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.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

- 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)

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Clinical Partnership

- 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.

Partnership and Alignment

- 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.

Community Health Priorities and Learning

- 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 program design.

- Help identify opportunities for community-engaged education, research, and workforce development in partnership with faculty, learners, and community organizations.

LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS

- Lead at an enterprise level through credibility, influence, and sound judgment.

- Build trust across clinical, academic, operational, and community settings.

- Communicate complex clinical and population-health issues clearly to diverse audiences.

- Demonstrate humility, compassion, cultural responsiveness, and respect for lived experience.

- Balance community needs, clinical priorities, operational realities, and available resources.

- Advance Duke Health’s Culture Commitments: Putting People First; Be Clear and Empower; and Adapt to Improve.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Physician or Advanced Practice Provider clinically active and in good standing at Duke Health

- Significant clinical experience and a demonstrated record of senior leadership in community health, population health, public health, clinical operations, or a related field.

- Experience working effectively in a complex academic health system or similarly matrixed environment.

- Demonstrated ability to build partnerships across clinical disciplines, institutions, and community organizations.

- Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.

- MPH, MHA, MBA, or comparable advanced training

- Experience with community health assessments, community-engaged research, social care integration, or quality improvement; and scholarly or teaching experience are preferred.

APP candidates who apply should mark their credentials as an MD on the actual application (due to physician credentials being the only option on this application portal). This allows all candidates to apply for this role through the same portal. All physician and APP candidates will be reviewed and evaluated based on their credentials and experience listed on their CV.

MEASURES OF SUCCESS

Success will be reflected in stronger clinical partnership and alignment around Duke Health’s community health priorities; meaningful community and public-health relationships; clear use of data and community insight to guide decisions; and progress toward more accessible, responsive, and community-informed care.

COMMITMENT TO DUKE’S MISSION

Through senior clinical leadership and thoughtful partnership, the Community Health Medical Director will help strengthen Duke Health’s role as a trusted partner in improving the health and well-being of the communities it serves.

Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation, or military status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

PLEASE NOTE: To be considered for this position, please attach your CV, select SUBMIT APPLICATION, and complete the application questions.