Pamela Schwartz is the executive director of community health at Kaiser Permanente. Her portfolio encompasses the areas of highest need among Kaiser Permanente members and its communities, including food, housing, and financial security. Schwartz oversees Kaiser Permanente’s $50 million Food Is Medicine commitment to improve access to healthy food in communities as part of the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities. She directs the Kaiser Permanente Food Is Medicine Center of Excellence, which she helped create to integrate food and nutrition into health care delivery and drive the uptake of Food Is Medicine programs nationally. Schwartz has served on many advisory committees and expert panels and is on the faculty of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in the Department of Health System Science.
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