Community Health Medical Director

The Community Health Medical Director for Duke Health is a physician or advanced practice provider in Duke University Health System’s Office of Community Health. In partnership with the Chief Community Health & Social Impact Officer, the Medical Director provides strategic clinical counsel and helps advance Duke Health’s work to connect care, community, and opportunity.
This role combines part-time leadership with part-time clinical effort and is open to both physician and advanced practice provider applicants. The Medical Director convenes, aligns, and helps elevate community health priorities across Duke Health, ensuring that the work is clinically credible, community-informed, data-informed, and aligned with enterprise strategy. This role works through influence and partnership—not duplication of the responsibilities held by clinical departments, Population Health Management Office (PHMO), Duke Primary Care, Duke Health Integrated Practice (DHIP), hospitals, or academic units.

• Reports to Chief Community Health & Social Impact Officer, Duke University Health System
• Dotted-line relationship to Chief Medical Officer, Duke Primary Care
• Organizational home is Office of Community Health
• Time allocation is 0.3 FTE administrative and leadership effort, subject to organizational needs and appointment structure (rest of duties remain clinical)

• Serve as the principal clinical partner and strategic advisor to the Chief Community Health & Social Impact Officer.
• Collaborate with clinical departments, hospital and medical group leaders, PHMO, DPC, DHIP, and other enterprise partners to help advance shared community health, prevention, population health, and social-care priorities.
• Help translate community health priorities and Community Health Assessment findings into focused opportunities for clinical partnership, action, and learning.
• Advise senior leaders on emerging community health needs, public health trends, and opportunities to strengthen access, prevention, and outcomes.
• Represent the Office of Community Health in selected enterprise clinical and operational forums, helping bring community voice and context to strategic discussions.
• Extend community health strategy across Duke Health's full-service area, including community health considerations in the planning and opening of new Duke Health facilities.

• Foster productive relationships among Duke Health clinical leaders, Duke University faculty, public health agencies, community-based organizations, and cross-sector partners.
• Partner with established clinical and operational leaders to help align community health initiatives with existing care models, quality priorities, and resources.
• Help identify clinical subject-matter experts whose expertise can inform priority initiatives, community assessments, and implementation strategies.
• Serve as a trusted clinical representative in community and public-health collaborations, with respect for community knowledge, leadership, and assets.

• Partner with appropriate clinical, operational, and community leaders to help advance strategies that address priority health needs and barriers to care.
• Support efforts to strengthen connections between clinical care, community resources, and social drivers of health, building on work already underway across Duke Health.
• Collaborate with analytic, quality, and operational partners to identify meaningful measures, assess progress, and share lessons with leadership.
• Set expectations for evidence-informed practice in prevention, chronic disease management, behavioral health, and care coordination for priority populations, and advise on…