Pamela Schwartz, MPH, is executive director of community health for Kaiser Permanente. She leads the organization’s national food-security strategy and other social health priorities, including ensuring that social health interventions are integrated seamlessly into care and services provided to Medicaid members and across all lines of business. Pam and her team created the organization’s earliest outreach campaigns to help eligible members enroll in public-benefit programs. With deep experience designing, testing and scaling social health interventions and collaborating across sectors to inform and shape public policy, Pam oversees Kaiser Permanente’s $50 million Food is Medicine commitment, made alongside its role in the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.  As an early advocate in the Food is Medicine movement, Pam has helped establish the evidence base and business case for addressing food and nutrition insecurity at Kaiser Permanente and in health care systems across America. Pam has over 25 years’ experience in community health strategy and evaluation. She serves on many advisory committees and expert panels and has authored several journal articles. She is currently on faculty at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. Pam has a master’s degree in public health and completed Kaiser Permanente’s Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School. On her free time, Pam enjoys travel, relaxing at the beach, outdoor adventure, playing soccer, and reading.