlight
Dr. Lisa Chamberlain, Scholarly Concentration in Community Health Director, was selected to receive the Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession.
OCH Faculty Director
Marilyn Winkleby was awarded the Athena Award.
Population Health Education article published in the Academic Medicine Journal
News and Events
The OCH awarded six internal grants to Stanford faculty with PI eligibility through CTSA Seed Grants: Funding for Community-Academic Partnerships.
The 8th Annual Fall Forum on Community Health and Public Service showcased over 21 student projects, ranging from local to international work.
Congratulations to Alex Cardenas and Morgan Theis, both recently selected as 2009 Valley Foundation Fellows.
Congratulations OCH's community partner, MayView Community Health Center, for being choosen for the 2009 Stanford University Community Partnership Award.
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