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E-mail: alice.chen@stanfordalumni.org

Alice Chen, M.D., M.P.H., is a Soros Physician Advocacy Fellow based at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, where she focuses on improving access to quality healthcare for limited English proficiency health consumers. Two days a week, she practices internal medicine at Asian Health Services, a community health clinic in Oakland, California.

Areas of Research Interest:

Her primary interest is in issues of health care access, particularly in how poverty, cultural differences, and policy intersect to create barriers to care. She was previously with The California Endowment as a Health Policy Scholar in Residence, where she oversaw the Language Access Strategic Grantmaking program. In that capacity, she represented The Endowment on the National Advisory Council for Hablamos Juntos, Robert Wood Johnson’s initiative to improve patient-provider communication for Latinos. She continues to serve on the Hablamos Juntos Scholars Network, and is a contributing author and editor of “Language Barriers in Health Care Settings: An Annotated Bibliography of the Research Literature.”

Prior to relocating to California, Dr. Chen was based in Boston, Massachusetts, where she served as the lead writer for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Best Practice Recommendations for Hospital-based Interpreter Services, and was a member of the Emergency Room Interpreter Law Advisory Committee, which received the Department’s annual service award for its work. She also co-authored the 1999 Hospital Access Survey for the Boston Public Health Commission.

Dr. Chen is a graduate of Yale University, Stanford University Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. Her training includes a primary care internal medicine residency and chief residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and the Commonwealth Fund Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy.