The recently established Office of Community Health (OCH) has launched a website at: http://och.stanford.edu/

The office was created to institutionalize, expand, and sustain the School of Medicine’s community partnerships, and to support student and faculty engagement in meeting the self-identified needs of underserved populations.

“Since we began a few months ago, we have strengthened our partnerships with nine local community organizations and developed community health assessment and advocacy projects in which over 100 medical students and 20 undergraduate students are engaged,” said Marilyn Winkleby, faculty director of the community partnership.

Winkleby, associate professor-research of medicine in the Stanford Prevention Research Center, said the OCH strives to play a key role in “enhancing the culture of service and civic engagement at Stanford.”

 

—Courtesy of Dean Philip A. Pizzo’s e-newsletter http://deansnewsletter.stanford.edu/archive/02_21_06.html