Wei-ting Chen, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Food for Health Equity Lab and the Stanford Medicine Office of Community Engagement. She works at the intersection of research and practice, using food and patient-centered care and research practices to advance health equity.

Alexandria Blacker, PhD, MPH is the Director of the Stanford Department of Medicine’s Community Partnership Program and adjunct faculty at George Washington University. Her work focuses on building bi-directional, equitable, and sustainable partnerships to advance local health equity. Research interest include equity in implementation, interprofessional teamwork, and team science.

Janine Bruce is the Associate Director for the Office of Child Health Equity and Senior Social Science Research Scholar in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine. She has a Doctorate of Public Health from UC Berkeley and Masters of Public Health from UNC at Chapel Hill. Janine has many years of experience providing leadership and administrative oversight for multiple education programs, teaching and mentoring graduate-level learners, and engaging in collaborative research aimed at eliminating child health inequities in underserved populations through thoughtful community engagement. She leads two community coalitions aimed at increasing communication and collaboration among community and internal partners. Janine is co-director of the Scholarly Concentration in Community-engagement and Advocacy (Dept. of Pediatrics) and co-director of the Scholarly Concentration in Community Health (Medical School). In her teaching and mentoring roles, she values the opportunity to support students and trainees as they work closely with community partners to address community-identified needs, bringing the support and partnership from our academic institution. She also teaches courses on the social determinants of health and qualitative research methods. Her research and advocacy interests include food insecurity, early education, and the needs of marginalized communities. With her background in public health, Janine’s role has been to bridge public health and medicine to better promote the health of underserved child populations through strong community partnerships and innovative community-based initiatives.

Andy Ollove works to create equitable food systems with a focus on improving food access and developing Food as Medicine programs. Through cross-sector partnerships, he implements sustainable solutions to address systemic inequities. Andy’s efforts empower communities to build healthier and more resilient food systems, with a specific commitment in supporting small scale mission driven farms.

Dr. Kling is a quantitative research scientist in the Evaluation Sciences Unit and has six years of experience in mixed methods research and evaluation in clinical and community healthcare settings. She is dedicated to helping collaborators design and execute pragmatic evaluations that meet their needs and facilitate rapid learnings to ultimately improve healthcare at Stanford Medicine and beyond.